With the Yale Sculpture Building and School of Art Gallery, the client aspired to LEED Silver performance only. The Platinum award (which is the highest level of LEED certification) in this case arose from the integrated process, not from exceptional expenditure for additive systems. For several months at the outset, the entire design team met with the client weekly. Options were assessed with all team members present as we developed the program, site orientation, massing, landscape, structure and curtainwall. The result is an artful building that thoroughly integrates performance with form and urbanism.
A historic photo from the early twentieth century shows Delaware Avenue with the Delaware River and Benjamin Franklin Bridge in the background.
KieranTimberlake has been selected as part of an internationally experienced team (including Cooper Robertson & Partners, master planners; OLIN, landscape architects; and HR&A Advisors) to develop the Master Plan for the Central Delaware Waterfront in Philadelphia.
The transformation of Houghton Chapel and addition of a new Multifaith Center required an intense dialogue with both the past and future at Wellesley College.
The renovation of Houghton Chapel and Multifaith Center at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, is a project profoundly rooted in dialogue: between architect and client, between historical and contemporary programs and spaces, and among the people of diverse cultures and religions who constitute the campus community. This dialogue moved the project beyond implementing preconceived notions of what a renovated chapel space might look like, and instead impelled us to create spaces within an historic structure that would welcome all and would invite the campus to experience the diversity of the human community.
Prominent on college and university campuses across the country are buildings, often referred to simply as “the chapel,” that once reflected the religious component of the educational missions of these institutions. Originally home to daily gatherings for prayer and ethical instruction, mostly in the Protestant Christian tradition, these chapel buildings have seen diminished use in the past half-century as educational institutions have renounced their religious past and have embraced a secular context for their future. Chapels on many campuses are religious anachronisms and function mostly as additional meeting spaces for community gatherings and lectures, or as historical buildings offering a quaint stop on college tours or a venue for the occasional wedding or memorial service. Since the mid-1990s growing religious diversity on campuses, reflecting the changing demographics of American society and the internationalization of American colleges and universities, has caused a rethinking of the role of religious and spiritual life in higher education and has thus brought new focus on religious and spiritual spaces, leading to the development of multifaith chapels.
Who says you can't build a house in a day? A time-lapse video from the Orange County Register documents the Newport Beach, CA, installation of the KTLH 1.5 house we designed for LivingHomes.
In a matter of a few hours, four off-site fabricated wood and steel modules comprising the 2,500 square-foot, two-story residence were precision-craned onto the site. The homeowners expect to move into their new house a month after install, meaning the entire process from laying the foundation to final finishes comprises less than four months—a half to a third of the time it takes to build a home with conventional methods.
The home was constructed in a factory in Southern California. Before its permanent installation in Newport Beach, the house was exhibited in 2009 at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas, NV, and the TED Conference in Long Beach, CA. It is poised to become Orange County's first LEED-Platinum Certified Home.
Brockman Hall is composed of two bars nestled between existing buildings. This results in a total of eight different facades.
In the spring of 2008, we began design for Brockman Hall for Physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. This 110,000 square-foot facility will house research, teaching, and office space for the Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Nestled between existing buildings in the dense Science Quad, the building envelope respects the scale of the historic masonry vocabulary of the campus while extending it into a twenty-first century model for architecture and research at Rice.
Components of Cellophane House™ are manufactured at a plant in New Jersey.
In Bosch Rexroth's lean manufacturing podcast, James Timberlake discusses how aluminum structural framing, commonly used in factory applications, was used to build Cellophane House™.
“We aimed to create a mass customizable system of building, not just a one-off. We wanted to show how a lean manufacturing approach could bring optimal benefits to home building,” said Timberlake.
“Cellophane House™ Part I and II” is episode 9 in Rexroth's lean manufacturing podcast series, available for listening or free download from the company's website. The podcast series is also available on iTunes and other podcast directories online.
Cellophane House™ was recently featured on Big Ideas for a Small Planet, Season 3, Episode 5.
An award-winning original documentary series from the Sundance Channel, this episode of the show asks the question, “Can we imagine architecture built on sustainability?”
This episode features interviews with forward-thinking designers, including Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss of Weiss/Manfredi Architects, Reed Kroloff from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Rocio Romero, and our own James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran.
ArchDaily sat down with Partner Stephen Kieran and Research Director Billie Faircloth to discuss the history of research and its integral role in our practice, including projects like monitoring at Sage Bowers, the Yale Sculpture Building, and Sidwell Friends School.
It was announced last month that the Yale School of Art Gallery and Sidwell Friends Middle School received 2008 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards, presented by The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association and The Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau.
The April 2009 issue of Builder magazine featured our sustainable modular homes, developed in partnership with LivingHomes, which are fabricated off site and can be assembled on site in just four days.
Small, green, and factory-built, Builder's 2009 show home anticipates housing's future. By: Jenny Sullivan, Nigel F. Maynard
When Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution, he wasn't thinking about housing, of course. But in this, the year of his 200th birthday, you can't help but imagine that the forces of natural selection are taking their toll on home building.
Few would argue that the industry has reached a point of reckoning. With credit in a virtual lockdown and fossil fuel reserves edging closer to extinction, home builders are adapting to new realities. The pressure is on to provide comfort and luxury in a smaller envelope, to engineer integrated, multifunctional plans and systems, and to build faster, smarter, and more economically. For many, this means rethinking how they've always done things.
Far be it from BUILDER to preach and not practice, so we upended some of our own timeworn habits in preparation for this year's International Builders' Show. Rather than doing stick-built showcase homes on conventional lots—as has been our tradition for nearly a decade—we partnered with modular builder and developer LivingHomes, the groundbreaking architects at KieranTimberlake Associates, and the eco-minded designers at Color Design Art to create an entirely different animal.
The 2,160-square-foot concept house that made its debut on the trade show floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center in January was factory-built to LEED specifications over the course of roughly three months. Shipped as a suite of modules and panels, it arrived on site nearly 95 percent complete and was stitched together in just four days. Simple, flexible, and sustainable, it is a study in how housing may very well evolve in the not so distant future.
