A Star in Hollywood

A 12.4-acre parcel located at the crossing of Sunset Boulevard and the Hollywood Freeway (Hwy. 101) forms the canvas for this new 225,000 SF high school for the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school serves grades 9-12 from the dense surrounding urban community, incorporates a continuation school and is designed for 2,625 students.

The six-story complex is massed as a 3-story classroom “bar”, bridging over a base of shared public spaces and a parking garage. An outdoor plaza acts as the social heart of the campus. The buildings are solidly massed along the eastern (freeway) edge, forming an urban face to the city, while the scale descends to the residential neighborhood on the south and breaks down into a more village-like series of pieces on the west to address the plaza. This planning concept allows two-thirds of the site to remain open for playfields,