SPATIAL OFFSET

Spatial Offset proposes a temporary wellness retreat and collective living environment within the urban fabric of West Hollywood. Conceived as a neighborhood within a neighborhood, it provides places for individuals and groups to rest, exercise, meditate, gather, and temporarily withdraw from the intensity of city life.

The project is organized around a 32.47 degree rotation derived from the angle of a typical stair with a 7 inch rise and an 11 inch tread. This familiar bodily measurement becomes a spatial system that operates across the site, from the overall arrangement of volumes to individual connections and details.

Toward the rear of the site, the building retains the more regular organization associated with surrounding dingbat apartment buildings. These areas contain sleeping, living, dining, and service functions. As the project approaches the street, its volumes begin to shift, rotate, intersect, and tumble. The resulting spaces contain the retreat and wellness programs.

The rotated surfaces create spaces for leaning, climbing, hiding, meditating, exercising, and gathering. Because the project is scaled around the dimensions and angle of a stair, movement through it heightens awareness of the body and encourages occupants to navigate the site in different ways.

Conceptual structural details extend the offset logic into beams, columns, façade elements, and custom connections that intentionally resist conventional alignment. Drawings, models, and fabrication prototypes produced with Pathfab investigate how this spatial idea might be developed through component design and physical assembly.