Loyola Marymount University – School of Film and Television Graduate Building

Loyola Marymount University – School of Film and Television
Loyola Marymount University – School of Film and Television

Project Facts
  • Status Construction Complete
  • Completion Year 2018
  • Design Finish Year 2017
  • Size Site Area: 1.14 acres Building Height: 60 feet Number of Stories: 4 Building Gross Area: 50,000 square feet
  • Awards
    2019, Calibre Design Award, IIDA Southern California 2022, Merit Award, AIA California
  • Sustainability Certifications LEED BD+C NC (New Construction) Silver, BD+C, Silver
  • Collaborators
    Ama Project Management Warner Constructors, Inc. ITS Design Group Arc Engineering Veneklasen & Associates Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design (HLB) Waveguide LLC Spinitar
Project Facts
  • Status Construction Complete
  • Completion Year 2018
  • Design Finish Year 2017
  • Size Site Area: 1.14 acres Building Height: 60 feet Number of Stories: 4 Building Gross Area: 50,000 square feet
  • Awards
    2019, Calibre Design Award, IIDA Southern California 2022, Merit Award, AIA California
  • Sustainability Certifications LEED BD+C NC (New Construction) Silver, BD+C, Silver
  • Collaborators
    Ama Project Management Warner Constructors, Inc. ITS Design Group Arc Engineering Veneklasen & Associates Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design (HLB) Waveguide LLC Spinitar

The School of Film and Television (SFTV) is one of the fastest growing departments at Loyola Marymount University-with an expanding student enrollment, new faculty and staff hires, and recently added degree and certificate programs. To accommodate this growth, the university acquired 50,000 square feet of off-campus space in the nearby Playa Vista neighborhood. This new hub for SFTV, located at the heart of Los Angeles’ tech-savvy Silicon Beach community, seeks to create synergy between students, faculty, visitors, and industry leaders.

SOM’s design dedicates 35,000 square feet to the school’s graduate programs for screenwriting and production, with the remaining 15,000 square feet of space reserved for other LMU programs. The goal of the project is to bridge the gap between academia and real-world working environments for technology and media production. It supports a curriculum which gives students and faculty access to state-of-the-art media production equipment, 24-hour-a-day project production schedules, and flexible and adaptable spaces.

The space is envisioned as an organized network of learning environments: small and large, focused and collaborative, and most importantly, efficient and flexible. Given SFTV’s requirements for multi-use and informal gathering spaces that encourage collaboration, the physical environment acts as a backdrop for students to produce their projects that require a multitude of scenarios. The design balances learning, working, and communal spaces that foster thought, creative discourse, and experimentation.

SOM also assisted in developing a program that will allow for the phased movement of various departments into “swing spaces” that will facilitate LMU’s growth projections for SFTV in the years ahead.

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