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PREFACE BY ADRIAAN GEUZE

INTRODUCTION BY ARIS GEORGES

Authors: MONIKA HERRMANN & MATTHEW SKJONSBERG Graphic Design & Layout: COLLAB Architecture Photography: MONIKA HERRMANN, JOHN HANDWERK, NATE SEVERSON, MATTHEW SKJONSBERG Text Editing & Proofreading: DANIEL JAUSLIN, SANG LEE Printed and bound in The Netherlands

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PREFACE BY ADRIAAN GEUZE

INTRODUCTION BY ARIS GEORGES

CANTUS FIRMUS PUBLISHING

ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE Progressive Sustainable Design “Sustainability” and “Green Architecture” are contemporary keywords that indicate an intention to actively address the natural environment as a definitive component of an evidence-based design process. We believe this intention to be indispensable, and consider the designs illustrated here to be the result of a process-oriented collaboration - between clients, researchers, designers, and builders. For our part, this collaboration is intended to lead to the performative and actual integration of material, form and structure of design (whether urban or rural) with the environment, with the site, and with the lives of its inhabitants.

CONTENTS A story is told...

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Preface by Adriaan Geuze

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Inroduction by Aris Georges

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Projects

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Index

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Biographies

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ADRIAAN GEUZE

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SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY + PROCESSES

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ARIS GEORGES

2001-2011

SELECTED PROJECTS COLLAB STUDIO 1021 HOUSE HILL HOUSE WESTERN HOUSE WILLOWS HOUSE IDS OFFICES NATIVE BAY ALAMOSA SKATEPARK LABYRINTH RIVERSIDE ADDIS ABABA CREEKS

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COLLAB STUDIO MENOMONIE, WI

The studio is a place where we are encouraged to experiment – sustainable material treatments, lighting concepts, and strategies for the incorporation of plants are subjects of particular interest, and outdoor living spaces receive special attention in that regard. The ~800 sf studio area is partitioned by multi-functional casework and cabinets, providing adequate privacy while retaining an openness that emphasizes the interaction of the materials themselves.

COLLAB STUDIO MENOMONIE, WI

1021 HOUSE MENOMONIE, WI

1021 HOUSE MENOMONIE, WI

A small home and studio with a very limited budget ($100,000 incl. land), the remodel was approached with the strategy of utilizing local and recycled materials effectively, allowing an incidental aesthetic to be elicited from the ethical interpretation of “truth in expression�. Employing radiant heat, and designed using fundamental passive solar and cross ventilation strategies, the house performs exceptionally well thermally, maintaining extreme season comfort levels in a climate of extremes.

HILL HOUSE BOYCEVILLE, WI

A remodel and ~500 sf addition providing a weaving studio and southfacing atrium receiving carefully modulated sunlight throughout the year.The roof was designed to receive solar thermal absorbers to supply hot water for the radiant heat system. Materials used include cork floors, local pine ceilings, cedar finished with a low-VOC natural oil, and galvalume metal for roof and wall panels - an enduring metal that patinas to a graceful matte grey.

HILL HOUSE BOYCEVILLE, WI

HILL HOUSE BOYCEVILLE, WI

A remodel and ~500 sf addition providing a weaving studio and south-facing atrium receiving carefully modulated sunlight throughout the year.The roof was designed to receive solar thermal absorbers to supply hot water for the radiant heat system. Materials used include cork floors, local pine ceilings, cedar finished with a lowVOC natural oil, and galvalume metal for roof and wall panels - an enduring metal that patinas to a graceful matte grey.

WESTERN HOUSE IRON MOUNTAIN, MI

WESTERN HOUSE IRON MOUNTAIN, MI

A 2000 sq. ft. house for a couple whose children are grown, this scheme engages a densely wooded, sloping site. The house is conceived of as unfolding out of the ground and into the light: the garage is earth-covered, and the entry court permits a view of the lake through the earthcovered entry area; the house then steps up to a single-story volume intersecting a one and a half story earth-bermed mass containing two floors with the master bedroom terminating the building - in the light and overlooking the island in the lake below. The house is designed to surpass Energy Star efficiency standards with an energy strategy utilizing passive solar and cross ventilation strategies, and having been built with insulated concrete forms (ICF's) and structural insulated panels (SIP's) further enhances the house's thermal performance.

WILLOW HOUSE MENOMONIE, WI

WILLOW HOUSE MENOMONIE, WI

A two-level addition and several landscape interventions for a couple for whom architect John H. Howe (1913-97: chief draughtsman for Frank Lloyd Wright 193259) designed two houses - this house being the second. The primary purpose of the addition is to provide a first-rate audio/visual environment. Acoustics and structure were thus driving the design - as was the client's desire to honor the sensibility of the original house.

This desire was responded to with a design whose lighting, material and spatial strategies correlate with the beautifully sited existing structure.

IDS OFFICE CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI

The design process for this local industrial design firm's headquarters focused on addressing three parameters: client and employee comfort, privacy vis a vis intellectual property, and the logistics of industrial design production. The result is a design where all functions pinwheel around a central luminous volume - a linear core containing a large room for client meetings and a smaller one for design meetings. This linear core is situated to serve as guidance to visitors and as a visual screen to the studio.

IDS OFFICE CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI

NATIVE BAY CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI

Featuring organic and local foods prepared with great care and subtlety, the restaurant is situated lakeside with 80+ boat slips and prominent access from an interstate bike trail. In response to the project's significant budget and time constraints (~3 months, including design and construction), the design was systematized - utilizing a direct-to-fabrication CNC digital methodology - enabling a skeleton crew to effectively complete the project according to these pragmatic parameters.

NATIVE BAY CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI

ALAMOSA SKATEPARK ALBUQUERQUE, NM

For this four-acre Alamosa park site in Albuquerque, NM we developed an integrative approach – eliminating fences and conventional “security” devices that actually increase liability – whereby pedestrian paths, submerged concrete trenches and mediating continuous vegetation are woven together to create a park as an environmentally integrated community park. The displaced earth is itself shaped to perform multiple functions, such as circulation guidance, stormwater collection and retention, acoustic barriers, and recreational and gathering areas. An extensive four-page project case study has subsequently been published in the Architectural Graphic Standards (11th Ed.) - incidentally making this the first skatepark ever to be published in the literature. The project also won the Best of 2007 Concrete Award from Southwest Contractors Association, and has been editorialized in numerous international magazines, including Architect, Skateboarder, and Landscape Architecture.

LABYRINTH RIVERSIDE EAU CLAIRE, WI

Retained to represent Friends of the Labyrinth, we proposed the labyrinth as an amphitheater - a public void nestled into topography studded with stones, trees and boulders at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers, enroute to the Mississippi. The earth embankment here, actually sawdust 100 feet deep, is seasonally inundated with soil-enriching floodwater and the surface materials were selected in response to this condition.

The space has become 'a living room for the whole community', according to Volume One editor Nick Meyer, whose headquarters are only two blocks away.

We received a number of images from Volume One, and feature them here.

They show the space used for incidental and planned activities, no activities, and labyrinth walking - thus fulfilling the ambition of Friends of the Labyrinth: public space for a more spiritual and cultural public life.

LABYRINTH RIVERSIDE EAU CLAIRE, WI

ADDIS ABABA CREEKS ETHIOPIA

ADDIS ABABA CREEKS ETHIOPIA

The city of Addis Ababa (pop. 4.5 million), the capitol of Ethiopia, is situated on a highland plateau at the base of Mount Entoto to the north - ending abruptly to east and south at a chain of volcanoes at the edge of the Great Rift Valley, which runs from the coast of the Red Sea in the north to Kenya far south. This valley is home to numerous nomadic tribes, and many of the nation's 80% rural population also herd cattle - many coming to Addis Ababa to sell cattle seasonally. The informal economy, of which this instance is representative, is the primary economy for the majority of Ethiopians. This project called for strategies to enable the implementation of the city's Structural Plan (for development) - specifically issues of housing, water, and mobility. We saw that by addressing the decentralization of cattle markets, locating them along a latent natural corridor network, we could simultaneously create safe mobility corridors, solve erosion in the rivers and streams, and trigger public space with functional benefit to both adjacent and temporal parties. Our recommendation was to correlate the formal and informal through new and existing community networks, ensuring that the realization of the city's infrastructural plans also responds to the needs of the informal - and thus builds one community.

This work was done in collaboration with Noboru Kawagishi and Sebastian Alfaro Fuscaldo of the ETH-Zurich, and in coordination with Prof. Marc AngĂŠlil of ETH-Zurich, the University of Addis Ababa, and the Addis Ababa City Administration. This work also represented Switzerland at the 11th International Architecture Biennale Venice, 'Out There.

Architecture Beyond Building'.

EXISTING CONDITION

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HIDDEN RIVERS Rivers are commonly isolated with high walls due to the threat of flooding, and river areas are becoming neglected spaces where people throw away garbage.

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GRASSROOTS PILOT PROJECT, 2007

PROJECTS 2001-2011 2001 Locker Facility - Taliesin West, Arizona (project) COLLAB Architecture llc established in McKinney, Texas Library Mural - Taliesin West, Arizona Quonset House - Eau Claire, Wisconsin (project) 2002 COLLAB Studio - Menomonie, WI Becker House - Menomonie, Wisconsin Fox-Schultz House - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project) Tunnel Studio - Minneapolis, Minnesota Lang Garden - Menomonie, Wisconsin Landon Village - Mineral Point, Wisconsin (project) Fedderly House - Boyceville, Wisconsin 2003 Stelter House - Menomonie, Wisconsin Cedar Corporation - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project) McCoy House - Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Moseler Office - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project) Western House - Iron Mountain, Michigan River Hayven Dome - Menomonie, Wisconsin River Hayven Masterplan - Menomonie, Wisconsin Premise Agency - San Diego, California Starck House - Menomonie, Wisconsin Barstow Street Competition - Eau Claire, Wisconsin Labyrinth Riverside - Eau Claire, Wisconsin Ellinger Solar - Eau Claire, Wisconsin (project) East Lutheran (with Ayers Associates) - Madison, Wisconsin Habitat for Humanity House - Menomonie, Wisconsin WestCAP Headquarters - Glenwood, Wisconsin Winsor House - Eau Claire, Wisconsin 2004 Jasper House - Saint Paul, Minnesota Cigan Factory - Eau Claire, Wisconsin (project) WestCAP Housing Development - Glenwood, Wisconsin (project) Challe House - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project) WestCAP Auto Dealership - Glenwood, Wisconsin (project) Wilke Tavern - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project)

Saliera/Kusilek Gallery - Hammond, Wisconsin (project) Public Square Competition - Fargo, North Dakota Elliot Building - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project) 1021 House - Menomonie, Wisconsin Lausted House - Menomonie, Wisconsin Public Library Reading Unit - Menomonie, Wisconsin 2005 Native Bay Restaurant- Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Cummins House - Eau Claire, Wisconsin Reich House - Eau Claire, Wisconsin Castro Restaurant - White Bear Lake, Minnesota Alex Restaurant - Mequon, Wisconsin Hines Restaurant - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project) Jarvi Garden - Menomonie, Wisconsin Willow House - Menomonie, Wisconsin Kelly Building - Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin (project) Menomonie Market Food Co-op - Menomonie, Wisconsin Wood House - Black River Falls, Wisconsin 2006 Castro Restaurant - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Gagnon House - Eau Claire, Wisconsin (project) Baker House - Eau Claire, Wisconsin Just Local Foods Co-op - Eau Claire, Wisconsin Swanson House - Eau Claire, Wisconsin Entropy Office - Eau Claire, Wisconsin IDS Office - Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Lowe House - Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin (project) Weimer House - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project) MacLaughlin-Barck House - Menomonie, Wisconsin McCannon House - Minneapolis, Minnesota Meier House - Whitehall, Wisconsin Thun Lakefront (with ETH MAS), Finalist - Thun, Switzerland 2007 Davis House - Menomonie, Wisconsin Volume One Headquarters - Eau Claire, Wisconsin (project) Addis Ababa Creeks (with ETH MAS) - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Airport Terminal (with West 8) - Menomonie, Wisconsin (project)

2008 Monika Herrmann joins WXY Studio in New York Matthew Skjonsberg joins West 8 in Rotterdam and New York West 8 Studio (with West 8) - New York, New York

2003 'Bye Bye Birdie' Stage Set, Menomonie Theater Group, Tainter Theater - Menomonie, Wisconsin

2009 Three Hearts Club Recording Studio - New York, New York

LECTURES, WORKSHOPS + TEACHING POSITIONS

2010 Monika Herrmann leaves COLLAB Architecture and founds SpaceGrower_design+architecture: www.spacegrower.com 320 Apartment - Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2011 COLLAB Architecture - Selected Projects 2001-2011 Cantus Firmus Publishing - Rotterdam, The Netherlands

OTHER PROJECTS 1998 Herrmann House - Radmoos, Germany Hospital Physical Therapy Extension - Munich Germany Apprentice Shelter - Taliesin West, Arizona Pinpoint Cabin - Winter, Wisconsin 1999 Atrium Tables - Taliesin West, Arizona Lanai Renovation and Interior - Taliesin West, Arizona Usonian Automatic Shelter -Taliesin West, Arizona (project) Central Library - Doylestown, Pennsylvania (project) Taliesin Apartment Renovation and Interior - Spring Green, Wisconsin 2000 Library Renovation and Interior, Taliesin - Spring Green, Wisconsin Birdhouses - McKinney, Texas 2001 - 2002 Birdhouses - Menomonie, Wisconsin; Munich, Germany

1999 Junior Taliesin Apprenticeship Program, Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth - Taliesin / Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - Spring Green, Wisconsin 2001 Keynote Lecture, AIA Convention - Bartlesville, Oklahoma 'Living Coordinates' Lecture, University of Wisconsin - Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin 2002 'Living Architecture' Masterclass, Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth - Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin 2003 'Broadacre' Regional Design Masterclass (with Phil Lewis), Taliesin / Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - Spring Green, Wisconsin Upward Bound Workshop - University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire 'Graphicus' Lecture, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis 'Living Architecture' Masterclass, Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth - Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin 2004 Masterclass, Arts Coming Together - Menomonie, Wisconsin 'Broadacre' Regional Design Masterclass (with Phil Lewis), Taliesin / Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - Spring Green, Wisconsin 'Organica' Lecture, Public Library - Menomonie, Wisconsin

2005 Exhibition WAEA 2005 Fall Conference - Hudson, Wisconsin 'Broadacre' Regional Design Masterclass (with Phil Lewis), Taliesin / Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - Spring Green, Wisconsin 2006

'Eco-Municipality' Conference (with Mary Rehwald of Natural Step) by COLLAB at Tainter Theater - Menomonie, Wisconsin Masterclass, ILR Community Center - Menomonie, Wisconsin Newhouse Scholars, Program Director - Taliesin / Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - Spring Green, Wisconsin 'The Domestic' Masterclass, University of Wisconsin - Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin 2007 Volume One 'Ideas Lounge' Lecture, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Architecture 101, University of Wisconsin - Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin 2008 'Dynamis Equilibria' Lecture and Panelist, Landscape Representation Symposia, American Sociaty of Landscape Architects, NY Chapter - Center for Architecture, New York, New York 'Counterpoint' Lecture (with Felipe Correra), Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts Studio Critic and Jury (with Rob Rogers) Governors Island studio, Parsons New School, New York, New York

2009 'Dynamis Equilibria' Lecture and Jury (with Olaf Gipser), Berlage Institute - Rotterdam, The Netherlands 'Leviathan' Lecture and Panelist, Usonia Community Exhibition, Manhattanville College - Pleasantville, New York Lecture and Panelist, Documentary Film Premier 'A Child of the Sun' AIA Westchester Chapter - Pelham, New York 'Stranger Than Fiction' Critic and Jury (with Christophe Cornubert) - Berlage Institute - Rotterdam, The Netherlands 'Counterpoint' Lecture and Workshop, Taliesin / Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - Taliesin West, Arizona 'Dynamis Equilibria' Lecture (for West 8), Landscape Art Symposium, Oerol Festival - Terschelling, The Netherlands

'Dynamis Equilibria' Lecture (for West 8), University of Texas - Arlington, Texas 2010 'Dynamis Equilibria' Lecture, Landscape Architecture Symposium, TU-Delft - Delft, The Netherlands 'Stranger Than Fiction' Critic and Jury (with Christophe Cornubert) - Berlage Institute - Rotterdam, The Netherlands 'Iterations' Critic and Jury (with Daniel Jauslin and Sang Lee), TU-Delft - Delft, The Netherlands

2011 Critic and Jury (with Darius Karacsony), EPFL School of Architecture, Rolex Learning Center - Lausanne, Switzerland 'Iterations' Critic and Jury (with Daniel Jauslin and Sang Lee), TU-Delft - Delft, The Netherlands