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Westside Family YMCA
(# 720)
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This groundbreaking joint-use project, a collaboration between the YMCA and LAUSD is sited at the southwest corner of University High School. Its ‘sister’ facility will be a gym and locker rooms to the east, allowing students, during weekdays, to share access to the gym and teen center, along with Y members. The site is a relatively tough area, facing the backside of Santa Monica Boulevard commercial/industrial uses.
Project goals:
To maximize synergy with the school gym; to celebrate the presence of the YMCA and its pool to the community without sacrificing a sense of security; and to build with a maximum of economy. Taking advantage of the corner’s visual exposure to Santa Monica Boulevard, a vaulted roof shelters both entry and pool.  The remainder of the building, modest in form, but generous in interior openness and sociability, shapes itself around additional garden courtyards and roof courts that allow extension of recreation and exercise programs from inside to outside.
Exterior
Lobby
Lobby 2
Weight Room
Weight Room 2
Pool
Stair
Gymnasium
Floor Plan 1
Floor Plan 2
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