Daly Genik: school, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA.Difficult sites do not only exist in historic city centres, or in the dense urban metropolis. The scars of highway engineering also throw up the occasional urban oddity, as is the case with this 180m x 27m island site in Silver Lake, adjacent to downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . Despite being surrounded by roads on all sides, the thin slither slith·er v. slith·ered, slith·er·ing, slith·ers v.intr. 1. To glide or slide like a reptile. See Synonyms at slide. 2. To walk with a sliding or shuffling gait. 3. was chosen to site the Camino Nuevo High School Camino Nuevo High School is a new charter school serving the Westlake/MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles.[1] CNHS received a 751 on its most recent API score,[2] significantly higher than any other high school in its neighborhood. : a 2800sqm, 500 student public charter high school, comprising 18 classrooms (including two art rooms, four science rooms, one project room), a library, administration areas and a 1670sqm outdoor sports deck/assembly area built above an at-grade parking lot. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Taking advantage of the elongated e·lon·gate tr. & intr.v. e·lon·gat·ed, e·lon·gat·ing, e·lon·gates To make or grow longer. adj. or elongated 1. Made longer; extended. 2. Having more length than width; slender. plot shape, the classroom building extends more than 120m in a softly buckled two-storey building that is clad in distinctive perforated and solid painted corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. metal panels. Being single loaded, each classroom has a direct connection with the outdoor spaces, and the administration building situated at the western end of the site helps to anchor the whole composition. R.G. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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