Colegio La Esperanza Shade Trellis
Shade trellis was designed & built in the summer of 1993 by the first & only class of the UCSD School of Architecture in the weeks following the school’s unexpected closure. Designed & Built by the UCSD School of Architecture.
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Location: Colegio La Esperanza Tijuana, BC Mexico
Client/Owner: The Americas Foundation
Design-Build Leader: Steve Badanes
Project Status: Destroyed by Fire
Size: 1,000 sq ft
Shade trellis was designed & built in the summer of 1993 by the first & only class of the UCSD School of Architecture in the weeks following the school’s unexpected closure
The hyperbolic paraboloid form was a nod to both the thin-shell concrete vaults elsewhere on site and the experimental tradition of California Case Study modernism
From the ancient days when David Grider was current with an acetylene torch