Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School, Los Angeles Unified School District

This new, 211,000 GSF, six-building high school complex includes: performing arts classrooms, a library, multi-purpose room, two gymnasiums, a variety of playfields and courts, food service and lunch shelter, administrative support services, playfields, and subterranean parking under basketball courts. It was important to maintain as much usable open space as possible to create a campus atmosphere on the constrained urban site. Given the magnitude of the intervention it was important to be mindful of the scale and character of the surrounding neighborhood throughout the process.