LA studio wHY has finished a new house for the artwork department at Pomona University in Claremont, California, with ample gallery space and studios that supply views of the surrounding landscape .

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

The 35,000-square-foot (ten,668-square-metre) Studio Art Hall contains an auditorium, classrooms, multipurpose function locations, a flexible gallery and teaching room, a long lasting gallery, and studios. Outside terraces can also be employed for meetings and courses.

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

The design requires advantage of the region’s pleasant yr-round climate. Most of the circulation is outside, and a central courtyard supplies gathering area for likelihood encounters between college students and faculty.

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

The facility comprises four freestanding volumes gathered beneath the large curving roof. Each volume is clad in a different type of stucco, a common material on the campus.

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

“They are in equivalent colour but some with really rough aggregates and some with a refined finish,” Kulapat Yantrasast, founder of wHY, informed Dezeen. “I want the constructing to be about light, textures and supplies.”

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

The steel-and-wood overhead construction unites the building and is noticeable from inside interior rooms through clerestory windows.


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Floor-to-ceiling glazing in a lot of of the studios offers views of the nearby San Gabriel Mountains. The area’s topography support inspire the building’s type.

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

The project is the initial purpose-developed art facility at Pomona. Positioned at the centre of campus, the new facility includes a passageway that types a major circulatory route for the university.

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

“It really alterations people’s perception of the art division,” Yantrasast said of the new facility. “Art and non-artwork college students alike are using and hacking the building for their own packages. It’s so fun to witness.”

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

wHY Objects Workshop, the firm’s furnishings and artwork division, produced a suite of custom stools and drawing benches that the students can use.

Other architects who have designed customized-fittings for arts schools contain Crab Studio, who extra colourful, irregularly shaped furnishings to its architecture faculty constructing at Bond University in Australia.

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

Pomona College is a top-ranked small liberal arts university and is component of the Claremont Colleges, a consortium of little colleges which includes Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd schools, all of which are in California. The group rivals the so-called “Little Ivies” collection of little liberal arts institutions and the 7 Sisters colleges of the East Coast.

Pomona College Art Center by wHY

Based mostly in LA, wHY has created a number of artwork-connected tasks, including the Grand Rapids Artwork Museum in Michigan and the David Kordansky Gallery in LA.

Photography is by Iwan Baan.

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