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North Hill
North Hill
945, North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Project Featured on May 29, 2016
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North Hill
945, North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Project Featured on May 29, 2016
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2008
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
Developed in the 1940s, this portion of LA’s Chinatown has historically sported a public face that invited the outside world, and a back stage where families lived and labored, where the living had sometimes spilled into the alleys and plazas. This urban pattern of use has, in the last decade, invited a wave of artists and gallery-ists to the area. Through a grant from the Community Redevelopment Agency, our client invited us to help redefine the building for a new generation of
use.
Addressing memory and re-inventing boundaries were the thematic substrates that guided this project.
We started by striping the building down to its concrete structural shell and introducing a lighter infill of cabinetry and movable walls, thereby articulating a reading of relative permanence. The tall volume of the main gallery counterpoints the intimate art-viewing areas and mezzanine workspaces tucked away from public view.
At the storefront façade, shifted planes of glass and steel create a
perception of depth. An indoor-outdoor transitional space into the
gallery and to the apartment above dissolves edge of where the street
ended and where the interior space began. A sliding and pivoting
circular steel gate accommodates the gallery’s need for varying degrees
of openness with playful reference to the changing phases of the moon.
use.
Addressing memory and re-inventing boundaries were the thematic substrates that guided this project.
We started by striping the building down to its concrete structural shell and introducing a lighter infill of cabinetry and movable walls, thereby articulating a reading of relative permanence. The tall volume of the main gallery counterpoints the intimate art-viewing areas and mezzanine workspaces tucked away from public view.
At the storefront façade, shifted planes of glass and steel create a
perception of depth. An indoor-outdoor transitional space into the
gallery and to the apartment above dissolves edge of where the street
ended and where the interior space began. A sliding and pivoting
circular steel gate accommodates the gallery’s need for varying degrees
of openness with playful reference to the changing phases of the moon.
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