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Architects: Richter Architects
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:Craig Blackmon, David Richter
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Manufacturers: Journeyman Construction, Kawneer, Pyramid Stone
![Del Mar College Music Addition / Richter Architects - Windows, Steel, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/587d/b558/e58e/cea2/6600/00be/medium_jpg/Del_Mar_College_Music_Addition_3.jpg?1484633420)
Text description provided by the architects. This project is an initial phase of a larger program to provide much needed expansion and renovation to the aging facilities that serve the nationally-recognized Del Mar College Music program. The project includes two recording studios, a rehearsal hall, and music laboratories and classrooms. The original building, built in the 1950’s and 1960’s was dominantly oriented to a campus perimeter street, away from the pedestrian core and life of the campus. As music provides an important element to the campus cultural life, it was considered a key project opportunity to provide significant campus benefit beyond technical scope of the project – to utilize this initial phase to re-direct the Music Department to the heart of the campus, to create better pedestrian linkages to the campus, and to begin delineating new, lively campus outdoor spaces.
![Del Mar College Music Addition / Richter Architects - Windows, Facade, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/587d/b44f/e58e/cedc/e400/00ee/newsletter/Detail_image_1.jpg?1484633156)
The design seamlessly extends the established campus materials of buff brick and pink cast-stone while energizing the urban campus core with a dramatically curved glass curtain-wall with integral solar shading. This concave new dominant facade expresses musical qualities of meter and movement and offers a new architectural identity for the Music Department facing the historic heart of the campus. Additionally, it boldly scribes and enhances an important but previously obscured north/south campus path, and creates an acoustic and visual backdrop for a planned-impromptu amphitheater carved into a new campus courtyard to the east.
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![Del Mar College Music Addition / Richter Architects - Stairs, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/587d/b568/e58e/cedc/e400/00f5/medium_jpg/Del_Mar_College_Music_Addition_4.jpg?1484633437)
Product Description. The curved glass curtain-wall with integral solar shading expresses musical qualities of rhythm and expression. It forms the concave facade that creates an acoustic and visual backdrop for planned and impromptu performances.
![Del Mar College Music Addition / Richter Architects - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/587d/b4c2/e58e/cea2/6600/00b8/medium_jpg/Del_Mar_College_Music_Addition_2.jpg?1484633270)