ARCA

Rendering of a housing complex in a sunny area with a small tree
Date
Authors
Andres Lira Vigneaux (MArch II ’25)
Brittany Arceneaux (MRE ’26)
Noemi Iten (MDes ’25)
Dennis Sola (MArch II ’25)
Prizes

Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize

Andres Lira Vigneaux (MArch II ’25), Brittany Arceneaux (MRE ’26), Noemi Iten (MDes ’25), and Dennis Sola (MArch II ’25)

ARCA is a housing construction system designed to make gentle density both feasible and compelling by rethinking how housing is built – combining architectural precision, material innovation, and contextual design. ARCA’s pilot project is situated on a standard R1 lot in Los Angeles’s Playa del Rey neighborhood – a vacant parcel that embodies both the challenges and opportunities of low-density zoning.