FORWARD JUSTICE Center for Equality @ Raleigh, NC
Kids Museum
Bus Transit Hub
Salvation Army
Elementary school
SITE CONTEXT
To be sensitive to and act harmoniously in the surroundings, responsibilities to the human individualities, responsibilities not only in the visual aesthetic sphere and through the outer senses but also to the intangible but perceptible ‘spirit of place’ Listening to what the place, the moment, and the community ask for. --Thinking about users means thinking of buildings as spaces, as the boundaries of space. The sequence of preparatory experiences we pass through to approach, enter and use a building... change our inner state, which can both enhance our receptiveness to health-giving qualities in our surroundings and trigger transformative processes in our inmost being. The places most rich in life are meeting places – we’re drawn to those places where the spirit of place is strongest – where there are meetings between elements. --It starts with the feelings; architecture built up out of adjectives. Lines, shapes, forms and spaces can be given qualities of movement, life, harmony, gesture and resolution of dynamic forces. Light and matter is the greatest of architectural polarities—this polarity is the foundation of health giving architecture, for the oneness of stability, balance and renewal underlies health.
—Christopher Day, “Places of the Soul”
QUOTE
“Intangible Spirit of Place”
Meet / Work Indoors/ Outdoors
Montpelier Community Nursery
E2E Offices
Dreamplex Office Building Moving Everest Charter School
Arcus Center
Klaprozenweg Municipality of Amsterdam
Gregg Museum .
‘Living Room’ / Gathering
ISG Museum New Wing
Arcus Center
Classrooms / Activity
ISG Museum New Wing
S PERSON ST
EDUCATE ACTIVATE W MARTIN ST
PUBLIC ENTRY
Staff
Mech. Storage
Library Commons “Living Room” Kitchen
Kid’s Garden
Exhibit Hall
Daycare Event Space Staff
PLAN 01
0’
8’
16’
32’
Classroom
Classroom
Seminar Storage Activity / Flex Space
Activity / Flex Space
Breakout Rm
Roof Terrace
PLAN 02
0’
8’
16’
32’
Offices
Break Room Copy/Print
Open Offices
Meeting Rms
Conf.
Offices Meeting Roof Terrace
PLAN 03
0’
8’
16’
32’
WEST
SOUTH
ELEVATIONS
0’
8’
16’
32’
0’
8’
16’
32’
FRONT ENTRY
LIBRARY COMMONS
ACTIVITY STUDIO 2ND FLOOR
FJ OFFICES 3RD FLOOR
NORTH-SOUTH SECTION
0’
8’
16’
32’
0’
EAST-WEST SECTIONS
8’
16’
0’
8’
32’
16’
32’
EVENT ENTRANCE
roof membrane cover board rigid insulation air/vapor barrier UV-stable, vapor permeable moisture protection membrane 7-ply CLT GLULAM beam
TMW cladding clip and rail system insulation weather resistant barrier 3-ply CLT GLULAM structural column
raised floor 7-ply CLT
exterior raised deck roof membrane cover board rigid insulation air/vapor barrier 3-ply CLT TMW screen metal frame glass curtainwall structural mullions
DETAIL
growth medium with plants filter fabric reservoir layer with aggregate moisture retention layer aeration layer insulation drainage and root barrier waterproofing membrane 7-ply CLT
GLULAM column with metal plate connection finish floor concrete slab and footings vapor barrier rigid insulation
DETAIL
Mech.
Staff
Storage
Library Commons “Living Room” Kitchen
Kid’s Garden
Exhibit Hall
Daycare Event Space Staff
Classroom
Classroom
0’
8’
16’
32’
0’
8’
16’
32’
0’
8’
16’
32’
Seminar Storage Activity / Flex Space
Activity / Flex Space
Breakout Rm
Roof Terrace
Offices
Break Room Copy/Print
Open Offices
Meeting Rms
Conf.
Offices Meeting Roof Terrace
0’
8’