Surrounded by the highly acclaimed Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Los Angeles Area High School #9 makes a strong statement for the art of creativity. The high school for the performing and visual arts was designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU to express the creativity of its students through the architecture of the buildings. Situated on 10.26 acres, the 335,172-square-foot campus includes 64 new classrooms in four academies for education in music, theater arts, dance and visual arts.
Riverside Group fabricated 34,800 square feet of 0.16-inch Reynobond ACM, FR core in Gray Velvet with a Valspar finish; 13,000 square feet of 0.16-inch Reynobond Natural Stainless-Steel Composite Material, FR core with a Natural InvariMatte finish; and 3,200 square feet of 0.16-inch Reynobond Natural Brushed ACM, FR core with a Clear Valspar finish. Alcoa Architectural Products supplied the Reynobond material; Valspar provided the Valspar finish; and Contrarian Metal Resources developed InvariMatte, a non-reflective stainless-steel finish. Custom Metal Fabricators installed the Reynobond panels in Riverside’s R4-300 dry joint pressure equalized rainscreen system. The helix is clad in 11-gauge perforated InvariMatte stainless-steel panels; the tower is covered with panels of soft reflection InvariMatte; and the library shingles are also InvariMatte.
Originally published: February 2010
Owner: Los Angeles Unified School District
Architect: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Vienna, Austria,
Fabricator: Riverside Group, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Installer: Custom Metal Fabricators, Orange, Calif.
Metal wall panels: Alcoa Architectural Products, www.alcoaarchitecturalproducts.com and Contrarian Metal Resources, www.metalresources.net
Finish: Valspar, Minneapolis, www.paintandcolor.com
