CCA GRADUATE STUDIOS

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

A 10,000 square foot, wood-framed warehouse is creatively and economically transformed into new facilities for the growing Graduate Studies Program at the California College of the Arts. Along with seismic and accessibility upgrades to the building, its exterior is entirely re-clad in corrugated cement-board with a continuous clerestory of corrugated twin-wall polycarbonate. A mobile shipping container in the exterior courtyard houses new prefabricated restrooms, allowing the interior space to be devoted entirely to thirty-two individual light-filled artist studios.

    AWARDS

  • 2005 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA 2005)
     Silver Medal, Environments Category
  • 2004 AIA California Council Design Awards Merit
     Award for Design
  • 2004 AIA San Francisco Design Awards Excellence in
      Design Award
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  • PRESS

  • Small Firms Great Projects 2005
  • and:guide San Francisco Architecture & Design,
      teNeues Publishers, 2005
  • Business Week Online, July 2005
  • Innovation, Fall 2005
  • arcCA, Q3 2004
  • Architectural Record, August 2004
  • SF Chronicle Home & Garden Section, March 24, 2004
  • The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2003