inFORM studio is a Woman-owned, WBE certified, design based practice with three offices in Detroit, Michigan, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and New York City. Each office is fully integrated and collaborates with teams set for each project that span all three locations.
In 2006, Design Army, an accolade laden Washington DC graphic design firm looked for a new space to locate its growing business. After a concentrated search, Design Army was able to purchase an abandoned and dilapidated building in the City’s NOMA (North of Massachusetts Avenue) District. Destroyed in the riots of 1968, the NOMA District had laid dormant for over 30 years before being identified as a focus redevelopment zone in the City’s master plan.
The Scholl Residence expands on the ‘Case Study’ series of the 1950’s. The steep site possessed challenges with drainage, topography, a small footprint, restrictive easements and was required to address very limiting neighborhood design review standards. Contextually, the area was developed in the 1960’s and surrounding residents were quite resistant to the architectural direction. Although the neighborhood is one of transition, this was the greatest challenge in realizing the project.
Software: Architectural Desktop, 3ds max for renderings (not shown)
Scope of Work: A small steeply sloping site provided an opportunity to explore the 1950’s ‘case study’ series within a very restrictive homeowners association.
This small residual wedge-shaped property sat vacant for years given its many site restraints and complexities including; front streets on two sides, 10’-0” snow storage easements on 2 sides, buried City of Aspen main water and electric lines directly under the building footprint which required re-location and a year of approvals and strict zoning ordinances given its location in Aspen’s Historic West End.
primary materials –limestone panels, aluminum clad doors and windows
project size –3200 s.f
site size –10,800 s.f
construction cost –undisclosed
scope of work –the single owner required a small private house to display an extensive art collection.
Software used: AutoCAD 2010 and Architectural Desktop for standard construction document work. 3D-Max and Rhino in addition to Architectural Desktop for renderings