Also in West Hollywood, Tighe’s Sierra Bonita development features 42 affordable one-bedroom units. The five-story structure wears its sense of social mission on its sleeve, with a large photovoltaic array creeping ivy-like up the western facade and over the top, where it forms a sunshade for the terraces on the roof. “It also had the first graywater system in the city,” Tighe says. The cyclical plumbing system greatly reduces Sierra Bonita’s dependence on the region’s overtaxed resources. Photo 3 of 6 in Patrick Tighe Believes the Future of Los Angeles Is Affordable

Patrick Tighe Believes the Future of Los Angeles Is Affordable

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Also in West Hollywood, Tighe’s Sierra Bonita development features 42 affordable one-bedroom units. The five-story structure wears its sense of social mission on its sleeve, with a large photovoltaic array creeping ivy-like up the western facade and over the top, where it forms a sunshade for the terraces on the roof. "It also had the first graywater system in the city," Tighe says. The cyclical plumbing system greatly reduces Sierra Bonita’s dependence on the region’s overtaxed resources.