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Various Small Fires

The gallery occupies a seventy-year old building situated on a busy street in Hollywood with a faux art deco façade from the 1980s. Conceived as an introverted vault, all functional details of the building façade have been removed and the volume is painted entirely in white. Its frontage appears mute and inaccessible and its art deco elements remain as ghostly silhouettes. The gallery entrance is reached by way of an unmarked, narrow alley along the side of the building. This 50 foot long, four-foot wide sound corridor for curated artists’ projects, transports visitors to an expansive courtyard: a walled, exterior exhibition gallery for sculpture open to the sky which nearly doubles the volume of interior space within the building.

Client

Various Small Fires

Location

Los Angeles, CA, US

Years

2013-2014

Site Area

5800 sf

Floor Area

2400 sf

Partners

Sharon Johnston, Mark Lee

Project Team

Katrin Terstegen (Project Lead), Elisabeth Jones

CONSULTANT TEAM

Structural Engineer: Bricy Company; Mechanical Engineer: JCC Design Inc.; Lighting Consultant: Luminesce

CONSTRUCTION TEAM

Alonzo Construction

PHOTOGRAPHY

Lee Thompson