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VAN NUYS/SHERMAN OAKS GYMNASIUM

The $3 million project, for the LA Department of Recreation and Parks in the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Recreation Center, removes an existing gymnasium and stage, built in 1957, and replaces it with a new, larger gymnasium. New dance studios fill in an existing courtyard adjacent to program support spaces that will remain. Due to its regulation-sized basketball court, the new gymnasium is a much larger volume than the existing.

The design reduces the scale of this large volume to better integrate with the existing building by breaking down the façade into horizontal zones of masonry, fiber cement panels and a band of clerestory windows with an overhang. The scale is further reduced through the use of two alternating textures of the panels in a basket weave pattern; an adaptation of an existing building motif.

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