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University of Tennessee Biotech Greenhouse
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Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic
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Prescott South PreK-8
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East Tennessee State University Cardiology Clinical Education Building II
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Downtown Kingsport Model City Coalition Jackson Farm Master Plan
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Red Chair Architects is a full-service architectural design firm utilizing the best design thinking, experience, and partnerships to embrace each client’s needs. By first listening and then understanding their goals, desires, and budgets, the Red Chair team captures their clients’ dreams and gets them built. The red chair symbolizes the firm’s focus on the person for whom we design - a comfortable place of real distinction as we explore each client’s unique needs. Red Chair Architects is committed to serving our region through exceptional design and friendship for years to come.
Expertise PreK-12, Higher Education, Healthcare, Civic, Commercial, Adaptive Reuse, and Residential
Services include Pre-design: site analysis/selection/acquisition; strategic planning and programming; development option identification; project delivery Capital Building Program | Capital Maintenance Scheduling and Budgeting 4
Facility Assessment | Analysis: function/physical condition/utilization/life cycle analysis Long-Range Strategic Planning | Master Planning: urban; academic/campus; school system- wide; residential Interior Design: interior programming; space-planning; finish selections; tenant build-out and furniture selection Graphic Design Facilities Management Services 5
University of Tennessee Biotech Greenhouse
This building presents a mundane material palette used to great effect. There is a simple sectional clarity and a connection to the exterior established throughout the corridors. 2009 AIA East Tennessee Awards Jury Honor Award
A decade ago the University of Tennessee’s nationally recognized Institute of Agriculture embarked on a multi-phase building program aimed at developing unparalleled facilities for research and teaching on the Knoxville Campus. Featuring a spacious laboratory-style classroom, an auxiliary classroom for small groups, and ten state-of-the-art glasshouse bays, the new Biotech Greenhouse fulfills the teaching component of the master plan.
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The head house is designed for a multitude of users ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to researchers, professors, community volunteers, and visitors. Clarity of circulation was a necessity for this project to provide effective spaces for all groups. All main programmatic elements are organized along two perpendicular corridors. The primary corridor runs from the parking area at the east side of the site to the Trial Gardens on the west side and serves both classrooms and the preparation/research room.
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Large windows flood this space with daylight and provide a visual connection between the classrooms and the glasshouses, linking the concepts studied in one with the methods practiced in the other. The secondary corridor links the glasshouse bays and loading dock on the south end of the building with the head house and support functions to the north. Restrooms accessed from this corridor serve the building occupants as well as the volunteers that manage the UT Trial Gardens located next door. Both corridors are wide enough for mechanized carts bearing soil and plants to easily maneuver from storage and service entry areas in to their intended glasshouse bays. 11
Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic
A medical facility designed to visually communicate and physically encourage the clients’ progressive approach to orthopaedic diagnosis, treatment, and therapy.
The Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic needed a new building to better accommodate their immediate needs as well as future expansion. The complex program required space for three distinct user groups - the primary medical practice, a separately administered therapy practice, and an office area that would serve as the administrative and scheduling center for the regional KOC system.Â
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In response to a ridge that bisected the site, a central spine for the building was created as an organizational element for the diverse programmatic functions. This spine is clad in stone and extends into the site to designate the main entry. The therapy practice, with its individual entry, was tucked against the spine on the lower portion of the site while the medical practice sits above and straddles the spine to occupy the upper site. Both areas are grouped in a brick-clad volume that serves as an anchor for the administrative level on top. That level is expressed as a volume with ventilated rain screen cladding that wraps over the brick volume, and acts as a billboard to the street. 15
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Very impressed with the way you were really listening to some of the operational and spatial issues the staff were expressing and your ability to create solutions to the issues. Vanessa Draper, PhD Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic
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University of Tennessee Greenhouse
A key goal was to create a healing interior environment for patients and staff. Materials from the exterior continue inside the building to form the base for a warm color palette. Through the careful use of windows at the end of all primary corridors and in major spaces, daylight is drawn deep into the interior and views extend beyond the building envelope.
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Prescott South PreK-8
A brand new concept for Putnam County, this project combines a pre-K through 4th elementary school with a 5th through 8th middle school.
The result is two independent grade structures each with separate entrances, administrative offices, classroom wings, gymnasiums, libraries, and cafeteria spaces. The design for the new Prescott South Elementary and Middle School challenged preconceptions in its response to pragmatic, programmatic, and budgetary requirements. The project required the creation of two new schools, one a preK 4 elementary and the other a 5 - 8 middle school, on a single parcel of land. The solution sought to identify elements of redundancy where cost savings could be achieved if eliminated, such as the kitchen and media-center support spaces. 22
It also sought to identify areas where the individual school programs could be enhanced through a merger, these would include spaces like the auditorium, art classrooms, and music classrooms. Both schools needed to maintain an independent identity, while still having easy access to the shared core functions. This led the massing to be conceptualized as 5 monolithic parallel program bars threaded together by a central circulation spine.
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A primary goal of the design was to create a school that embodied a sophisticated playfulness. This can be seen through the use of a calm neutral palate overlaid with bold colors in the interior spaces. Circulation zones, entries, and common gathering spaces are awash in daylight from the ample windows that also provide views to the surrounding rural context. Each school makes up a smaller neighborhood within the larger campus with easy access from classrooms to core functions.
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East Tennessee State University Cardiology Clinical Education Building II
This project uses daylight and an everyday material palette in a way that challenges the conventions of health care design. The floor plan diagram is clean and efficient while the section effectively brings light in...The details are thoughtful and not overdone. The client got a lot for their money. 2009 AIA East Tennessee Awards Jury Merit Award Winner
The first in a planned medical office park in Johnson City, the East Tennessee State University Clinical Education Building II (CEB II) is nestled in a wooded site with great views of the Appalachian Mountains. With 24 exam spaces, 6 physician offices, 2 procedure rooms, and a cardiology suite the facility began seeing patients in March 2009.
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Organizational clarity and efficient flow for patients, physicians, and nurses was a key design driver. A simple patient loop starts at check-in / waiting, moves through triage to the exam rooms, back corridor, and to check-out. The nursing station and physician’s offices are centrally located to the exam rooms.
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Downtown Kingsport Model City Coalition A planning study to assist the City of Kingsport identify optimum development opportunities for under-utilized sites within the downtown core. Development options and densities were studied and presented as tools for economic recruitment.
Jackson Farm Master Plan
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Features of the master plan include a fully-integrated green development. The entire site was envisioned to behave as a single, cohesive unit, with all buildings contributing to the totality of the sustainable development. Photovoltaics, geothermal fields, and green roof technology were planned to be used on a community-wide scale.
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