NORTHVIEW GYMNASIUM | Gymnasium in Northview Intermediate, Duarte, CA | Built '04 |

Size: 11,000 S.F. | Budget: $3.4M | Client: Duarte USD |

Project Brief:The Northview Gymnasium seeks to challenge the way in which we think our ever-increasing need for ‘big boxes’, usually inert and quality-challenged.

Given the fact that the program largely dictates the form of the building (a 10,500 SF middle school gym comprised of a 100' x 100' gym / assembly floor plus lobby, restrooms, storage and walkway), we have taken the relationships between structure, skin, and size to drive the project’s redefinition of what big boxes can do.

The structure is a modified K-brace that instead of a redundant bay-by-bay system, it is conceived as a totalized, fully kinetic edge-to-edge system.

Project Team (Osborn): Michael Pinto (Principal in Charge) Juan Azulay (Senior Lead Designer, Associate), Joe Pink (PM), Jared Sopko (JC), Kate Harvey, Alex San Andres, Rich Lawrence (JAMA, Structural), Sang Lee (SYLEE, Mechanical), Vanir CM.