AWARD CEREMONYNOVEMBER 5, 2009

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WELCOME TO THE THORNBURG CAMPUS

2009

AWARD WINNER

2007 JHA WINNER:J.D. MORROW & SUBY BOWDEN

2007 JHA WINNER:J.D. MORROW & SUBY BOWDEN

BART PRINCE ARCHITECTURE

Cynthia Canyon, creator and publisher of Trend magazine

BART PRINCE STUDIO

BART PRINCE ARCHITECTURE

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“Garrett Thornburg's Award inspires Santa Fe architects

with Jeff Harnar's exploratory spirit and his skill at guiding clients who followed his path. His

sponsorship generously complements Jeff's architectural enthusiasm.

It is a welcome gift to the creative community of this town.”

- Conrad Skinner

“Garrett Thornburg's Award inspires Santa Fe architects

with Jeff Harnar's exploratory spirit and his skill at guiding clients who followed his path. His

sponsorship generously complements Jeff's architectural enthusiasm.

It is a welcome gift to the creative community of this town.”

- Conrad Skinner

THE JEAN COCTEAU CINEMA

THE ELAINE HORWICH GALLERY

BARBARO HOUSE

THE SANTA FE CHILDRENS’ MUSEUM

NEW for 2009 expanded to accept

submissions for projects built

throughout New Mexico & increased the award to $10,000.

- elementary school -

- mixed-use studios -

- single family house -

This year’s prize is awarded to

three architectural

firms:

2009 JUDGES

JON ANDERSON Jon Anderson Architecture

ELLEN BERKOVITCHadobeairstream.com

MICHAEL BRENDLERNL Design

BRAD CLOEPFILAllied Works

RICK JOYRick Joy Architects

SCOTT LINDENAUStudio B Architects

LAURA STEWARDSITE Santa Fe

Honorary Chairperson, Lori Harnar

2009 HONOREES

MARK BAKER ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

CHRISTOPHER CALOTT + THOMAS GIFFORD ARCHITECTURE/URBAN DESIGN

KRAMER WOODARD ARCHITECTURAL FIRM

CALOTT & GIFFORD ARCHITECTURE/URBAN DESIGN

“Richmond Street Studios”

CALOTT & GIFFORD ARCHITECTURE/URBAN DESIGN

“Richmond Street Studios”

BAKER ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN“Duranes Elementary Kindergarten Building”

BAKER ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN“Duranes Elementary Kindergarten Building”

Location : Albuquerque, New MexicoCompleted : September 2008Building Area : 10,000 square feetBudget : $1,800,000.00

Duranes Elementary School Kindergarten & Classroom Building

The new Kindergarten & Classroom Building has been designed to be an exciting and functional facility which will promote creativity and facilitate great teaching and student achievement. Since the Duranes campus has a limited area, the architect team realized it was especially important for the new building to be integrated into the available area in a non-intrusive way. The central design concept was to allow site forces to shape the building form through a series of massing reductions. Factors a such as pedestrian circulation, wind, and solar access were personified into tangible boundaries. For instance, an important site circulation artery on the north side shapes the angle of the adjacent wall and allows the students to "cut the corner" as they walk to the main playground. To provide sunlight to this path, the solar angle "presses" the roof down, creating a low profile along the north edge. The kindergarten playground is carved out on the south side of the building and is protected from the west wind and separated from the older students. Through these, and other, smaller manipulations, the resulting building mass is the corollary of the site's will.

This project is innovative in its design and use of sustainable concepts. Many green features were utilized including superior thermal insulation; energy efficient radiant heating; fresh air supply and air exchanges; low water use plumbing fixtures; one central evaporative cooling system atypical for a building of this size; and passive solar lighting in all rooms plus multiple lighting levels to work in harmony with natural day-lighting.

The main classrooms are lit primarily by natural day-lighting. Enough light is provided into the rooms from the upper clerestories that supplemental electrical lighting is not necessary during many of the day’s activities. The rooms have been provided with three lighting levels that can be controlled by the teacher. The energy savings on lighting is approximately 20 percent.

Duranes Elementary School Kindergarten & Classroom Building

The HVAC systems are very efficient. The cooler is an “air washer” which provides clean fresh air to the classrooms; it uses much less energy than refrigerated air. The heating is accomplished with radiant base boards which are also far more efficient than traditional forced air heating.

Additional green amenities include rainwater harvesting with an underground cistern that provides water for the campus garden. The roof form was designed to harvest rainwater which is collected in a 1700 gallon cistern and used to irrigate the community garden that was pre-existing on the site. Eighty five percent of the roof slopes to one point where the rainwater travels down three parallel downspouts and into the cistern. The students use a yard hydrant to water the vegetables. This system is used as a teaching tool for the students and residents of the Duranes neighborhood, raising awareness of sustainable living in the community.

Study model with roof removed - illustrating the overall building mass.

Rendering of entry

Study model of entry canopy Digital study model of entry canopy structure

View of main entrance. Entry area is recessed or “cut away” from main building form thereby creating a gathering space. The roof canopy, which loosely resembles a folded piece of paper, provides shade and announces the entry location.

Art/Music Room. North light is provided through the large insulated translucent panel. The roof/ceiling panels manufactured by Tectum are acoustically superior to standard acoustical tile.

Exterior view of translucent panel in Art/Music Room where students can “cut the corner” to the main playground.

View of a Kindergarten Classroom showing acoustical roof deck and natural daylighting. No supplemental lighting was used in this photograph.

View of the clerestory windows utilized in the Kindergarten Classrooms. The clerestories are recessed to eliminate direct light in the warmer months.

South elevation showing recessed clerestories, steel portal, and integral cast-in-place concrete benches that promote occasional outdoor teaching and spontaneous interaction.

View of portal on south side of building.

View of portal Entry canopy

The Faculty Work Room is located at the turn in the Hallway, centrally located with good views within the building.

View of Early Development Classroom with north facing light monitor.

Children leaning on the insulated translucent panel of the Art/Music Room which doubles as a community meeting space. When the room is in use, the back-lit panels act as a beacon for night time meetings and performances.

KRAMER WOODARD ARCHITECTURAL FIRM

“Lot K”

KRAMER WOODARD ARCHITECTURAL FIRM

“Lot K”

LOT K“precisely imprecise, perfectly imperfect” “it’s new beginnings” “you’re looking at the luxury of being no. 1”

Albuquerque, NMCompleted 2000Area: 2627 sq. ft. Budget: $150,000

On the Building of a Speculative House for Oneself The prevailing “styles” of architecture in New Mexico is generally understood as being based on local and historical precedents. Vernacular architecture, like spoken language, is an evolving condition subject to reinterpretation by society in tandem with cultural trends and values. In the film The Big Lebowski, for example, obscenities are used ad nauseam as adjectives rather than verbs to disassociate these terms from any specific action. In that way, the screenwriters establish a language for the actors that connote their commonness characteristics to the audience. Although initially offensive, we become complacent by the words being overused. At some point, we come to ignore the meaning of the words as slang in favor of their generic expressive qualities.

 

If we consider the essence of the typical developer tract house, we find a similar bastardization of language. The stereotomic method of construction used to build the great pueblos and haciendas has been transformed into a ubiquitous layer of fawn colored stucco covering western platform framing.

 

Too often it is only the surface value of these precedents that are translated; leading to shallow interpretive replications. In that way we become as relaxed about our built environment, as we are about four letter words. As a way to counteract this predisposition it is imperative that we analyze and abstract the traditional values and processes to discover their fit within the circumstances of contemporary attitudes. To that end this house - as with all of my work – sets out to transcend the governing misunderstanding of tradition and history in favor of a deeper coalescence and identification with this landscape – all at the actual cost of $225,000.

Commanding views of the downtown and the west mesa, Lot K is as much about the city as it is a reaction against suburban growth. This intention was pushed to an extreme in Villa Untitled; a house atop a warehouse in an industrial part of Albuquerque designed in 1994. Figure A. Using a modernist syntax, the house is organized around exterior spaces that are similar to the courtyard houses from the Spanish colonial period. A circulation system reminiscent of the enfilad pattern used in the haciendas and moradas of the area defines spatial relationships that connect to and defends against the natural landscape figures B,C . At the Nether’s House in Alameda of 1992 figure D a similar strategy was used to encapsulate a pre-existing apple orchard. Of the same year the second floor addition of the Feinberg residence wrapped around an exterior terrace that floats over a dining room, introducing a more abstract vertical investigation of courtyard. Figure E. This tactic also used in the guest-house at Corrales designed in 1996. CD1012 a simple structure based on a rectilinear volume, the lap pool and a vertical shaft ascending through the two-story space serve to define the relation of the ground and sky. Figure F. It is the relation of outside natural phenomena and the eccentricities of daily habits and memories on the inside that enables one to dwell. For this reason these projects describe a connection between the intellectual and physical aspects of life so often bifurcated by the complexities of coeval social constructs. The attempt is to create a seamless position devoid of compartmentalization. To that end Lot K was initiated to understand the forces that drive the single-family dwelling and implement a new program for understanding this Landscape. It is an anomaly propagandized by the belief that honesty is a virtue by which success can be measured when in reality truth has little relevance in a society consumed by “image is everything”.

1 The use of the word “landscape” in this context implies a series of issues ranging from the economic, political to physical conditions, which inform, reflect and define a place/space.

Figure A

Figure D Figure E

Figure C

Figure F

Figure B

Figure C

Located on a hilltop near the University of New Mexico in the Spruce Hill Neighborhood, this house is oriented to take advantage of Albuquerque’s weather cycles. Commanding views of the Downtown, West Mesa, and Volcanoes, it’s prominence and integration makes it a spectacular addition to this well-established neighborhood. Designed to meet the life style needs of the contemporary family, it is a home for the 21st century. Offering unique spatial flexibility along with the conveniences of traditional Southwest comfort, it is a meeting of “Old World” hospitality with cyber space expediency. Constructed of pre-engineered wood and concrete this 2627 square foot in-floor heated house uses 624 square feet of exterior patios and terraces to increase the living area in the comfortable temperate climate of New Mexico. It is a house that recognizes and takes advantage of the powerful yet fragile landscape of the region.

Ground Floor Plan

A Courtyard

B Entry

C Living Room

D Dining Room

E Breakfast Room

F Kitchen

G Family Room

H Terrace

A

B

C

D

F G

H

E

A Courtyard Below

B Master Bedroom

C Master Bath

D Gallery

E Bedroom A

F Bath

G Bath

H Bedroom B

I Clerestory

Upper Floor Plan

H F

B

C

I

A

E

D

Building Section

2009 HONOREES

MARK BAKER ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

CHRISTOPHER CALOTT + THOMAS GIFFORD ARCHITECTURE/URBAN DESIGN

KRAMER WOODARD ARCHITECTURAL FIRM

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