ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 304
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Wed Sep 20 21:00:10 PDT 2006
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DOWNUNDER LOUVERS
by Leigh Christy
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While architects in the Northern Hemisphere have been
appropriately fixated on manipulating southern
orientations of buildings in pursuit of
climate-responsive architecture, those "Downunder" have
been giving the same attention to north-facing facades.
In the new Business School for Auckland University of
Technology (AUT) in New Zealand, the architecture firm
JASMAX has designed a northwest facade that puts on a
visual show in response to the daily sun path.
The building demonstrates that when sustainable methods
are integrated early in the process, the result can win
awards for design excellence as well as for being
"green." The New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA)
recently awarded the building its highest honor, the
NZIA Resene Supreme Award for Architecture.
Completed in July 2005, the 114,000-square-foot
(10,600-square-meter) building is 10 stories high, with
a public entry and cafe on the ground floor, classrooms
on the next six floors, and offices on the top three.
According to JASMAX project director Euan Mac Kellar, a
less tangible part of the program was that the building
should serve as a gateway between central city of
Auckland and the AUT campus, ensuring that citizens
could use campus facilities while the students enjoyed
exposure to the local business community.
Having completed several projects on campus, JASMAX was
already familiar with the university's attitude toward
such integration. "AUT wants its campus to be part of
the city and not to be seen as an ivory tower," notes
Mac Kellar.
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Music with a View
by Michael J. Crosbie
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Sometimes an architect's most creative act is to
persuade a client to change the program, to reconsider
what they think they want. The result can be a fresh
approach to the problem, an invitation to see it in a
new light. That's what happened at the Hotchkiss School
in Lakeville, Connecticut, a private boarding school
that wanted to "tune up and amplify" its music program,
which was housed in a rather modest space in the
basement of a chapel.
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Perforated Metal
by L. Wiliam Zahner
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"Perforated" is the designation given to a body of
metal surfaces that have been pierced or cut with the
purpose of removing portions of the body of the sheet.
Perforated metal is available in a vast array of hole
sizes, shapes, and grids. Patterns can be staggered,
gridded, random, or custom.
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Postcard from Bristol
by Michael Cockram
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Dear ArchitectureWeek,
St. Werburgh was a 6th-century princess- turned- abbess
who is said to have abandoned the royal life to do good
and to work to make others happy. Now her namesake
church in Bristol, United Kingdom has found new life by
evolving from its formal ecclesiastical function to
serving Bristol's adventurous (and ascending) youth.
The church's s soaring vertical nave has proved an
unusual but effective space for a climbing center.
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