Grafton Architects selected for Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation
23/03/2020.
[Fayetteville - Arkansas] USA
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The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees has approved Grafton Architects, based in Dublin, and last recipients of the 2020 Pritzker Prize, in partnership with Modus Studio as the project team for the planned Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation.
The firm won out against five other big-name practices, including Dorte Mandrup A/S, Shigeru Ban Architects, LEVER Architecture, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, and WT/GO Architecture.
The firm won out against five other big-name practices, including Dorte Mandrup A/S, Shigeru Ban Architects, LEVER Architecture, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, and WT/GO Architecture.
Grafton Architects’ proposal demonstrates the design and structural potential of timber. Image courtesy University of Arkansas.
Grafton Architects’ proposal demonstrates the design and structural potential of timber. Image courtesy University of Arkansas.
Grafton Architects’ proposal demonstrates the design and structural potential of timber. Image courtesy University of Arkansas.
Design submitted by Shigeru Ban Architects. Image courtesy of Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas.
Design submitted by Dorte Mandrup A/S. Image courtesy of Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas.
Design submitted by Kennedy & Violich Architecture. Image courtesy of Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas.
Design submitted by LEVER Architecture. Image courtesy of Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas.
Design submitted by WT/GO Architecture. Image courtesy of Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas.
“This is fantastic news. We are very excited about building our first building in the United States in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This building helps us think about the future optimistically, where the use of timber with all its possibilities, becomes real, useful and hopefully loved.”
Farrell and McNamara of Grafton Architects in a press statement.
The $16 million facility, in partnership with the local modus studio, will become the Fay Jones School of Architecture’s design research center and will be built with a major emphasis on timber, a building material that has become increasingly popular in the past few years in North America for its structural properties and ability to sequester carbon.
The new center will serve as the epicenter for the Fay Jones School's multiple timber and wood design initiatives, house the school's existing and expanding design-build program and fabrication technologies laboratories, and serve as the new home to the school's emerging graduate program in timber and wood design.
The center, will be located on the northeast corner of the university's Windgate Art and Design District, along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in south Fayetteville. This campus district houses existing and proposed buildings for the School of Art and University Libraries.
The new center will serve as the epicenter for the Fay Jones School's multiple timber and wood design initiatives, house the school's existing and expanding design-build program and fabrication technologies laboratories, and serve as the new home to the school's emerging graduate program in timber and wood design.
The center, will be located on the northeast corner of the university's Windgate Art and Design District, along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in south Fayetteville. This campus district houses existing and proposed buildings for the School of Art and University Libraries.
"We are delighted and honored by this opportunity to work with Grafton Architects and the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. This is a unique opportunity to see the possibilities of an innovative wood building through an international lens while lending our Ozark perspective. Our passion for craft in architecture and making will serve our University of Arkansas students, faculty and staff for years to come."
Chris Baribeau, principal at Modus Studio.
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Grafton Architects, in partnership with Modus Studio
Yvonne Farrell - Shelley McNamara. Grafton Architects
Grafton Architects was established in 1978. Directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are both graduates of UCD, are Fellows of the RIAI, are International Honorary Fellows of the RIBA and are elected members of Aosdána, the eminent Irish Art organisation.
Teachers at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin from 1976 to 2002, they have been visiting professors at Accademia d’Archittettura, Mendrisio, EPFL, Lausanne, held the Kenzo Tange chair at GSD Harvard and the Louis Kahn chair at Yale University.
They have been external examiners at numerous universities including Cambridge University and The London Metropolitan School of Architecture. As well as public lectures in Dublin and abroad, including the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and the Royal Academy in London, they have lectured widely in European and American Schools of Architecture.
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. 2020 PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE
Chris M. Baribeau. modus studio
modus studio. Originally founded in 2008, modus studio is a LEED Platinum certified architectural studio and fabrication shop rooted in Northwest Arkansas, formed by 26 people. Their shop and studio opens to the public on a regular basis for educational lectures, hands-on workshops, and professional collaborations. They constitute a collective that aims to bridge the design profession with architecture, graphic, prototyping, and fabrication work. They are interested in simple, low-tech design solutions that improve life quality of people.
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