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The American Institute of Architects Announces 19 Recipients of the 2008 Housing Awards
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Washington, D.C., March 13,
2008 — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced today the
19 recipients of the 2008 Housing Awards. The AIA’s Housing
Awards Program, now in its eighth year, was established to
recognize the best in housing design and promote the importance of
good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human
spirit and a valuable national resource.
The jury for the 2008 Housing Awards include: Jury chair Sanford
Steinberg, AIA, Steinberg Design Collaborative LLP, David Jameson,
FAIA, David Jameson, Architect; Jane Kolleeny, Architectural
Record; Charles F. McAfee, FAIA, McAfee3 Architects; and Mark
McInturff, FAIA, McInturff Architects.
The jury recognized projects in four award categories: One/Two
Family Custom Housing, Multifamily Housing, One/Two Family
Production Housing, and Special Housing.
One/Two Family Custom
Housing
The One and Two Family Custom Residences award recognizes
outstanding designs for custom and remodeled homes for specific
client(s).
Lake Tahoe
Residence, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Lake Flato
Architects
Designed as a weekend retreat, this modern structure
reflects the local vernacular by use of exposed concrete, weathered
wood and rusted Cor-Ten steel that create a palette of rugged,
low-maintenance materials. Metal roofing retains a blanket of
snowfall as insulation and wards off potential damage from
wildfires.
Laboratory, Omaha, Nebraska
Randy Brown
Architects
This project was designed as a laboratory for architectural
experiments. Green building techniques were integrated into the
architecture: passive solar, natural ventilation, insulated
concrete forms, R-45 roof insulation, renewable materials, radiant
flooring, heat pumps and a green roof system. Many areas unfinished
today offer opportunities for expansion.
Wissioming
Residence, Glen Echo, Md.
Robert Gurney, FAIA,
Architect
This house, sited on a heavily wooded lot overlooking the Potomac
River, includes a swimming pool suspended 20 feet above grade to
reduce further impact to the steeply sloping site. A home office is
located on the ground floor of a detached structure separated from
the main residence by a reflecting pool. That structure also
contains a garage on the first level and a guest suite above.
Translucent glass and panels of Kalwall are used to allow the
building to serve as a lantern to the main house at night.
Wildcat Ridge
Residence, Snowmass Village, Colo.
Voorsanger
Architects
At the entrance to the house, the roof stretches
out to a 40-foot cantilever over the driveway, which also provides
much needed shade in the summer. The steel trusses form ribs that
are visible inside the house and extend outside to the cantilevered
edges of the roof. A massive wall of moss rock runs the length of
the house, marking the division between living spaces.
Streeter House,
Deep Haven, Minn.
Salmela
Architect
By using prefabricated materials, this house sets a standard for
sustainable construction methods. The house comprises a simple kit
of parts: glass, concrete block, Glulam beams, structural insulated
panels (SIPs) and pipe. The architects worked with a local
manufacturer to make the12-inch x 12-inch by 24-inch black fly-ash
concrete block specifically for this project. Polished concrete
floors left exposed on the main level and all galvanized and
plastic pipes for the electrical and mechanical conduit left
exposed, act like veins throughout the house.
Modern Barn,
Wainscott, N.Y.
Leroy Street Studio Architecture
PC
This 6,000-square-foot single-family residence combines
the qualities of traditional barns with modern detailing. A
wrapping of slatted timber boarding forms a protective rain-screen
that unifies a composition of interior and exterior spaces within.
The main entrance consists of a break in the louvers into a glassy
three-story slot that divides the mass of the building. This
circulation court leads to the elevated public spaces, which take
in the long views to the ocean.
L-Stack House,
Fayetteville, Ark.
Marlon Blackwell
Architect
This house responds to a site anomaly set within a dense,
inner-city neighborhood near a city park. The trapezoid lot is
traversed diagonally by a seasonal creek. The urban grid and the
modest scale of single-story houses in the neighborhood is enhanced
through a strategy of bridging and stacking of forms. The
ground-floor interior is organized as a linear open plan with
connecting terraces along and adjacent to the creek. The exterior
cladding is a unique rain screen system articulated with
rot-resistant Brazilian redwood.
Live / Work Studio
II, Pittsburgh
studio d'ARC architects
PC
Built as both a home and studio for two architects, this project
contains the programmatic needs of a modest studio and living
space. Three large glazed surfaces organize the interior and
include a second-floor window that collects strong western light
and a large, horizontal sliding roof window that serves as a
thermal chimney as well as the central focus of the interior.
Steel, glass, and locally made concrete blocks make references to
the construction heritage of the city and help to ground this
building within the context of its place.
Multifamily Housing
The Multifamily Housing award recognizes outstanding multifamily
housing design. Both high- and low-density projects for public and
private clients were considered. In addition to architectural
design features, the jury assessed the integration of the
building(s) into their context, including open and recreational
space, transportation options and features that contribute to
livable communities.
The Duke,
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Circle West
Architects
Located near downtown Scottsdale this modern building compresses
various functions into individual, yet related spaces. Compact and
efficient, emphasis was placed on sustainable design through
successfully participating in Scottsdale’s Residential Green
Building Program. The site layout and design of the project
appropriately address the urban context while handling the
environment of the desert and solar orientation.
Habitat 825, West Hollywood, Calif.
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Architects
A centrally located courtyard allows all 19 units to have direct
access from the exterior. All units are single-loaded, allowing for
cross-ventilation and light to enter from multiple sides. The
strategic use of black on the south side grounds the building, lime
green rhymes with nature and embodies both the horizontal and
vertical landscape concepts of Rudolf Schindler’s Kings Road
House, which is adjacent to Habitat 825.
NoLi Housing,
Philadelphia
Erdy McHenry
Architecture
This building is the first phase of a complex composed of modern
apartment housing, retail, office space, public amenities and the
conversion of two vacant former warehouses. The building was
completed in late August 2006. The project strategy was to create
bi-level loft style apartments to increase the rentable square
footage total for the project while providing unique housing
opportunities for the developer and the tenants. Inside, the
concrete block and plank structure has been left exposed,
accentuating the building’s core structural elements.
Macallen
Building Condominiums, Boston
Office dA Inc. and Burt Hill
Inc.
This
building, offering 144 units of housing; parking; retail space; and
common media room, garden, and plaza, is the latest major addition
in the revitalization of South Boston. A sloped, sedum green roof
becomes a fifth facade, reading as a raised landscape in the
skyline, while use of recycled materials, and fabricated systems,
which were transported from within 500 miles, were all part of the
sustainable design implementation. The building is applying for
LEED® Gold certification.
26th Street –
Low Income Housing, Santa Monica
Kanner
Architects
The building comprises 44 low-to-moderate income housing units, a
community room, a landscaped courtyard, and 81 parking spaces. The
design incorporates dual-glazed and laminated windows along both
street-facing sides to eliminate street noise. Drywells dug beneath
the project collect and disperse storm-water runoff and minimize
the project’s impact on the city’s storm sewer
system.
Front
Street, Block 97, New York City
Cook+Fox Architects
LLC
In April of 2003, a redevelopment proposal emerged that sought to
restore this vital section of the city’s historic fabric.
Eleven 19th century brick warehouses were reconfigured, including
combining some of the buildings to give better layouts to the
residential spaces within. Several penthouse apartments were added,
and many of the original façades were restored and
embellished with thoughtful additions of modern architectural
detailing.
25 Bond Street, New York City
BKSK Architects
LLP
The façade of the building employs two types of stone to
create a double-layered screen of varying widths and asymmetrical
separations. The stone screen is set in front of a bronze-and-glass
wall with floor to ceiling sliding sections that run the full width
of the building. Seven individuals banded together with a developer
to purchase the property and erect the building. The result was a
building conceived as a big house, with common spaces considered an
extension of each individual unit.
One/Two Family Production
Housing
The One and Two Family Production Homes award will recognize
excellent design of homes built for the speculative market.
Carneros Inn and
Courtyard Homes, Napa, Calif.
William Rawn Associates, Architects
Inc.
This project consists of two unique housing types designed to
foster community ties within a resort that includes full-year
permanent housing: First, 24 Courtyard Houses of 2,400 square feet
each relegate the car to background status in favor of a more
pedestrian-oriented streetscape. Each is organized around a central
courtyard and features a rooftop terrace overlooking the vineyards.
Second, 85 guest cottages of 600 square feet each represent the
spirit of community integral to the resort's identity.
Modular:
Crabapple, Omaha
Randy Brown
Architects
The intended goal was to design an affordable, modern, eco-friendly
home that would sell at the same price point as a homebuilder house
with comparable square footage. The result was a modular-designed
“bar” that sits on a poured-in-place concrete foundation.
Front porches grace all of the homes, which also sport green roofs,
Energy Star appliances, bamboo flooring, polished concrete floors,
and recycled stone countertops.
Urban Infill,
Milwaukee
Johnsen Schmaling
Architects
This single-family residence consists of two interlocking building
blocks, a compact two-story wood cube, and a single-story concrete
block bar. The cube is based on a strict 48-inch module to maximize
the use of standard sheets, allowing the builder to adapt the
footprint easily to various lot dimensions and program sizes.
Ribbons of alternating windows and fiber-cement louvers with a
high-gloss finish wrap around the corners of the cube and frame
views of the neighborhood.
Special Housing
The Special Housing award recognizes outstanding design of housing
that meets the unique needs of other specialized housing types such
as single room occupancy residences (SROs), independent living for
the disabled, residential rehabilitation programs, domestic
violence shelters, and other special housing.
Gatehouse,
Boston
Hacin + Associates,
Inc.
This new, six-story, mixed-use building was developed by a
nonprofit agency that serves homeless men and women in the Boston
area by offering job training, work experience, education, housing,
and support services to help individuals experiencing homelessness
reestablish themselves in society with dignity. The building
contains14 units of affordable studio apartments on the top two
floors, with program and office space for the agency below. Located
at the ground floor is a commercial restaurant, which subsidizes
the rent for the building’s SRO units. The energy-efficient
highlight of this building, which is pending LEED certification, is
the inclusion of two on-site geothermal wells with water-source
heat pumps.
About The American Institute of
Architects
For over 150 years, members of The American Institute of Architects
have worked with each other and their communities to create more
valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings and
cityscapes. AIA members have access to the right people, knowledge,
and tools to create better design, and through such resources and
access, they help clients and communities make their visions real.
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