Los Angeles, CA
SAFE LANDING SUPPORTIVE HOUSING & REHAB CENTER
KFA Architecture for LA County Health Deptartment
Safe Landing is a 172-bed transitional housing and rehabilitation center on 2.72 acres in the West Athens neighborhood of Los Angeles County.
The five building, 90,000 sf campus has an intake clinic, an administration building, a kitchen/dining facility, dormitories for men, women and couples and a small dog park. A first-of-its-kind, Safe Landing provides a comprehensive, clinically-enhanced interim housing rehab center that helps homeless individuals gain access to immediate clinical services, and transition to appropriate, service-enriched permanent housing.
Our team’s technical expertise was key in overcoming the site’s unique challenges. To address subsurface existing conditions identified in a soils study, the cross-disciplinary team successfully collaborated to design 40-foot-long I-beam piles that ensure structural integrity across the site. Fuscoe also designed and integrated a Fox drain system for the dog park, which effectively distinguishes between clean stormwater and contaminated wastewater. This drainage solution ensures that only clean water enters the stormwater system, while wastewater is properly routed for treatment.