A-145.01Building Area: (sf)8,000 sf

Cost per Square Foot: Withheld at Owner’s Request

Construction CostWithheld at Owner’s Request

Date of Completion:May 2015

Program Summary:A new facility houses studio spaces for a visiting artists’ residency program in New Orleans.

Program Statement:A New York City based arts foundation commissioned a studio building for a visiting artists’ residency program in New Orleans soon after Hurricane Katrina. The artists’ studio building is situated on the interior of the block and is the only new construction within a larger campus of historic structures owned by the foundation. The building is configured in an L-shape to frame a large communal green space for the campus. Storm water retention is incorporated into the overall design with a sloped lawn, bioswales and retention pond. A primary bioswale planted with native vegetation slips under an entry bridge as it approaches a lower horizontal foreground mass whose façade is treated with vertical louvers in response to Louisiana’s harsh western sun. Rising behind this louvered garden façade are light monitors for eight studio volumes that catch north light while responding to the scale, geometry, material and rhythm of neighboring houses. The studio building anticipates a LEED Gold rating.

A-145.02

Twilight view from vehicular entry

Secondary entry with sloped lawn in the foreground looking back towards the main house

A-145.03

SITE PLAN

01 STUDIO BUILDING

02 ARTISTS’ RESIDENCES

03 MAIN HOUSE/OFFICE

04 COMMUNITY/CONFERENCE CENTER

05 STORAGE

01

02

03

04 05

A-145.04

FLOOR PLAN

01 COMMON ROOM

02 KITCHENETTE

03 MEDIA LAB

04 WORKSHOP

05 STUDIO

06 CISTERN

01

02

05 05 05 05 05 05

05

05

0403

06

A-145.05

Entry View

A primary bioswale planted with native vegetation slips under an entry bridge.

During a rainstorm, the building celebrates rainwater collection by diverting much of the roof runoff to the lower roof before cascading into the collection cistern and overflowing into the biowasle.

A-145.06

Common Room

Plywood strip louvered ceiling and finished concrete floors

A-145.07

Vestibule between studios

Studio entries are paired at vestibules with large windows allowing views to the perimeter greenery.

A-145.08

Studio

The south and east-facing skylights can be controlled to allow warmer light to compliment the north light that illuminates the studio space from the primary light monitors.

Plywood floors over wood sleepers allow for a comfortable standing surface and a substrate for mounting sculpture apparatus.

A-145.09

Secondary entry hall

General storage for artists‘ supplies is located within a thickened wall that allows natural light from above

A-145.10

View from vehicular entry

Secondary entry with sloped lawn in the foreground looking back towards the main house

A-145.11

View from adjacent residential street

Though the new building occupies the interior of an urban block, passersby are afforded glimpses between houses that face the perimeter residential street.

Light monitors for eight studio volumes catch north light while responding to the scale, geometry, material and rhythm of neighboring houses.

A-145.12

View from the artists’ residence

Studio light monitors rising behind the lower horizontal foreground mass.

The studio building anticipates a LEED Gold rating.

Project Name:Joan Mitchell Center Artists' Studio Building

Project Location:New Orleans, LA

Owner/Client:Joan Mitchell Foundation

Architect(s) of Record:(names and addresses)Lee Ledbetter & Associates1055 St. Charles Ave, Suite 320 New Orleans, LA 70130

Project Team:Lee Ledbetter, Tarra Cotterman, Will Soniat, Will Rosenthal, Peter Kilgust

Landscape Architect:Luis Guevara / Evans + Lighter

Consultants:Schrenk Endom & Flanagan Consulting Engineers – Civil Engineering

Lucien T. Vivien Jr. & Associates –Mechanical / Electrical / Plumbing Engineering

Edward Stanley Engineers - Structural Engineering

STAR Lighting Design – Lighting Design

Loisos + Ubbelohde – Daylighting Design

General Contractor:Palmisano Contractors

A-145.xCredit Slide

This slide will not be seen by the judges. It replaces what in past years has been in the sealed envelope.

Please fill out the information requested to the left. As with other slides please set the correct Entry Number above; OK to leave slide# as “x”

Some of this information will be added to the slides when used for the Awards Presentation at the AIA Louisiana Convention.

Note: on this slide if you run out of space please adjust font size as necessary or move more information to the second column.

Please submit 2 Power Point Submissions on CD as indicated on the instructions sent to you with your entry number (one w/credit slide and one without).

Photographer(s):(please list which specific slides get credited to each photographer(s) listed). Tim Hursley – Slides 1, 4-9, 11Lee Ledbetter – Slide 10