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Huntington Park, California

Four-Story Industrial Building
Adaptive Reuse of Historic Building

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) sought to convert a historic industrial building for educational use as part of a new school campus. As part of the planning and design for the adaptive reuse of the building, an assessment was needed to evaluate reuse feasibility, identify historically sensitive elements to be preserved, determine the existing condition of the building, determine areas requiring restoration, and develop possible seismic retrofit approaches.

CLIENT
HMC Architects

STRUCTURE
The building was constructed circa 1928 and has cast-in-place concrete perimeter walls with heavy timber interior framing.

SOLUTION
WJE carried out a detailed assessment of the building as a consultant to the project architect, HMC Architects. Key tasks performed as part of the assessment included the following:

Preliminary identification of character-defining features

Development of recommendations as to which elements of the structure might reasonably be altered by reuse and which should be preserved

Consultation with HMC and LAUSD regarding programmatic feasibility

Use of the California Historical Building Code to determine reasonable alternatives to prescriptive design requirements in the California Building Code

Development of schematic recommendations for repairs to the exterior

Development of schematic seismic retrofit concepts to bring the structure into compliance with the intent of current building code requirements

Development of four schematic levels of modification to adapt the structure to educational use

Guidance to a cost estimator for development of cost estimates

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STRUCTURE

Educational
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SERVICE
Earthquake Engineering
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