This adaptive reuse project transforms the historic E. Clem Wilson Building in Los Angeles into a Center for Art, Media, and Performance. Beginning with studies of host–attachment relationships through chunk models, the design evolved through multiple iterations that rethink how new architecture engages the existing. Rather than wrapping or intruding upon the original tower, the intervention is conceived as emerging from it, treating the historic structure as a generator of new form. A structural waffle originates at the ground floor and expands outward into a new public framework that supports performance and public spaces. Within the original building, educational and institutional programs are organized vertically, while shared commons act as transitional zones between the historic core and the new spatial extension.
