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Freedom To, Freedom From

Project

Adaptive Reuse

Year

Spring 2024

Competition

USC Architectural Guild Design Charette

Location

Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles

Collaborators

Jake Scheckelhoff & Sakiko Tanaka

Freedoms To, Freedoms From aspires to reimagine Norman Rockwell’s vision of the American Dream where the Four Freedoms are not just ideals but tangible realities woven into the very fabric of the built environment. As an adaptive reuse project of the Lincoln Heights Jail in Los Angeles, the design enhances typical multi-family housing by creating a mixed-use, live-work environment where residents experience the true essence of freedom in all its dimensions—free from isolation and discrimination, while free to work and play uninhibited. Freedoms To, Freedoms From is not just a place to live; it is a sanctuary where the spirit of the Four Freedoms manifest in every corner, fostering a vibrant, empowered, and interconnected community.

Freedoms

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1943

2024

Drawings

Renders

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