STUDIO V: The Urban Building
In terms of its commercial success, the oldest eastern portion of Downtown LA along the South Broadway corridor, has seen better days. In spite of the recent efforts by both public agencies and private developers, the area still struggles to jump start its own renaissance. Nostalgia aside, Broadway still has a large number of historical buildings of indisputable architectural relevance that define the character of the urban landscape. The diverse Culture of Downtown results in a unique juxtaposition of people, incomes, uses, and styles that doesn’t happen in any other area of Los Angeles.
The program is a multi-use urban campus for Made in Los Angeles School of Arts and Crafts. The nature of the program adheres to the notion that density is a better alternative to urban sprawl, and that combining uses into a single building creates opportunities for interdisciplinary synergy that allows different areas and their agents to learn & benefit from one another.
