Architecture Research Office, New York
Princeton University, NJ, USA
2005 -2007
Architecture Research Office
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Design Development and Construction Design
Scope:
2005 -2007
Architecture Research Office
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Design Development and Construction Design
Scope:
2,000 sf addition; 6,000 sf renovation
Dates:2004-2007
Budget:
Dates:2004-2007
Budget:
$4.2 million
Staff:
Adam Yarinsky, Stephen Cassell (Principals); Megumi Tamanaha (Project Manager); Arthur Chu, Reid Freeman, Tina Hunderup, Jennifer Park, Bryan Young (Project Team).
Awards:
Merit Award for ArchitectureAmerican Institute of Architects, New York State ChapterSchool of Architecture Addition, Princeton University
Merit Award for ArchitectureAmerican Institute of Architects, New York State ChapterSchool of Architecture Addition, Princeton University
Overview:
A strategic intervention, this project re-centers the Princeton School of Architecture around a glass-enclosed link between the existing two-story south wing, where the School's administrative offices and library are located, and the three-story north wing’s studios and classrooms. The addition contains a new lobby, student lounge, elevator, and cantilevered steel stair. Plan and section take their dimensions from the existing 1963 building: the addition aligns with the existing floor levels and, on the exterior, translates the rhythm of the existing building’s window bays. Large glass panels, with varying ceramic frit patterns overlaid like the folds in a curtain, comprise the addition’s envelope. The elevator shaft, painted shades of blue, forms the background against which the stair and the frit pattern are read.
A strategic intervention, this project re-centers the Princeton School of Architecture around a glass-enclosed link between the existing two-story south wing, where the School's administrative offices and library are located, and the three-story north wing’s studios and classrooms. The addition contains a new lobby, student lounge, elevator, and cantilevered steel stair. Plan and section take their dimensions from the existing 1963 building: the addition aligns with the existing floor levels and, on the exterior, translates the rhythm of the existing building’s window bays. Large glass panels, with varying ceramic frit patterns overlaid like the folds in a curtain, comprise the addition’s envelope. The elevator shaft, painted shades of blue, forms the background against which the stair and the frit pattern are read.
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