Guest House Music Event Space
Merit Award // Excellence in Architectural Design, Residential
Architect // Sheldon Pennoyer Architects
GC // Timothy Groesbeck Construction
Structural Engineer // Annette Dey PE
Landscape Design // Gordon Hayward
Interior Design // Cameron Schwabenton, ASID, LEED AP
Jury Comments
The jury found this project to not only give new life to an old barn - but also to provide a fresh view of the barn conversion project type. The care and effort to reuse an entire barn creates a wonderful place to share the warmth of music or to have an overnight stay. The material palette of blackened steel, locally sourced pine boards, and stacked stone gathered on the site honors tradition while feeling new. The jury found the interior space that combined a desk, seating area, and framed long views to be very successful. The exterior of the project feels contextual while the interior feels fresh. The jury appreciates that the project supports goals of the larger property being Net Zero energy. The architect honored the client’s commitment with a focused attention to detail, a clear material language and interventions that created something new out of something old.
Description
Located on a 400-acre historic farm property, with an active wildlife management program in place, our clients proposed we repurpose an old timber frame barn from a neighboring town that was slated for demolition. Prompted by their longstanding involvement in the local high school’s summer music program, the barn was designed as an event space for music performances and recording, including a guest house for visiting musicians and an office.
Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse & Training Facility at Dartmouth College
Merit Award // Excellence in Architectural Design, Commercial
Architect // ARC / Architectural Resources Cambridge
GC // Estes & Gallup
MEP/Structural Engineer // Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering
Civil Engineering/Landscaping // Milone & MacBroom
Code // Howe Engineers
Rowing Tank // In River Tank and Boat
Jury Comments
The Jury was initially drawn into this project by its use of a simple strong form. Learning the form minimized the building envelope, helped to collect and direct rainwater while providing the ability to install photovoltaic panels further endeared the work to the jury. The building exceeds the code requirements for insulative values by nearly 175% and utilizes renewable resources for nearly 100% of its energy use; given the efficiencies, it’s all the more impressive how beautifully crafted and functional the interior spaces are. This balance of beauty and sustainable practice is worthy of recognition. The jury appreciated how the design responds and opens up to the adjacent river through its siting as well as large operable glazing units. Kudos the project team for being able to execute the project on a modest budget for a project of this complexity and ambition.
Description
Originally built in 1986, the original boathouse is a traditional crew facility and was built as a social space, rather than a training center. The renovation to the existing boathouse, with enhanced ventilation and dehumidification, as well as the addition of a 7,000 sf training facility allows the 120 student-athletes on the crew teams to all workout simultaneously in a fully dehumidified facility with enhanced acoustics, ample light, and natural ventilation with direct views to the river and landscape. The addition features state-of-the art rowing tanks that simulate the current of the Connecticut River and help collegiate rowers improve conditioning, refine their technique and fine-tune skills as a team during inclement weather and periods when the river is still covered in ice. The combination of the renovation and enhanced training facility has helped make the college a premier rowing destination for talented young rowers.
Lexington Studio
Merit Award // Excellence in Architectural Design, Small Firm
Architect // Archiphernalia
GC // Estes & Gallup
Structural Engineer // Kanayo Lala, PE
Civil Engineer // Fred W. Russell
Landscape Design // Laura Kuhn
Jury Comments
Starting with the massing of a traditional New England gable barn, the jury enjoyed the simple manipulation of this form to create a building that provides northern light, creates views, while allowing for a physical connection to the exterior. All spaces in this project are considered and resolved, not left to chance. The architects have created a wonderful detail in the sliding painting easel - the “painting wall” - acting as an outdoor easel while blocking direct sunlight. We imagine it’s a pleasure to create both inside the painting studio and outside at “the painting wall!” In summary, the project does as the architects intended: create a large impact on a strict budget by focusing on simple but meaningful moves.
Description
The Lexington Studio was designed to provide an artist with a lightfilled and open space to work on the grounds of his home. The two driving design factors were light (both natural and artificial) and views (both interior and exterior). The artist is inspired during the day, but does a great deal of work late into the night. The lighting and window placement are carefully calibrated and the work areas are positioned so that the artist can see his work from different angles of view. To provide more northern light and directed views of the tree canopy, the northwest corner of the gable structure is pulled skyward. To provide a sheltered painting porch facing the garden, the west elevation is pushed inward. In 1,400 sf, the building provides a double-height painting space, a wood shop, a loft space that functions as an office and drawing studio, storage, and a lavatory.
