Emerson College campus by Morphosis places curvy classrooms within a hollow frame

Thom Mayne’s Los Angeles firm Morphosis has completed a new Hollywood campus for arts school Emerson College where a rectangular frame surrounds a curvaceous cluster of classrooms (+ slideshow).

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

Situated in the heart of the entertainment industry on Sunset Boulevard, Emerson College Los Angeles will accommodate over 200 undergraduate students from the renowned creative arts and communication school based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

The building’s frame-like outer volume accommodates ten storeys of student housing, while the curving central sections contain teaching facilities and staff administration, amidst a series of terraces and connecting bridges.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

“The building is designed to expand the interactive, social aspect of education,” said Thom Mayne. “We focused on creating with the broader community in mind – both in terms of public space and sustainable design.”

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

The east and west-facing sides of the building feature glazed curtain walls and are screened by an intelligent shading system where horizontal fins angle open or closed to suit changes in light, temperature and the angle of the sun.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

Rigging and audio-visual equipment are also incorporated into the facade’s metal framework, accommodating various outdoor performances and events.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

“The entire building becomes a stage set for student films, screenings and industry events, with the Hollywood sign, the city of Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean in the distance providing added scenery,” said the design team.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

Teaching areas and workspaces within the facility include video-editing suites, computer laboratories, a film screening room, sound mixing suites, and live performance spaces. There’s also a green wall at the north-west corner.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

Photography is by Iwan Baan.

Here’s a design statement from Morphosis:


Emerson College Los Angeles

Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Emerson is renowned for its communication and arts curriculum. Located in the heart of Hollywood, Emerson College Los Angeles (ELA) defines the college’s identity in the centre of the entertainment industry and the second largest city in the United States. The new facility establishes a permanent home on Sunset Boulevard for Emerson College’s existing undergraduate internship program that will extend the ELA experience to students studying in any of the seven disciplines that are offered through the School of Communication and the School of the Arts. Additionally, ELA will offer post-graduate, certificate, and professional study programs. The new facility will also host workshops, lectures, and other events to engage with alumni and the LA community.

Bringing student housing, instructional facilities, and administrative offices to one location, ELA condenses the diversity of a college campus into an urban site. Evoking the concentrated energy of East-Coast metropolitan centres in an iconic Los Angeles setting, a rich dialogue emerges between students’ educational background and their professional futures.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

Fundamental to the Emerson Los Angeles experience, student living circumstances give structure to the overall building. Housing up to 217 students, the domestic zones frame a dynamic core dedicated to creativity, learning, and social interaction. Composed of two slender residential towers connected by a helistop, the 10-storey square frame encloses a central open volume to create a flexible outdoor “room”.

A sculpted form housing classrooms and administrative offices weaves through the void, defining multi-level terraces and active interstitial spaces that foster informal social activity and creative cross-pollination. Looking out onto the multi-level terrace, exterior corridors to student suites and common rooms are shaded by an undulating, textured metal scrim spanning the full height of the towers’ interior face.

Looking to the local context, the centre finds a provocative precedent in the interiority of Hollywood film studios, where outwardly regular facades house flexible, fantastical spaces within. With rigging for screens, media connections, sound, and lighting incorporated into the facade’s metal framework, this dynamic visual backdrop also serves as a flexible armature for outdoor performances. The entire building becomes a stage set for student films, screenings, and industry events, with the Hollywood sign, the city of Los Angeles, and the Pacific Ocean in the distance providing added scenery.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis

Anticipated to achieve a LEED Gold rating, the new centre champions Emerson’s commitment to both sustainable design and community responsibility. Wrapping the building’s northwest corner, a green wall underscores the towers’ actively changing exterior skin. Connected to weather stations that track the local climate, temperature, and sun angle, the automated sunshade system opens and closes horizontal fins outside the high-performance glass curtain-wall to minimise heat gain while maximising daylight and views. Further green initiatives include the use of recycled and rapidly renewable building materials, installation of efficient fixtures to reduce water use by 40%, energy savings in heating and cooling through a passive valence system, and a building management and commissioning infrastructure to monitor and optimise efficiency of all systems.

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Lindzine #2

First look at the second issue of the Lindsay Lohan-focused zine by Bibiru and The Wormholes

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The 25-year-old actress-singer-jailbird Lindsay Lohan has attracted as much publicity off-screen as she has for her roles in slasher films and family comedies alike. The hijinks that have led her in and out of rehab centers and through the criminal justice system has always left us wondering whether she’s a celebrity trainwreck or a brilliant self-publicist—or both.

Late last year Mexican-American artist Bibiru and his cohorts The Wormholes put together a 56-page zine dedicated to Lohan, a brilliantly titled, vaguely tongue-in-cheek tribute that captured massive attention and prompted renewed reflection on her undeniable beauty.

Bibiru is following up on the black-and-white zine’s success with a second issue dropping in the coming days, and a third in the works. “We The Wormholes love Her Majesty and we believe she’s here to teach humanity about love,” says Bibiru. “She has a naturally ability to cast a spell over millions.”

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Bibiru jokes that the images were beamed down from extraterrestrial friends but then, in a brief moment of serious reflection, admits the project seems to be running away with itself, seemingly fueled by Lohan’s controversial stronghold on pop culture. He’s not surprised, though—“We felt its power but didn’t know what to expect.”

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The second issue is due to drop this week, and will sell for $7.


Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

A recessed balcony carves a rectangular hole in the facade of a writer’s house in north Hollywood.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

Narrow batons of red cedar clad the two-storey house, which was designed by American architects Casey Hughes.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

This untreated wood is expected to patinate to a soft grey colour.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

A translucent bathroom encased in acid-etched glass sits adjacent to the sheltered balcony and leads into an open-plan first floor living room.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

On the ground floor are a kitchen, a bedroom, a second living room and a second bathroom.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

Walls inside the house are lined with sheets of plywood.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

We recently featured another Hollywood house on Dezeen, which overlooks the famous sign – see our earlier story here and see more stories about projects in California here.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

Photography is by Nicole Katz.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

The following description is from Casey Hughes Architects:


The writer’s studio was designed for a woman who lives alone. A primary intention was to create a building that would provide enclosure and security while remaining open to the exterior.

This condition was achieved in part through carving an atrium into the north façade which fills the studio with indirect light while providing privacy from the neighbors.

The treatment of the exterior further emphasizes this paradox through the use of a redwood screen that forms a rough protective layer around the building while imbuing it with lightness and transparency.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

Sun Screen

The exterior of the building is clad in 2” by 2” redwood slats that screen the skin of the building. A 4” gap between the screen and the buildings exterior creates a transparency and play of shadows that enlivens the façade, and softens the buildings mass.
The effect of the light coming through the screen is similar to the light filtering through the trees behind the studio, creating an intimate relationship between the building and it’s surroundings.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

Wood

The redwood of the screen has been left untreated. This was designed both to reduce maintenance, and to allow it to patina to a silvery gray that will soften the appearance of the exterior, further connecting it to its natural surroundings. The interior walls of the building are clad in 2’ by 8’ sheets of Maple plywood, treated with a mixture of beeswax and linseed oil, to create a natural durable surface. The plywood walls were designed to add warmth to the interior, causing the light entering the building to cast a tranquil glow. The subtle grain of the plywood paneling contrasts beautifully with the white ceiling and stair wall, giving them a crisp and clean appearance.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

Light

Most of the windows are placed on the front façade of the building, capturing the soft northern light. A panoramic window wraps the corner of the front façade, echoing the horizontality of the neighborhood. The window was designed to frame a cluster of iconic giant palms, which make the view undeniably Southern California. Standing at these windows, the viewer has a sense that they are in a control tower, surveying the landscape.

A balcony, enclosed in glass, was excavated from the north side of the building to act as a light-well, filling the space with light, but also maintaining privacy from the neighbors to the east. This balcony is covered by a redwood pergola, which further softens the light and creates pleasing shadows that track the sun’s movement.

4 square skylights, arranged in a row above the stairwell, bring light filtered by the trees at the rear of the site into the studio’s south side, and deep into the first floor.

Coldwater Studio by Casey Hughes Architects

Climate Control

A long vertical window on the rear façade of the studio, designed to frame the trunks of the trees behind the studio, also catches the cool breeze coming off the creek that runs along the rear of the property. Cool air is drawn through the studio and exits the larger windows in the front, making air conditioning unnecessary on all but the hottest days, where the exterior temperature can reach in excess of 100 degrees.

The redwood screen on the exterior of the studio was designed to not only shade the building from the sun, but to allow air to flow between the screen and the building’s skin which helps it maintain an even interior temperature throughout the day.

Lantern

The powder room on the east side of the balcony is enclosed on two sides with translucent acid etched glass. The room is fitted with lights in a reveal along the back wall that make the powder room glow like a lantern at night, filling the spaces beyond with a soft defused light.


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