United Therapeutics Field House in Raleigh, North Carolina by Frank Harmon Architect PA

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United Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, needed a 5136-square-foot field house for an Olympic-sized soccer field built for employees and their families. The structure needed to provide changing areas, showers, and restrooms for two teams of 10 to 12 people, as well as a gathering area with a fireplace. The structure also had to accommodate necessary support spaces—maintenance/storage room, mechanical/electrical rooms—and each changing room needed a janitor’s closet.

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• Architects: Frank Harmon Architect PA
• Project: United Therapeutics Field House
• Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
• Photography: Richard Leo Johnson
• Completion Date: May 2012
• Project Team: Frank Harmon, FAIA, and Tika Hicks, Project Manager

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Design Response: 

The field house creates a dramatic gateway to the soccer field. The teams pass through a stone “wall” via a central breezeway with changing areas on either side of the breezeway. Six-foot-deep roof overhangs provide “porches” on the entry (east) and field (west) sides of the building. The outdoor Gathering Area is located at the southern end of the building.

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Regionally appropriate construction materials include native building stone, cypress siding, cypress tongue-in-groove ceilings and soffits, and ground-concrete-and-bluestone floors. A standing-seam metal roof reflects heat away from the interior in the summer.

The project received a 2013 Merit Design Award from the American Institute of Architects, North Carolina chapter.

Image Courtesy © Richard Leo Johnson

Image Courtesy © Richard Leo Johnson

Image Courtesy © Richard Leo Johnson

Image Courtesy © Frank Harmon Architect PA

Image Courtesy © Frank Harmon Architect PA

Image Courtesy © Frank Harmon Architect PA

Tags: North Carolina, Raleigh

Category: House

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