The Los Angeles Unified School District
South Region High School Number 9 (LAUSD No. 9) has opened in South Gate, California. The Los Angeles offices of Omaha, Nebraska-based
Leo A Daly designed the 107-000-square-foot (9,940-square-meter) school, which prominently displays irregularly shaped open-air steel canopies and angular glazed entrances against a backdrop of more staid two-story buildings with CMU block walls.
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Inside the administration building. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
The campus comprises a series of three learning clusters, as well as separate buildings housing gymnasium, performing arts, administration, and maintenance and operation functions. The firm organized these buildings around a central hardscaped courtyard.
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The central courtyard. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
Light blue steel canopies shelter open-air staircases and courtyard pavilions from direct sun. According to the firm, the distinct arrangement of the campus buildings is intended to create a primary path whose shape echoes that of the nearby Los Angeles River.
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One of the three "clusters" at LAUSD No. 9. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
Each of the three academic clusters – characterized as schools within a school – is self-contained with classroom, laboratory, and library spaces. To distinguish the three, each was also assigned a unique interior color palette: bright orange, bright green, and a darker "citrus" green. Shared facilities on the campus sport all three school colors.
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A corridor inside the orange cluster. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
In what also seems like the result of cost-savings measures, the firm highlighted the school's exposed steel structural elements, sheer walls, and trusses, as educational features, teaching students about building systems.
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Bright green HVAC ducts run between exposed trusses in the gymnasium. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
The building was opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Febuary 28, 2013.
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Exposed steel in exterior staircases. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
Project Credits
- Client: Los Angeles Unified School District
- Architect: Leo A. Daly
- Builder: Turner Construction Company
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The multipurpose space. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
Project Details
- Building Area: 107,000 square feet (9,940 square meters)
- Energy Use Intensity:
- Stories: 2
- Materials: Steel, glass, metal panels, concrete, CMU.
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Caption. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
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A CMU wall. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
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The light green cluster. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
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Another exterior stair. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography |
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