AIA St. Louis 2013 Design Awards

Architecture is invention.Oscar Niemeyer

A Year of DesignAmerican Institute of Architects/St. Louis Chapter

2013

Craftsmanship

Chair: Steve Morby The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Tom Moore, AIA Mackey Mitchell Architects

David HackettManchester Hackett & Associates, Inc.

MERIT AWARD Painting □ St. Louis Public Library – Central Branch □ Paintsmiths of St Louis Chris Decarlie Brian Shreckengost Jason Chadborne Joe Prewitt □ St Louis, Mo

The painting was impeccable, no runs, no drips, no errors!

It was very uniform and seamless, creating planes and forms that fit the space and design.

Very consistent coverage - no light spots or shading variations.

The stain of the woodwork, including the horizontal plank walls at the main stairway, was consistent.

MERIT AWARD Painting □ St. Louis Public Library – Central Branch □ Paintsmiths of St Louis Chris Decarlie Brian Shreckengost Jason Chadborne Joe Prewitt □ St Louis, Mo

HONOR AWARD

Both the mounted signage and the free standing signs, particularly them, were crisp and precise.

The metal plates were probably laser cut from a computer program but the connections to the other components are precise and seamless.

Impeccable!

All the graphics were precise and consistent.

Signage □ Saint Louis Public Library – Central Branch Signage Engraphix Architectural Signage, Inc. □ St. Louis, MO □ BSI

HONOR AWARD Signage □ Saint Louis Public Library – Central Branch Signage Engraphix Architectural Signage, Inc. □ St. Louis, MO □ BSI



2013

DRAWINGS

Jury Chair: Michael AndersonArtist/Illustrator

Blog Correspondent, Urban Sketchers Midwest

Ms. Robin HirschArtistic Director, Art St. Louis

Richard ReillyEnergy Programs Director, Missouri Botanical Garden

Blogger, The Art of Construction

DISTINGUISHED AWARD The View □ Will Schenck / Cannon Design University of Colorado Boulder, Recreation Facilities Improvements □ St. Louis, MO □ SCI

An example of computer visualization at its best, this entry demonstrates the mastery of powerful digital tools including Revit, Photoshop, 3DsMax, Google Earth, etc., to create a sense of awe in a spare gymnasium interior in its portrayal of the properties of light and shadow, the reflective surface of a wood floor and specificity of place .

DISTINGUISHED AWARD A Metropolis Appears □ Christopher Ching / Trivers □ St. Louis, MO

This entry, a "20 minute" drawing exercise done on location, is an affirming reminder that the ability to sketch is an invaluable competency that allows the individual to design at any time and any place.

MERIT AWARD Orpheum □ Clark Keitel / Lawrence Group □ St. Louis, MO

The style and tonal range of this artist's exquisitely rendered elevation study precisely captures the classical spirit of the detailed ornamentation of this remarkable building.

HONOR AWARD Dedicated to Art □ Christopher Ching / Trivers □ St. Louis, MO

This drawing exemplifies not only the skillful handling of the most basic of tools and technique, on location drawing with pencil and paper, but is also infused with the inspiration inherent in great architecture.



2013

UNBUILT

Chair: Rod Kruse, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C Principal, BNIM Architects

Des Moines, Iowa

Paul Mankins, FAIA, LEED AP Principal, Substance Architecture

Des Moines, Iowa

Deborah Hauptmann Chair – Department of Architecture

Iowa State UniversityAmes, Iowa

Laumeier Sculpture Park Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center □ Trivers Associates □ Saint Louis, Mo □ BSI ConstructorsDISTINCTION

This commissioned work proposes a private gallery space on an estate in suburban St. Louis.

The project has a very clear plan that organizes the building into a single open gallery space with a series of support spaces to one side.

The section and plan organization result in a beautiful and expressive facility which compliments the balance of the historic estate.

The plan of this private gallery is simple, clean and direct while the identifying profile and section scheme (carried out through materialization) does the ‘work’ for this building by delivering a recognizable image that is suitable for a private project of this scale and siting.

Laumeier Sculpture Park Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center □ Trivers Associates □ Saint Louis, Mo □ BSI ConstructorsDISTINCTION

Grand Center Spring Avenue Church Gluckman Mayner Architects □ Ann Hamilton Studio □ Michael Van Valkenburgh

Associates, Inc. Powers Bowersox Associates, Inc. □ John C. Guenther Architect LLC □ St. Louis, Missouri

MERIT AWARD

This inspired commissioned work proposes the transformation of the “ruins” of a stone church into an exterior garden landscape.

This project – soft, tactile, and highly textured – suggests an experience that is quiet, contemplative, and spiritual.

This could be a wonderful place for contemplation.

This is a straightforward and beautifully balanced work that integrates the space of deterioration – in the ruins of an old church, with a place of growth and renewal – with the landscape renovation.

The work is sensitive and understated and fully expressive.

The remaining question is whether it can retain these qualities when all the proposed additional and surrounding elements are in place.



MERIT AWARDprecedent study

According to the 17th Century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, the order of human institutions came as follows: first the forests, after that the huts, then the villages, next the cities, and finally the academies.

The space of the clearing in the forest stands out for Vico as the first act of culture, the first mark of the human hand on the outlaw space of the forest, tied, in the cultural imaginary, to a desire for change or revitalization of the landscape that would make possible the accumulation of voices from the singular to the many.

Our project builds on a series of dichotomous relationships that emerge from this antagonistic yet reciprocal imagining of the relationship of forest to clearing: darkness emerging into light, interiority merging with exteriority.

Project Goal:

To create a contemplative space and experience for individuals and groups within the stabilized ruin of an existing church and a completely transformed landscape of an open space in an urban setting.

existing church ruins

historic church c. 1950

church 2008

church 2001

church 2010

From 1884 until 2001 the Spring Street Church stood as a welcoming edifice, drawing into its four walls and towards the rafters a congregation of voices in a divided city.

At present, the ruins of the church stand empty in what was once the most vibrant strip of the city’s entertainment district.

In 2001 a fire burned through those rafters, opening the façade of the church’s limestone walls to the erosion of time and the effects of weather.

While the history of the church and the adjacent site on which it stands is available to us only in fragments, the ruins of the church stand as a reminder of its history of gatherings.



MERIT AWARD

Our proposal for reanimating the site hinges on the movement from landscape canopy to architectural clearing, and inverts interior and exterior space, past and present, as starting points for considering a future for the space; a future from which we are excluded. We stand at one point in the continuum of time that spans the life of this site and of this structure; one point on an arc of time that reaches back to Vico’s forest and one that continues to evolve.

This proposal is about the passage of time and its effect on the subtle remaking of the space of the site.

site plan

The landscape is wholly transformed, with access to the site and church on North Spring Avenue near the intersection of Grandel Square.

A gently sloping and accessible walkway leads into the space, curving gradually to reach the church.

The ground plane of both the site and the church interior is covered with a mixture of stone, crushed aggregate, and durable ground cover.

Plantings include randomly placed trees as well as understory trees and plants.

Climbing vines will envelop the new structural framework at the church interior, covering the side walls of the church and providing year-round interest.



MERIT AWARD

existing structural conditions proposed structural design for stabilization of the existing church

study model

The building shell is maintained largely as it currently exists, with openings on the north wall connecting and allowing passage from the interior space to the redesigned landscape on the north side of the lot. A new structural system to support the existing walls will be introduced that will allow for the elimination of the current diagonal bracing, as well as an assembly occupancy of over 300 people. The structural stabilization of the shell requires the insertion of steel columns at the inside surface of the walls. The columns are tied together below the ground plane with concrete grade beams. These columns will in turn be covered by tightly spaced rows of steel rods, which function both as a screen wall as well as a platform for foliage to grow. Basic restorative work, including cleaning, repointing & minor repairs, is anticipated at the existing building walls, site walls and foundation remnants. The existing wall copings will be replaced with plate steel in keeping with the exposed structure and screen. Weathering Corten A588, grade 50 steel will further complement the architectural vision for the space as a preserved rustic ruin.

interior elevation sketches

steel screen to conceal structure foliated screen with 1 – 2 years’ growth and 10 years’ growth

Our main structural intervention stabilizes the walls, and sleeves an armature for a foliated building inside the original perimeter, which is experienced as a green clearing.

By lowering the threshold of the church windows punctuating the façade of the north wall, the central spine of the site becomes a penetrable membrane wherein there is visual and structural fluidity, a liminal passage threading between the two landscapes.



MERIT AWARDpaving pattern studies

site survey site sketches

Ceramic tiles, perhaps the material that once enclosed the roof, will mark the ground plane and create a densely packed walking surface that gradually spreads and disperses across the site; the tile, fingering into the landscape in long thin drawn marks as threads stitching the clearing back to the landscape of trees or a voice calling across the distance.

In time, the hardness of the ceramic tiles will be overtaken by organic growth just as the landscape itself will slowly encase the shell of the church.

Virginia Creeper Redbud

Seedum

Kentucky Coffeetree Stepables and Fragrant Herbs planting between pavers

Liriope Witchhazel

Small gestures reinforce the idea.

The interplay of stone, crushed aggregate, and ground cover slowly dissolves into a thickly planted surface studded with paving stones.

Randomly placed trees, highly branched and of varied species, form a spatially complex canopy over the entrance walk.

Understory trees and plants, like redbud and witchhazel, register the seasons.

Evergreens dot the eastern edge and provide visual separation and winter interest.

existing church



MERIT AWARD

The lighting scheme is designed to emphasize the union of the interior church space and exterior landscape.

The intention is to reduce the impact of the north facing facade as barrier, increase the perception of one congruent space, and draw the observer into the church environment from the site.

The tree uplighting which is present throughout the exterior landscape is continued into the church space, which provides continuity between the spaces.

The rear and side interior walls of the church are washed to provide a glowing back-drop, de-emphasize the front wall as barrier, and invite people inside. The lighting scheme also provides focused illumination at key areas such as entrances, stairways, and places of assembly to allow for safe movement through the site. Occupancy based security lights have been integrated into interior church space to deter unauthorized entrance into the space. These will be inactive during open hours on-site.

lighting plan

sound system studies

Within the church’s interior clearing a field of ground-installed speakers creates a multi-channel recorded sound environment recalling the former habitation of the human voice within the site.

Like geologic strata whose layers hold material trace and condensation in their sedimenting of time, the ground of the open church remembers the traces of the solo and choral voices that structured its gatherings.

Just as the voice structures the mass and marks the passing of time in the liturgical year, a new composition drawing upon musical traditions both sacred and secular will mark the first new sounding or calling of the space re-imagined.

The mouth, moving from silence to speech like the building opening to light, invokes a vital act of culture—the opening of the mouth in singular and collective vocalization making possible the revitalization of a neighborhood, marked once again by the gathering of voices.



MERIT AWARD

site plan : initial phase north

west elevation : initial phase

A phased approach will include the structural steel frame and concrete tie beams, a support facility adjacent to the path and site entry (including restrooms, drinking fountains, and bike racks), paths, lighting and vegetation.

The support facility and retaining wall will be made of vertical board formed reinforced concrete and is a conceptual extension of the existing retaining walls on site. A live vegetated roof will be placed on the roof over the interior spaces.

The initial phase is designed to accommodate all the ultimate design concept components, including the ground installed speakers within the open church.

aerial view : initial phase



MERIT AWARD

Atlanta History Center □ Eric R. Hoffman, AIA & Tony A. Patterson □ Atlanta, GeorgiaMERIT AWARD

This work proposes a sensitive, low-scale addition to and existing history museum in Atlanta.

This project gracefully envelops the existing facility with multiple wing additions resulting in an elegant architectural expression.

While the interior spaces are somewhat undeveloped, the exterior garden spaces would graciously complement the existing facility. This project responds with great sensitivity to the brief as it was presented in the competition package.

The ambition of the project – to create a much needed and missing ‘Center’ to this somewhat complex program and dispersed composition of buildings – is successfully approached using well selected and considered natural materials and the generation of forms that fully engage siting and landscaped environment.

Atlanta History Center □ Eric R. Hoffman, AIA & Tony A. Patterson □ Atlanta, GeorgiaMERIT AWARD

Foundation RiMED □ HOK □ Palermo, Italy □ TBDMERIT AWARD

This work proposes a large translational research facility on a prominent site in Sicily with spectacular views of the Mediterranean.

The project creates a series of interlocked courtyards and uses these spaces to organize the interior circulation and diminish the mass of the facility.

The result is a carefully articulated large facility that creates a series of garden-like exterior spaces with amenities for the staff – all sharing the view.

Foundation RiMED □ HOK □ Palermo, Italy □ TBDMERIT AWARD

Archipelago – Civic Squares, Civic Harbors □ STUDIO FINN □ Helsinki, FinlandHONOR AWARD

This non-commissioned project reconceives the south harbor of Helsinki, Finland and proposes relocating traffic to a series of subterranean passages, freeing up the ground plane for public, pedestrian space.

The result is a remarkable transformation of a post-industrial site to an inviting public space.

This urban design project - a response to an open international call for ideas competition - responds to and reinterprets essential characteristics of Helsinki’s public spaces, while retaining certain key aspects of Helsinki’s great industrial South Harbor.

While the reworking of the subterranean infrastructure may well have been too ambitions for the competition organizers, we consider this “culvert”, when examined in full, to be well considered and complex with respect to the design layers that it offers to the site.

Archipelago – Civic Squares, Civic Harbors □ STUDIO FINN □ Helsinki, FinlandHONOR AWARD

European Spallation Source Research Center □ HOK / BIG □ Lund, Sweden HONOR AWARD

This project proposes a large scientific research facility in Lund, Sweden.

Largely subterranean, the plan clearly organizes a series of large, technically sophisticated spaces around a central observation area.

The resulting form is more landform than architecture and represents a creative and sensitive solution to a research facility surrounded by smaller scaled structures.

This project took first prize in an international design competition that included first rank international architect and landscape practices.

The work is noteworthy for the integration of landscape and building elements creating a system of courtyards that function to provide light, air and open spaces for collaboration and engagement by scientist and researchers from 17 European countries.

The project combines highly specific and technologically advances functions with a landscaped sustainable architecture that does not forget the human being – either in scale or sensorial measure.

European Spallation Source Research Center □ HOK / BIG □ Lund, Sweden HONOR AWARD



2013

INTERIORS


Des Moines, Iowa


Des Moines, Iowa



Jacobs Corporate Offices □ Jacobs □ Pasadena, CA □ Turelk General ContractingDISTINCTION

A clean aesthetic and orderly plan organization was used to create a light and open suite of work, lounge and meeting spaces for this corporate headquarters.

The design demonstrates a strong use of transparency and daylight to bring richness to relatively common materials.

For an interior project of this scale, a limited material and furnishing pallet is successfully utilized to create a delightful variety of spatial environments.

The consistency of the light quality achieved within these spaces of greatly varying proximity to exterior light is equally well done.

Jacobs Corporate Offices □ Jacobs □ Pasadena, CA □ Turelk General ContractingDISTINCTION

ShipWorks □ Nehring Design □ Saint Louis, Missouri □ JWJ Construction ServicesMERIT AWARD

A clear plan organization allowed this corporate office to take full advantage of a spectacular view of the Gateway Arch.

Nearly every space in the building is filled with daylight and furnished with mid-century furniture.

This project provides a delightful environment to work.

The images and the description of this project meet each other perfectly.

The interiors successfully mask the (probable) generic qualities of the office building while generating creative and inspiring spaces of flow and encounter.

The panoramic views are captured at times as distant views and at other times as close-up backdrops.

ShipWorks □ Nehring Design □ Saint Louis, Missouri □ JWJ Construction ServicesMERIT AWARD

American Card Services □ Eric Hoffman, AIA & Tony Patterson with AOR, LLC St. Louis, Missouri □ Custom Alternatives, Inc.

HONOR AWARD

This project is an exemplary project of rigor, restraint and resolve.

The project exhibits an extremely clear and resolved plan organization and a limited, but refined material palette that sets this project apart.

The work spaces are spare, but beautifully detailed.

The result is a sleek image within an industrial setting for a remarkably low budget.

The exaggerated linearity of the primary work and visitor’s space combined with the reduced and precisely handled material pallet makes for a clean and exciting spatial environment.

The work is both bold and reserved.

American Card Services □ Eric Hoffman, AIA & Tony Patterson with AOR, LLC St. Louis, Missouri □ Custom Alternatives, Inc.

HONOR AWARD



2013

ARCHITECTURE


Des Moines, Iowa


Des Moines, Iowa



adaptation: MAKE A HOUSE INTELLIGENT □ St. Louis, MissouriEric R. Hoffman, AIA & R. Phillip Shinn with Peter MacKeith □ Tarlton Corporation

DISTINCTION

This project utilizes a modest, but inventive, structural system to create a place and mark the entry to an exhibition about the challenges confronting cities in the developing world.

The project is emblematic and suggests a way of building that is simple, clear, and direct.

While small in scale, this project is large in impact and influence.

A remarkable small-scale intervention that exposes the potential of design when enacted as an experiment in response to asymmetrical urban, social and economic development.

adaptation: MAKE A HOUSE INTELLIGENT □ St. Louis, MissouriEric R. Hoffman, AIA & R. Phillip Shinn with Peter MacKeith □ Tarlton Corporation

DISTINCTION

500 North Broadway □ St. Louis, MO □ Arcturis □ ARCODISTINCTION

This project reinvents the public spaces for a speculative office building transforming them from dark and uninviting to light and welcoming.

The result completely changes the character of an otherwise unremarkable speculative office building.

The project is direct and efficient – utilizing lighting and a very narrow material palette to fundamentally change the image of the building.

This project accomplishes so much with so little. The revision to the entry – at the same time an exterior and interior intervention – successfully transforms the streetscape, and, we believe, may fundamentally transform the urban experience on this particular block as well.

500 North Broadway □ St. Louis, MO □ Arcturis □ ARCODISTINCTION

Kenrick Glennon Seminary □ Shrewsbury, MO □ Cannon Design □ BSI ConstructorsMERIT AWARD

This project repurposes existing space and creates a small addition to a monastic educational setting.

The interior spaces are particularly effective, creating inviting library, recreation, and lounge spaces out of underutilized utilitarian spaces.

The addition is quiet and creatively contextual and presents a wonderful rooftop dining space for users. This project successfully takes the idea of “capturing found space” and the desire to respect the traditional while inserting, what the architect sees as, “small moments” of the modern in a sympathetic and sensitive manner.

MERIT AWARD Kenrick Glennon Seminary □ Shrewsbury, MO □ Cannon Design □ BSI Constructors

St. Louis Public Library □ St. Louis, MO □ Cannon Design □ BSI ConstructorsMERIT AWARD

This beautiful renovation of a Cass Gilbert library, repurposes stack and back-of-house spaces to create contemporary reading rooms and media areas.

The vaulted halls are faithfully restored and equipped with current technology and lighting.

The historic reading room, where new shelving comfortably coexists with the historic architecture, is particularly effective.

One key and convincing aspect of this renovation and addition to Cass Gilbert’s beautiful library of 1912 was to respond to Gilbert’s own concept of the “building within the building.”

The architects managed a delicate balance by seemingly floating the addition within a newly discovered interior volume creating visual intersections of form and light.

An exceptional contemporary response to the light and lightness of Gilbert’s Beaux Arts inspired work.

St. Louis Public Library □ St. Louis, MO □ Cannon Design □ BSI ConstructorsMERIT AWARD

St. Louis Art Museum Renovation & Expansion □ St. Louis, Missouri David Chipperfield Architects / HOK □ TPK

HONOR AWARD

An elegantly detailed and conceived addition to the existing neo-classical museum building that creates beautifully illuminated galleries for the exhibition of contemporary artworks.

The addition is clearly contrasted with the original building but remains sympathetic.

The plan ingeniously connects to the existing structure and seamlessly extends its circulation path. The apparent quality of light in the galleries is admirable and creates a delightful experience for the observer.

This critically responsive project – “Virtually every design issue was driven by the existing circulation and the art work requirements” – delightfully meets its aims.

There is little attempt by the to engage the aesthetics of the existing neo-classical building; and yet, it is precisely due to its ability to ignore with sympathetic resonance that makes it clear that the work is both mature, confident and resolved.

The work is at once elegant, understated and highly ‘present’.

St. Louis Art Museum Renovation & Expansion □ St. Louis, Missouri David Chipperfield Architects / HOK □ TPK

HONOR AWARD



2013

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTSST. LOUIS CHAPTER

DISTINGUSIHED BUILDING AWARD

DISTINGUISHED BUILDING AWARD

Named for the famous team of explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Lewis & Clark Branch opened on January 8, 1963. It is located less than five miles from the historic take-off point of the party that pushed off into the Missouri River to begin the exploration of the Louisiana Territory in May 1804.

Frederick Wallace Dunn, FAIA designed this iconic mid- century building – a multi-level 16,000 square foot structural steel building – as an elegant, efficient plan housed under a mono-pitch roof with maximum natural daylight provided by a continuous clearstory above the book stacks.

Dunn’s design reinforced the significance of the building’s namesakes and our country’s history by integrating stain glass figures into east facing clearstory windows in his site specific design response. The stain glass windows, which set the Lewis and Clark Branch apart from any other building in the system, were designed by Robert Harmon and constructed and installed by Emil Frei & Associates. The glass is colored through high temperature immersion of oxides into the glass itself, producing a colored window that does not fade or scratch.

This building stands as a model of the integration of Art and Architecture and remains in use to this day, elegant and efficient in its beautifully resolved and inspirational design. Lewis & Clark Branch Library □ Frederick Dunn, FAIA, Architect

Robert Harmon/Emil Frei & Associates /Stain Glass □ 1963 □ Moline Acres, MO

DISTINGUISHED BUILDING AWARD Lewis & Clark Branch Library □ Frederick Dunn, FAIA, Architect

Robert Harmon/Emil Frei & Associates /Stain Glass □ 1963 □ Moline Acres, MO

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTSST. LOUIS CHAPTER

DISTINGUSIHED BUILDING AWARD

Quinta Scott, Daughter of Frederick Wallace Dunn, FAIA, Architect

Steven Frei, Emil Frei & Associates, Stained Glass ArtisansKristen Sorth, Interim Director, St. Louis County Public Library



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