Location: Windsor, Colorado
Size: 57,000 GSF
This assisted living and memory care facility sought to respond to Colorado’s agricultural past. The gabled roof and exposed wood structure hints at a simple yet sophisticated design language. Warm colors and cooler textures bring a vibrancy to the space, while light monitors and large fenestration help to emphasize the interior.
Designing for geriatric and memory care residents offers a challenge, as some can be sensitive to light, color, and texture. Extensive evidence-based research helped to inform the team’s design decisions and enabled us to be a confident resource for the client. Most importantly, our team delivered a dignified, familiar, and welcoming environment that transcends the natural history of the area.
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Location: Falmouth, Massachusetts
Size: approx. 3,000 GSF
This single family home on the southeastern shores of Cape Cod evokes new life into an otherwise traditional setting. Surrounded by classic New England vernacular, Gunning Point offers a modern take, with its familiar materials, but current geometry. Nestled just off the shore, in a wooded grove, this residence invites landscape indoors through its multi-faceted use of vegetation and grand views.
Throughout my time at Jill Neubauer Architects, the Gunning Point residence was a major focus. Using Revit and AutoCad, I worked diligently with project leads to accurately solve design problems, and ultimately create a full set of construction documents. During this process, I also collaborated heavily with the project team to develop renderings of all major spaces. In addition, facilitating coordination modeling among consultants was a crucial component to the success of this project.
Architect: Jill Neubauer Architects
Builder: Cape Associates
Photographer: Peter Vanderwarker
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Jill Neubauer Architects offers this design-build cottage to provide additional room for guests. As part of the initial pilot team, I created plans, sections, and details as a template for future use. I also worked with the builder on-site to construct the cottage shown here. The entire fabrication and construction process took about 1 week with the two of us building full time.
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Location: Palmer, Alaska
Size: 41,000 GSF
This medical office building located just northwest of Anchorage, sought to use its interior to respond to the surrounding landscape. The design palette uses natural wood tones and bold imagery to capture the spirit of the Alaskan wilderness in a modest way. Combined with extensive fenestration and a “constellation” of lighting above the main lobby, the space evokes a dialogue between light and material that is reminiscent of the natural environment.
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Synthesizing landscape, built form, and spatial progression through extraction, reinterpretation, and extension to promote human interaction and comprehension of site.
The world around us presents a palette from which design can flourish. Landscape, specifically, offers translation of itself through the built form, spatial progression, and material layering. The horizontal extension of earth, of which encapsulates the idea of landscape, physically reaches towards an increased interaction between human and site. Architecture and space can therefore realize this relationship. Subsequently, the elements (light, views, materials, and geometry) that can be exploited, conditioned, and reintroduced through articulated space further emphasize this new understanding. Site and architecture have overlapping ideas that inform and influence each other and exponentially reveal new experiences and methods of perception. The aforementioned qualities and elements of site can define the user’s experience of space and place, and help solidify the relationship between the natural and synthetic. The abstraction of a material’s organic function into an architectural function is the key method by which cognitive landscape can develop. Furthermore, spatial progression becomes and additional method in which human comprehension of site is fully extracted ; the experiences found on this specific trail directly influence the experiences found inside a structure. In coexistence with the notion of layers, spatial opacity seeks to blue and reveal aspects individually. With this dialogue between land and built form, the user and its inhabited environment can be further integrated.
Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, has been in the front line throughout the Syrian Civil War. Many historic, cultural, and iconic buildings and monuments of the ancient world have been reduced to rubble. One of the most important of these being the Souk, or marketplace, what was the largest in the world. This was the cultural spine to the city, an axis that has since been lost. By using architecture as a way to revitalize and sustain the memory of the old city, this “alternate path” seeks to dissolve the boundaries between commercial, residential, and social aspects of an individual’s daily life.
Mountains are the basis of stability in the Islamic culture. For those fleeing the war in Syria, the mountain city of Bergen, Norway, is the chosen site for their journey’s end. Creating an inlet in the staggered coastline
of the largest port in Norway, the welcome center embraces the arriving people and gives them a sense
of shelter. Progressing through the open-air space offers a transition through nature and transparency.
The design is familiar, yet foreign, offering a similar Syrian/Souk module, on a larger but lighter scale. The geometry helps propel the eye through the space and create focal points through transparent elements.
Location: Snowmass Village, CO
This high-rise luxury ski condominium responds to the peaks of the mountains surrounding Aspen Snowmass. Originally designed as a net-zero building, the design utilizes clean modern geometry that is inspired by both people and place.
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