Notes of Interest
This charter high school houses 500 students in Silver Lake, a multi-cultural community adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. It is the third project, in a series of four that the firm has designed for the charter school client. The schools were launched by a nonprofit community development corporation to provide small, focused schools for children in a dense and underserved urban Los Angeles neighborhood. In 2000 and 2003 the office completed an elementary and a middle school on a single block campus in MacArthur Park.
A winding form for the 30,000 square foot, 18-classroom building maximizes the space available on the oddly shaped site. Additionally, by single-loading the one, main classroom building, two important social and sustainable functions were accomplished with simple solutions: direct visual connections are established between the classrooms and the inner courtyard and natural light flows into each classroom from both the windows on the street side and courtyard side. This courtyard has become the hub of the school.
Architect
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Daly Genik
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Owner
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Pueblo Nuevo Development
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Location
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Los Angeles
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ADDITIONAL CREDITS
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Consultant
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Konsortum 1
Pfeiler and Associates
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Engineer
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John Labib + Associates
Tsuchiyama Kaino Sun & Carter
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General Contractor
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Turner Special Projects
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Landscape Architect
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Ah be
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Photo Credit
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© Tim Griffith
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JURY COMMENTS
Introduces architectural
delight to a dense and
underserved urban
neighborhood through
clever planning and design
with bold color and deft use
of prosaic materials.
This successful project
contributes to social equity
and serves as a model for
how architecture can
provide a positive
perception for an
underserved neighborhood
and its charter school.
Architecturally responsive
to program and difficult
(thin) site on very tight
budget, while solving social
and sustainability desires
with single loaded exterior
circulation and maximum
daylighting opportunities...
creates an educational
haven within a busy urban
environment.
2010 INSTITUTE HONOR AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE JURY
Richard L. Maimon, AIA (Chair)
KieranTimberlake
Philadelphia
Jeanne Gang, FAIA
Studio/Gang Architects
Chicago
Sam Grawe
Dwell /At Home in the Modern World Magazines
San Francisco
Jeffrey Lee, FAIA
Pearce Brinkley Cease & Lee P.A.
Raleigh
Justine N. Lewis
AIAS Representative
Atlanta
Miguel A. Rivera Agosto, AIA
Miró Rivera Architects
Austin
Mark Simon, FAIA
Centerbrook Architects & Planners
Centerbrook, Connecticut
H. Ruth Todd, AIA
Page & Turnbull Architects
San Francisco
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