A Faceted Campus Embedded in a Hillside: The Roof is the Playground

Design a high school in the manner of Thom Mayne's Diamond Ranch — the buildings pressed into a steep hillside as folded angular masses so the roofs become usable terraces, with a narrow canyon-like street running between two rows of classrooms as the only circulation. Compose faceted metal-clad volumes tilting out of a dry Californian slope, a long narrow pedestrian canyon between angled walls, external stairs climbing onto the roofs, a running track on a terrace above, sparse scrub, hard bright light with sharp angular shadows, elevated three-quarter view, 24mm lens, architectural photography, ultra photorealistic, 8K