This week, we're sharing projects from China to Washington, Oregon, and Missouri, with several stops in between. In addition to the projects that we cover in detail, we highlight work that architecture firms share with us every day through Project Gallery, the user-generated portion of ARCHITECT's website. To date, we have more than 15,000 projects.
North Kansas City High School, North Kansas City, Miss.
BNIM
"The design employs natural daylight in regularly occupied spaces and maximize solar harvesting via an expansive rooftop [photovoltaic] array system. The team identified other goals to strengthen the surrounding community through sustainable measures, including: repairing local hydrology through thoughtful development and regenerative landscape and stormwater harvesting and reuse practices; integrating groundwater with the building mechanical energy system; and creating campus public spaces that can complement and enliven adjacent properties."
Blakely Island Artist Studio, Blakely Island, Wash.
Olson Kundig
"An intimate study in scale, this compact 450-square-foot cabin makes the most of its remote site on a forested bluff overlooking the water in the San Juan Islands. Consisting essentially of a single room, the wood-framed cabin offers flexible space as a painting studio or a guesthouse."
Huabang International Centre, Guangzhou, China
10 Design
"The latest stage of construction at 10 Design’s Huabang International Centre has been marked with a special ceremony to celebrate the lifting of the sky deck that connects the two buildings within the scheme in Guangzhou, China."
El Camino Health Behavioral Health Services Taube Pavilion, Mountain View, Calif.
WRNS Studio
"The building’s face to the community is light in spirit, welcoming, and non-institutional, helping to destigmatize mental illness and its treatment."
IM Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Aedas
"Derived from concept of mountains, the development stands to present a stratified geology providing pinnacles, caves, rocks, and waterfalls in the valleys, with geometric office towers expressing as mountain peaks and rock-shaped pavilions lining alongside the busy traffic flow in between to form a dynamic streetscape."
Edward J. Ray Hall, Bend, Ore.
SRG Partnership
"Informed by the unique topography of its site, the building’s dynamic indoor/outdoor environment will support numerous activities and events, engaging people through classroom, laboratory and maker spaces, as well as a formal amphitheater and an informal cascading plaza for gathering."
Thoughtbarn Tiny Victories, Austin, Texas
Thoughtbarn
Located in Community First! Village in Austin, Texas, this dark-stained cedar microhouse will provide affordable housing for a formerly chronically homeless individual in the area. Designed as part of Community First's expansion by the local firm Thoughtbarn, the 186-square-foot abode provides its resident with both privacy and a connection with nature thanks to a combination of a mostly solid façade, wide windows, and a spacious back porch that opens onto the surrounding landscape. Read more about Community First! and Thoughtbarn's microhouse in "Small Houses, Big Impact," which appeared in the April 2021 issue of ARCHITECT .
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