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d/o is an interdisciplinary studio with a commitment to design excellence through the integration of buildings and landscapes Founded in 2015, D/O is the culmination of a decade long collaboration between its two partners, Colin Oglesbay and John Dwyer. In process, approach, philosophy and practice, we approach architecture at the intersection of people and land. Our services include architecture and landscape design, sustainable design, adaptive reuse, historic renovation and preservation, building and landscape master planning, and feasibility studies. Our work has received national and regional honors including four AIA Minnesota Residential Architecture Awards, a 2009 National AIAS Emerging Practice Award, a 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award and a 2015 AIA Minnesota Honor Award. Our work has also been featured in publications including The New York Times, Architectural Record, EcoStructures, Utne Reader, Residential Architect, AM Magazine, New American Luxury, _Scape, Star Tribune, and Midwest Home. Our design process relies on careful listening and close collaboration with an integrated team from conception through construction. Through a research based approach, we conceive of spaces which grow naturally from our understanding of the culture, materiality, and ecology in every site and client. CULTURE We see the built world as distinctly human, as a product of a culture and a representation of its people. We approach our work with a thoughtful focus on the people for whom we design. Whether an individual person or an entire city, we see our work as a the result of our ability to listen to our clients, to understand their specific culture, and to translate their lives into built form. MATERIALITY We strive to integrate buildings and landscapes through materiality which, to us, is defined in four ways. First, it is the raw material itself: ore, silica, trees, animals, rock, water, earth, grasses. Second, it is the material processed: steel, wood, glass, masonry, concrete. Third, it is the material ordered: veneer, coursing, assemblies, systems, transitions. Fourth, it is the material digitized: computational fabrication, parametric scripting, visualization, virtual reality simulation. We believe in approaching every project with all dimensions in mind, composing building and landscape simultaneously with raw, processed, ordered, and digitized materials. ECOLOGY We believe in pursuing the sustainability of humanity, in creating a world that fosters the health and longevity of the human race. By understanding our relationship to the global ecosystem, we see how our ways of living impact the sustainability of humanity. We believe this makes architecture a powerful tool for change and, as such, we engage all of our work with this ecological awareness. Through consideration of site specific ecologies, the impact of a building’s lifespan, and the global ecological footprint of proposed ways of living, we strive to create a built world that performs with environmental, economic, and cultural benefit. We engage in the design of every home as a personal relationship, with a global awareness. Our objective throughout is to provide every client with well informed design decisions that balance economic, cultural and environmental performance.
SELECT WORKS 1 NORDIC LIGHT
PHOTOGRAPHY: CHAD HOLDER CONSTRUCTION: BROWNSMITH RESTORATIION STAGING: FORAGE MODERN WORKSHOP ENGINEERING: SAFE HAVEN
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA NEW SINGLE FAMILY HOME
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PHOTOGRAPHY: BRANDON WERTH CONSULTANT: ADAM ARVIDSON, ASLA
SAINT LOUIS PARK, MINNESOTA SINGLE FAMILY LANDSCAPE
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ENGINEERING: AM STRUCTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY: BY ARCHITECT CONSTRUCTION: VENNEJHEM BUILDING CORPORATION
EAGAN, MINNESOTA NEW SINGLE FAMILY HOME
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PHOTOGRAPHY: CHAD HOLDER CONSTRUCTION: RJ MARCO + MA PETERSON FABRICATION: MG MCGRATH DIGITAL DESIGN BUILD: DUNWOODY ARCHITECTURE
SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA PRO-BONO ADAPTIVE REUSE
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ENGINEERING: AM STRUCTURAL LANDSCAPE INSTALLATION: RO/LU CONSULTANT: SHELTER PHOTOGRAPHY: BY ARCHITECT
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA NEW SINGLE FAMILY HOME
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CONSTRUCTION: KEVIN RISTOW CONSULTANT: CAMERON GAINER ENGINEERING: AM STRUCTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY: BY ARCHITECT
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA ADAPTIVE REUSE
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CONSULTANT: GORDON JAMES CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING: SAFE HAVEN
INDEPENDENCE, MINNESOTA NEW SINGLE FAIMILY RESIDENCE
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CONSULTANT: GORDON JAMES CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING: SAFE HAVEN
INDEPENDENCE, MINNESOTA NEW SINGLE FAIMILY RESIDENCE
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CONSTRUCTION: LEE THEORIN
RURAL EVENT VENUE + CARETAKER’S HOME GLENWOOD CITY, WISCONSIN
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s1aint paul, minnesota
LJOS We live in a climate which varies annually varying from arctic to tropical. And our scarcity of light in winter contrasts with its abundance in summer. Its distinct nature at our latitude was articulated in the Norse languages with as many variations as words for snow. Ljos describes whiteness which becomes essential to our psychological survival as the world turns dark and blue. Our home strives to capture light as our ancestors did. The first two bounces, floor and ceiling, warm the blue to pure white. All other elements maintain, reflect and diffuse the whiteness. YGGDRASIL The oak, in our mythology, is Yggdrasil, a world tree. It expresses beauty through strength and connects the sky to the terrestrial through its roots. We set out to create a place which inhabits oak, preserved in material and living in the landscape. Three existing oaks dictate its form and program. Main living spaces point to the oak to the east. Elevated indoor/outdoor living spaces reside in the canopy of those to the west. Inside, white oak replaces the sky and land, stretches beyond the eye, and guides the body through space. SAVANNAS We live in a transition between The Great Plains to the west and the Great Lakes to the east. This zone is dominated by the oak and aspen savannas amidst a mosaic of vegetation. Our particular moment in this zone is the St. Paul-Baldwin Plains and Moraines subsection. It is the prairie forest border of the Midwest. Our response is not restorative, but ecological consistency. While formalized, all species and their proportions are historically accurate to the land’s specific nature. Tall grass prairie, moss, blue stone, and fescues live under groves of oak and aspen. Edges are clear, but irregular and structures exist in, on, and aside the land.
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eagan, minnesota
Challenging terrain and difficult access left this infill site forgotten for several years. In the hopes of discovering a buildable scenario where others had not, we initiated a research/design process before the land was purchased. After extensive mapping of trees, topography, micro/macro climates, and soil conditions, a massing study revealed the possibility of an offset cruciform plan capable of weaving into the grove of mature oaks. To organize the plan, a central stair and four-sided fireplace act as the hinge upon which each wing of the house radiates. A central spine moves from garage at the site’s highest point, to an outdoor living room cantilevered over the lowest and steepest point. Windows and doors are grouped into ribbons that span the joints between masses. Materials are intended to be haptic but edited, and details to be resolved by silent. The underlying desire was to create a home with its own nature, that contrasted with the natures of its context, but inherently belonged to it.
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saint paul, minnesota
With an ambitious program, and little funding, the Minnesota chapter of the Independent Filmmaker Project secured a 5,500 square foot, raw, whitewashed space within a 19th century warehouse in Saint Paul Minnesota. Architecture and engineering services were delivered pro bono. Critical details were conceived, fabricated and installed in an academic design build studio. Contractors committed material and service donations including surplus structural OSB, CNC fabrication, on site installation, scrap aluminum composite material, and parametric design support. Property management offered drywall partitions. Fixtures, furniture, doors, hardware and furnishings were salvaged from varying sources. Given this unpredictable palette, the design embraces the unfinished nature of creation, allowing the in-kind to be celebrated in its original form. The program is organized into three categories separated by two primary donated materials. Drywall separates filmmaking from interstitial. OSB separates interstitial from working. SOUND AND LIGHT To accommodate on-site production, sound and light were developed for ideal filming and recording. Light maintains contrast and directionality, but with soft shadow, and accurate color. OSB hugs the east facing exterior wall and stops at partial height to diffuse and warm the natural light. Full height partitions are pushed to the west demising wall and finished with a reflective white paint. The result is a gradient of light from bright/warm to dark/cool. Sound is diffused and absorbed by an acoustic cloud which was simulated and digitally fabricated to control ideal levels of white noise and reverberation. Given the complexity of the ceiling, a point cloud scan was used to conceive of a geometry that could weave through existing elements and custom scripting was developed to generate perforation patterns. THE NATURE OF FILM In its way, IFP is a place created in the nature of independent film itself; a composition of light and sound, exposed, optimistic, assembled with minimal resources, and made possible through a community of support.
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5 burgess
saint paul, minnesota
ECONOMY Conceived in early 2008, at the height of the great recession, size and program were dictated by new and still evolving lending requirements. The design approach was economy in form and material without sacrificing performance, size or amenity. MATERIALITY The result is a white box sheathed in fiber cement and gypsum with small amounts of strategically placed walnut and ipe. Floors are a custom mixed, light weight concrete poured directly over the subfloor and fan troweled. Windows and doors are trimless and the base is reclaimed barstock aluminum. Three wings (master suite, guest wing, main living) radiate from the high contrast walnut kitchen. Mechanical and electrical elements are minimized and hidden wherever possible. ECOLOGY In the landscape, erosion and species diversity is supported by plates of ½� thick corten steel delineate outdoor living space. Concrete hardscapes are minimized and broken with areas of permeability to minimize off site stormwater runoff.
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minneapolis, minnesota
Housed within an old apartment and grocery store, a two story brick building in northeast Minneapolis required a complete interior reconstruction to accommodate its new owner’s extensive art and furniture collection. The design approach was complete silence. Materiality was conceived as immaterial. The architecture, in every possible way, is intended to be invisible. Outlets, ductwork, integrated lighitng, cabinetry, handrails, trim, and other building elements were all rigorously resolved to completely disappear in the space, leaving a fully abstracted white space within which the extraordinary art and furniture could flourish. Outside, the building maintained the same nature, but to a reverse end. It too was stripped down to its essential details , but finished black. The intent was to transform the building’s public presence on a prominent intersection to that of a shadow.
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winston salem, north carolina
This multigenerational estate in rural South Carolina is conceived with as much direct connection to the landscape as possible. Existing clearings within the treelines form the homes wings which consist of public living, private living, and storage. Access to the site maintains the thickness of wooded areas, to provide as much privacy as possible. The result is a series of spaces clad with glass from the bottom of the floor plate to the top of the roof line. Inside, negative space is emphasized and storage is concentrated inside the structure, allowing for as much uninterrupted glass as possible. Concrete anchors the building to the landscape and glass reflects the landscape back, while providing seamless views and abundant light.
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8 lake sarah
independence, minnesota
On the south end of the lake, a natural levee formed over several thousand years, creating a natural flow of stormwater and biodiversity across the lake. Previous owners, however, disrupted the levee, gouging a hole through it to gain access to the lake without consideration of the environmental ramifications. The design is one of ecological restoration. Using the gouge as an opportunity for view and access, the house weaves itself between the existing wetland and levee and maintains a void at its center. This dogtrot approach allows stormwater to naturally flow through the house and down through the gouge. A set of permeable concrete stairs lead to a wooden dock designed to filter stormwater and restore the original function of the levee. The home itself is oganized in tiers, with a heavy black roofline marking the landscape, and a concrete datum anchoring it to the landscape. In between, glass and wood fill the space with warm light.
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rural wisconson
On a 50 acre farmstead in rural Wisconsin, a redwood clad barn, original farmhouse, and reonvated farmstead marked a largely unorganized and undefined landscape. Its new life, a world class theater and music event center and retreat, required a thoughtful and measured approach to its order. Beginning with a comprehensive master plan of the entire site, a series of additional buidlings, trails, and material orders were proposed to unite the site, as well as to expand the capacity of the center. Among many pragmatic and life safety criteria, a large parking load needed to be accommodated without changing the nature of the land, ecologically and visually. An apple orchard and linear planting beds form the structure of a grass lawn parking venue. This is further defined by a wood stacked garden wall. The wall, on its southern side, is expanded to form a new caretakers house. Organized as a linear sequence of spaces along the wall, the house opens itself up to an existing knoll surounded by mature oak trees. The orchard continues along the two ends of the house and, within, spaces gather light from the south, filtered through the heavily wooded glen beyond. Materiality is derived from the farmstead itself, a merger of old and new, made by a simple cute. Weathered wood forms the majority of surfaces, while the wood ends are cut to reveal the original, unweathered amber heartwood. This limited palette is complemented by the existing purple redwood of the main barn and the biodiversity of the landscape.
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SELECT awards 2016 AIA MINNESOTA HONOR AWARD 2016 ARCHITECTS ADVOCATE SELECTED FIRM 2013 AIA MINNESOTA HOME OF THE MONTH AWARD 2013 AIA NATIONAL YOUNG ARCHITECT AWARD 2012 AIA MINNESOTA HOME OF THE MONTH AWARD 2012 BEST OF HOUZZ AWARD 2011 AIA MINNESOTA HOME OF THE MONTH AWARD 2011 ASLA RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN HONOR AWARD 2010 AIAS NATIONAL EMERGING PRACTICE AWARD 2009 DISCOVERY CHANNEL WORLDS GREENEST HOMES 2008 AIA MINNESOTA RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE VISION AND EXCELLENCE AWARD 2007 JETSON GREEN TOP 10 MODERN GREEN HOMES 2007 AIA MINNESOTA RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE VISION AND EXCELLENCE AWARD
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publications SEPTEMBER 2016 ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER FEATURE SEPTEMBER 2016 ARCHITECTURE MINNESOTA MAGAZINE STUDIO PROFILE JUNE 2016 MIDWEST HOME MAGAZINE FEATURE NOVEMBER 2015 ARCHDAILY FEATURE MAY 2015 ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER ARTICLE OCTOBER 2013 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECT MAGAZINE NEXT FILES FEATURE JANUARY 2013 ARCHITECT MAGAZINE PROFILE FEATURE NOVEMBER 2012 ARCHDAILY FEATURE OCTOBER 2012 NEW AMERICAN LUXURY MONOGRAPH FEATURE MAY 2010 ARCHDAILY FEATURE APRIL 2009 ECOSTRUCTURES MAGAZINE FEATURE JULY 2007 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECT ARTICLE MAY 2006 UTNE READER FEATURE FEBRUARY 2006 NEW YORK TIMES INTERVIEW ARTICLE
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