2007: AIA Colorado 2007 Design Awards Press Release
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Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: The Home
Location: Eastanollee, GA
Client: Joseph and Barb Hughes
Description:
Asked to design a retirement home on a heavily wooded site in northeast Georgia, this project provides an alternative to the spatial conventions typical of contemporary geriatric architecture. As relatively young retirees, the clients requested a house that could acknowledge and accommodate the pragmatic requirements related to aging while celebrating life with a full spectrum of formal and spatial variety.
Beyond the expressive form, subtle programmatic and organizational decisions reveal significant deviations from conventional geriatric typologies.
The project weaves ADA requirements into the house while also providing a wide range of spaces, rooms and views. Integrated ramps, wide hallways, and a large, open and accessible shower are provided on the ground level, but there is also a second floor to take advantage of the lakefront setting.
Two equal but opposite master bedrooms—one a cave-like space dug into the ground with a light-filled, spa-like bath and the other an open room hovering out over the landscape and lake—allow the inhabitants to reorganize the domestic arrangement over time in response to their bodies’ ability. This arrangement also accommodates a multigenerational arrangement, where parents can live with their extended family or a live-in caregiver.
These pragmatic issues support a site strategy that privileges landscape integration. Oriented around a circular knoll facing the lake, the building is split into two parts that frame the circulation through the site and out to the lake. Overlooking the lake and enclosed vertically by a ring of large oak trees this knoll, or “outdoor room,” marks the hierarchical center of the domestic composition.
This organization exemplifies a strategy for occupying the landscape that encourages the occupants to actively engage the site as they age. Ramps are used on the exterior to unite the needs of handicap access with the existing, hilly landscape and rooms are oriented to focus on the beauty of the surrounding site, the seasonal changes and the abundant wildlife.
Beyond the expressive form, subtle programmatic and organizational decisions reveal significant deviations from conventional geriatric typologies.
The project weaves ADA requirements into the house while also providing a wide range of spaces, rooms and views. Integrated ramps, wide hallways, and a large, open and accessible shower are provided on the ground level, but there is also a second floor to take advantage of the lakefront setting.
Two equal but opposite master bedrooms—one a cave-like space dug into the ground with a light-filled, spa-like bath and the other an open room hovering out over the landscape and lake—allow the inhabitants to reorganize the domestic arrangement over time in response to their bodies’ ability. This arrangement also accommodates a multigenerational arrangement, where parents can live with their extended family or a live-in caregiver.
These pragmatic issues support a site strategy that privileges landscape integration. Oriented around a circular knoll facing the lake, the building is split into two parts that frame the circulation through the site and out to the lake. Overlooking the lake and enclosed vertically by a ring of large oak trees this knoll, or “outdoor room,” marks the hierarchical center of the domestic composition.
This organization exemplifies a strategy for occupying the landscape that encourages the occupants to actively engage the site as they age. Ramps are used on the exterior to unite the needs of handicap access with the existing, hilly landscape and rooms are oriented to focus on the beauty of the surrounding site, the seasonal changes and the abundant wildlife.
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Image Credit:Alex Harris
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Catovic Hughes Design
General Contractor: General Contractor: Joseph Hughes
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Unbuilt Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: AABC Housing
Location: Aspen, Colo.
Client: City of Aspen
Description:
The goal of this project and all affordable housing is to not only be affordable to build but also to be affordable to use. This can be achieved by utilizing sustainable building practices and building with energy efficiency in mind. Not only are the project’s materials inexpensive to use, but they also require little future maintenance. Additionally, this project minimizes its construction and post-construction waste through recycling and the use of modular construction components. Also, the floor plans have been designed to be flexible, minimize circulation space and provide built-in storage while working with the inherent site conditions. Moreover, the integration of both passive and active solar techniques will ensure that energy costs remain low. By elevating the living spaces of the building, each unit is provided greater access to mountain views and natural daylight, while at the same time creating greater separation from the street environment. Each unit has been designed to have a connection to outdoor spaces. Large open floor plans allow for many different layouts and configurations and lots of storage; built-ins and cubbies allow residents to store their belongings. Many of the units are spacious, two-story living spaces. Additionally, each unit has a large, enclosed storage unit below the main living areas with rollup-garage-door-style doors to allow for all kind of equipment and goods that each resident may own.
Sustainable design elements are ubiquitous onsite. There are passive-solar walls at the outdoor terraces, carefully located planting pockets that protect residents from winter winds and energy efficient microclimates in tenants’ personal outdoor spaces. At the entry of the development, a “living wall” stands as a community feature and monument to green building. Designed to moderate heat and soften hardscape areas, these planted walls allow green space to permeate vertical surfaces. With help from the collaborating landscape architect team, the project utilizes every opportunity to allow programmatic elements to have dual functions on this tight site. This duality occurs in the bike storage area acting also as a storm-water cleansing basin. It appears again in grass-crete/asphalt paving and in the water rill/boardwalk that provides a public pathway over a seasonal stream.
Green materials and sustainable practices are used throughout this project to achieve environmentally responsible design. Environmentally friendly Hardiboard© and PRODEMA panels offer no maintenance and durability.
Whenever possible, sustainable building products and techniques are incorporated into the project. This can happen in many different ways—from using renewable materials, local materials, materials with low-embodied energy, materials with recycled components, low emissions, low product waste, low production of toxins and high recyclibility. This project minimizes waste and is committed to recycling.
The building is designed flexible in its unit count, accommodating four to eight units, depending upon need.
Sustainable design elements are ubiquitous onsite. There are passive-solar walls at the outdoor terraces, carefully located planting pockets that protect residents from winter winds and energy efficient microclimates in tenants’ personal outdoor spaces. At the entry of the development, a “living wall” stands as a community feature and monument to green building. Designed to moderate heat and soften hardscape areas, these planted walls allow green space to permeate vertical surfaces. With help from the collaborating landscape architect team, the project utilizes every opportunity to allow programmatic elements to have dual functions on this tight site. This duality occurs in the bike storage area acting also as a storm-water cleansing basin. It appears again in grass-crete/asphalt paving and in the water rill/boardwalk that provides a public pathway over a seasonal stream.
Green materials and sustainable practices are used throughout this project to achieve environmentally responsible design. Environmentally friendly Hardiboard© and PRODEMA panels offer no maintenance and durability.
Whenever possible, sustainable building products and techniques are incorporated into the project. This can happen in many different ways—from using renewable materials, local materials, materials with low-embodied energy, materials with recycled components, low emissions, low product waste, low production of toxins and high recyclibility. This project minimizes waste and is committed to recycling.
The building is designed flexible in its unit count, accommodating four to eight units, depending upon need.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Studio B Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Leonard-Congello Residence
Location: Morrison, Colo.
Client: John Leonard and Kim Congello
Description:
Built in 1875, this historic building is important in the history and civic fabric of Morrison. Understanding the sensitive nature of the project, the architect wanted the design to sit on the shoulders of those who had thought deeply about how best to preserve what makes communities special. The firm began by reviewing the U.S. Department of the Interior Standards for Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings. These guidelines suggest strategies for designing adjacent new construction in ways that preserve older structures, while meeting present needs.
The owners asked that the schoolhouse be transformed into a residence. They wanted the new space to be sunny and moderate year round in a way that respected the existing late-19th-century structure. The architect studied 19th-century archetypes that offered these additional characteristics and found that, with the development of glazing in the beginning of the 18th century, a space called a l'orangerie was developed to provide a place of light and ventilation to complement the more closed-in types of spaces made by the load-bearing masonry wall structures.
The aforementioned rehabilitation standards had much to say about how the architect might design a modern-day l’orangerie that would respect the existing schoolhouse (excerpts in bold are taken directly from the guidelines):
• “When planning new alterations and additions, consider the effect on the significant historic materials and features of the property. Loss of historic building fabric should be minimized. The additions should not affect the ability to perceive the historic character of the building, especially from the public ways, such as streets, alleys and parks. Contemporary interpretation of the original structure is an appropriate alternative to a more replicative design.” Historically and currently, this civic building has contributed to Morrison’s civic presence. By placing the new construction on the side of the building, this presence is maintained.
• “Avoid obscuring or removing significant features to accommodate new additions and alteration.” Architectural features of the existing schoolhouse were preserved, repaired or carefully replaced in like manner.
• "An addition or alternation should be visually subordinate to the main building." The addition is placed to the side and slightly separate, allowing the schoolhouse to maintain its singular identity. Moreover, the architect employed in the addition no new masonry that would reduce the power and presence of the original masonry. Furthermore, the original entry, sidewalk and approach to the schoolhouse are maintained.
• "Design additions and alterations should be recognized as products of their own time. Avoid new additions and alterations that hinder the ability to interpret the historic character of the building." Although the 18th-century l'orangerie and the 19th-century precedence of fusing masonry, cast iron and glass are built upon, the architect used them with currently available materials and met current expectations of energy efficiency.
The interior of the existing structure had been modified over the years to accommodate various inhabitants. On the first level, as the partitions and furring on masonry walls were removed, the architect discovered the original wall colors and chalkboards painted onto the stucco. Taking advantage of this unique condition, it was decided to hold the new wall furring back from the corners of the room to reveal the original conditions from 1875. The clients’ program for this existing 1,150-sq-ft first floor with 12’ ceilings was for dining, living/entertainment, a children’s play area and a home office. To achieve both functionality and open living space, 2½’x 5’x 8’ rolling carts were created that could house these things. The carts can be arranged to transform the dynamic of the great room as the clients’ needs or desires change. The architect located the multimedia devices behind an uplifting screen above the fireplace, creating a fixed focal point directly opposite the main entrance to the house. The great room is defined by its original masonry openings but expands to the east through the addition (the l'orangerie), allowing it to share the openness of the kitchen, covered deck.
The existing 1,150-sq-ft second floor with 13+’ ceilings contains the master suite, children’s bedrooms and a loft that doubles as a sitting area or guest room. Again, this area is defined by its original masonry openings, but by adding skylights, exposing the interior roof slope and using translucent polycarbonite panels on the upper portions of interior walls, the volume and light of the space is maximized. The master suite opens to a large deck that is the roof of the addition. The deck provides a panoramic view of the surrounding nature, including vistas of Denver and Red Rocks Amphitheater. A steel pergola extends above the deck, which can be equipped with shade sails to create a comfortable, private outdoor retreat.
The goal was to design this renovation and addition in a way that would not dilute the power of its history and yet would allow it to be enjoyed in a new and modern way. We believe we have succeeded: At a glance, the Leonard-Congello residence’s previous life as a schoolhouse comes through clearly. For the owners, it bears both the complexity of its storied life and the benefits of modern design, construction and materials.
The owners asked that the schoolhouse be transformed into a residence. They wanted the new space to be sunny and moderate year round in a way that respected the existing late-19th-century structure. The architect studied 19th-century archetypes that offered these additional characteristics and found that, with the development of glazing in the beginning of the 18th century, a space called a l'orangerie was developed to provide a place of light and ventilation to complement the more closed-in types of spaces made by the load-bearing masonry wall structures.
The aforementioned rehabilitation standards had much to say about how the architect might design a modern-day l’orangerie that would respect the existing schoolhouse (excerpts in bold are taken directly from the guidelines):
• “When planning new alterations and additions, consider the effect on the significant historic materials and features of the property. Loss of historic building fabric should be minimized. The additions should not affect the ability to perceive the historic character of the building, especially from the public ways, such as streets, alleys and parks. Contemporary interpretation of the original structure is an appropriate alternative to a more replicative design.” Historically and currently, this civic building has contributed to Morrison’s civic presence. By placing the new construction on the side of the building, this presence is maintained.
• “Avoid obscuring or removing significant features to accommodate new additions and alteration.” Architectural features of the existing schoolhouse were preserved, repaired or carefully replaced in like manner.
• "An addition or alternation should be visually subordinate to the main building." The addition is placed to the side and slightly separate, allowing the schoolhouse to maintain its singular identity. Moreover, the architect employed in the addition no new masonry that would reduce the power and presence of the original masonry. Furthermore, the original entry, sidewalk and approach to the schoolhouse are maintained.
• "Design additions and alterations should be recognized as products of their own time. Avoid new additions and alterations that hinder the ability to interpret the historic character of the building." Although the 18th-century l'orangerie and the 19th-century precedence of fusing masonry, cast iron and glass are built upon, the architect used them with currently available materials and met current expectations of energy efficiency.
The interior of the existing structure had been modified over the years to accommodate various inhabitants. On the first level, as the partitions and furring on masonry walls were removed, the architect discovered the original wall colors and chalkboards painted onto the stucco. Taking advantage of this unique condition, it was decided to hold the new wall furring back from the corners of the room to reveal the original conditions from 1875. The clients’ program for this existing 1,150-sq-ft first floor with 12’ ceilings was for dining, living/entertainment, a children’s play area and a home office. To achieve both functionality and open living space, 2½’x 5’x 8’ rolling carts were created that could house these things. The carts can be arranged to transform the dynamic of the great room as the clients’ needs or desires change. The architect located the multimedia devices behind an uplifting screen above the fireplace, creating a fixed focal point directly opposite the main entrance to the house. The great room is defined by its original masonry openings but expands to the east through the addition (the l'orangerie), allowing it to share the openness of the kitchen, covered deck.
The existing 1,150-sq-ft second floor with 13+’ ceilings contains the master suite, children’s bedrooms and a loft that doubles as a sitting area or guest room. Again, this area is defined by its original masonry openings, but by adding skylights, exposing the interior roof slope and using translucent polycarbonite panels on the upper portions of interior walls, the volume and light of the space is maximized. The master suite opens to a large deck that is the roof of the addition. The deck provides a panoramic view of the surrounding nature, including vistas of Denver and Red Rocks Amphitheater. A steel pergola extends above the deck, which can be equipped with shade sails to create a comfortable, private outdoor retreat.
The goal was to design this renovation and addition in a way that would not dilute the power of its history and yet would allow it to be enjoyed in a new and modern way. We believe we have succeeded: At a glance, the Leonard-Congello residence’s previous life as a schoolhouse comes through clearly. For the owners, it bears both the complexity of its storied life and the benefits of modern design, construction and materials.
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Image Credit:Tectograph
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Faleide Architects, P.C.
General Contractor: Structural Engineer: Wooten and Associates; Genera
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library
Location: Pueblo, Colo.
Client: Pueblo City-County Library District
Description:
Located in Southern Colorado on the Arkansas River and at the base of the Wet Mountains, the city of Pueblo is considered an important cultural and geographical crossroads of the Southwest. The Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library is an abstraction of and careful response to this natural and cultural landscape.
The building itself is designed to be a landmark spanning across Mesa Junction, with materials such as bronze, warm-toned concrete and glass in a dramatic sculptural form. Rising five stories, the library is sited above downtown Pueblo, oriented for views over the Arkansas Valley and historic downtown Pueblo to the east, as well as distant mountain views such as Pikes Peak to the north, the Wet Mountains to the west and Greenhorn and the Spanish peaks to the south.
The expansion and renovation of the 1965 McClelland Library affords the library much needed space for its growing collections and expanding community programs. In addition to the library’s 300,000-item general, Western history and genealogy collections, there is a special news/media exhibit and several public meeting rooms.
The building systems provide for comfortable, well-lit spaces. A flexible technological infrastructure allows the library to keep pace with changing needs. Each floor features a civic lobby with a grand staircase, glass elevator tower and glass atrium.
The main-level entry includes an entry courtyard functioning as a community porch and a coffee shop/café. This floor also houses the book check-in/check-out and the children’s library. The children’s library defines the north edge of the entry courtyard, with a glazed wall greeting visitors with books and children’s activity while passing through the courtyard to the main entry.
The second level contains the library’s main collections. This large open floor branches out from a central hub. The third level accommodates the library’s special collections as well as the library’s administrative offices, which have been expanded and functionally organized. The upper level houses a meeting room and gallery space with expansive views to the north and to Pikes Peak.
The building itself is designed to be a landmark spanning across Mesa Junction, with materials such as bronze, warm-toned concrete and glass in a dramatic sculptural form. Rising five stories, the library is sited above downtown Pueblo, oriented for views over the Arkansas Valley and historic downtown Pueblo to the east, as well as distant mountain views such as Pikes Peak to the north, the Wet Mountains to the west and Greenhorn and the Spanish peaks to the south.
The expansion and renovation of the 1965 McClelland Library affords the library much needed space for its growing collections and expanding community programs. In addition to the library’s 300,000-item general, Western history and genealogy collections, there is a special news/media exhibit and several public meeting rooms.
The building systems provide for comfortable, well-lit spaces. A flexible technological infrastructure allows the library to keep pace with changing needs. Each floor features a civic lobby with a grand staircase, glass elevator tower and glass atrium.
The main-level entry includes an entry courtyard functioning as a community porch and a coffee shop/café. This floor also houses the book check-in/check-out and the children’s library. The children’s library defines the north edge of the entry courtyard, with a glazed wall greeting visitors with books and children’s activity while passing through the courtyard to the main entry.
The second level contains the library’s main collections. This large open floor branches out from a central hub. The third level accommodates the library’s special collections as well as the library’s administrative offices, which have been expanded and functionally organized. The upper level houses a meeting room and gallery space with expansive views to the north and to Pikes Peak.
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Image Credit:Timothy Hursley
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Architect-of-Record: Anderson Mason Dale Architects, P.C.; Design Architect: Antoine Predock Architect, P.C.
General Contractor: Structural Engineer: KL&A of Colorado; Electrical
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Fogel Residence
Location: Carbondale, Colo.
Client: Awson Fogel
Description:
Special Recognition Category: Sustainability
The firm has a strong belief that “well-considered” design is intrinsically sustainable design.
The Fogel Residence evolved as a direct response to the surrounding site and environmental influences and was carefully designed to nestle into the site unobtrusively and sit quietly on the edge of a 350-plus-year-old piñon-juniper forest and fields of sage brush.
The reason why many people have chosen to settle in the Rockies is no secret—it is the amazing outdoor lifestyle set in a spectacular landscape and scenery here in the mountains.
This house was designed to respectfully gesture towards the unique environment by taking advantage of the panoramic mountain vista and encouraging contact with the surrounding landscape by allowing all internal spaces to open out.
While this blurring of the threshold between inside and outside helps to create both a physical and cognitive connection to the landscape, it also maximizes the opportunity for natural light and fresh air and helps to create a healthy living environment in which people feel “good.” Obviously, these less tangible “people priorities” play a subtly important role in the consideration of sustainability.
On a more tangible note, the architect employed the following passive, “green” strategies to create an energy efficient building solution that utilized energy-efficient construction methods, materials and systems.
• The building was designed to have minimal impact on the existing site and was designed to wrap around existing trees and disturbance to the sage brush was minimized during construction. There is almost zero new landscaping, no turf and no required irrigation. Runoff from the roofs is used to irrigate the adjacent natural landscape.
• The building’s long axis aligns itself east-west to maximize the southern-northern exposure; southern light is controlled with properly sized overhangs that protect during the summer and allow winter sun penetration into the house. West and east wall-window exposure is minimized. Northern skylights provide ample daylighting.
• The building is designed to capture breezes and employ natural cross ventilation to cool the house; no additional cooling systems/energy are necessary in the high-mountain environment.
• Structural insulated panels (SIPs) were utilized on both the walls and roof to maximize the energy efficiency of the house. There was zero waste material employing this method of construction.
• All other timber framing (internal wall and roof beams) utilized Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified engineered wood. The tapered roof beams were cut diagonally from single, larger glulam beam (i.e. both halves were utilized, resulting in no waste).
• All windows were sourced from Sierra Pacific Industries, which has earned third-party Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)-certification for all its millwork. All glazing is low-e.
• External siding consisted of reclaimed barn wood, rusty metal and fiber cement sheet (fiber cement recently was recognized by Built Green Colorado as a recommended green siding product). The external material textures and colors reflect the austerity of the local landscape and the palette was drawn from the grey and mottled juniper and sage brush branches.
• Internally, the architect used recycled barn wood finished with natural oil for the wood flooring. Low-emission paint was used throughout the house.
• Heating is provided with a single, compact, 95-percent-efficient condensing boiler that provides radiant heat to all floors, as well as domestic hot water heating. Outdoor temperature, astronomical clock data and other data inputs are fed to an AMX© control system tuned to maximize every last percent of efficiency from the heating system. Lighting is all low-voltage and centrally dimmed by a Lutron© Homeworks control system that minimizes energy usage by limiting maximum dimming levels and automatically shutting down lighting when idle.
The firm has a strong belief that “well-considered” design is intrinsically sustainable design.
The Fogel Residence evolved as a direct response to the surrounding site and environmental influences and was carefully designed to nestle into the site unobtrusively and sit quietly on the edge of a 350-plus-year-old piñon-juniper forest and fields of sage brush.
The reason why many people have chosen to settle in the Rockies is no secret—it is the amazing outdoor lifestyle set in a spectacular landscape and scenery here in the mountains.
This house was designed to respectfully gesture towards the unique environment by taking advantage of the panoramic mountain vista and encouraging contact with the surrounding landscape by allowing all internal spaces to open out.
While this blurring of the threshold between inside and outside helps to create both a physical and cognitive connection to the landscape, it also maximizes the opportunity for natural light and fresh air and helps to create a healthy living environment in which people feel “good.” Obviously, these less tangible “people priorities” play a subtly important role in the consideration of sustainability.
On a more tangible note, the architect employed the following passive, “green” strategies to create an energy efficient building solution that utilized energy-efficient construction methods, materials and systems.
• The building was designed to have minimal impact on the existing site and was designed to wrap around existing trees and disturbance to the sage brush was minimized during construction. There is almost zero new landscaping, no turf and no required irrigation. Runoff from the roofs is used to irrigate the adjacent natural landscape.
• The building’s long axis aligns itself east-west to maximize the southern-northern exposure; southern light is controlled with properly sized overhangs that protect during the summer and allow winter sun penetration into the house. West and east wall-window exposure is minimized. Northern skylights provide ample daylighting.
• The building is designed to capture breezes and employ natural cross ventilation to cool the house; no additional cooling systems/energy are necessary in the high-mountain environment.
• Structural insulated panels (SIPs) were utilized on both the walls and roof to maximize the energy efficiency of the house. There was zero waste material employing this method of construction.
• All other timber framing (internal wall and roof beams) utilized Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified engineered wood. The tapered roof beams were cut diagonally from single, larger glulam beam (i.e. both halves were utilized, resulting in no waste).
• All windows were sourced from Sierra Pacific Industries, which has earned third-party Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)-certification for all its millwork. All glazing is low-e.
• External siding consisted of reclaimed barn wood, rusty metal and fiber cement sheet (fiber cement recently was recognized by Built Green Colorado as a recommended green siding product). The external material textures and colors reflect the austerity of the local landscape and the palette was drawn from the grey and mottled juniper and sage brush branches.
• Internally, the architect used recycled barn wood finished with natural oil for the wood flooring. Low-emission paint was used throughout the house.
• Heating is provided with a single, compact, 95-percent-efficient condensing boiler that provides radiant heat to all floors, as well as domestic hot water heating. Outdoor temperature, astronomical clock data and other data inputs are fed to an AMX© control system tuned to maximize every last percent of efficiency from the heating system. Lighting is all low-voltage and centrally dimmed by a Lutron© Homeworks control system that minimizes energy usage by limiting maximum dimming levels and automatically shutting down lighting when idle.
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Image Credit:Scott A. Bartleet, Intl. Assoc. AIA
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Scott A. Bartleet, Intl. Assoc. AIA
General Contractor: Structural Engineer: KLA; General Contractor: Mike
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Colorado Convention Center Phase II Expansion
Location: Denver
Client: City and County of Denver
Description:
The Colorado Convention Center’s key role in Denver’s urban fabric is reinforced by the Phase II Expansion, while striking new elements help redefine the skyline. The project continues the invigoration of Denver’s Silver Triangle district that began with the Phase I Expansion in 1990.
The architectural forms of the various exterior façades effectively tie the facility to its surroundings. A singular roof blade rises from the confluence of Colfax, Speer and Welton Streets to create an identity for the western perimeter of downtown. The largely vehicular nature of Speer Boulevard lends this façade to being a solitary statement. The clean, crisp line of the peaked cantilever draws the eye upward. Its message to the more than 9 million cars that pass by it annually is one of aspiration and achievement. The more pedestrian-friendly 14th Street façade features four roof blades, which gesture toward downtown in a sign of inclusiveness and pride. Along the Champa and Welton Streets façades are undulating, perforated stainless steel panels. Like a mountain stream, these sinuous elements encourage movement and animate the secondary entrances.
Key linkages within and around the Colorado Convention Center help solidify downtown as a vibrant and secure area for pedestrians. These include a sinuous sidewalk that curves from Colfax along Speer Boulevard and a new light rail station, at the convention center and the Champa Street pedestrian bridge, providing safe access to the performing arts complex.
Inside the convention center’s lobbies, the visitor’s experience continues with a sense of celebration and homecoming. Views to the nearby Rocky Mountains and downtown Denver are unobstructed, and the clear glass of the finely detailed curtain walls encourages patrons to connect with the outdoors. The curtain walls also bathe the lobbies in daylight that washes over art pieces, circular light fixtures and other humanizing elements.
A central spine spanning the length of the building guides guests to ballrooms, meeting rooms, exhibit halls and the auditorium. All of the convention center’s interior spaces are designed for maximum flexibility and adaptability.
The architectural forms of the various exterior façades effectively tie the facility to its surroundings. A singular roof blade rises from the confluence of Colfax, Speer and Welton Streets to create an identity for the western perimeter of downtown. The largely vehicular nature of Speer Boulevard lends this façade to being a solitary statement. The clean, crisp line of the peaked cantilever draws the eye upward. Its message to the more than 9 million cars that pass by it annually is one of aspiration and achievement. The more pedestrian-friendly 14th Street façade features four roof blades, which gesture toward downtown in a sign of inclusiveness and pride. Along the Champa and Welton Streets façades are undulating, perforated stainless steel panels. Like a mountain stream, these sinuous elements encourage movement and animate the secondary entrances.
Key linkages within and around the Colorado Convention Center help solidify downtown as a vibrant and secure area for pedestrians. These include a sinuous sidewalk that curves from Colfax along Speer Boulevard and a new light rail station, at the convention center and the Champa Street pedestrian bridge, providing safe access to the performing arts complex.
Inside the convention center’s lobbies, the visitor’s experience continues with a sense of celebration and homecoming. Views to the nearby Rocky Mountains and downtown Denver are unobstructed, and the clear glass of the finely detailed curtain walls encourages patrons to connect with the outdoors. The curtain walls also bathe the lobbies in daylight that washes over art pieces, circular light fixtures and other humanizing elements.
A central spine spanning the length of the building guides guests to ballrooms, meeting rooms, exhibit halls and the auditorium. All of the convention center’s interior spaces are designed for maximum flexibility and adaptability.
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Image Credit:Ron Johnson; Nick Merrick© Hedrich Blessing; James P. Scholz at Scholz Images, Inc.; Jason Knowles o
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Fentress Bradburn Architects, Ltd.
General Contractor: Structural Engineer: Martin/Martin, Inc.; Electric
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Hughes Stadium Renovation
Location: Fort Collins, Colo.
Client: Colorado State University
Description:
Hughes Stadium is the off-campus football stadium serving Colorado State University. The expansion and renovation of Hughes Stadium was a multi-phased project to expand and upgrade the stadium's seating areas, provide a new video board and sound system, as well as replace the natural grass field with new state-of-the-art synthetic turf.
Initial construction enclosed the north bowl of the stadium with 4,300 new bleacher seats and provided a new video scoreboard and renovated sound system in the south end zone. Phase two included installing new concrete pier foundations and precast concrete structure. Phase-three work demolished the existing club and press structure, leaving only the original floor, steel frame and elevator shaft. The steel structure was then expanded by 20,000 sq ft for enlarged club seating, 12 suites, two lounges and eight restrooms. The increased space provides club seating for 420 spectators and the 12 luxury suites seat 230. Phase four consisted of interior finish work, including new central heating and air conditioning. Each construction phase intricately was sequenced during the off-season, maintaining all football schedules and providing full access to game-day activities for more than 30,000 fans. Design elements and improvements to the stadium also included two new two-story lounges constructed on the west side with views of the foothills; two new elevators for spectators; and renovation of the existing elevator for use by the press, coaches and stadium service personnel.
Improvements include a complete fire sprinkler and alarm system; fiber-optic and wireless connections for spectators, the press and coaches; and a broadcast cabling system for television and replay.
The design creates a modern, high-tech aesthetic, with materials and colors providing a strong architectural counterpoint to the concrete structural expression of the original stadium. Exterior façade treatments included smooth metal panels with corrugated metal and fiberglass accents. The windows, storefront and curtain wall are reflective with dark glazing and low-e coating to reduce heat gain and glare. Lobbies have tile and stained concrete floor coverings with engraved slate accent walls. The suite seating has partial glass divider walls for improved sight lines, while suite lounge areas have full walls for privacy.
Other finish items include pecan cabinets and woodwork with solid surface countertops; a sound and video system throughout the club level, including 72 new television monitors; and new furniture for the suites, lounges and press areas.
Initial construction enclosed the north bowl of the stadium with 4,300 new bleacher seats and provided a new video scoreboard and renovated sound system in the south end zone. Phase two included installing new concrete pier foundations and precast concrete structure. Phase-three work demolished the existing club and press structure, leaving only the original floor, steel frame and elevator shaft. The steel structure was then expanded by 20,000 sq ft for enlarged club seating, 12 suites, two lounges and eight restrooms. The increased space provides club seating for 420 spectators and the 12 luxury suites seat 230. Phase four consisted of interior finish work, including new central heating and air conditioning. Each construction phase intricately was sequenced during the off-season, maintaining all football schedules and providing full access to game-day activities for more than 30,000 fans. Design elements and improvements to the stadium also included two new two-story lounges constructed on the west side with views of the foothills; two new elevators for spectators; and renovation of the existing elevator for use by the press, coaches and stadium service personnel.
Improvements include a complete fire sprinkler and alarm system; fiber-optic and wireless connections for spectators, the press and coaches; and a broadcast cabling system for television and replay.
The design creates a modern, high-tech aesthetic, with materials and colors providing a strong architectural counterpoint to the concrete structural expression of the original stadium. Exterior façade treatments included smooth metal panels with corrugated metal and fiberglass accents. The windows, storefront and curtain wall are reflective with dark glazing and low-e coating to reduce heat gain and glare. Lobbies have tile and stained concrete floor coverings with engraved slate accent walls. The suite seating has partial glass divider walls for improved sight lines, while suite lounge areas have full walls for privacy.
Other finish items include pecan cabinets and woodwork with solid surface countertops; a sound and video system throughout the club level, including 72 new television monitors; and new furniture for the suites, lounges and press areas.
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Image Credit:John Robledo Foto
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Aller-Lingle Architects, P.C. and HOK S+V+E
General Contractor: Structural Engineer: Martin/Martin, Inc.; Electric
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Location: Denver
Client: Denver Convention Center Authority
Description:
The first high-rise to be built in downtown Denver in 20 years, the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center is situated on a full city block located directly across from the Colorado Convention Center. The building’s orientation along California Street reinforces the pedestrian link of the Convention Center with downtown Denver’s 16th Street Mall and helps define Denver’s convention center district in the “Silver Triangle.” The building also serves as an impetus to the current revitalization of 14th Street and has become a new signature icon on the Denver skyline.
The 37-floor, 1,100-room hotel provides 60,600 sq ft of function space, a first-floor bar and a lounge located on the 27th floor that offers panoramic mountain views. The 66-foot podium base contains the main lobby, a 300-person three-meal restaurant, a coffee shop and guest services on the ground level, with conference facilities on levels three and four. Level five contains a health club with an indoor lap pool and hospitality suites with outdoor terraces. The parking area consists of three levels of subterranean parking, accommodating approximately 600 cars.
The directive given by the City of Denver called for a modern interpretation of Denver as a forward thinking, youthful city located at the confluence of the Colorado high plains and the Rocky Mountains. The response is a modern interpretation, titled “high plains vernacular.” The intricate layering of sliding horizontal and vertical planes reference the geological theory of plate tectonics found in the Colorado landscape. The building’s facade features a smooth, buff precast concrete reminiscent of the native grasses that stretch to the east of the city, limestone, granite and a natural zinc finish that stands in contrast to the polished metal finishes typical in other cities. In an effort to incorporate Denver’s abundant sunlight and its unsurpassed views, significant amounts of glass were incorporated around the podium. Natural daylight, interior lighting and sunshades alter the transparency of the building throughout the day.
The concept of sliding planes was repeated in the interior spaces with horizontal floating ceilings and vertical screen walls. The interior of the hotel is viewed as layers or strata, lending visual depth and activating the street edge. Rich yet modest materials, such as a variety of natural stone used on the walls and floor, are an additional reference to Colorado’s core. The inclusion of tall, airy spaces, such as the “Glass Canyon”—a 70-ft tall atrium—brings the city into the main lobby and circulation space. Transparent by day and glowing from within by night, this space serves to activate the street below.
The 37-floor, 1,100-room hotel provides 60,600 sq ft of function space, a first-floor bar and a lounge located on the 27th floor that offers panoramic mountain views. The 66-foot podium base contains the main lobby, a 300-person three-meal restaurant, a coffee shop and guest services on the ground level, with conference facilities on levels three and four. Level five contains a health club with an indoor lap pool and hospitality suites with outdoor terraces. The parking area consists of three levels of subterranean parking, accommodating approximately 600 cars.
The directive given by the City of Denver called for a modern interpretation of Denver as a forward thinking, youthful city located at the confluence of the Colorado high plains and the Rocky Mountains. The response is a modern interpretation, titled “high plains vernacular.” The intricate layering of sliding horizontal and vertical planes reference the geological theory of plate tectonics found in the Colorado landscape. The building’s facade features a smooth, buff precast concrete reminiscent of the native grasses that stretch to the east of the city, limestone, granite and a natural zinc finish that stands in contrast to the polished metal finishes typical in other cities. In an effort to incorporate Denver’s abundant sunlight and its unsurpassed views, significant amounts of glass were incorporated around the podium. Natural daylight, interior lighting and sunshades alter the transparency of the building throughout the day.
The concept of sliding planes was repeated in the interior spaces with horizontal floating ceilings and vertical screen walls. The interior of the hotel is viewed as layers or strata, lending visual depth and activating the street edge. Rich yet modest materials, such as a variety of natural stone used on the walls and floor, are an additional reference to Colorado’s core. The inclusion of tall, airy spaces, such as the “Glass Canyon”—a 70-ft tall atrium—brings the city into the main lobby and circulation space. Transparent by day and glowing from within by night, this space serves to activate the street below.
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Image Credit:Hedrich Blessing Photographers
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: klipp and Brennan Beer Gorman Architects
General Contractor: Program Manager: FaulknerUSA; Structural Engineer:
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Moreland Residence
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Client: Rick and Susan Moreland
Description:
The Moreland Residence, located in an established neighborhood of aggressive vegetation in Baton Rouge, represents an ongoing exploration of historical typology and local building traditions. The project combines vernacular precedent, standard construction methods and landscape integration in an effort to foreground design that is specific to the local climate and culture.
The extreme climatic conditions of southern Louisiana exert unique, often uncompromising demands on inhabitation. With both temperature and humidity levels consistently in the 90s, ambivalence toward shade, orientation and breeze is not an option. The challenges posed by high levels of heat, humidity, rain and sun have inspired inventive architectural solutions. For instance the familiar dogtrot and shotgun houses imported from Haiti and the West Indies, cross-pollinated with Creole and Acadian influences, exhibit evolutionary, pragmatic wisdom in their cross-ventilation and shading strategies. These strategies take the form of porches, balconies and big roofs with extended overhangs—all of which developed in response to the blunt realities of a particular time and place.
The Moreland Residence combines the linear quality of the local “shotgun” house typology with the side entry found in the Charleston single house. The axial circulation links a sequence of distinct programmatic elements across the length of the site. Along this path, a series of articulated thresholds modulate programmatic transitions as the formal procession moves from the building’s more public character of the west elevation to the relatively private east side. More boundary than object, the main building volume sits tight to the north property line, maximizing the size of the south courtyard.
Organized around a series of outdoor rooms, gardens and courtyards, the project provides a range of outdoor living areas. The spatial and experiential organization blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior. Programmatically, this blurring takes advantage of the temperate climate and expands the functional limits of public space. The private realm engages the landscape through a series of framed vistas highlighting the patterns of light and shadow cast by the surrounding trees.
Five significant outdoor spaces organize and animate the project. Moving from west to east, the arrival sequence moves through the front yard, passes under the two-story roof overhang, and arrives at the entry vestibule. Similar to a front porch, the vestibule and patio combine to provide a transition between the public street and the domestic realm.
Through the front door, the axial circulation sequence continues into the main public core where the double height LR/DR volume occupies the center of the house. Large transparent planes of glass on the north and south allow the interior space to visually extend beyond the walls of the building and into the adjacent outdoor spaces. A thick row of bamboo along the south edge of the courtyard and the dense plantings in the shade garden effectively become the experiential, if not literal, walls of the interior space.
To the east, the axial circulation sequence moves back outside along the edge of a private garden dominated by a single pecan tree and through the back gate. Defined by the house, fence and shed, the full effect of this meditative space is experienced from inside the stacked bedrooms where expansive windows frame the tree trunk and canopy. Morning sun casts evocative shadows into the rooms, while afternoon shadows are projected against the simple, corrugated shed.
In the center of the house, a staircase rises to the second-floor bridge, leading to the final tectonic landscape. Adjacent to the library/study, magnificent oak trees encapsulate the balcony and filter the setting sun. Dominating the west elevation this subtracted element in the main volume of the building both foreshadows and concludes a spatial sequence that weaves the landscape into everyday domestic life.
The extreme climatic conditions of southern Louisiana exert unique, often uncompromising demands on inhabitation. With both temperature and humidity levels consistently in the 90s, ambivalence toward shade, orientation and breeze is not an option. The challenges posed by high levels of heat, humidity, rain and sun have inspired inventive architectural solutions. For instance the familiar dogtrot and shotgun houses imported from Haiti and the West Indies, cross-pollinated with Creole and Acadian influences, exhibit evolutionary, pragmatic wisdom in their cross-ventilation and shading strategies. These strategies take the form of porches, balconies and big roofs with extended overhangs—all of which developed in response to the blunt realities of a particular time and place.
The Moreland Residence combines the linear quality of the local “shotgun” house typology with the side entry found in the Charleston single house. The axial circulation links a sequence of distinct programmatic elements across the length of the site. Along this path, a series of articulated thresholds modulate programmatic transitions as the formal procession moves from the building’s more public character of the west elevation to the relatively private east side. More boundary than object, the main building volume sits tight to the north property line, maximizing the size of the south courtyard.
Organized around a series of outdoor rooms, gardens and courtyards, the project provides a range of outdoor living areas. The spatial and experiential organization blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior. Programmatically, this blurring takes advantage of the temperate climate and expands the functional limits of public space. The private realm engages the landscape through a series of framed vistas highlighting the patterns of light and shadow cast by the surrounding trees.
Five significant outdoor spaces organize and animate the project. Moving from west to east, the arrival sequence moves through the front yard, passes under the two-story roof overhang, and arrives at the entry vestibule. Similar to a front porch, the vestibule and patio combine to provide a transition between the public street and the domestic realm.
Through the front door, the axial circulation sequence continues into the main public core where the double height LR/DR volume occupies the center of the house. Large transparent planes of glass on the north and south allow the interior space to visually extend beyond the walls of the building and into the adjacent outdoor spaces. A thick row of bamboo along the south edge of the courtyard and the dense plantings in the shade garden effectively become the experiential, if not literal, walls of the interior space.
To the east, the axial circulation sequence moves back outside along the edge of a private garden dominated by a single pecan tree and through the back gate. Defined by the house, fence and shed, the full effect of this meditative space is experienced from inside the stacked bedrooms where expansive windows frame the tree trunk and canopy. Morning sun casts evocative shadows into the rooms, while afternoon shadows are projected against the simple, corrugated shed.
In the center of the house, a staircase rises to the second-floor bridge, leading to the final tectonic landscape. Adjacent to the library/study, magnificent oak trees encapsulate the balcony and filter the setting sun. Dominating the west elevation this subtracted element in the main volume of the building both foreshadows and concludes a spatial sequence that weaves the landscape into everyday domestic life.
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Image Credit:Peter Sutherland
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Catovic Hughes Design
General Contractor: General Contractor: David Hayden
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Nove/Sibling Rivalry
Location: Aspen, Colo.
Client: Scott Lindenau/Ted Danelson
Description:
Nove/Sibling Rivalry consists of two 3,500-sq-ft, single-family residences located on a corner lot in Aspen’s west end neighborhood. The two residences divide the property into equal halves and draw a line—the concrete landscaping wall—right down the double courtyard in the middle. The residences are within easy walking distance of Aspen’s numerous cultural activities. The architecture of the houses is clean and sophisticated. The exterior and interior material palate is simple yet elegant and designed for housing of the residents’ many pieces of artwork. Construction was completed in fall 2005.
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Image Credit:Ross Krubbs and Michael Brands
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Studio B Architects
General Contractor: Structural Engineer: Studio NYL; General Contracto
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Stapleton Public Pool #2
Location: Denver
Client: Forest City Stapleton, Inc.
Description:
…a vision
Parks and open space define many of Denver’s great neighborhoods. The Stapleton development (Denver’s old airport) is devoting nearly 30 percent of its 4,700 acres to parks and open spaces. The design team was an original member of the master planning for Stapleton’s open spaces and parks. This project has evolved into designing a variety of pavilions, buildings, trellises and shade structures. These projects include what eventually will be five public pool houses. They will be key features in public parks currently being developed throughout the new Stapleton neighborhood.
...a fun place for kids
The visionaries responsible for conceiving these parks realize the importance of community, of successful public space and of great buildings. These same visionaries believe in allowing the architecture to speak…to say something about place and time. Commissioned to design multiple buildings (each with identical programs, each with distinct personalities), the second in this series of pool projects was designed for parents with young children and specifically for the children themselves. Conceptually, this project was intended to be very playful and loose-natured. Colorful finishes, materials that exaggerate and express their textures, and a sophisticatedly subtle twist in the architecture are all intentional moves that create an environment geared towards the child.
...with a twist
The diagram for this project became about creating a roof that said a lot without doing a lot—a playful twist in the roof balances six inches above a single beam. The simply crafted move in the structure reveals much about the user, the designer, the place and the concept.
Parks and open space define many of Denver’s great neighborhoods. The Stapleton development (Denver’s old airport) is devoting nearly 30 percent of its 4,700 acres to parks and open spaces. The design team was an original member of the master planning for Stapleton’s open spaces and parks. This project has evolved into designing a variety of pavilions, buildings, trellises and shade structures. These projects include what eventually will be five public pool houses. They will be key features in public parks currently being developed throughout the new Stapleton neighborhood.
...a fun place for kids
The visionaries responsible for conceiving these parks realize the importance of community, of successful public space and of great buildings. These same visionaries believe in allowing the architecture to speak…to say something about place and time. Commissioned to design multiple buildings (each with identical programs, each with distinct personalities), the second in this series of pool projects was designed for parents with young children and specifically for the children themselves. Conceptually, this project was intended to be very playful and loose-natured. Colorful finishes, materials that exaggerate and express their textures, and a sophisticatedly subtle twist in the architecture are all intentional moves that create an environment geared towards the child.
...with a twist
The diagram for this project became about creating a roof that said a lot without doing a lot—a playful twist in the roof balances six inches above a single beam. The simply crafted move in the structure reveals much about the user, the designer, the place and the concept.
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Image Credit:Ron Pollard
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Semple Brown Design, P.C.
General Contractor: Structural Engineer: The McGlamery Structural Grou
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Unbuilt Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Blue Rondo
Location: Denver
Description:
The synchronicity between music and architecture comes to life in the design of the Blue Rondo tower. The Blue Rondo was designed as a 250,000-sq-ft, speculative Class A office building located at 14th and Lawrence Streets in the Denver central business district. The proposed site is on the edge of the developing arts district. The owner desired a building with a connection to the area’s culture.
Inspired by the rhythms, patterns and accentuations of the art of music, the design team visualized sitting in a performing arts theater and questioned what it meant—what it really felt like—to be in the midst of a stirring performance. Different forms of music spark thought and imagination. Jazz great Dave Brubeck’s Blue Rondo a la Turk became the ultimate motivation for the design team. The rondo is a form of music that repeats sections from the first or “A” section with contrasting sections in between, each of varying lengths and syncopation.
The success of the team’s design effort rested in translating the complexity of a rondo into a literal, three-dimensional object. By looking to the instruments within the piece—the rhythms of the bass and drums interspersed with the melodies of the piano and saxophone—the team translated characteristics of each instrument into individual massing diagrams. This was achieved by relating the instrument’s importance within the piece to important positions on the site. The diagram allowed for the rendition of rhythms and melodies into specific architectural design elements of gray granite and glass, black granite and glass and a blue glass curtain wall. The resulting design becomes a physical expression of music—an architectural rondo on the edge of the arts district.
The building’s composition within the skyline of Denver and an emphasis on how the building is viewed as one enters downtown creates a focus and entry point at the 14th and Lawrence Streets’ edges. This welcome point and associated ground-level retail space reinforces the pedestrian experience. A transparent glass face at the street blurs the boundary between street and lobby.
The design links the unique site and its prominent views to and from the north and west. Massing is set with the largest floors at the top of the building, maximizing premium space and views. The building face is articulated in a way that reinforces the separate instruments of the rondo, allowing distinctive impressions of the building from various viewpoints within the city. Each view of the building creates a changing kinetic sense of the architecture as one moves around the city center.
Inspired by the rhythms, patterns and accentuations of the art of music, the design team visualized sitting in a performing arts theater and questioned what it meant—what it really felt like—to be in the midst of a stirring performance. Different forms of music spark thought and imagination. Jazz great Dave Brubeck’s Blue Rondo a la Turk became the ultimate motivation for the design team. The rondo is a form of music that repeats sections from the first or “A” section with contrasting sections in between, each of varying lengths and syncopation.
The success of the team’s design effort rested in translating the complexity of a rondo into a literal, three-dimensional object. By looking to the instruments within the piece—the rhythms of the bass and drums interspersed with the melodies of the piano and saxophone—the team translated characteristics of each instrument into individual massing diagrams. This was achieved by relating the instrument’s importance within the piece to important positions on the site. The diagram allowed for the rendition of rhythms and melodies into specific architectural design elements of gray granite and glass, black granite and glass and a blue glass curtain wall. The resulting design becomes a physical expression of music—an architectural rondo on the edge of the arts district.
The building’s composition within the skyline of Denver and an emphasis on how the building is viewed as one enters downtown creates a focus and entry point at the 14th and Lawrence Streets’ edges. This welcome point and associated ground-level retail space reinforces the pedestrian experience. A transparent glass face at the street blurs the boundary between street and lobby.
The design links the unique site and its prominent views to and from the north and west. Massing is set with the largest floors at the top of the building, maximizing premium space and views. The building face is articulated in a way that reinforces the separate instruments of the rondo, allowing distinctive impressions of the building from various viewpoints within the city. Each view of the building creates a changing kinetic sense of the architecture as one moves around the city center.
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Image Credit:RNL
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: RNL
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Unbuilt Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Dubai Mixed-Use Towers
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Client: Office of H.H. Saeed Bin Zayed Al-Nahayyan
Description:
The architectural commission for the Dubai Mixed-Use Towers was rewarded as a result of an international design competition. This 1,748,600-sq-ft high-rise development is divided into two distinctive, slender towers situated on each side of a multistory atrium lobby space. The Suites Tower rises 53 stories high and houses hotel and luxury service apartments, while the Residential Tower is 60 stories and houses rental apartments. Both towers also include office, retail and restaurant space. Enclosed with glass, the atrium is the center of the development and links together all the separate functions. The hotel conference center, offering banquet facilities and meeting rooms, is located over the atrium.
The primary architectural feature of the project is the veil-like, folded sheet of glass overlapping the front façade of each tower. Like the refracting sheets of light that rise from a desert mirage, these shimmering veils of glass define the two towers, blurring the border between land and water or the desert salt flats and the gulf. The project’s positioning takes advantage of dominant views of the Arabian Gulf. As these two similar, yet unique, towers diffuse and bend the day’s light, they carve familiar shapes into the Dubai skyline on a monumental scale. They are a mirage: tantalizing, exotic and elusive visual signs on the desert landscape. The two folding shapes form a singular gesture, while making individual marks on the skyline, the way the Emirates Towers have defined a new era in Dubai’s architectural history.
In order to create these sculptural bent forms, while maintaining the inherent efficiencies necessary to build hotel and residential buildings, the design incorporates a system wherein each guestroom or residential floor shifts slightly in relationship to a vertical core element. While for elevators and some repetitious mechanical features a standard vertical core was necessary, some creative license was taken in deciding to offset plumbing chases and some other elements where possible. For these elements, architecturally angled forms were created that shifted the floors and guestrooms to accommodate them without sacrificing the distinctive bending, refractive form of the towers.
This structure will be an elegant contribution to the modernistic architectural vernacular of this cosmopolitan city.
The primary architectural feature of the project is the veil-like, folded sheet of glass overlapping the front façade of each tower. Like the refracting sheets of light that rise from a desert mirage, these shimmering veils of glass define the two towers, blurring the border between land and water or the desert salt flats and the gulf. The project’s positioning takes advantage of dominant views of the Arabian Gulf. As these two similar, yet unique, towers diffuse and bend the day’s light, they carve familiar shapes into the Dubai skyline on a monumental scale. They are a mirage: tantalizing, exotic and elusive visual signs on the desert landscape. The two folding shapes form a singular gesture, while making individual marks on the skyline, the way the Emirates Towers have defined a new era in Dubai’s architectural history.
In order to create these sculptural bent forms, while maintaining the inherent efficiencies necessary to build hotel and residential buildings, the design incorporates a system wherein each guestroom or residential floor shifts slightly in relationship to a vertical core element. While for elevators and some repetitious mechanical features a standard vertical core was necessary, some creative license was taken in deciding to offset plumbing chases and some other elements where possible. For these elements, architecturally angled forms were created that shifted the floors and guestrooms to accommodate them without sacrificing the distinctive bending, refractive form of the towers.
This structure will be an elegant contribution to the modernistic architectural vernacular of this cosmopolitan city.
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Image Credit:©Fentress Bradburn Architects, Ltd.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Architect-of-Record: Fentress Bradburn Architects, Ltd.; Associate Architect: Al Burj Engineering Consultants (Abu Dhabi
General Contractor: Structural Engineer: Martin/Martin, Inc.; Electric
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Generation
Location: Arvada, Colo.
Client: Norbert Klebl
Description:
Special Recognition Category: Planning
Site Strategies:
• The 260-unit, 20-acre, two- to three-story mixed-use urban neighborhood in Arvada, Colo., is located close to regional shopping and employment and immediately along the Ralston Creek Regional Bikeway, which leads to the Rocky Mountains as well as towards downtown Denver.
• Solar access is optimized in relation urban density. Innovations in building placement, drawing from international examples, greatly reduce heating and cooling loads on individual homes.
• Building, lot and block types are transformations of urban typologies found in historic Denver, Latin American cities and 20th century northern Europe. The resulting development pattern is nicknamed “checkerboard.”
• Small planting beds along the sidewalk, following European precedents, unify the heterogeneous building placements.
• Ground materials and landscaping are designed to maximize earth permeability and reduce heat gain. Linear greens, sometimes replacing streets, filter storm runoff and bind a community together through a diverse pedestrian, park and drainage network.
• Small shops, live-work spaces, public gathering areas and the regional bikeway are accessible via tree lined walkways from every home, minimizing the need for commutes.
Building Strategies:
“Net-zero energy ready” is accomplished through:
• Optimized building siting for maximizing winter solar gain and minimizing summer solar gain.
• Minimal apertures facing north and west.
• Optimized solar overhangs on south, east and west.
• R30 walls, superior air infiltration values and air-to-air heat exchangers.
• “Earth tubes” for tempering fresh air supply.
• Window insulation.
• Higher levels of thermal mass.
• Neighborhood-wide geothermal heat source.
• Photovoltaics on most roofs and also positioned as window overhangs. A new state law provides financial subsidies for photovoltaics.
• Performance standards for energy consumption. Green construction is to be enforced via a greenpoints program.
A Diverse Community:
Key to the Generation vision is a particular effort to sustain diversity and heterogeneity. The mixture of building types and land uses proposed is intended as an armature to support affordability, diverse ages, family types and cultural outlooks, and a range of uses, including living, working, shopping and socializing. The neighborhood also will include one intergenerational co-housing community and one senior co-housing community.
A Strong and Healthy Community Must Nurture Both Sociability and Individuality:
The neighborhood design is intended as an armature to support a wide variety of ways in which neighbors can meet each other and interact. This can happen at central public spaces, local shops, community buildings, in common greens or parks, along quiet walks and alleys or from front porches. At the same time, the neighborhood design is intended as an armature to nurture one’s own privacy and individuality. This is sustained through extensive alternatives for pedestrian circulation throughout the neighborhood, distinct individual homes and structures, private outdoor space shaped like courtyards and a public-edge planting zone that defines clear boundaries between public and private realms.
Site Strategies:
• The 260-unit, 20-acre, two- to three-story mixed-use urban neighborhood in Arvada, Colo., is located close to regional shopping and employment and immediately along the Ralston Creek Regional Bikeway, which leads to the Rocky Mountains as well as towards downtown Denver.
• Solar access is optimized in relation urban density. Innovations in building placement, drawing from international examples, greatly reduce heating and cooling loads on individual homes.
• Building, lot and block types are transformations of urban typologies found in historic Denver, Latin American cities and 20th century northern Europe. The resulting development pattern is nicknamed “checkerboard.”
• Small planting beds along the sidewalk, following European precedents, unify the heterogeneous building placements.
• Ground materials and landscaping are designed to maximize earth permeability and reduce heat gain. Linear greens, sometimes replacing streets, filter storm runoff and bind a community together through a diverse pedestrian, park and drainage network.
• Small shops, live-work spaces, public gathering areas and the regional bikeway are accessible via tree lined walkways from every home, minimizing the need for commutes.
Building Strategies:
“Net-zero energy ready” is accomplished through:
• Optimized building siting for maximizing winter solar gain and minimizing summer solar gain.
• Minimal apertures facing north and west.
• Optimized solar overhangs on south, east and west.
• R30 walls, superior air infiltration values and air-to-air heat exchangers.
• “Earth tubes” for tempering fresh air supply.
• Window insulation.
• Higher levels of thermal mass.
• Neighborhood-wide geothermal heat source.
• Photovoltaics on most roofs and also positioned as window overhangs. A new state law provides financial subsidies for photovoltaics.
• Performance standards for energy consumption. Green construction is to be enforced via a greenpoints program.
A Diverse Community:
Key to the Generation vision is a particular effort to sustain diversity and heterogeneity. The mixture of building types and land uses proposed is intended as an armature to support affordability, diverse ages, family types and cultural outlooks, and a range of uses, including living, working, shopping and socializing. The neighborhood also will include one intergenerational co-housing community and one senior co-housing community.
A Strong and Healthy Community Must Nurture Both Sociability and Individuality:
The neighborhood design is intended as an armature to support a wide variety of ways in which neighbors can meet each other and interact. This can happen at central public spaces, local shops, community buildings, in common greens or parks, along quiet walks and alleys or from front porches. At the same time, the neighborhood design is intended as an armature to nurture one’s own privacy and individuality. This is sustained through extensive alternatives for pedestrian circulation throughout the neighborhood, distinct individual homes and structures, private outdoor space shaped like courtyards and a public-edge planting zone that defines clear boundaries between public and private realms.
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Image Credit:Michael Tavel Architects and David Kahn Studio
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Michael Tavel Architects and David Kahn Studio
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: AIA Colorado 2006 Firm of the Year
Location: Denver
Description:
This award recognizes an AIA Colorado firm that best represents the practice of architecture and has contributed to the profession and has set an example both in design and leadership in the state during a period of at least 10 years.
Humphries Poli Architects, P.C. (HPA), the AIA Colorado 2006 Firm of the Year, is a Denver-based firm founded in 1994 by Dennis R. Humphries, AIA, and Joseph J. Poli, AIA.
This 29-person firm offers architecture, interior design, urban design, historic preservation and landscape architecture services. The firm specializes in multi-family housing, urban design, civic architecture, libraries and preservation projects.
“The overarching goal of our firm is to do great architecture,” said Humphries.
“We like to work in places where our buildings can make a difference,” added Poli. “The question we have to ask is ‘what is the impact of the project?’”
Firm History
Humphries and Poli met as fraternity brothers at the University of Illinois (Champaign) in the early 1970s. Upon graduation Humphries returned to his roots in northern Indiana, joining the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, while Poli became an associate at Perkins & Will in his hometown of Chicago. Later through circumstance, both became principals at Pouw & Associates in Denver, collaborating on numerous projects for 10 years.
In 1994, determined to create a firm focused on bringing design excellence to the building of Colorado communities, the longtime friends and colleagues formed HPA in a storefront location in the Golden Triangle neighborhood.
Community Involvement
Through 12 years of practice, HPA has maintained a commitment to community service as a guiding principle. Indeed, community involvement contributed significantly to the firm’s recognition by AIA Colorado as 2006 Firm of the Year. Both Humphries and Poli have made important contributions to the community and profession individually through service with city commissions and boards, neighborhood associations and as part of University of Colorado College of Architecture and Planning mentoring and scholarship programs, the Denver Architectural Foundation and multiple AIA Colorado and AIA Denver committees.
Inspired by leadership, many of the firm’s staff also are engaged actively in leadership positions that benefit the design profession and community, including Cleworth Architectural Legacy Program, Denver Art Museum’s Design After Dark, Boulder Humane Society’s Barkitecture, Habitat for Humanity, the Denver Botanic Gardens Birdhaus Bash, the Denver Athletic Club Scholarship Fund, Doors Open Denver, Golden Triangle Neighborhood Association and the Civic Center Conservancy.
Recent Awards
In addition to the AIA Colorado 2006 Firm of the Year Award, HPA has received several other distinguishing honors, including AIA Denver 2005 Firm of the Year. Also, Dennis Humphries was honored as the 2003 Colorado Chapter of the American Subcontractors Association Architect of the Year as well as AIA Denver 2006 Architect of the Year and AIA Colorado 2005 Architect of the Year. In all, the firm and its projects have received more than 30 awards in the last 12 years. Recent award winning projects include the Granby Library (Granby, Colo.), 553 House (Denver), Blake Street Flats (Denver), the Brownstones at Riverfront Park (Denver) and Ten Winkle Towers (Denver).
The HPA studio is still located in Denver's Golden Triangle neighborhood in its third storefront office at 1215 Elati St. For more information visit HPA’s Web site at www.hparch.com.
Humphries Poli Architects, P.C. (HPA), the AIA Colorado 2006 Firm of the Year, is a Denver-based firm founded in 1994 by Dennis R. Humphries, AIA, and Joseph J. Poli, AIA.
This 29-person firm offers architecture, interior design, urban design, historic preservation and landscape architecture services. The firm specializes in multi-family housing, urban design, civic architecture, libraries and preservation projects.
“The overarching goal of our firm is to do great architecture,” said Humphries.
“We like to work in places where our buildings can make a difference,” added Poli. “The question we have to ask is ‘what is the impact of the project?’”
Firm History
Humphries and Poli met as fraternity brothers at the University of Illinois (Champaign) in the early 1970s. Upon graduation Humphries returned to his roots in northern Indiana, joining the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, while Poli became an associate at Perkins & Will in his hometown of Chicago. Later through circumstance, both became principals at Pouw & Associates in Denver, collaborating on numerous projects for 10 years.
In 1994, determined to create a firm focused on bringing design excellence to the building of Colorado communities, the longtime friends and colleagues formed HPA in a storefront location in the Golden Triangle neighborhood.
Community Involvement
Through 12 years of practice, HPA has maintained a commitment to community service as a guiding principle. Indeed, community involvement contributed significantly to the firm’s recognition by AIA Colorado as 2006 Firm of the Year. Both Humphries and Poli have made important contributions to the community and profession individually through service with city commissions and boards, neighborhood associations and as part of University of Colorado College of Architecture and Planning mentoring and scholarship programs, the Denver Architectural Foundation and multiple AIA Colorado and AIA Denver committees.
Inspired by leadership, many of the firm’s staff also are engaged actively in leadership positions that benefit the design profession and community, including Cleworth Architectural Legacy Program, Denver Art Museum’s Design After Dark, Boulder Humane Society’s Barkitecture, Habitat for Humanity, the Denver Botanic Gardens Birdhaus Bash, the Denver Athletic Club Scholarship Fund, Doors Open Denver, Golden Triangle Neighborhood Association and the Civic Center Conservancy.
Recent Awards
In addition to the AIA Colorado 2006 Firm of the Year Award, HPA has received several other distinguishing honors, including AIA Denver 2005 Firm of the Year. Also, Dennis Humphries was honored as the 2003 Colorado Chapter of the American Subcontractors Association Architect of the Year as well as AIA Denver 2006 Architect of the Year and AIA Colorado 2005 Architect of the Year. In all, the firm and its projects have received more than 30 awards in the last 12 years. Recent award winning projects include the Granby Library (Granby, Colo.), 553 House (Denver), Blake Street Flats (Denver), the Brownstones at Riverfront Park (Denver) and Ten Winkle Towers (Denver).
The HPA studio is still located in Denver's Golden Triangle neighborhood in its third storefront office at 1215 Elati St. For more information visit HPA’s Web site at www.hparch.com.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Humphries Poli Architects, P.C.
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: AIA Colorado 2006 25-Year Award
Location: Denver
Description:
This award recognizes a project in Colorado completed 25 to 35 years ago that has withstood the “test of time” and still functions in its original capacity.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Writer Square
Project Categories
Year: 2006
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: AIA Colorado 2006 Contribution to the Built Environment by a Non-Architect
Location: Denver
Description:
This award recognizes outstanding accomplishments by a non-architect in Colorado for demonstrating exemplary achievements in contributing to the quality of the built environment.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Mark L. Smith
Architect Info: Founder and president of East West Partners Denver and founding partner of Slifer Smith and Frampton Real Estate
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Jack Kerouac Lofts
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
"Beat generation" writer Jack Kerouac was chosen as the symbol for this new multifamily project in the Central Platte Valley where he once worked and caroused. In the 1950's, Jack Kerouac spent time in the "bottoms" of the central Platte valley, north of Coors Field in Denver. A prolific writer, his book On The Road personifies the beatnik generation. Mr. Kerouac thrived on the industrial grit and transitory lifestyle of the bottoms. Kerouac's connection is evocative of the exuberance and freedom of spirit that characterized "beat generation" literature, art and music, of the rediscovered downtown lifestyle.
Jack Kerouac Loft's architecture is derived from the urban setting that was so loved by Mr. Kerouac. Simple masonry buildings with both flat and sloped roofs, ancillary railroad structures in galvanized metal, and a "boxcar" vocabulary form the design.
Jack Kerouac Loft's architecture is derived from the urban setting that was so loved by Mr. Kerouac. Simple masonry buildings with both flat and sloped roofs, ancillary railroad structures in galvanized metal, and a "boxcar" vocabulary form the design.
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Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: JG Johnson Architects, P.C.
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Parish
Location: Foxfield, Colorado
Description:
The Parish is Phase One of an overall campus master plan with commanding views of the Front Range. The brief was challenging and comprehensive:
The building’s octagonal shape, masonry, timber materials and detailed liturgical furnishings reflect the architects’ response to this lofty charge. The design for the Parish consist of a central nave and two side transepts turned at 45-degree angles, concluding in an octagonal masonry dome rising 75 feet above the sanctuary floor. This plan allows each parishioner an intimate Mass experience. A large Narthex welcomes parishioners into the church while functioning as a temporary gathering space until a Parish Hall is constructed. The interior contains dramatic columns which function to structurally support the roof and provide great symbolism based upon the First Book of Chronicles representing the trees of the forest.
In collaboration with the founding pastor, the architects designed every liturgical furnishing down to the last detail. In the words of a mason who worked on the project, “Now that’s one structure I’m going to be proud to tell my grandchildren I built.”
- Design a new church, a 300-year structure, for a new parish in a new community.
- Design a structure that reflects the timeless values of Catholicism - a place of respect and quiet worship where life’s daily chaos is replaced by humble servitude and reverence.
- Create an enduring impression through the design of the interior and exterior incorporating traditional elements of ecclesiastical architecture.
- Avoid the usual square, rectangular or oval configurations.
The building’s octagonal shape, masonry, timber materials and detailed liturgical furnishings reflect the architects’ response to this lofty charge. The design for the Parish consist of a central nave and two side transepts turned at 45-degree angles, concluding in an octagonal masonry dome rising 75 feet above the sanctuary floor. This plan allows each parishioner an intimate Mass experience. A large Narthex welcomes parishioners into the church while functioning as a temporary gathering space until a Parish Hall is constructed. The interior contains dramatic columns which function to structurally support the roof and provide great symbolism based upon the First Book of Chronicles representing the trees of the forest.
In collaboration with the founding pastor, the architects designed every liturgical furnishing down to the last detail. In the words of a mason who worked on the project, “Now that’s one structure I’m going to be proud to tell my grandchildren I built.”
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: David Owen Tryba Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Skye
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
Retail clothing stores typically focus on the visual display of merchandise while relegating the act of re-clothing and dressing to the insignificant ‘back of the house’ program. This Boutique is designed to celebrate the emotional metamorphosis of change. Focusing on the act of undressing and dressing, the interior is defined by carefully composing a series of translucent re-clothing chambers within the space. These cylindrical chambers redefine the space while signaling the emotional significance of shedding and re-clothing. Various levels of translucency expose the act as either intimately personal or expressively celebratory.
Shear fabrics and translucent materials utilized throughout the store further enhance the notion of exposure. The materials enhance the spatial layering of the interior by establishing a processional density from the exterior urban environment to the container-like womb of pochéd environments in the rear of the store.
Change, kinetic energy and visual stimulation are reinforced by displaying the clothing on slowly circulating racks that are derivative of the dry-cleaning industry. These circulating racks reduce the amount of display space while creating a sense of continual fluid movement. Customers become engaged in the display process by actively participating in the movement. The experience is further enhanced by the video animation of live modeling shows throughout the world.
Clothing exhibited at the shows is transformed into a hologram that is displayed within a ‘naked’ chamber. Computerized view stations allow the customer to download holograms into the display chamber while swatches of the actual fabrics are automatically loaded onto the circulating racks.
Shear fabrics and translucent materials utilized throughout the store further enhance the notion of exposure. The materials enhance the spatial layering of the interior by establishing a processional density from the exterior urban environment to the container-like womb of pochéd environments in the rear of the store.
Change, kinetic energy and visual stimulation are reinforced by displaying the clothing on slowly circulating racks that are derivative of the dry-cleaning industry. These circulating racks reduce the amount of display space while creating a sense of continual fluid movement. Customers become engaged in the display process by actively participating in the movement. The experience is further enhanced by the video animation of live modeling shows throughout the world.
Clothing exhibited at the shows is transformed into a hologram that is displayed within a ‘naked’ chamber. Computerized view stations allow the customer to download holograms into the display chamber while swatches of the actual fabrics are automatically loaded onto the circulating racks.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Roth + Sheppard Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: The Tube
Location: Granite, Colorado
Description:
The Tube is a small weekend house for two people, perched over a remote bank of the Arkansas River at an elevation of 8,800 feet above sea level. It is located on a former silver mining claim on the Upper Arkansas River Valley, near Granite, Colorado. The Tube resides among a settlement of buildings all designed by the architect to maximize encounters with the river or surrounding meadows. Each building on the settlement, including the Tube, is designed as a simple elemental form using a palette of wood siding or corrugated steel.
A primary view down river to kayakers below and the peaks beyond dominates the building site. Breezes blow down the river in the morning and up the river in the afternoon, typical of mountain river climates. The riverbank is an ecotone, with Cottonwoods, Spruce, and some Aspen trees. Most of the site is covered by low sage and scrub brushes. The site is remote and surrounded by federal lands.
The architecture of this weekend house defers to the richness of its adjacent landscape. The house cantilevers out over the river bank, projecting inhabitants towards commanding views and capturing cool river breezes. Throughout, the house is designed to amplify and maximize encounters with the river micro-climate and landscape. The architecture aims to engage, as simply and richly, its stunning site. Its construction and materials systems emphasize durability and ruggedness in response to the climate and remote location.
Major goals in the design of the house were a very simplified style of living and a close encounter with the river at a modest cost of construction.
A primary view down river to kayakers below and the peaks beyond dominates the building site. Breezes blow down the river in the morning and up the river in the afternoon, typical of mountain river climates. The riverbank is an ecotone, with Cottonwoods, Spruce, and some Aspen trees. Most of the site is covered by low sage and scrub brushes. The site is remote and surrounded by federal lands.
The architecture of this weekend house defers to the richness of its adjacent landscape. The house cantilevers out over the river bank, projecting inhabitants towards commanding views and capturing cool river breezes. Throughout, the house is designed to amplify and maximize encounters with the river micro-climate and landscape. The architecture aims to engage, as simply and richly, its stunning site. Its construction and materials systems emphasize durability and ruggedness in response to the climate and remote location.
Major goals in the design of the house were a very simplified style of living and a close encounter with the river at a modest cost of construction.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Anderson Mason Dale Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Designscapes
Location: Colorado
Description:
Designscapes Colorado is a young, growing landscape company with a range of expertise that includes landscape design through construction. Their client list is uniquely diverse, boasting everything from Denver Public Schools to private individuals with multimillion dollar residences. As a result, their new office needed to be visually appealing to discerning, wealthy clientele that may be visiting the office, and durable enough to withstand the daily abuse inflicted by construction personnel.
The building has an elegance and richness that belie its tight construction budget. This is even more apparent when considered in the context of the surrounding bland tilt up concrete buildings. Inside and out, the design reflects the broad needs of the client, with industrial qualities that respect the realities of construction worker traffic, as well as other gestures reflecting the rich characteristics of the natural landscape and artistry of the design process.
The building has an elegance and richness that belie its tight construction budget. This is even more apparent when considered in the context of the surrounding bland tilt up concrete buildings. Inside and out, the design reflects the broad needs of the client, with industrial qualities that respect the realities of construction worker traffic, as well as other gestures reflecting the rich characteristics of the natural landscape and artistry of the design process.
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Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Semple Brown Design, P.C.
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: The Molkery at Montclair Park
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
The Molkery, also known as the Montclair Civic Building, was built in 1888 by Baron Von Richthofen as part of his estate five miles east of Denver. It was built as a dairy, restaurant and hotel promoting healthy living while serving as one of the first tuberculosis sanitariums in Colorado until 1893. The building filled a variety of other uses before the City of Denver annexed the Town of Montclair in 1903.
The restoration to its 1908 state captures a point in history significant to towns of the West. In the late 1800s it was common for people to travel west for health purposes. This migration played a significant role in the development of Denver. Tuberculosis facilities were prevalent throughout developing cities and they are unique in their design with large porches and access to the dry arid climate of the area. The Molkery restoration is indicative of that period with the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the exterior porch. Many former TB sanitariums in this area have since been renovated into single family homes and have lost much of their original character. The Molkery however celebrates its original design, detailing and construction while serving a much more significant role as a neighborhood community center.
This project, restored to its 1908 appearance, included exterior restoration as well as the reconstruction of the chimneys and cupola. The porch wrapping on three sides of the building was opened, exposing the original railings which were hidden for 80 years by the enclosure, and reconstruction of the south stair. Original wood windows were rehabilitated and made fully operational. Handicap accessibility was added to the building by incorporating a ramp that wraps around the west elevation and is a sensitive addition to the historic character of the building.
The interior was renovated to include a full-time tenant on the second floor, a gathering space for neighborhood meetings and community use on the first floor, and storage for the building in the basement. Other interior renovation work included the repair of the existing wood floor, preservation of the original wood stair and interior finishes to reflect the original design. A new heating and air conditioning system were added, along with fire alarm and security alarm upgrades. Site improvements include adequate storm drainage away from the building and a new exterior plaza along the south elevation of the building facing Montclair Park.
The restoration to its 1908 state captures a point in history significant to towns of the West. In the late 1800s it was common for people to travel west for health purposes. This migration played a significant role in the development of Denver. Tuberculosis facilities were prevalent throughout developing cities and they are unique in their design with large porches and access to the dry arid climate of the area. The Molkery restoration is indicative of that period with the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the exterior porch. Many former TB sanitariums in this area have since been renovated into single family homes and have lost much of their original character. The Molkery however celebrates its original design, detailing and construction while serving a much more significant role as a neighborhood community center.
This project, restored to its 1908 appearance, included exterior restoration as well as the reconstruction of the chimneys and cupola. The porch wrapping on three sides of the building was opened, exposing the original railings which were hidden for 80 years by the enclosure, and reconstruction of the south stair. Original wood windows were rehabilitated and made fully operational. Handicap accessibility was added to the building by incorporating a ramp that wraps around the west elevation and is a sensitive addition to the historic character of the building.
The interior was renovated to include a full-time tenant on the second floor, a gathering space for neighborhood meetings and community use on the first floor, and storage for the building in the basement. Other interior renovation work included the repair of the existing wood floor, preservation of the original wood stair and interior finishes to reflect the original design. A new heating and air conditioning system were added, along with fire alarm and security alarm upgrades. Site improvements include adequate storm drainage away from the building and a new exterior plaza along the south elevation of the building facing Montclair Park.
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Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: SLATERPAULL ARCHITECTS
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Prospect Lofts
Location: Longmont, Colorado
Description:
The project sits on an important corner of Prospect New Town, near the entrance to this dynamic mixed-use community and across the street from the town green. Located just south of Longmont, Colorado, Prospect is known for its unique designs, bright colors and idiosyncratic details, as well as its walkability and strong community. It is a mixture of tightly packed houses, walk-ups, commercial and mixed-use buildings oriented towards the streets and parks. The building was designed to compliment and contrast the aesthetic sensibilities and the success of Prospect so far. A seriousness of purpose on the street with an ordered façade and restrained material palette is contrasted with a playful and colorful carport with a series of dancing roofs.
The building creates a clear distinction between the commercial and residential aspects of the project, yet brings them together into an organic whole. Using a concrete block base and large panes of glass, the lower commercial floor is identified as a separate use from the two residential floors above. Clad in stucco and wood, this provides a light counterpoint to the solid base below. An ordered grid of steel framework and sunshades visually connects the upper floors to the street below, while the brightly colored steel struts stand out against the building to mark the entrance to the commercial spaces, while also dividing the decks of the residences above.
The project explores some simple ideas often missing from contemporary mixed-use projects. It uses a simply ordered approach at the public side to provide a sense of richness and detail that is usually associated with historical buildings, while turning serene and playful at the private side. Although uncompromising in its contemporary detailing, the building uses the wood slat siding and intricate steel details to create an unexpected sense of warmth and richness. The bright colors and dynamic forms of the carport with its wood joists and steel beams further accentuates this interplay between form and detail, structure and richness.
The building creates a clear distinction between the commercial and residential aspects of the project, yet brings them together into an organic whole. Using a concrete block base and large panes of glass, the lower commercial floor is identified as a separate use from the two residential floors above. Clad in stucco and wood, this provides a light counterpoint to the solid base below. An ordered grid of steel framework and sunshades visually connects the upper floors to the street below, while the brightly colored steel struts stand out against the building to mark the entrance to the commercial spaces, while also dividing the decks of the residences above.
The project explores some simple ideas often missing from contemporary mixed-use projects. It uses a simply ordered approach at the public side to provide a sense of richness and detail that is usually associated with historical buildings, while turning serene and playful at the private side. Although uncompromising in its contemporary detailing, the building uses the wood slat siding and intricate steel details to create an unexpected sense of warmth and richness. The bright colors and dynamic forms of the carport with its wood joists and steel beams further accentuates this interplay between form and detail, structure and richness.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: AR7 Hoover Desmond Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Unbuilt Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Rethinking the 'Big-Box', Scandinavian Designs Furniture Store
Location: Not Built
Description:
Scandinavian Designs is a retail furniture store providing contemporary furnishings derived from the principle philosophies of traditional scandinavian design: deep connection to nature, natural materials and an aesthetic derived from function. By taking a whollstic design approach, these ideals and the image of the store are meshed to re-imagine the traditional 'big-box' as a more contextually and environmentally responsive building type.
Problem: The traditional retail 'big-box' building is surrounded by an endless sea of parking without any relationship or response to environment, context or the products displayed within.
Solution: Elongate and subdivide the footprint into a retail and warehouse component to create an appropriately scaled courtyard that is environmentally and contextually responsive. The courtyard is defined by a linear access drive, parking, a landscaped entry plaza and the ecologically sensitive landscape.
Problem: The traditional retail 'big-box' building is surrounded by an endless sea of parking without any relationship or response to environment, context or the products displayed within.
Solution: Elongate and subdivide the footprint into a retail and warehouse component to create an appropriately scaled courtyard that is environmentally and contextually responsive. The courtyard is defined by a linear access drive, parking, a landscaped entry plaza and the ecologically sensitive landscape.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Roth + Sheppard Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Unbuilt Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Aspen Recycling Center
Location: Aspen, Colorado
Description:
The City of Aspen needs a new structure to house the recycling operation currently situated in Rio Grande Park. The existing facility receives recycle materials (bottles, cans, paper and cardboard) in designated containers that are then taken to the landfill for sorting, packaging, and shipping to re-processing centers.
The site lies in the middle of Aspen, one block north of Main Street. It is bound to the west, north and east by park, trails and river. It has the highest elevation in the park. A dense, mixed-use development sits directly south across Rio Grand Avenue and down to the east on the river’s edge, single-family homes.
The site layout must allow for container trucks to maneuver and four to six vehicles at a time delivering recyclables.
The design objectives are:
Inspired by the single, low, long, quiet industrial/agricultural building resting in the landscape, this structure is a long, earthen wall, its planted roof an extension of the park below.
Setting the project down in the landscape, rotating it along the north/south axis and pulling away from the site’s eastern edge minimizes sensory impacts on neighbors to the east and south. The planted roof angles down along its western edge to meet the park and at its north and south ends it folds down to contain noise and create a pedestrian scale at street and path.
Reclaimed wood, rammed earth, recycled concrete aggregate, a planted roof with native grasses and photovoltaics are in synch with the structure’s intended use.
The site lies in the middle of Aspen, one block north of Main Street. It is bound to the west, north and east by park, trails and river. It has the highest elevation in the park. A dense, mixed-use development sits directly south across Rio Grand Avenue and down to the east on the river’s edge, single-family homes.
The site layout must allow for container trucks to maneuver and four to six vehicles at a time delivering recyclables.
The design objectives are:
- Integration with the park and immediate surrounds
- Minimize sensory impacts on lofts/businesses to the south and homes to the east
- Reflect the concepts of sustainability and recycling
- Offer a narrative/educational component
Inspired by the single, low, long, quiet industrial/agricultural building resting in the landscape, this structure is a long, earthen wall, its planted roof an extension of the park below.
Setting the project down in the landscape, rotating it along the north/south axis and pulling away from the site’s eastern edge minimizes sensory impacts on neighbors to the east and south. The planted roof angles down along its western edge to meet the park and at its north and south ends it folds down to contain noise and create a pedestrian scale at street and path.
Reclaimed wood, rammed earth, recycled concrete aggregate, a planted roof with native grasses and photovoltaics are in synch with the structure’s intended use.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: CCY Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Architect of the Year
Location: N/A
Description:
Objective:
Fields of Achievement for Award
1. Outstanding service to the profession in Colorado.
2. Outstanding service in the field of architectural education.
3. Outstanding achievement in the field of design and allied arts to the benefits of the profession of architecture.
4. Outstanding public service to the people of Colorado.
5. Outstanding service to the building industry of Colorado.
Eligibility:
Must be a licensed architect in Colorado and member of AIA Colorado for a minimum of five years “whose contribution to architecture in Colorado has been outstanding.”
Fields of Achievement for Award
1. Outstanding service to the profession in Colorado.
2. Outstanding service in the field of architectural education.
3. Outstanding achievement in the field of design and allied arts to the benefits of the profession of architecture.
4. Outstanding public service to the people of Colorado.
5. Outstanding service to the building industry of Colorado.
Eligibility:
Must be a licensed architect in Colorado and member of AIA Colorado for a minimum of five years “whose contribution to architecture in Colorado has been outstanding.”
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Dennis Humphries, AIA
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Firm of the Year
Location: N/A
Description:
Objective:
To recognize a firm that has contributed to the profession and that has set an example both in design and leadership in the state over a period of at least ten years. This should be a firm that best represents the practice of architecture.
Eligibility:
Any firm that has provided architectural services in Colorado for over 10 years. Any firm whose principal, or principals are members of AIA Colorado. Firms which have their main or founding office within the state of Colorado.
To recognize a firm that has contributed to the profession and that has set an example both in design and leadership in the state over a period of at least ten years. This should be a firm that best represents the practice of architecture.
Eligibility:
Any firm that has provided architectural services in Colorado for over 10 years. Any firm whose principal, or principals are members of AIA Colorado. Firms which have their main or founding office within the state of Colorado.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Semple Brown Design PC
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: 25 - Year Award
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
Objective
To recognize a project in Colorado completed 25 to 35 years ago, that has withstood the “test of time” and still functions in its original capacity.
To recognize a project in Colorado completed 25 to 35 years ago, that has withstood the “test of time” and still functions in its original capacity.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Denver Art Museum
Project Categories
Year: 2005
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Contribution to the Built Environment by a Non-Architect
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
Objective:
To recognize outstanding accomplishments by a non-architect in Colorado for demonstrating exemplary achievements in contributing to the quality of the built environment. AIA Colorado intends to bring recognition to individuals from diverse backgrounds for their professional contributions to maintaining, preserving, developing, or promoting Colorado’s built environment.
Eligibility:
All nominations must be for an individual and must be made by a member or component of AIA Colorado. Any person, except licensed architects and interns working toward licensure, is eligible. A candidate’s contribution must be for activity or events in Colorado, and benefiting Colorado. As an example nominees could be clients, developers, artists, educators, civic leaders, historic preservationists, or allied professionals.
To recognize outstanding accomplishments by a non-architect in Colorado for demonstrating exemplary achievements in contributing to the quality of the built environment. AIA Colorado intends to bring recognition to individuals from diverse backgrounds for their professional contributions to maintaining, preserving, developing, or promoting Colorado’s built environment.
Eligibility:
All nominations must be for an individual and must be made by a member or component of AIA Colorado. Any person, except licensed architects and interns working toward licensure, is eligible. A candidate’s contribution must be for activity or events in Colorado, and benefiting Colorado. As an example nominees could be clients, developers, artists, educators, civic leaders, historic preservationists, or allied professionals.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Mary Voelz Chandler, Rocky Mountian News
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Head Start School
Description:
The Head Start School is an 8400 S.F. building in which educational and daycare services are provided to the neighboring farm worker housing project as well as to the local community of Center, Colorado. The flexibility and openness f this design fulfill the client's request for an environment that will not only promote learning and teaching, but will also engender a sense of community. It provides a safe space within which students can be fully engaged in learning and growing, in which teachers and administrators can provide guidance and instruction, and in which parents and the community can have confidence.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Faleide Architects, PC
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: 100 Dexter
Description:
The residence is located in one of the most interesting and diversified residential areas in Denver, Colorado. The owners purchased the property with hopes to preserve a piece of history and demonstrated that an existing home with fundamentally 'good bones' could be adapted to accommodate a contemporary lifestyle. With these precepts in mind, conceptual design focused on stripping back and massaging a 1970's addition to bring the house back to its original 1920's modern origins.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Semple Brown Design, PC
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Shadow Ridge Middle School
Description:
Shadow Ridge Middle School is the first edition prototype designed to replace an existing outdated facility for the Adams Twelve Five Star District. The 150,000 square foot building is organized around a curved central spine connecting the three primary functions of the building: Academic, Administrative and Social. The Academic areas of the building are divided into two wings. Each wing contains two classroom communities which are highlighted with colorful canted walls lit from above with clearstory windows. The classrooms are grouped around a central "studio" and support spaces that serve as a central meeting space for presentations, integrated learning activities and computer-based study. The academic wings are located on an east-west access to capitalize on the solar orientation. Western glazing was minimized while daylighting for the Southern classrooms is controlled through the use of cantilevered aluminum grating. The glazing for the Northern classrooms was increased to maximize daylighting and to equalize natural light levels between the different classroom orientations. All classrooms areas within the building contain natural daylight.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Klipp a professional corporation
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Clayton Lane Mixed-Use Parking Facility
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
Set within the heart of Cherry Creek North shopping district, the project features over 400 parking spaces wrapped by retail and office uses. Additionally, a basement was designed to provide the Sears Tire and Battery Center and also to connect to the large underground parking structure serving the remainder of the Clayton Lane development. The project was conceived as a precast concrete garage structure clad with various architectural "layers". These layers provide screening, visual interest and an architectural connection to the eclectic shopping district. Precast panels, steel grillage, glass, brick and stone combine to form the envelope around the functional parking garage. Three different brick colors and a native Colorado buff sandstone provide the material palette for the primary (2nd Street) elevation.
The nearly 600' long building utilizes alternating brick and stone materials to create four individual "volumes" which gives appropriate scale to this building as it connects with its adjacent neighborhood. These masonry volumes are articulated with varying cornice elements, large expanses of glass and big opening infilled with steel. The large openings and glass further help reduce the scale of the building. Finally, a glass enclosed elevator and glass wind screens protect the vertical circulation and stair systems for the building while also providing a high level of safety and security.
The nearly 600' long building utilizes alternating brick and stone materials to create four individual "volumes" which gives appropriate scale to this building as it connects with its adjacent neighborhood. These masonry volumes are articulated with varying cornice elements, large expanses of glass and big opening infilled with steel. The large openings and glass further help reduce the scale of the building. Finally, a glass enclosed elevator and glass wind screens protect the vertical circulation and stair systems for the building while also providing a high level of safety and security.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: RNL Design and Shears Adkins Architects, LLC
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Glacier House
Description:
The glacier house is a residence for a family of four in an extraordinary mountain setting. It is located at the boulder-strewn mouth of a glacially shaped "hanging" valley in the Colorado Rockies. The house attempts to find a balance between fitting gently and discretely into is immediate surroundings while simultaneously participating in the larger scale of the valley and more distant mountains.
At the smaller scale, roof lines follow the general slope of the site, and the cascading floors flow out onto the more subtle undulations of the adjacent terrain. Massing elements maneuver around existing trees while leaping over and including the large glacial boulders. Non-reflective zinc cladding and fractured massing camouflage the buildings in summer green and winter snow.
The house relates on a larger scale to the valley and mountains with the geometry of its plan and window location including distant peaks and geographic formations, but more thoroughly engages its context by participating in its geologic history.
Exterior colors and forms recall the geologic formation of the valley. Dark gray zinc elements with a tessellated surface become granite obstructions and boulders, as the light gray laminar surfaces, the glacial ice, flow through, over, and around the obstructions.
While the exterior responds primarily to the results of glacial activity, its process, forces and dynamics inform the interior. The open plan living spaces flow down through and around the more contained static elements of the entry, office and kitchen and then jump across the bridge to the family wing. The laminar skin melts away from the solid objects, and the undulating acoustic ceiling recalls that all was once in a liquid state. Wood, granite, and an occasional boulder bring the outside in.
In addition, the plan responds to strict programmatic requirements with public, guest, and family spaces and their corresponding outdoor extensions carefully located and separated. Triple layered, argon filled high-tech glazing, solar orientation, and ultra insulated walls and roofs contribute to energy efficiency.
With a rare combination of commitment, sensitivity and restraint the clients allowed every aspect of this project to reflect and contribute to its engagement with the landscape, from the overall geometry of the site plan and massing to the smallest details that can be felt as well as seen.
At the smaller scale, roof lines follow the general slope of the site, and the cascading floors flow out onto the more subtle undulations of the adjacent terrain. Massing elements maneuver around existing trees while leaping over and including the large glacial boulders. Non-reflective zinc cladding and fractured massing camouflage the buildings in summer green and winter snow.
The house relates on a larger scale to the valley and mountains with the geometry of its plan and window location including distant peaks and geographic formations, but more thoroughly engages its context by participating in its geologic history.
Exterior colors and forms recall the geologic formation of the valley. Dark gray zinc elements with a tessellated surface become granite obstructions and boulders, as the light gray laminar surfaces, the glacial ice, flow through, over, and around the obstructions.
While the exterior responds primarily to the results of glacial activity, its process, forces and dynamics inform the interior. The open plan living spaces flow down through and around the more contained static elements of the entry, office and kitchen and then jump across the bridge to the family wing. The laminar skin melts away from the solid objects, and the undulating acoustic ceiling recalls that all was once in a liquid state. Wood, granite, and an occasional boulder bring the outside in.
In addition, the plan responds to strict programmatic requirements with public, guest, and family spaces and their corresponding outdoor extensions carefully located and separated. Triple layered, argon filled high-tech glazing, solar orientation, and ultra insulated walls and roofs contribute to energy efficiency.
With a rare combination of commitment, sensitivity and restraint the clients allowed every aspect of this project to reflect and contribute to its engagement with the landscape, from the overall geometry of the site plan and massing to the smallest details that can be felt as well as seen.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Harry Teague Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Pearl Street Lofts
Description:
Eight new residential units were added to the roof of an existing one story commercial building to create this mixed-use project in downtown Boulder, Colorado. A combination of dynamic building forms and a simple, bold palette of materials and colors give the building human scale and variety. A rooftop courtyard provides primary access to the loft units and also creates a sense of community for the residents. The lofts borrow from a typically commercial palette of materials of blue-gray and yellow stuccos that compliment the existing red brick, and accents of aluminum, glass and steel strategically interspersed. The residential units were conceived as open plan lofts with high ceilings and ample windows offering spatial flexibility. In addition, each living unit has its own private terrace overlooking the street. Exposed mechanical systems, sliding translucent doors and simple fixtures and finishes have been incorporated throughout giving the units a refined, finished interpretation of the loft style.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Harvey M. Hine Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Unbuilt Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Facchini Residence
Description:
Our design represents an architectural transcription of the intrinsic values of this natural and striking setting. The site lies on a mountain top where it prominently overlooks the town of Vail. Rather than impose a pretentious trophy home on this sensitive location, we designed a natural architecture of simple lines, local colors and natural materials. The result is a house in which "style" goes away and the quiet exploration of a space for dwelling has room to breathe.
We carried this idea of vanishing style to its logical limit. Seen from below, not only does the house not jump out of the land, it merely casts a shadow on the hill. The shadow is the dwelling place.
To create this "shadow dwelling," the design calls for building parallel to the height lines of the topography. In addition, we used reinforced concrete enriched with local gravel and sand to ensure a blending with the environment. The façade is glass that creates no mirroring effect. Finally, the landscaping blends in with the existing natural landscape, leaving little evidence of human impact other than two small terraces.
We carried this idea of vanishing style to its logical limit. Seen from below, not only does the house not jump out of the land, it merely casts a shadow on the hill. The shadow is the dwelling place.
To create this "shadow dwelling," the design calls for building parallel to the height lines of the topography. In addition, we used reinforced concrete enriched with local gravel and sand to ensure a blending with the environment. The façade is glass that creates no mirroring effect. Finally, the landscaping blends in with the existing natural landscape, leaving little evidence of human impact other than two small terraces.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Faleide Architects, PC & Carsten Roth Architect
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Firm of the Year
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: RB+B, Inc.
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Architect of the Year
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Larry Jenks, AIA
Project Categories
Year: 2004
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Contribution to the Built Environment by a Non-Architect
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Thomas F. Ostenberg
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
These are particularly difficult building types to do because of the security issues and the multiple layers of circulation that must be accomodated. To solve it functionally is very hard and then to make it elegant is particularly impressive.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Anderson Mason Dale Architects in association with Helmuth, Obata + Kassabaum
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Stapleton Neighborhood Park Bathhouse
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
In part, what we have admired in several projects is restraint. It is the moment, and just enough - and not one ounce more - and that's part of what is to be admired here is the economy of means for a modest building appropriately achieved, combined with an artfulness.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Semple Brown Design, P.C.
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Adams County Communication Center
Description:
There is a full architectonic resolution because we are reacting to, in part, the three-dimensionality of this project - the way that the architecture is carrying all the way through up into the heights through the clerestory windows, up into the voids. Through all of the pieces and parts, it is not planar; it is not surficial; it is something integral.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Roth Sheppard Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Smithburg Residence
Description:
There are enough traditional, formal elements that allow the building to say "house," but at the same time, to be composed of what one might call modern components, as in the glass wall of the living space...this is a really successful weaving of modern and traditional forms in the making of a house today.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Cottle Graybeal Yaw Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Crowder House
Description:
Architecturally, it is very powerful the way its elements interact, and also in its use of materials. It is very inventive in a very small house.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Faleide Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
The facade is nicely articulated.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: David Owen Tryba Architects and RNL Design
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Integrated Learning Center
Description:
It is elegant enough to make a gateway to the school, but quirky enough that probably junior and high school students will find it appealing rather than offputting. Whimsical is usually a bad word in architecture, but this has a spirit of fun without descending into whimsy.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: CSNA Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Newman Center of Performing Arts
Location: University of Denver
Description:
This shows unrepentant enthusiasm for material and construction - the quirky scale and colors are great.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Anderson Mason Dale Architects in association with the Office of the University Architect - Cab Childress, FAIA and Mark
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Unbuilt Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Burlinggame Affordable Housing Competition
Description:
It is like an old western town, very temporary, gently sitting on the land, very quick and affordable, and yet a nice and inviting place to be.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Studio b architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: American Skandia
Description:
This is well planned.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: BURKETTDESIGN, INC.
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Architect's Studio
Description:
This architect's office is really a keeper
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Bennett Wagner & Grody Architects, PC
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Brighton Police Department and Municipal Court
Location: Brighton, Colorado
Description:
Towns should be rewarded for doing something other than out-of-the-catalog police stations.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Roth Sheppard Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
There are little urban moves which have value.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Root Rosenman Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Johnston Public Library
Location: Johnston, Iowa
Description:
There is something beautifully simple and elegant here, and the way it sits on the prarie is a nice thing.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Brendle APV and Savage-Ver Ploeg and Associates
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Newman Center of Performing Arts
Location: University of Denver
Description:
A Mannerist response to the fundamental issue of how you bring meaning to a place.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Anderson Mason Dale Architects in association with the Office of the University Architect - Cab Childress, FAIA and Mark
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: St. Mary's Catholic School K-8
Description:
The client program really comes through well here.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Faleide Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Water Tower Lofts
Description:
The most successful buildings in this area are really simple. The old warehouses are simple buildings.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Buchanan Yonushewski Group, LLC
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Boulder County Recycling Center
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Description:
This matches my fantasy of Denver, driving down the road and finding an old abandoned mining shaft.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Richard Epstein Architects, Inc. in association with David Swoboda, AIA, Todd Henderson and Laura Greenfield
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: 25-Year Award
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Vail Equipment Building and Microwave Tower
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Firm of the Year
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: David Owen Tryba Architects
Project Categories
Year: 2003
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Architect of the Year
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Cab Childress, FAIA
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Hallam Street Residence
Description:
The 3,000 square foot addition to this carefully restored mining era Victorian retreats back and to the side, allowing the original house to stand alone on the street. Cornice lines, proportions and materials transfer the scale naturally across to the contemporary volumes enclosing the master bedroom suite. This new element is connected to the main house by a "transparent" gallery. Exterior floor, wall and ceiling materials carry through the interior with minor interruptions, and necessary doors and screens hide in discrete pockets within the stone walls. All contribute to the spatial transparency. Massive stone walls provide a suitable background for the display of an ever-changing collection of contemporary art, while adding to the illusion of invisible walls.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Harry Teague, AIA (principal) Patrick Leads (project manager) Matt Scholl
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: University Center Expansion
Location: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Description:
The University Center Expansion project was designed to create a new social center for students, faculty and staff on a growing Colorado Springs campus within the University of Colorado system. It replaced a disjointed, multi-level facility that was housed in two buildings with no defining relationships or a common entry. The primary goal of this student funded University Center was to create an expanded facility that not only provided additional square footage for specific programs and activities, but also created a flowing connection between existing spaces from an identifiable entry point.
To accomplish this goal, a literal glass link‚ was designed to connect the three buildings together. The transparent structure with continuous parapet glazing and daylighting throughout blurs the boundaries of indoor and outdoor space. Pyramidal skylights mark the primary pedestrian circulation connection. The link‚ addition is anchored by a glazed tower structure to the south, marking a landmark entry point for students while defining a two-story entry and lobby space.
To accomplish this goal, a literal glass link‚ was designed to connect the three buildings together. The transparent structure with continuous parapet glazing and daylighting throughout blurs the boundaries of indoor and outdoor space. Pyramidal skylights mark the primary pedestrian circulation connection. The link‚ addition is anchored by a glazed tower structure to the south, marking a landmark entry point for students while defining a two-story entry and lobby space.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: H & L Architecture, Shepley, Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Stone & Glass House
Description:
This house is conceived both as an abstraction of the landscape on which it is situated and as a reinhabited ruin; a ruin built in reverse. Located on a steep, heavily wooded site in the Rocky Mountains, the house is organized along two axes, forming a pinwheel plan inserted into the site between two ravines. Stonewalls extending into the landscape form the image of a ruin found in the inhabited wilds, and are reinhabited with the program of the house. These vertical surfaces echo the nature of the site, while mediating between the exterior and interior spaces of the house.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Alexander Gorlin, AIA
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: The Farmer's Bank - The Bloedorn Center for Community and Economic Development
Location: Fort Morgan, Colorado
Description:
At the time of its construction the bank was a cornerstone of the agricultural business community in Fort Morgan and the surrounding Northeastern Colorado. Groves employed the classical proportions of the Greek Temple archetype and incorporated elegantly carved limestone entablatures and pilasters to evoke financial stability, visionary development, and community stewardship.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Bennett Wagner & Grody Architects, P.C.
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: HONOR
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Unbuilt Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: UN Security Council/Titan Missile Silo
Description:
Located in the remote location of a desert military installation, the rehabilitation of the Titan II missile silo is to maintain its role of being a deterrent to the possible catastrophe that a nuclear confrontation would bring if undertaken at any scale. However, in times like these it is diplomacy that seems to be the greatest weapon in our arsenal. The isolated location of the new United Nations Security Council Chambers provides the necessary neutrality for diplomatic actions to succeed.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Mark Harris, AIA
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Sabre Data Center
Location: Colorado
Description:
The 225,000 sf Sabre Data Center includes two computer modules totaling 134,000 sf, 13,000 sf of office space, and a 78,000 sf central plant. The raised computer floor area is designed for 100 watts per square foot, while the overall facility is designed to withstand the effects of a Category F5 tornado.
The many steps taken in designing the structural layout of the building to protect the data center from the area's characteristically high winds. The precast concrete shell and steel columns support a 16-inch thick concrete roof while the walls of the computer modules are bermed to the roof-line.
The many steps taken in designing the structural layout of the building to protect the data center from the area's characteristically high winds. The precast concrete shell and steel columns support a 16-inch thick concrete roof while the walls of the computer modules are bermed to the roof-line.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Gensler
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Hannah Evans Residence
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
This residence, located in an established neighborhood in east Denver, was designed for a single professional woman and completed in 2002. The architectural brief for the project offered interesting opportunities and challenges. The owner wanted a modern design that fit architecturally into its 1950s ranch house style neighborhood. She had been living on the site in a split level ranch that had become obsolete, as is the case with many of the original houses in the neighborhood, which are located on large lots and are being rapidly replaced with larger homes. Generally, these new larger homes are designed to imitate historical styles such as English Tudor, French Country, Spanish Colonial, etc. Our client agreed with us that her new house should be reflective of the present era rather than a previous one and the house should take its design cues from the original and more straightforward ranch style homes. We thought of Wright's Prairie House and their floating roofs as a starting point for our design.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: OZ Architecture
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Riverfront Park
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description:
Former Denver Mayor Federico Peña's inauguration message set the original challenge for Riverfront Park more than a decade ago. Now sited in the historic Central Platte Valley, in a former 400-acre rail yard where Denver's earliest roots can be traced, the Riverfront Tower address many urban responsibilities. The Riverfront Tower creates a precedent for the redevelopment of the new Central Platte Valley as it fronts Commons City Park and as it becomes part of Denver's Urban Core. The Tower creates an economically and culturally diverse neighborhood, through varying the living unit sizes and levels of finish. They range from Denver City Qualified "Market Rate" to high-energy urban lofts, to fully finished and finely detailed Flats and Penthouses. On the exterior, the finishes are detailed and vary by building to convey the occupants' lifestyle ranges, from an urban "after-hours energy" to the security of a Central Park-type residence with concierge services.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Urban Design Group
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater/Vilar Pavilion
Location: Vail, Colorado
Description:
The new, larger sweeping roof planes are the highlight of the project, increasing the pavilion volume and providing 30% more weather coverage with improved acoustics. Round steel tube trusses were used to "lighten" the appearance of the new roof in contrast to the square tube steel structure it replaced. The pavilion now fully engages the lawn seating into the venue. With a clear span of 118 feet, seven concrete pier columns replace the existing 12 truss columns to support the new pavilion and stage roof, thereby eliminating columns within the seating area. In addition, the roof structure itself carries storm drainage directly underground to the Gore Creek, thus eliminating the old gutter and downspout surface drainage. Softer, indirect lighting highlights the new redwood roof deck and exposed structure creating a warm glow over the audience in the evenings.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Morter Architects, James R. Morter, FAIA, James K. Buckner, AIA
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Netcher Barn
Location: Palmer Lake, Colorado
Description:
The project consists of the dismantling, relocation, and reassembly of an 1873 hand-hewn barn located in Ohio, and converting it into a high-technology office space for a film production company in Palmer Lake, Colorado. The design techniques used reflect the values andsensibilities of the original owner. The details and materials are sophisticated and rational, yet uncomplicated. The basement, a standard foundation system on which the barn was placed, houses a modern office space for an international non-profit organization. The details and finishes for this space reflect a progression of the details above; sophisticated and rational, yet uncomplicated.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Metropolitan Design
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: 15th & Pearl Parking Structure
Location: Boulder, Colorado
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: RNL Design Shears + Leese Architects, LLC
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Incheon International Airport Passenger Terminal Complex
Location: Incheon, Korea
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Fentress Bradburn Architects, Ltd - Architect of Record: Korean Architects Collaborative International
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: MERIT
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Century Lofts
Location: Colorado
Description:
The excitement inherent in the roots of modernism is the building's underlying architectural message. It seems very appropriate that the elements of light, color, and the freedom from structural constraints are combined in a building attempting to realize a less restrictive lifestyle rooted in the richness of the urban fabric. Based on the model of urban courtyard buildings, this L-shaped, 30-unit building is organized around an open-air circulation and commons courtyard, both practical notions in Denver's moderate, dry climate. Individual dwellings benefit from this thin footprint, placing the most public uses nearest the street and views, yet maintaining ventilation and quiet uses towards the court space.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Humphries Poli Architects, P.C.
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: Wagner Park Edge
Location: Aspen, Colorado
Description:
Wagner Park Edge is a built competition entry sited along the contiguous edge of a pedestrian mall and an urban park in downtown Aspen. Construction includes a clock tower, exhibition pavilion and ceremonial plaza. The project seeks to address several urban design goals while celebrating the notion of 'green theatre' in which construction and exhibition are interchangeable. The exhibition pavilion accommodates a graphic timeline of local history, touch screen monitors, a photovoltaic glass roof and public restrooms. The siting and articulation of these elements seek to increase the transparency between the mall and park, inscribe a 'gateway' function across the edge and mediate views of Aspen Mountain through varied glass effects.
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Willis Pember Architects, Inc., Suzannah Reid, AIA Ajax Design Graphics
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: CITATION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Built Architecture
Project Information
Project Name: The Nature Conservancy Headquarters
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: OZ Architecture
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Firm of the Year
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Aller-Lingle Architects, P.C.
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Architect of the Year
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: David Barrett, AIA
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: 25-Year Award
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Pearl Street Mall, Boulder
Project Categories
Year: 2002
Type: SPECIAL RECOGNITION
Chapter: COLORADO
Category: Special Recognition
Project Information
Project Name: Contribution to the Built Environment by a Non-Architect
Architect Contractor Information
Architect Name: Mark Johnson
