Pico Eleven features 18 for-sale luxury loft units over a two-level subterranean garage in 44,000 square feet. Located on a steep hillside site in downtown Santa Monica, the building captures both ocean and mountain views. The slope of the site, in combination with the complicated zoning stepbacks, created a twofold design challenge. The solution was to embrace both restrictions, splitting the project into three buildings, visually unified by a perforated copper screen wrapping all three structures. Skewed floor planes create an elegantly modern response to the stepback requirements, adding strong geometric visual texture as well as usable balcony space.
Project Team:
Pugh + Scarpa Architects (architect)
Elliott Drinkward Construction (general contractor)
BPA, Inc. (Structural engineer)
Antieri Hallossim (MEP engineering)
