This 8,349-square-foot, post-production editing facility in Culver City is comprised of two adjoined mid-century warehouse buildings. The program mixes private editing rooms, public work/lounge areas, and acoustically isolated finishing/recording spaces laid out between the two distinct halves of the facility.

One side is constructed of a single gable-roofed ceiling with large wooden bowstring trusses and on the other side of the shared brick party wall stretch deep steel beams that support a large central clerestory window. Two distinct organizational styles were thus generated to accentuate both halves. A meandering slat wall flows around the central offices in the first building through to the lounge and pantry in the second building, tying the two spaces together. This unifying element makes reference to similar slat systems in both the client’s New York and Atlanta offices.

Below the bowstring trusses, an interior pathway traverses the space with lowered roof-like ceilings that allow both employees and visitors to enjoy the exposed wooden structure and ample daylight from the six skylights above. The full height walls of the second building house the recording/finishing rooms that require acoustic isolation from not only the adjacent communal spaces, but also vibrations from the nearby train tracks that make their way into the site. Because the facility program requires a blend of isolated spaces and social collaboration, a kitchen and lounge are included along with an exterior patio, placed in such a location as to provide maximum natural light from all directions at all times of the day.