SLO is a multidisciplinary design collaborative that challenges the ordinary and brings a sense of wonder to the making of community space. In developing our work, we place emphasis on promoting connectivity—between social, cultural, and ecological contexts.
Mar Vista Elementary School PACEUP Project Los Angeles Unified School District
The Mar Vista Elementary School Playground and Campus Exterior Upgrade project transforms an asphalt-dominated campus into a vibrant, educational, and climate-resilient schoolyard. The project supports LAUSD’s Green Schoolyards and PACEUP initiatives by replacing paving with green surfaces, expanding tree canopy, improving outdoor learning environments, and creating inclusive, accessible play areas.
Latest Multi-Family Housing Project
The Seigle is a medium-density housing project that provides a balance of privacy and community consisting of three different housing & formal typologies: Townhouses, Old Mills, and Historic Brick Buildings with underground parking.
Charter School
SLO is delighted to share that the Twin Rivers Charter School welcomed students to a newly completed VAPA building by SLO. The one-story building houses a band room, multi-purpose art room, transitional kindergarten classrooms, and restrooms. The SLO designed Twin Rivers Charter School Campus serving TK – 8th grade was previously completed in 2015.
Windsor Hills Math/ Science/ Aerospace Magnet
The Windsor Hills Magnet Green Schoolyard Improvement Project transforms an underutilized, asphalt-dominated playground into a more sustainable, engaging, and accessible environment for students and staff. The project addresses critical site issues, including repairs around a visible fault line, surface water drainage challenges, and deteriorated asphalt paving. A new landscape buffer featuring low planting, shade trees, decomposed granite walking paths, and updated surface drainage will provide both environmental and safety benefits. Enhancements also include a natural turf area and a fully compliant accessible path of travel throughout the campus—from the public way and parking to the administration building, restrooms, and play areas. These green schoolyard upgrades are designed not only to improve safety and function but also to support outdoor learning, climate resilience, and long-term ecological benefit, aligning with LAUSD’s broader goals for equitable and sustainable campus environments.
Jobs
We are a small firm doing projects with a big impact. Founded in 2000, we are committed to the vision we started with: to run a multidisciplinary design studio combining architectural practice with hands-on making, fabrication, prototyping, and experimentation. We run an open studio where hierarchy matters less than our willingness to collaborate and share ideas. Our extensive portfolio includes innovative residential, educational, civic, commercial, and industrial projects. Above all, we seek out projects that strengthen the social fabric of communities, and we’re committed to being good stewards of the environment.
SLO Make
Imagined, designed, and fabricated by SLO.
We are interested in the ways that art and architecture can be used as investigative tools to reveal unseen cultural moments and relationships within a site, neighborhood, or city.
