Camino Nuevo High School, Los Angeles, California

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	Camino Nuevo High School
Designer	Daly Genik Architects, Santa Monica, California, USA
Location	Los Angeles, California, USA
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Building Type	School and Academic
Climate	Hot Temperate
Context	Urban
Architectural Style	Deconstructivist Modern
Builder	Turner Special Projects
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Building Details
Client	Pueblo Nuevo Development
Cost	$17.6 Million US Dollars
Area	30,000 Square Feet
Awards	Merit Award Winner, 2008 AIA Los Angeles Awards Recipient, AIA-CAE Educational Facility Design Awards, 2009. Recipient, 2010 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture.

"For the high school, the architect was required to fit a 30,000-square-foot building that included 18 classrooms, a media center, and administration areas, onto just over an acre of land. In addition, they needed to provide space for outdoor activities and parking, all while staying within a tight budget below $300 per square foot.

The firm addressed these demands by designing a pair of two-story structures. Along the site’s southern edge, a long building with a snake-like plan, houses classrooms. To the north side is a smaller building devoted primarily to administrative functions. Continuous corrugated metal panels clad the buildings’ concrete block bearing walls. On the primary street elevations, the panels cover the windows but are perforated to limit penetration of street sounds and provide sun control, but allow views out. The facades curve, breaking up the buildings’ bulk and mimicking the automobile movement around the school.

These facades are painted yellow and grey in a pattern that uses more yellow where the walls push outward and less where they are concave, to emphasize their curves. In some places the south facade pulls away from the lot line, providing spaces for landscaping. To the west, the second floor projects out on columns, creating a sheltered area for students to wait for rides home. Classrooms open directly onto a courtyard between the two buildings, making this space the school’s hub."—[http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/bts/archives/k-12/07_CNCAHigh/ ArchRecord}