After developer Andy Sogoyan acquired a languishing former supermarket building in North Hollywood, California, along with a two-story medical-offices structure next door, he had a vision: “I imagined a modern, inviting place where elderly people, in particular, could get health care, urgent care, dental visits, senior daycare, physical therapy, eyeglasses, haircuts, manicures, dance lessons, and more—all in one spot.” That would form the core of the future Victory Wellness Center, which would also include providers and services for other age groups. To create this new multi-component facility, Sogoyan initially thought of demolishing the long-vacant supermarket, but his architect, Marcelo Spina of the Los Angeles firm Patterns, convinced him otherwise. “Marcelo showed me how great the old curving roof was,” the developer recalls. “It became clear that saving the building would be the most beautiful and environmental solution.”
In transforming the 1946 supermarket, Patterns carved into, projected from, and partially unskinned and rewrapped its boxy volume. While retaining most of the original roofline and supporting wooden bowstring trusses, the renovation had to turn the existing one-story, 17,000-square-foot structure into a 42,000-square-foot one without expanding the footprint or overall height. The $17.2 million project also aspired to convert the entire 2.4-acre site—a relatively anonymous hardscape along a traffic artery lined with strip malls and mom-and-pop businesses—into a minicampus with a more welcoming presence in this middle-to-low-income neighborhood.
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