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Click3XLA
Santa Monica, California
Lawrence Scarpa of Pugh + Scarpa
A fast-tracked modern design provides
an appropriate home for this dot.com business
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Because of a complex set of issues and
relationships involving time, money, design, construction,
and fabrication, the design and construction process for these
offices set in an industrial warehouse was accelerated to
the degree that construction commenced during the first fourteen
days of design, and permits were issued by the city by the
beginning of the third week. All drawings generated for the
project served as both client presentation and construction
documents. To facilitate this process and allow for rapid
communication among participants, all drawings were either
computer generated or drawn freehand on 11-by-17-inch vellum.
The immediacy of working in this "live broadcast"
context resulted in an architecture that, in essence, evolved
as a drawing at full scale.
The offices of Click3XLA bear a resemblance
to the spatial continuity and sensation of vastness characteristic
of the local industrial warehouse buildings of the area. Unbroken
visual corridors that extend the entire length of the space
were a theme. Simultaneously, the architecture provides spaces
for more intimate, interior, isolated gatherings. Even though
this is a completely interior project, the public areas and
corridors can be read as exterior space while the freestanding
forms that animate the project can be read as interiors.
The architecture of Click3XLA is intended
to confront the user. Bold, almost primitive sculptural forms
are large and expressive, challenging and stimulating anyone
in the space. A movement between intimate enclosed space and
open exposed areas reflects a human pattern—the boundary
between the privacy of our thoughts and feelings and the public
dimension of our everyday lives.
Formal name
of Project:
Click3XLA
Location:
Santa Monica, Calif.
Gross square
footage:
9,000 sq. ft.
Total construction
cost:
$405,000
Owner:
Click3X,LA –
Peter Corbett, Jim Wheelock, Steve Martino and John Townley
Architect:
Lawrence Scarpa of Pugh + Scarpa
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave, F1
Santa Monica, Ca 90404
Tel. 310-828-0226 x13
fax 310-453-9696
e-mail: larry@pugh-scarpa.com
www.pugh-scarpa.com
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