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We designed this project to facilitate connection within the campus and with the surrounding neighborhood communities.
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This new project functions as the hearth of the campus—a place of warmth, comfort, and congregation.
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With the existing campus, the new structures create an open space to house a quad, grove, and outdoor stage. Each serves as a gathering space.
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A diversity of shade, seating, and planted areas provide a variety of settings for socializing and encourage creativity to flow from the inside out.
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The widening of the main entrance and a pedestrian boulevard create opportunities to slow down and connect.
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The Auditorium is contained in a monumental concrete massing, while a lighter structure of steel wraps around it as a translucent ribbon,
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The bright yellow of an exaggerated soffit feels like the main drape. Five illuminated dashes shine down on attendees gathering at the exterior lobby before and after events.
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Custom-designed perforated screens encourage the play of light and shadow to activate spaces while mitigating the connection between interior and exterior areas.
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Recognizing the unique performing arts program at the school, the design team created a space to celebrate the arts. Starburst lighting creates an immersive environment.
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We strived to design a modern performing arts center and surrounding classrooms worthy of the reputation and talent that took root in this community.
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The Magnet Pathway program's pedagogy and the building's technology promote flexible transitions between everyday learning experiences and significant community events.
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The gallery is a space for exhibits and casual gatherings. Skylights bathe the gallery in natural light, creating vibrancy and a glowing beacon at night.
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The classrooms connect to the Auditorium as they are part of the Visual and Performing Arts small learning community.
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@2022 Paul Vu, Here and Now Agency
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@2022 Paul Vu, Here and Now Agency
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@2022 Paul Vu, Here and Now Agency
The District identified the needs and desires for a new complex with 824-seat theater, drama, choral, dance, and instrumental music classrooms through early investigations. Additionally, there was a desire to re-activate the performing arts quadrangle into a new food service building with indoor and outdoor dining facilities to replace aging facilities. Maintaining operations on an active campus during construction required complex planning, emphasizing infrastructure to support the interim facilities and the new performing arts center.
The project focuses on the campus and the neighboring communities, staging the Performing Arts Center as a beacon that draws attendees, students, and community members through an adjacent main gate and into the heart of the campus.
This project embodies the embrace of contrasts: bright and dark, heavy and light, rough and smooth, sharp and soft. The Auditorium is contained in a monumental concrete massing, while a more lightweight steel structure wraps around it as a translucent ribbon, leading toward additional classrooms and dining facilities. Classroom programs include many perforations for windows and skylights, countering the solidness of the Auditorium.
The building envelops a beloved quad and encourages gathering with a new outdoor stage and shaded seating planters while prioritizing travel paths between campus buildings.
Los Angeles USD, Crenshaw High School - New Performing Arts, Food Service, Lunch Pavilion and Student Store
Category
High School
Description
Project Location:
Los Angeles, WA
Architecture Firm
NAC
Los Angeles, WA
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@2022 Paul Vu, Here and Now Agency
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