client: ArtCenter College of Design
type: educational
location: Pasadena, California
size: 7,000 sq ft
status: built
team: darin johnstone, sandra hutchings, rob ettenger, matt liese, howard chen
consultants: john a. martin and associates, kaplan gehring mccarrol architectural lighting, waveguide consulting inc.
project manager: gkk works
general contractor: halsted construction
photo credit: joshua white / jwpictures.com & artcenter college of design
darin johnstone architects
ArtCenter
Environmental Design
January 2017
The primary challenge was to create a spatial identity for this contemporary department in the iconic Craig Ellwood building constructed for the school in 1976. The building, considered by some to be Ellwood’s best non-residential work, is a study in Miesian high modernism. While the exterior, the structural system, the underlying order and especially the bridge are extraordinary, some of the building interiors clearly deviated from the driving concepts of flexibility, transparency and openness. Our approach coined ‘even less is more’ was to work to understand and accentuate (through reduction) the ordering system and the building proportions. We worked diligently to exploit latent building qualities through light, transparency, reflectivity and contrast.
client: art center college of design
type: educational
location: pasadena, ca
size: 7,000 sq ft
status: built
team: darin johnstone, sandra hutchings, rob ettenger, matt liese, howard chen
consultants: john a. martin and associates, kaplan gehring mccarrol architectural lighting, waveguide consulting inc.
project manager: gkk works
general contractor: halsted construction
photo credit: © Lawrence Anderson Photography, Inc
darin johnstone architects
The primary challenge was to create a spatial identity for this contemporary department in the iconic Craig Ellwood building constructed for the school in 1976. The building, considered by some to be Ellwood’s best non-residential work, is a study in Miesian high modernism. While the exterior, the structural system, the underlying order and especially the bridge are extraordinary, some of the building interiors clearly deviated from the driving concepts of flexibility, transparency and openness. Our approach coined ‘even less is more’ was to work to understand and accentuate (through reduction) the ordering system and the building proportions. We worked diligently to exploit latent building qualities through light, transparency, reflectivity and contrast.
ArtCenter
Environmental Design
January 2017
client: art center college of design
type: educational
location: pasadena, ca
size: 7,000 sq ft
status: built
team: darin johnstone, sandra hutchings, rob ettenger, matt liese, howard chen
consultants: john a. martin and associates, kaplan gehring mccarrol architectural lighting, waveguide consulting inc.
project manager: gkk works
general contractor: halsted construction
photo credit: © Lawrence Anderson Photography, Inc
darin johnstone architects
The primary challenge was to create a spatial identity for this contemporary department in the iconic Craig Ellwood building constructed for the school in 1976. The building, considered by some to be Ellwood’s best non-residential work, is a study in Miesian high modernism. While the exterior, the structural system, the underlying order and especially the bridge are extraordinary, some of the building interiors clearly deviated from the driving concepts of flexibility, transparency and openness. Our approach coined ‘even less is more’ was to work to understand and accentuate (through reduction) the ordering system and the building proportions. We worked diligently to exploit latent building qualities through light, transparency, reflectivity and contrast.
ArtCenter
Environmental Design
January 2017