client: ArtCenter College of Design
type: educational
location: Pasadena, California
size: 35,000 sq ft
status: built
team: darin johnstone, sandra hutchings, matt liese, daniel romero, kris ibranan, jesus guerrero, kaylee hyun
photo credit: © Lawrence Anderson Photography, Inc & Chuck Spangler
published: Pasadena Star News, Dot Magazine Spring 2014 and Fall 2013, Los Angeles Times, A+A, Architect's Newspaper, GOOOOD, HK
awards:
2018 AIA / Pasadena & Foothill Honor Award
2016 Pasadena Beautiful Foundation Commercial Design Award
darin johnstone architects
ArtCenter
Fine Arts + Illustration
January 2014
The primary challenge posed by the charge to transform the original ‘Post Office’ building into a home for Art Center College of Design’s Fine Art and Illustration departments had to do with the potential relationship between the existing conditions and the program. The program of galleries, classrooms and offices filled the entire existing volume while still requiring an abundance of natural light. The existing building contained five natural light sources: a thirty foot square skylight above a double height atrium space in the center and double height voids in all four corners that we termed ‘light courts’. Formal galleries and circulation (conceived as informal galleries) were used to connect all of the light courts effectively carving the mass of classrooms and studios with light.
client: art center college of design
type: educational
location: pasadena, ca
size: 35,000 sq ft
status: built
team: darin johnstone, sandra hutchings, matt liese, daniel romero, kris ibranan, jesus guerrero, kaylee hyun
photo credit: © Lawrence Anderson Photography, Inc
published: Pasadena Star News, Dot Magazine Spring 2014 and Fall 2013, Los Angeles Times, A+A, Architect's Newspaper, GOOOOD, HK
darin johnstone architects
ArtCenter
Fine Arts + Illustration
January 2014
The primary challenge posed by the charge to transform the original ‘Post Office’ building into a home for Art Center College of Design’s Fine Art and Illustration departments had to do with the potential relationship between the existing conditions and the program. The program of galleries, classrooms and offices filled the entire existing volume while still requiring an abundance of natural light. The existing building contained five natural light sources: a thirty foot square skylight above a double height atrium space in the center and double height voids in all four corners that we termed ‘light courts’. Formal galleries and circulation (conceived as informal galleries) were used to connect all of the light courts effectively carving the mass of classrooms and studios with light.
client: art center college of design
type: educational
location: pasadena, ca
size: 35,000 sq ft
status: built
team: darin johnstone, sandra hutchings, matt liese, daniel romero, kris ibranan, jesus guerrero, kaylee hyun
photo credit: © Lawrence Anderson Photography, Inc
published: Pasadena Star News, Dot Magazine Spring 2014 and Fall 2013, Los Angeles Times, A+A, Architect's Newspaper, GOOOOD, HK
darin johnstone architects
ArtCenter
Fine Arts + Illustration
January 2014
The primary challenge posed by the charge to transform the original ‘Post Office’ building into a home for Art Center College of Design’s Fine Art and Illustration departments had to do with the potential relationship between the existing conditions and the program. The program of galleries, classrooms and offices filled the entire existing volume while still requiring an abundance of natural light. The existing building contained five natural light sources: a thirty foot square skylight above a double height atrium space in the center and double height voids in all four corners that we termed ‘light courts’. Formal galleries and circulation (conceived as informal galleries) were used to connect all of the light courts effectively carving the mass of classrooms and studios with light.