hope center
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Housing - Compton, California
- Completed 2005 (Download Project PDF - 1.1MB)
A proposal to transform a “Mid-Century Modern" bank building into a nontraditional high school annex for the Los Angeles County School District. The project called for four new offices, three classrooms and a flexible assembly space. Offices and an assembly room were created on the floor of the expansive main bank lobby. Three classrooms flank the central space and can utilize the new assembly space as needed.
On the main floor, the design inserts a single wavelike, undulating element to define and meet programmatic needs (desk, seat, doorway, wall, ceiling, lounge seat, storage) while maintaining flexibility and the openness of the original space. Employing laser-cut plywood fabricated with computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) technology, this “egg crate” structural element follows the Mid-Century-Modern canon by using industrial techniques and materials. MCM ideology is thus continued, albeit in very different form, in a contemporary design strategy.
