The Sierra | Kadre Architects

In the high desert of Antelope Valley, CA (LA County), The Sierra introduces 38 new transitional housing units for families currently experiencing homelessness. Designed by emergency housing experts Kadre Architects, and built by Ford E.C., for their longtime partners at Hope the Mission (the largest rescue shelter organization in the country), the sprawling, colorful, 4 acre campus employs the firm’s signature modernist paint accents and graphic approach to create a contemporary, uplifting community for incoming residents. As a new housing prototype, the Sierra explores rapid conversion of existing hotel stock into transitional housing in a rural setting. 

Architecture: Kadre Architects, Principal Nerin Kadribegovic, FAIA; Project Manager: Ashle Fauvre, AIA, Kevin Wronske, AIA; Project Designers: Alicia Amos, Ace Cuevas.

Contractor: FORD E.C. – Arash Daghighian, Sam Daghighian, Farid Hamedy, Manny Abarabar

Landscape Architect: Kadre Architects (concepts)  and Terremoto, David Godshall, Principal

Civil Engineer: Barbara L. Hall and Associates;

MEP Engineering: Creative Engineering Group, Richard Ibrahim

Structural Engineer: Nous Engineering, Omar Garza.

Photography: Paul Vu