Elemental Construction in California

UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Northwest corner main entry.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Southwest corner sculpture yard.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Sculpture yard view looking east.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Center bay critique space in renovated warehouse.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Physical model and massing studies.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Perspective sections through new building.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Ground floor schematic plan.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Second floor schematic plan.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Schematic roof plan.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Culver City aerial view.

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    LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for North America prize handover ceremony, Chicago

    The UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition by (l-r): Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston of Johnston Marklee & Associates, Los Angeles won an Acknowledgement prize.

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    LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for North America prize handover ceremony, Chicago

    Winners of an Acknowledgement prize for the UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition in Los Angeles (l-r): Maik Strecker, Head Growth & Innovation North America, LafargeHolcim; prize winners Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee & Associates; and Jury member Forrest Meggers, Professor at the School of Architecture and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment at Princeton University, NJ.

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    LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for North America prize handover ceremony, Chicago

    Presentation to the winning teams of the four Acknowledgement prizes (l-r): Vivian Kuan and Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE; Maik Strecker, Head Growth & Innovation North America, LafargeHolcim; Anyeley Hallova, project^ and Thomas F. Robinson, LEVER Architecture;Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee & Associates; John Stull, CEO Cement LafargeHolcim US; Stephen Luoni, University of Arkansas; Jury member Forrest Meggers, Professor at the School of Architecture and Andlinger Center for Energy & Environment at Princeton University, NJ; and Marty Matlock, University of Arkansas.

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    UCLA Warner Graduate Art Studio renovation and addition, Culver City, CA, USA

    Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, architects, Johnston Marklee, Los Angeles, USA

  • Awards Acknowledgement prize 2017–2018 North America

Addition to and adaptive reuse of a former wallpaper factory using elemental construction for the Graduate Art Studios at UCLA in Culver City, California.

By Sharon Johnston , Mark Lee - Johnston Marklee, Los Angeles, CA, USA and

Ideas: Embodied Carbon , Urban Requalification

Addition to and adaptive reuse of a former wallpaper factory using elemental construction for the Graduate Art Studios at UCLA in Culver City, California.

The project’s basic objectives are twofold: to rehabilitate existing urban and architectural elements – through adaptive reuse and complementary additions; and to frame a discourse on the role of mundane construction as the generator of space and form.

Elemental Construction in California

Project authors

  • GS
    Guy Smith

    Horton Lees Brogden

    USA

  • NH
    Nicholas Hofstede

    Johnston Marklee

    USA

  • AH
    Amy Hackney

    Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

    USA

  • ID
    Ishwar Dhungana

    KPFF

    USA

  • PB
    Pamela Burton

    Pamela Burton & Company

    USA

  • HM
    Hayden McKay

    Horton Lees Brogden

    USA

  • SH
    Sean Hira

    ME Engineers

    USA

  • RG
    Reto Geiser

    MG&CO

    USA

  • TM
    Tori McKenna

    Johnston Marklee

    USA

  • KO
    Kevin O’Connell

    Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

    USA

  • CG
    Cassidy Green

    GAIA

    USA

  • TM
    Thomas McCorkell

    Van Deusen & Associates

    USA

  • JC
    John Carter

    C Plus C Consulting

    USA

  • CS
    Chris Sterparn

    Capital Projects Group

    USA

  • WD
    Walker Donahue

    Jensen Hughes

    USA

  • DG
    David Gray

    Johnston Marklee

    USA

  • LE
    Lindsay Erickson

    Johnston Marklee

    USA

  • JG
    Jim Good

    Veneklasen

    USA

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