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Leo A. Daly - High School in Los Angeles

The new South Region High School Number Nine building for the Los Angeles Unified School district, located in South Gate, California, was designed by Leo A Daly. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

The Los Angeles Unified School District South Region High School Number 9 (LAUSD No. 9) has opened in South Gate, California. The Los Angeles offices of Omaha, Nebraska-based Leo A Daly designed the 107-000-square-foot (9,940-square-meter) school, which prominently displays irregularly shaped open-air steel canopies and angular glazed entrances against a backdrop of more staid two-story buildings with CMU block walls.

Inside the administration building. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

The campus comprises a series of three learning clusters, as well as separate buildings housing gymnasium, performing arts, administration, and maintenance and operation functions. The firm organized these buildings around a central hardscaped courtyard.

The central courtyard. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

Light blue steel canopies shelter open-air staircases and courtyard pavilions from direct sun. According to the firm, the distinct arrangement of the campus buildings is intended to create a primary path whose shape echoes that of the nearby Los Angeles River.

One of the three "clusters" at LAUSD No. 9. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

Each of the three academic clusters – characterized as schools within a school – is self-contained with classroom, laboratory, and library spaces. To distinguish the three, each was also assigned  a unique interior color palette: bright orange, bright green, and a darker "citrus" green. Shared facilities on the campus sport all three school colors.

A corridor inside the orange cluster. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

In what also seems like the result of cost-savings measures, the firm highlighted the school's exposed steel structural elements, sheer walls, and trusses, as educational features, teaching students about building systems.

Bright green HVAC ducts run between exposed trusses in the gymnasium. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

The building was opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Febuary 28, 2013.

Exposed steel in exterior staircases. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

Project Credits
  • Client:  Los Angeles Unified School District
  • Architect: Leo A. Daly
  • Builder: Turner Construction Company
The multipurpose space. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

Project Details
  • Building Area: 107,000 square feet (9,940 square meters)
  • Energy Use Intensity:
  • Stories: 2
  • Materials: Steel, glass, metal panels, concrete, CMU.

Caption. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

A CMU wall. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

The light green cluster. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

Another exterior stair. Photo: Leo A Daly/Lawrence Anderson Photography

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