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University of Tennessee Biotech Greenhouse
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East Tennessee State University Cardiology Clinical Education Building II
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Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority House
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Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House Comprehensive Higher Education Experience
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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.
Our design team offers extensive higher education and campus planning experience. We approach each project with creative and energetic design skills blended with a no-nonsense approach to fiscal responsibility. We understand the design will be a challenging and complex process – one that will require the ability of the architect to listen, understand and help shape the institution’s common vision. We consistently receive high acclaim for architectural design.
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We are rigorous analysts and skilled problem solvers, enabling us to respond to challenging programs in a variety of building types. Our successful design process is interactive in nature and based on close collaboration between project team, client and user group.
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What are the characteristics of a higher education learning environment in the age of information? We understand that several key concepts for successful classrooms and meeting and social spaces within an academic campus. Students and faculty work in groups, multi-task, and use technology to facilitate group interaction. This collaborative learning style needs new, creative and functional spaces. Relaxed discussion areas, flexible spaces that can adapt to class size, and structured group spaces must all be integrated and equipped with easy access to technology. Lecture-based teaching spaces must feature interactive technologies and multimedia training opportunities. It is our goal to design responsive and flexible environments which help equip students for further career and educational opportunities. 7
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. 13
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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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Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority House
Designed in Old World / European residential style, the chapter house sets out to impress tradition, strength, familiarity, and comfort upon new pledges.
Occupying a prominent location in the new Sorority Village on the University of Tennessee’s campus is the fifty-bed chapter house for the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority with a one-hundred-and-sixty-seat chapter room.
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Designed for both the day-to-day life of the residents and weekly chapter functions as well as large events, the proximity and connectivity of the chapter room, parlor, and dining spaces allow for flexibility while maintaining intimacy desired for daily use.
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Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House
The new Chapter House of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority reflects the quality and sophistication representative of the sorority’s values while providing a comfortable home for thirty-three of its members.
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The house is styled in a traditional French Eclectic vernacular, utilizing gabled and hipped roof forms with dormers and balconies. It is nestled among beautiful, mature trees.
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Comprehensive Higher Education Experience
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East Tennessee State University - Johnson City, TN Kingsport Family Physicians Reece Museum Renovations ETSU Cardiology Clinical Education Building 11
Maryville College - Maryville, TN Athletics Master Plan Willard House
Motlow State Community College - Lynchburg, TN Master Planning
Northeast State Community College - Blountville, TN Master Planning
University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN Phi Delta Theta House Biotech Greenhouse Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority House Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority House Panhellenic Offices | Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority House Alumni | Welcome Center Study Biotech Greenhouse Greenhouse Hesler Biology Building Renovations UT President’s House Renovation VOLS TV Studio UT Botany & Landscaping Buildings Physical Plant Services IDIQ Lake Avenue Parking Garage White Avenue Parking Garage Communications Building, Renovation / Predesign Stokely Center, Demolition
Campus Master Plans* Dyersburg State Community College Southwest Tennessee Community College Middle Tennessee State University University of Memphis University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis Union University * Master plans completed by David Cockrill while principal of The Pickering Firm.
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