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Day 35 - Fellow traveller n.2


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Central Los Angeles Area High School for the Visual and Performing Arts

Los Angeles, California, USA, 2002-2008

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How upset the urban landscape with essential materials and simple geometries

This complex of seven buildings housing the School for Visual Arts and Performing Arts, with four internal academies, divided according to the discipline studied. There is also a theater for the performing arts, a library and a large cafeteria. The buildings for classrooms are rectangular, with openings that allow such a visual continuity between inside and outside, while other buildings have volumes more extravagant: the library is approximated to a truncated cone, a theater with a regular set of usual spiral around. Each function has its own form and is related to the others thanks to a remarkable homogeneity of materials: concrete face view and glass panels.

The complex is more appreciated outside of a architectural point of view, urban, affecting the entire landscape of Los Angeles with its bold shapes. Within rather metallic sheen and light enlivening the environment they invade. The building is then readable on two distinctly different scales, one for outside and one inside, who meet only place where the concrete gives way to the glass. Functional hierarchies (and formal) for a complex simple and impressive.