Green Dot Animo Leadership High School / Brooks + Scarpa Architects

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Inglewood, United States
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  53500 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013
  • Photographs
    Photographs:John Linden
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Lutron, Del Rey, Nationwide Industries, SONOS, Timely Industries

Text description provided by the architects. This new public school for 500 students is located in a tough South Los Angeles neighborhood almost directly under the flight path into LAX and adjacent to the very busy 105 Century freeway. The design was influenced by the New Orleans architects Curtis and Davis who designed and built many schools in the early 1950s in Louisiana. Their designs adapted to the harsh southern climate without using air conditioning, creating sustainable light filled and poetic spaces for kids to learn.

Green Dot Animo Leadership High School / Brooks + Scarpa Architects - Exterior Photography, Facade
© John Linden

Similarly, this project is designed to enhance passive sustainable strategies. It allows for abundant natural light, ventilation and view, while shading itself and inducing airflow. The south facade is clad with 650 solar panels that shade the building and provides 75% of the energy needs for the school. Implementing these strategies will reduce carbon emissions by over 3 million pounds.

Green Dot Animo Leadership High School / Brooks + Scarpa Architects - Exterior Photography, Facade
© John Linden

With a project target of CHPS and/or LEED Certification at the minimum, aesthetics, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness were considered in every design decision. Taking full advantage of the region’s temperate climate, the designers eschewed the fully contained “big box” idiom of conventional schools on the primary use site. Instead, a landscaped courtyard with multifunctional “bleacher” terracing flows into the open-air covered lobby and the multilayered paseo, lending the school the appeal of a collegiate campus and offering significant environmental benefits—improving daylighting and access to fresh air both inside and out—while providing substantial cost savings by limiting artificial lighting and thermal conditioning to the smaller enclosed spaces.

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Address:11044 South Freeman Avenue, Inglewood, CA 90304, USA

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Cite: "Green Dot Animo Leadership High School / Brooks + Scarpa Architects" 06 Mar 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/340616/green-dot-animo-leadership-high-school-brooks-scarpa-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

© John Linden

Green Dot Animo Leadership高中 / Brooks + Scarpa Architects

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