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The Big Idea:
The School of Film and Television (SFTV) is one of the fastest growing departments at Loyola Marymount University–with an expanding student enrollment, new faculty and staff hires, and recently added degree and certificate programs. To accommodate this growth, the university acquired 50,000 square feet of off-campus space in the nearby Playa Vista neighborhood. This new hub for SFTV, located at the heart of Los Angeles’ tech-savvy Silicon Beach community, needed to create synergy between students, faculty, visitors, and industry leaders.
The goal of the project was to bridge the gap between academia and real-world working environments for technology and media production. It supports a curriculum which gives students and faculty access to state-of-the-art media production equipment, 24-hour-a-day project production schedules, and flexible and adaptable spaces. The space was envisioned as an organized network of learning environments: small and large, focused and collaborative, and most importantly, efficient and flexible. Given SFTV’s requirements for multi-use and informal gathering spaces that encourage collaboration, the physical environment acts as a backdrop for students to produce their projects that require a multitude of scenarios. The design balances learning, working, and communal spaces that foster thought, creative discourse, and experimentation.
The Process:
To assist architectural design firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill in pulling together this massive project, we…
The Result:
With a beautiful, user friendly design that encourages collaboration with an eye on the future of entertainment. The building perfectly captured LMU’s vision for creativity and production at the highest level.
