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架构师提供的文本描述。早期教育中心成立于1939年，自1946年以来一直设在其现在的地点。该中心是一所社会、经济和文化多样性的独立学校，面向儿童，包括学步六年级的幼儿-这是一所从头到尾都有十年经验的独立学校。随着时间的推移，学校逐渐扩大，现在是学校投资未来的时候了。学校购买了毗邻的房产，并制定了一个总体计划，确定了一个为期三年半的建设项目的参数，以重建其现有校园的三分之二，并扩大其规模。

Text description provided by the architects. The Center for Early Education was founded in 1939 and has been located on its current site since 1946. The Center is a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, including toddlers through grade six – a ten year experience from start to finish. Having expanded incrementally over the years, the time arrived for the school to invest in its future on a site it had committed to remaining. The school purchased adjacent property and created a master plan that established the parameters of a three-and-a-half-year construction project to rebuild two-thirds of its existing campus and expand it.

Text description provided by the architects. The Center for Early Education was founded in 1939 and has been located on its current site since 1946. The Center is a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, including toddlers through grade six – a ten year experience from start to finish. Having expanded incrementally over the years, the time arrived for the school to invest in its future on a site it had committed to remaining. The school purchased adjacent property and created a master plan that established the parameters of a three-and-a-half-year construction project to rebuild two-thirds of its existing campus and expand it.

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虽然校园面积增加了一倍，但在这个城市里，校园面积只会从1.5英亩增加到2.5英亩。在这个城市里，他们一半规模的小学都居住在多达5至6英亩的土地上。两个新的建筑物连接到一个现有的第三层建筑，以创建一个单一的四层楼。重建后的学校将占用1万SF，容纳约540名学生和110名教职员工。新校区包括体育馆、礼堂、早期教育教室、小学低年级和高年级、蒸汽教室、实验室和制造者空间、家长工作、会议和社交空间、屋顶游乐场，以及一个中央游乐场-所有这些都位于一个185辆车的地下停车场之上。该项目是一个紧凑的发展模式，作为一个城市校园快速城市化地区的南加州。

While doubling in size, the campus at completion will only have grown from one and a half acres to two and a half acres in a city where most elementary schools half their size reside on as many as five or six acres. Two new buildings attach to an existing third building to create a single four-story building. The rebuilt school will occupy 10,000 SF and house approximately 540 students and 110 faculty and staff members. The new campus includes a gymnasium, auditorium, classrooms for early education, lower, and upper elementary grades, STEAM classroom, labs and maker spaces, parent work, meeting, and social spaces, rooftop playgrounds, and a central play field – all on top of a 185-car subterranean parking garage. The project is a model of compact development as an urban campus in a rapidly urbanizing area of southern California.

While doubling in size, the campus at completion will only have grown from one and a half acres to two and a half acres in a city where most elementary schools half their size reside on as many as five or six acres. Two new buildings attach to an existing third building to create a single four-story building. The rebuilt school will occupy 10,000 SF and house approximately 540 students and 110 faculty and staff members. The new campus includes a gymnasium, auditorium, classrooms for early education, lower, and upper elementary grades, STEAM classroom, labs and maker spaces, parent work, meeting, and social spaces, rooftop playgrounds, and a central play field – all on top of a 185-car subterranean parking garage. The project is a model of compact development as an urban campus in a rapidly urbanizing area of southern California.

 © Benny Chan

(C)陈方安生

 © Benny Chan

(C)陈方安生

学校的建筑一边是繁忙的商业主干道，一边是街道，而不是另一边。它的灵感来自于儿童艺术的自发表达-折叠和剪裁的纸、字母表积木、色彩鲜艳的表面，以及在自然界中发现的事物的简化轮廓，如树木和鲜花。

The architecture of the school engages a busy commercial arterial on one side and a neighborhood street no the other. It is inspired by the spontaneous expression of children’s art – folded and cut-out paper, alphabet building blocks, brightly colored surfaces, and simplified profiles of things found in nature like trees and flowers.

The architecture of the school engages a busy commercial arterial on one side and a neighborhood street no the other. It is inspired by the spontaneous expression of children’s art – folded and cut-out paper, alphabet building blocks, brightly colored surfaces, and simplified profiles of things found in nature like trees and flowers.

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最近建成的第一座新建筑-“La Cienega大楼”-正对着一条繁忙的商业主干道，从西好莱坞向南一直延伸到洛杉矶。在底层，一部90 FT长篇的作品是由世界著名艺术家弗里德里希·库纳特(Friedrich Kunath)设计的，他与中心的学生合作，为西好莱坞城市艺术项目创作了这首作品。在上层，家长的工作和社交空间，如多用途会议室和三楼露台，面向La Cienega大道。

The recently completed first new building – the “La Cienega Building” – faces onto a busy commercial arterial running north to south from West Hollywood into Los Angeles. At ground level, a 90 FT long vitrine houses a public installation by world-renowned artist, Friedrich Kunath, who worked with Center students to create the piece for dedication to the West Hollywood Urban Art Program. At upper levels, parent work and social spaces, such as the multi-purpose meeting room and third floor terrace, orient out to La Cienega Boulevard.

The recently completed first new building – the “La Cienega Building” – faces onto a busy commercial arterial running north to south from West Hollywood into Los Angeles. At ground level, a 90 FT long vitrine houses a public installation by world-renowned artist, Friedrich Kunath, who worked with Center students to create the piece for dedication to the West Hollywood Urban Art Program. At upper levels, parent work and social spaces, such as the multi-purpose meeting room and third floor terrace, orient out to La Cienega Boulevard.

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第二座新大楼-“克林顿大厦”-目前正在建造中，所有的早期教育项目都将设在一楼，幼儿园、一年级和二年级在二楼，行政管理在三楼，屋顶游乐场在四楼。这座大楼将作为整个学校的主要入口，并将有一个五层的中庭，将新的低级停车场的前厅与四楼的屋顶游乐场连接起来。

The second new building – the “Clinton Building”– currently in construction, will house all the early education programs at the ground floor, with kindergarten, first and second grades at the second floor, administration at the third floor, and rooftop playgrounds at the fourth floor. This building will serve as the main entrance to the entire school and will feature a five-story atrium that connects a vestibule at the new below grade parking garage to the rooftop playgrounds at the fourth floor. 

The second new building – the “Clinton Building”– currently in construction, will house all the early education programs at the ground floor, with kindergarten, first and second grades at the second floor, administration at the third floor, and rooftop playgrounds at the fourth floor. This building will serve as the main entrance to the entire school and will feature a five-story atrium that connects a vestibule at the new below grade parking garage to the rooftop playgrounds at the fourth floor. 

Architects Johnson Favaro

Location West Hollywood, California, United States

Lead Architects Johnson Favaro

Area 10000.0 ft2

Project Year 2020

Photographs Benny Chan

Category Educational Architecture

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