The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, which celebrated its ribbon cutting 13th November, 2010, houses 4,200 students in an integrated K-12 of six pilot schools on a 24-acre site. This site, in L.A.'s Mid-Wilshire District, was formerly the Myron-Hunt designed Ambassador Hotel where RFK was assassinated in 1968.
Designed by Gonzalez Goodale Architects, the project marks a distinct shift in typology for California public schools, which have primarily been ‘one-off' designs devoid of urban context. This campus aggressively embraces both urban history and urban fabric. By responding to the grids and axes of the surrounding city - and of the hotel that was once seated in it - the school provides cinematic viewpoints both outside-in and inside-out that reward the school's inhabitants with a sense of urban connection and continuity.
The principal challenge of this project was to synthesise the aspirations of a vast range of stakeholders while still forging a work that retains coherence and integrity. The establishment of broad initial principles and values among the client-planning team - related to urbanism, joint use, urgency of school seats, and the pedagogical combination of both campus integration and campus decentralisation - provided a framework around which project leadership could cohere and make sound decisions in the face of single-interest advocacies.
A second - physical - challenge was to overcome the divorce of the site's original grading from the city street system, and to literally re-ground the site's perimeter. Bringing the southerly portion of the site (the K-5 Pilot Schools) down 30inches to the level of 8th Street required a substantial investment in re-grading.
Through design, the resultant grade differences within the site became opportunities through which to introduce barrier-less and subtle separations between pilot schools- specifically a series of grand terraces descending from the main quad to the K-5 play area and its multi-purpose performance proscenium.
A third challenge, in collaboration with LAUSD's project managers, was to move the District towards new models of sustainable architecture, including: super high-density site utilisation; indoor-outdoor program and spaces; under-floor and displacement ventilation for more healthy air delivery; a central mechanical plant; single-ply high albedo roofing; triple-glazing at exposed street conditions; and rapidly renewable/cork, rubber, and linoleum flooring.
LA site steeped in history transformed into Robert F. Kennedy Community School
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