The reconstructed building is located in a part of the city that until recently served as an industrial district. In its immediate vicinity, there is the main water treatment plant for the agglomeration, as well as smaller and larger production and commercial facilities. Over the past two decades, this landscape started to change considerably. It has slowly transformed into a mixed-use development. Many residential buildings and other facilities have appeared. Our main assumption, however, was to emphasize the original history of the place and create a building-monument to the industrial past of the district. This plan perfectly matched the ideas of the investor who implements robotic car assembly lines in Europe.
The newly completed electrical switchgear building is the first Net Zero Energy (NZE) targeted electrical substation building in the United States. Tucked midblock on Eddy Street between Larkin and Hyde, the steel frame concrete structure is a modern addition to the existing historic 1962 substation building designed by PG&E to supply power to the northeastern part of the city.
Lower Tullochgrue is the refurbishment and extension of a traditional house in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park. A dilapidated steading has been replaced by a contemporary extension, with a timber and glass upper volume above a stone plinth, with the existing topography of the site maintained at all times.
The brief was for the creation of a home which could be used by numerous members of a large family, both collectively and in smaller family groups. This drove the creation of large social spaces, separate guest accommodation in the form of a small separate block, and refurbishment of the original house to provide bedrooms for different members of the family across a large age range, with varying levels of mobility.
We started with the paintings on the wall. The works are by John Prentice (the owner’s grandfather), an artist and engineer. Prentice has written about colour selection turning it into a language akin to a musical score in his thesis Colour Plane. He uses this theory of colour to tell stories.
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The proposed expansion to the North Park Academy would create a dramatic new addition to a historic but undistinguished existing school. Occupying an unusual triangular site, the bold form of the new structure would offer an appealing visual termination to the axis of the avenue approaching the school.
The project comprises the extension of the production and office space on the south front of the existing Schneider Electric facilities in Puente la Reina, Navarre.
For this purpose, a ground and first floor building was designed, in continuity with the alignment of the existing office building.
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The scope of the project included a porch addition, pool and cabana structure, for an existing home located in Old Metairie, LA. The clients wanted to reform their backyard space into a secluded refuge, where their entire family could take advantage of a previously underutilized backyard. The goal was for the porch to feel better connected to the yard thereby visually extending both areas. The porch was re-designed to be as open as possible and it incorporates many similar materials also incorporated throughout yard. Stairs were redesigned to be much wider and lead directly to the backyard for a great sense of connection between the two. The cabana is clad in ipe with a cedar ceiling, concrete columns, and a metal standing seam roof. It includes a full kitchen, outdoor shower, bath and activity area.
Ecotone occupies a transitional space between education and industry, forming part of the Yıldız Teknopark campus of Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul. Located between two buildings, the textile academy and a teaching block, its programme encompasses education, flexible co-working space, and meeting areas. The hybrid space is part of a campus designed with the intention to spark innovation and the development of new technologies.
Exemplifying a balance of form and function, the Bigfork High School remodel and expansion was driven by the existing site’s unique opportunities, characteristics, and systems. Proper planning, scheduling, budgeting, and careful coordination between design and construction allowed for the school to remain operational with minimal disruption to teaching and learning. In the completed project, a centralized “commons” area is the focal point of design, allowing space for congregation and event spillover, as well as serving as a central access point to new areas like the library, choir/band complex, expanded gym, student store, guidance counselor suite, and additional classrooms.
Structural Engineer: Zachary Diede, Structural Engineer Sr
Design team: Shane Jacobs, Alan Petersen, Frances Quiram, Frederick Dickinson, Casey O’Harren T, Trent Schwartzkopf, Sawyer Arneson-Nelson, Alan Taylor T, Scott Galli, Michael Kaufman, David Koel, Shawn Pauly, Corey Johnson, David Mitchell, Robbie Mathiason
The client is living in one of the rare well-kept laborers houses in the garden city in Brussels. The house was really small and needed more relation with the garden. Inspired by the many concrete fences and garden houses in the suburb, we build a concrete enlargement to the house. The extension brings the house an extra living space for dining, sitting, and storage. It opens the house to the garden and is integrating to the neighbour by reducing it’s height. Inspired by the white and dark existing steel windows, the new windows and glazed doors get also a dark frame with small opening parts. Building connections are accentuated in the interior : wooden frames around windows, black tiles in the floor between old and new.
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