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Monday, May 10, 2010

AIA Selects 18 Recipients for 2010 Housing Awards

The jury, including chairman Andrew Porth of Porth Architects, selected projects in four categories: One/Two Family Custom Housing, One/Two Family Production Housing, Multifamily Living, and Special Housing.

NICHOLAS TAMARIN -- INTERIOR DESIGN, 5/5/2010

Established a decade ago to recognize the best housing design the United States had to offer and to "promote the importance of good housing as a necessity of life, a sanctuary for the human spirit and a valuable national resource," the American Institute of Architects has handed out its Housing Awards every year since. This year, its jury, including chairman Andrew Porth of Porth Architects and Grace Kim of Schemata Workshop, selected 18 recipients for the Housing Awards Program, in four categories: One/Two Family Custom Housing, One/Two Family Production Housing, Multifamily Living, and Special Housing.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson took home the most hardware, winning three awards in the One/Two Family Custom Housing category for their Port Townsend Residence and Sheldon Gatehouse in Washington state and the Dry Creek Outbuildings in Woodside, California.

Other notable winners include KieranTimberlake's Cellophane House and Rogers Marvel Architects' 14 Townhouses, both in New York, in the One/Two Family Production Housing category. In the Multifamily Living category, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects won for their Formosa 1140 project in West Hollywood, California, and Interior Design Hall of Famers Pugh + Scarpa grabbed Special Housing brass for their Step Up on 5th in Santa, Monica, California.


One/Two Family Custom Housing Project: Diamond Project Location: San Francisco Architect: Terry & Terry Architecture Project: Ferrous House Location: Milwaukee Architect: Johnsen Schmaling Architects Project: Port Townsend Residence Location: Port Townsend, Washington Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Project: Dry Creek Outbuildings Location: Woodside, California Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Project: Sky Ranch Location: Seattle Architect: The Miller|Hull Partnership Project: Spiral House Location: Old Greenwich, Connecticut Architect: Joeb Moore + Partners Architects, LLC Project: Sheldon Gatehouse Location: Cle Elum, Washinton Architect: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Project: T42 House Location: Minneapolis Architect: VJAA One/Two Family Production Housing Project: Cellophane House Location: New York City Architect: KieranTimberlake Project: 14 Townhouses Location: Brooklyn Architect: Rogers Marvel Architects, PLLC Multifamily Living Project: Gish Apartments Location: San Jose, California Architect: Office of Jerome King, FAIA Project: OneEleven Mixed-Use Development Location: Baton Rouge Architect: Remson | Haley | Herpin Architects, APAC Project: Formosa 1140 Location: West Hollywood Architect: Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects Project: Safari Drive Location: Scottsdale Architect: The Miller|Hull Partnership Project: The Waterworks at Chestnut Hill Location: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Architect: Gund Partnership Special Housing Project: Step Up on 5th Location: Santa Monica Architect: Pugh + Scarpa Project: The Housing Tower Location: Stockbridge, Massachusetts Architect: The Rose + Guggenheimer Studio Project: Swarthmore College Residence Halls Location: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Architect: William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.

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FROM:Dezeen architecture and design magazine
Trufa by Anton García-Abril

Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a holiday home in Spain by Anton García-Abril of Ensamble Studio, cast in the earth and hollowed out by a cow.

Top and above photographs are copyright Roland Halbe.

Called Trufa (Truffle), the project involved pouring concrete over hay bales stacked and burried inside soil from the surroundings.

Once hardened, the resulting shape was exhumed and sliced open.

A cow (named Paulina) was then allowed to eat away the remaining hay bales to reveal the interior space over the course of a year.

Watch a movie about the project’s construction here.

Here’s the full story from the architect Anton García-Abril:


THE TRUFFLE

The Truffle is a piece of nature built with earth, full of air. A space within a stone that sits on the ground and blends with the territory.

It camouflages, by emulating the processes of mineral formation in its structure, and integrates with the natural environment, complying with its laws.

We made a hole in the ground, piling up on its perimeter the topsoil removed, and we obtained a retaining dike without mechanical consistency.

Then, we materialized the air building a volume with hay bales and flooded the space between the earth and the built air to solidify it. The poured mass concrete wrapped the air and protected itself with the ground. Time passed and we removed the earth discovering an amorphous mass.

The earth and the concrete exchanged their properties. The land provided the concrete with its texture and color, its form and its essence, and concrete gave the earth its strength and internal structure. But what we had created was not yet architecture, we had fabricated a stone.

We made a few cuts using quarry machinery to explore its core and discovered its mass inside built with hay, now compressed by the hydrostatic pressure exerted by concrete on the flimsy vegetable structure.

To empty the interior, the calf Paulina arrived, and enjoyed the 50m3 of the nicest food, from which she nourished for a year until she left her habitat, already as an adult and weighing 300 kilos. She had eaten the interior volume, and space appeared for the first time, restoring the architectural condition of the truffle after having been a shelter for the animal and the vegetable mass for a long time.

The architecture surprised us. Its ambiguity between the natural and the built, the complex materiality that the same constructive element, the mass unreinforced concrete, could provide the small architectural space, at different scales.

From the amorphous texture of its exterior, to the violent incision of a cut that reveals its architectural vocation, leading to the fluid expression of the interior solidification of concrete.

This dense materiality, which gives the vertical walls a rusticated scale, comes from the size of the bales, and contrasts with the continuous liquidity of the ceiling that evokes the sea, petrified in the lintel of the spatial frame that looks sublimely to the Atlantic Ocean, highlighting the horizon as the only tense line within the interior space.

To provide the space with all the comfort and the living conditions needed in architecture, we took the “Cabanon” of Le Corbusier as motif, recreating its program and dimensions. It is the “Cabanon of Beton” the reference that makes the truffle an enjoyable living space in nature, that has inspired and subdued us.

And the lesson we learn is the uncertainty that led us in the desire to build with our own hands, a piece of nature, a contemplative space, a little poem.

Proyecto: The Truffle Location: Costa da Morte, Spain Date of Project: Agosto 2006

End of building construction: Febrero 2010 Author of the project: Antón García- Abril Collaborators: Ricardo Sanz

Quantity surveyor: Javier Cuesta Developer: Ensamble Studio

Collaborator companies: Tongadas & Zuncho Dolorido, SL., Galicorte, Macías Derribos, Suministros Zurich, Ganaderia Paulina

Project Manager: Francheteau Built area: 25 m²

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MICHAEL WINSTANLEY NAMED CEO OF MANCINI·DUFFY

New York, NY, May 5, 2010 – Michael Winstanley, AIA, AICP principal in New York City-based Mancini·Duffy and Managing Principal of Mancini·Duffy Winstanley, the firm’s Washington, DC office, has been named CEO of the firm, effective immediately. He joins Anthony P. Schirripa, FAIA, Chairman, and Dina Frank, AIA, IIDA, President, on the newly formed Management Committee, which oversees day-to-day operations of the firm.

“The key element in our strategic plan has always been the expansion of Mancini·Duffy’s scope and reach, making it a highly diversified, full-service firm,” Schirripa explains. “Michael’s appointment reflects our commitment to offer planning, architecture, interiors, workplace strategy, and graphic and wayfinding design services to clients in the commercial, retail, academic, and public sectors, not only throughout the U.S., but globally, through our alliances with International Partners in Design (IPiD).”

Winstanley, who merged his Washington, DC-based practice, Michael Winstanley Architects Planners with Mancini·Duffy in 2009, is particularly well-known for his large scale planning and architectural accomplishments, especially in the commercial and academic sectors. “I’m very excited to be taking on this new role,” he says. “My collaboration with Tony and Dina seems to me the ideal means for maintaining the firm’s long-standing and distinguished interiors practice, building up the nascent—and already award-winning—architecture practice, and continuing to look for new initiatives, stronger collaborations, and wider-ranging relationships.”

While Mancini·Duffy will remain headquartered in New York, Winstanley will continue to direct the Washington, DC office, as well as assume the overall leadership of the firm’s architectural and planning services. Dina Frank holds a similar position with regard to the New York office and the interiors practice.

In addition to continuing to serve as Chairman, providing strategic vision for the firm’s future, Schirripa will emphasize outreach on Mancini·Duffy’s behalf, building on his strong relationships with clients and with the city’s leadership, his position on the Board of the New York Building Congress and his prominence as President of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter.

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Founded almost 90 years ago, Mancini·Duffy has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Connecticut, and New Jersey. Also, as a member of IPID, International Partners in Design, Mancini•Duffy serves the diverse needs of its expanding multi-national client base across the U.S. and in Great Britain, Europe, East Asia and Australia.

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From Inhabitat- Lace Hill

Lace Hill: A Living Green Mountain Building for Armenia

Instead of designing a large glass-faceted building for a new mixed-use development in Yerevan, Armenia,Forrest Fulton Architects came up with a giant living man-made mountain! The entire facade of the hill-shaped building is covered in native plants, which act to absorb heat, filter air and water, and provide habitat to animals and insects, while the entire surface is irrigated with recycled graywater. Inspired by traditional Armenian lace needlework, Lace Hill, is punctuated with recessed windows, has interior voids that act as cooling towers, and includes many other sustainable building strategies.

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Birmingham, Alabama-based Forrest Fulton Architects wanted to avoid designing yet another towering glass structure for the mixed-use development. Instead they chose to create a structure whose form more closely resembled the surrounding hills of Yeravan, located between the Black and Caspian Seas. The hill development proposal is 85,000 sq meters (900,000 sq ft) and incorporates retail and restaurants on the bottom floor, office space on the north side, and a hotel and apartments on the south side, which has great solar access and the best views. Parking and car access is completely underground, so no automobile traffic mars the approach of the sloping hillside, which eventually connects to a open space and park to the west of the structure.

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