Students at Torrey Pines High School have new spaces to explore their creativity with the completion of the visual arts center on campus. The new building, a Prop AA project, includes four classrooms for ceramics, painting, sculpture and digital arts.
The visual arts building was built in an area that was a former parking lot and some portables, behind the performing arts center that opened in 2019.
With the new building, Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects matched the same architecture as the rest of the campus, featuring fluted brick blocks with a modern touch. All of the roomy art studios include new technology, storage areas and a connection to outdoor instructional spaces—the ceramics classroom will also receive a new kiln and outdoor spraying stations.
Ralf Bernard, the district’s construction projects manager, said the classrooms are still a work in progress as finishing…
