Faculty Marcelo Spina’s Firm Patterns Honored by AIA/LA Awards

SCI-Arc is proud to share that Marcelo Spina, design faculty and founder of architectural firm Patterns, received two Honor Awards from the AIA/LA at its annual awards ceremony in November, taking home the highest honors in the categories of 'Built Projects/Adaptive Reuse' and 'Next LA/Educational Buildings.’

“The work we do at Patterns is inherently for the public, so receiving these kinds of recognitions from our community supports and strengthen our mission to connect architecture and culture. We are humbled and grateful for these awards and never take them for granted,” shared Patterns founding partners Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of the honor.

For full proposal descriptions and visuals of the winning projects, see below.

Victory Wellness Center

Awarded: 2023 AIA Los Angeles Design Honor Award in the Adaptive Reuse Category

Short Description:
Located in the sprawling and evolving neighborhood of North Hollywood, Victory Wellness Center is Patterns’s largest completed project to date and the first comprehensive adaptive-reuse design. Sustainably transforming an existing bowstring truss warehouse into a wellness center, which is anchored by vibrant courtyards and an idiosyncratic rooftop silhouette, the center invigorates the community around it with a new pedestrian-scale outdoor space and a civic-minded architectural character.

Cadigan CGU

Awarded: 2023 AIA Next LA Design Honor Award in the Educational Category

Short Description:
This proposal for The Cadigan Building at CGU imagines a new typology for a dynamic educational and collaborative building within the Claremont Academic Community. With a decidedly brutalist character, the innovative project captures the spirit of interdisciplinarity, fostering a communal space and an environmentally-friendly environment where diverse activities intertwine. The design’s alternating solid and voids, opacity and transparency, indoor and outdoor space, embody a fluidity that allows distinct activities to unfold while encouraging cross-pollination among scholars, artists, and professionals.

Animation:
https://vimeo.com/740209757