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CONTENTS 04-21 I SSFCU I information technology building I
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SSFCU l information technology building Location: Tampa, FL Size: 43,000 sf Cost: n/a Projected Completion: 2009 Firm: HHAA
A major Florida Credit Union intends to establish a new corporate campus with a series of buildings situated around an open central pedestrian green space. The Information Technology Building includes a 7,000 sf data room that will house the entire corporate computer network and equipment. It wil be the first of three buildings for the Credit Union campus. The building is elevated above a portion of the required parking to provide security and preserve green space. The facility is designed with an open office plan to accomodate 120 employees. Additional support spaces include two conference rooms, an employee break room/cafe, a lounge, work room, copy room and various management offices. The major challenge of this project is to create an open, inviting work environment, while still providing and enclosure to withstand a category 5 hurricane.
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School Board of Manatee County l horizons academy Location: Manatee County, FL Size: 50,000 sf Cost: $9,900,000 Completion: 2007 Firm: HHAA
The facility is designed to provide a short term curriculum alternative for 500 students who have had difficulty succeeding in the mainstream educational environment. Different age groups range from the 6th to 12th grade. The school consists of four academic houses, two of which are dedicated to younger students and the others are for older students. The two house groupings are separated by the core programs of the gym, media center and cafeteria, located a the central axis of the campus to prevent the two different age group from crossing each other. The primary access into the facility is through a front entrance at the administration area located directly opposite of the secondary student bus drop off entrance, thereby creating a functional, visual “urban street� for supervision security. The idea behind this project is to create an open friendly campus downlaying its identity as a secure facility.
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School Board of Manatee County l jessie p. miller elementary school Location: Manatee County, FL Size: 100,000 sf Cost: n/a million Completion: 2007 Firm: HHAA
Designed as a two story-830 student replacement facility for existing school structure, the new campus incorporates state of the art planning principles in response to the new classroom size reduction legislation. The scheme provide single point of entry as well as natural light to all instructional spaces.
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Jacobs l residence Location: Tampa, FL Size: 6,000 sf Cost: n/a Projected Completion: 2009 Firm: HHAA
The site is situated at two convergent streets, leaving the property exposing to two sides. The idea behind this project is to use the two bars as a protecting boundary to create privacy for the residents. The merging of two axis creates a social space for daily interaction with the neighborhood.
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Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate l residence & chapel Location: Washington DC area Size: 23,000 sf Cost: n/a Completion: 2006 Firm: HNTB Architecture
The site is located on a heavily travelled street across from the main chapel. The intent is to create a quiet enclave while maintaing its identity to the city. A two-story residential building with its chapel is to serve 15 full-time priests and 10 part-time guests. The residence is designed around the internal courtyard for calm reflection. The chapel is identified by the city with its layered envelopes while penetrating light through these revealed layers are marking a passage of time from morning light to its evening gathering mass.
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United States Naval Academy l field house Location: Annapolis, Maryland Size: 100,000 sf Cost: n/a Completion: 2006 Firm: HNTB Architecture
The field house is located on the waterfront property of the USNA campus. The project includes a 80,000 sf indoor track with several offices for supporting space. Major glulam beam structures are exposed to recall the old ship’s ribbed construction with open viewing toward the water.
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United States Naval Academy l visitors’ access center Location: Annapolis, Maryland Size: 100,000 sf Cost: n/a Completion: 2006 Firm: HNTB Architecture
The concept plan for the project revises pedestrian and vehicle access to welcome visitors by providing security improvements for vehicular and pedestrian traffic approaching the gate. The light fabric roof structure is to reflect the distant sailboats located along the entrance axis. the intent is to create a landmark for the gateway of the campus.
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Harrisburg International Airport l intermodal center Location: Harrisburg, PA Size: 20,000 sf Cost: n/a Completion: 2005 Firm: HNTB Architecture
This projects is designed to connect all of the major circulation between the airport to the city, by providing an intermodal center, additional parking deck and elevated pedestrian walkway to the proposed amtrak station.
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DFW International Airport l terminal d Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas Size: 1.5 million sf Cost: $650 million Completion: 2006 Firm: HNTB Architecture
Airports are gateways that link the cities in a complex network. The first impression of cities are often our sense of arrival. The intent of our impression is to leave the passenger with a sense of openness and intuitive wayfinding. The roof is sculpted like a bird frozen in flight. The interior space below reflects the curve roof with lightness and openness. Skylights and clerestory glazing wash light down to enhance this effect.
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DFW International Airport l arrival canopy Location: Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas Size: 33,000 sf Cost: $2.4 million Completion: 2006 Firm: HNTB Architecture
An integral part of the DFW terminal is the canopy spanning 150’ between the terminal and parking garage. The translucent fabric serves as a welcoming gesture for the arriving passengers by protecting people from the elements while maintaining the sense of openness with a sunlit translucent skin. At night, a soft glow of light is projected onto the canopy, creating an orientation landmark for the terminal campus.
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Studio Project I places of exchange Location: Post-Colonial landscape of Hacienda Yunku, Yucatan, Mexico
A seventeenth century hacienda located within a village of Maya descendants is tucked away in dense vegetation within a long stretch of bare Yucatan landscape. The site is marked by the enclosed wall of a Spanish Colony. The topography is interwoven with aquaducts and exposed limestone, while the sectional shifting of the ground surface leads to the small aperture of an enclosed cenote. The abandoned ruins and artifacts hold an interesting potential, because of its size and because of its possibilities. The mapping of postcards are used as a vehicle to project across space and time to look for commonplaces through the landscapes. It is an arbitrary collection of fragments to cut section through a particular moment. The folding box is to create a temporal condition to reveal certain surfaces/subsurfaces of the vessels such as the existing cenote as a bathing vessel as a social space among different fluxes.
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Studio Project I community center for tourists and locals Location: Gainesville, FL
The film “La Jette� was analyzed through continuous series of overlapping images. The montage elements become an inquiry into the making of a cinematic language through memory. This fictive interpretation is later translated into the idea of the experience of a train passenger... seeing fragmented side views with unexpected events developing into displacement and condensation. These shifting sequences of spaces become the beginning of an architectural itinerary.
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Studio Project I video shop Location: Contemporary American City
An analysis of the contemporary American city has been conducted utilizing three different constructs involving three water edge conditions. The major elements of video shop, parking space, and public spaces are cross programmed through the understanding of the city scale and pedestrian scale, at which the transition between these scales frames the project as proposal for generating identity for American city.
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Studio Project I multi-media center Location: Hillsborough River, Tampa, FL
The project is to propose a building that would stitch together the parks on both sides of the river edge. The center allows visitors to interact media, art and education. The public space is structured with overlapping virtual and physical environments. This space is split by two converging wings of the digitized information walls. The walls create a transient space among the four uses of the program: research, production, entertainment and housing.
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Studio Project I exhibition space Location: No given location
As a project with no given site, this construction is to focus on the provision of a complex identity of space, taking cue from the qualities of the Maholy-Nagy light-space modulator sculpture. The structure sets up an interplay between light and dark provoking speculation upon structural order. The manipulation of light becomes a key function of this construction as it simultaneously becomes a projection mechanism and display space for the modulator.
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Studio Project I community museum & workshop for fine art craft work Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Considering the presence of an existing folded plate structure on this site by Robert Ernest in 1965, the project provokes a speculation upon the essential relationships between tectonic and stereotomic structure. The intent of this project to challenge the existing notions concerning community, art, public, private and architecture as a link in the fabric of a community. The workshop spaces to house five types of craft artifacts (metal, weaving, ceramic, glass and wood) celebrate the intersection between community space and space for the exhibition of fine art craft work. The viewing of the production processes involved in creating the work serve to link the community space.
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