brick awards 2012

brick industry association

mississippi state university

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school of architecture

brick awards 2012

brick industry association

mississippi state university

school of architecture

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professors a. gregory + h. herrmann

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

In the spring semester of 2012, the School of Architecture received a $5,000 grant from the Brick Industry Association in order to provide extracurricular support, and student travel awards, for a Third Year Design Studio Competition. This particular studio is specifically focused on the tectonic and systems aspects of buildings. This is the second year in a row that the School of Architecture has received generous funding from the Brick Industry Association. We truly owe our sincere thanks for this inventive collaboration to Nathan Moore, Development Officer for the College of Architecture, Art + Design, and Jewel Warlick, Director of Marketing for the Brick Industry Association in the Southeast Region. It only came to pass as a result of their guidance and persistence. The office of the Director would also like to thank the Third Year faculty, Professor Alexis Gregory and Professor Hans Herrmann, for their leadership and inventiveness in developing and leveraging these funds in order to provide the students with both a memorable and a highly educational experience. This type of industry support for a capstone studio has significant effects on raising the bar and expectations of our students. It provides overt opportunities to engage with industry and architects around the region, ultimately having a profound impact on the education of these young designers. In closing, the School of Architecture truly appreciates the external support and encouragement of our alums, friends, and industry partners. Increasingly, we have come to depend on you in order to continue to deliver these extraordinary educational opportunities to our students, and to have vehicles such as this monograph to celebrate their stellar work products. Michael A. Berk AIA | F.L. Crane Professor Director School of Architecture

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Brick Industry Association Project Description Field Trips Guest Reviewers Faculty Advisors Student Presentations Award Winners Honorable Mention
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Mack Braden Michael Varhalla Chelsea Pierce John Thomas

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Precedents: cultural influences teaching organic farming restaurant precedents culinary school precedents

BRICK INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

The Brick Industry Association (BIA) is the national trade association representing distributors and manufacturers of clay brick and suppliers of related products and services. BIAs primary mission is to increase the market share of clay brick and safeguard the industry. Since its founding in 1934, the association has been the nationally recognized authority on clay brick construction and represents the industry in all model building code forums and national standards committees. BIA is involved in a broad range of activities that appeal to architects, builders, community officials, and consumers, including Technical Notes on Brick Construction, Brick in Architecture, Brick In Home Building, Builder Notes, national awards competitions, educational seminars, and numerous other programs. BIA also advocates the industry at the federal, state, and local level with its environmental, health, and safety work as well as educational programs for local municipal and planning officials. Along with the national headquarters, BIA is comprised of regional associations that manage programs in the Heartland, Midwest/ Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest.

sources: BIA Mission & Services. The Brick Industry Association. Web. 19 Mar. 2012. <http://www.gobrick.com/Resources/AboutBIARegions/MissionServices/tabid/7626/Default.aspx>.

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Steel Design Student Competition. Web. 19 Mar. 2012. <http://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/competitions/steel-competition>.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
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The project calls for the development of a Culinary Arts School with an emphasis on generating thoughtful designs and taking these designs to a detailed level of completion. The project is to be approached with innovation in both building materials and systems while still holding to an overall design concept. Designs should also respond to their regional influences, cultural influences, and climate influences. All designs should also acknowledge a responsibility for both social and environmental influences. Projects must also show a reduced reliance on non-renewable resources. The program calls for teaching facilities in the form of demonstration labs, teaching kitchens, classrooms, and lecture halls, along with support areas for such spaces. The school is also to house administrative spaces and a career service area to support faculty and students. The students who attend will serve as the workers in a restaurant and a bake shop, both of which are open to the public.

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FIELD TRIP

Viking Range Corporation and Viking Cooking School Greenwood, MS

The Viking Range Corporation headquarters in Greenwood, MS houses a show room for their available products. Their show room features several different layouts and possible arrangements for both commercial and residential kitchen equipment. Viking also provides a separate educational setting, which also features their kitchen equipment. The Viking Cooking School is geared more towards educating the community and is home to several small kitchen spaces utilized as culinary classrooms.

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FIELD TRIP
Site Visit | Memphis, TN

The main purpose of the trip to Memphis was to visit the location for the project and to learn more about the city itself. The site visit included measuring and photographing the site, and gathering information on pedestrian traffic, vehicular traffic, and local restaurants. Along with analyzing the immediate site, we also noted the building context surrounding the site, which would eventually influence the design of our buildings.

archimania | Memphis, TN

The studio also visited the office of a local architecture and interior design firm, archimania. Archimania is committed to design excellence by not only resolving design issues, but by pursuing budget and business issues with the same level of conviction. The firm is also highly focused on sustainable designs that are raw, pure, and modern. Todd Walker, one of the firms founders, also gave the studio a tour of downtown Memphis and highlighted several of the firms local design projects.
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FIELD TRIP

Bennie G. Thompson Academic and Civil Rights Research Center Tougaloo College | Jackson, MS | 2011

The Bennie G. Thompson Academic & Civil Rights Research Center, the first academic building built on the Tougaloo College Campus since 1959, was the first building project to advance the goals of the new master plan. The new building sits south of the historic Robert O. Wilder Mansion and formally frames the campus center space, a rolling lawn of pedestrian pathways and broad, mature cedars and oaks. The historic Woodworth Chapel sits across the green and marks the center of the campus. The massing, materials and grain of the building respect the character of the campus while the details and arrangement of inner and outer spaces promote individual inquiry. The building is designed to be both vernacular and progressive. The building is organized to embody Tougaloo Colleges educational mission by entangling students, faculty, art, visitors and campus leaders in cross-disciplinary educational environments. In addition to the formal educational environments, there are many nooks and pauses in the building for students to meet and talk and for faculty and students to gather and exchange ideas. Each space in and around the building has multiple horizons between and beyond them to encourage individual inquiry and growth. Each wing is connected by compressed thresholds constructed of aluminum walls with images of important African American Civil Rights events and figures. These thresholds palpably embody a sense of the movement from oppression to freedom and promote pause and reflection in the daily habitation of the building.
sources:

http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-review-detail/31468_bennie_g_thompson_academic_civil_rights_research_center

2011 Design With Brick Presidents Award 2011 AIA Mississippi Honor Award

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FIELD TRIP

Mississippi University for Women Culinary Arts Institute | Columbus, MS

The tour of the Mississippi University for Womens Culinary Arts Institute was intended to educate the students on the layout and organization of a culinary school. Erich Ogle, the director of the institute, toured the studio around the facilities and highlighted the important educational spaces within the school.

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GUEST REVIEWERS
Glen Clapper, BIA Representative

Glen Clapper has been with the Brick Industry Association - Southeast Region (BIASE) since 2001. Prior to joining BIA-SE, his work experience included the investigation and repair of buildings and other structures. He began his career working for a small architectural firm where his responsibilities included schematic design, preparation of construction documents and site observation. Glen received his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies and his Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois and is a registered architect. Glen is also a member of ASTM, The Masonry Society, the Masonry Alliance for Codes and Standards, and AIA.

Grady Griffin

Grady Griffin, a Jackson native, has been in the food-service industry since 1988. A certified Sommelier by the World Court of Master Sommeliers, Grady served on the opening F&B team for Golden Moon Casino & Resort and later opened Jacksons Elixir Restaurant & Bar. Grady served on the board of directors of the Mississippi Hospitality & Restaurant Association (MHRA), holding the offices of secretary/ treasurer and Chairman of the MHRA Education Foundation. He currently serves as Director of Education for the MHRA, consulting new business development and training opportunities for restaurant operators across the state. He is married to Amanda and has two sons, Will and Seth.

sources:

http://www.archimnia.com/ | http://www.duvalldecker.com/ContentViewer.aspx?ShowBack=True&DisplayType=3&PageID=12&ContentID=7 http://www.jackpedia.com/index.php/wiki/Grady_Griffin/

Erich Ogle

Todd Walker, FAIA

Todd, a founder of archimania, is an incredibly talented designer whose work has been recognized by over twenty organizations and publications, both national and local. He has twenty-three years of experience in architecture, and thirteen as an entrepreneur. Todd is an innovator who thrives on raw, simple materials. He is the guide and director of every projects design. He hates the phone and conventional filing systems, and he plays as hard as he works. Todd loves his house, his family, his vacations, and his motorcycle. A born storyteller, this Arkansas boy has a matchless archive of childhood tales to tell. And he does, often.

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Chef Erich Ogle joined the Culinary Arts Institute at the Mississippi University for Women (MUW) in August of 2005 and is currently serving as Director of the Institute. Chef Erich is a graduate of The Culinary Arts Institute at MUW as well as recently being awarded an MA from the University of Adelaide and Le Cordon Bleu in Gastronomy. His twenty years as a chef include working throughout Mississippi as well as multiple venues in Florida.

sources:

http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/agregory/about-2/ | http://caad.msstate.edu/wpmu/hherrmann/

FACULTY ADVISORS
Alexis Gregory, Assistant Professor
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Alexis Gregory is a registered architect and assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. She has earned a Master of Science in Architecture with a concentration in Womens Studies and History from Clemson University, as well as a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech. Her professional experience includes professional licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia and ten years working in various architecture rms in Washington, D.C. Her teaching and research interests include construction technology and making, design/build, low-cost/ low-income housing and architecture, community design, and diversity in architecture.

Hans Herrmann, Assistant Professor

Hans Herrmann is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Mississippi State University focusing on Foundation Design and upper level Comprehensive Design studio education. Professor Herrmann offers seminars on Building Technology, and the Adaptive Superuse of contemporary materials and suburban sites. His teaching and research address Design | Build Pedagogy and Hybrid analog / digital architectural visualization. As a licensed architect in the state of New York Professor Herrmann has a special professional interest on issues of residential construction and the role of architectural renovation as a means of ecological practice.

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STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
The students presented their final designs to a panel of critics made up of the guest jurors and additional School of Architecture faculty members. Each student was allowed four 20 x 20 boards, along with two models and a short verbal presentation to make the case for their design.

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AWARD WINNER MACK BRADEN

concept
gathering spaces

entrances

SITE

public v. private
public space private space

circulation

circulation
vertical circulation

public space

mechanical
hvac plumbing

commercial space

PROGRAM
food storage

desirable views

green space

teaching kitchen

restaurant

NM SNO KDUDKR AQHBJ O@MDKR ANTMBD KHFGS HMSN ATHKCHMF

NNQR

V@KKR

RSQTBSTQD

CONTEXT
4 blocks to ms river 6 blocks to hwy 40

BNLONRHSD

O@MDK RXRSDL CDS@HK

view to court square ODCDRSQH@M SQ@B trolley line UDGHBTK@Q SQ@B

TECTONICS

7 blocks to beale st.

north elevation
context + scale

building section
passive strategies

rooftop patio

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AWARD WINNER MICHAEL VARHALLA

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HONORABLE MENTION CHELSEA PIERCE

2nd level

11 1 2 10 8
3rd level

9 6 5 4

rooftop level

lecture hall demonstration lab classroom teaching kitchen rooftop garden

scale: 1/32 = 10

1 atrium 2 restaurant 3 bar 4 kitchen 5 elevator 6 restrooms 7 public elevators 8 fire stair 9 freight elevator 10 trash/receiving 11 bake shop

ENTRY LEVEL

scale: 1/16 = 10

views

entrances

egress

entry

atrium green space

traditional brick double glazed curtain wall panel

exterior cladding

lightweight concrete on metal decking steel frame steel connectors

wrapping structure I-beam w12 x 26 fireproofing dropped ceiling

steel structure

floors

bar space highlighting structure

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HONORABLE MENTION JOHN THOMAS

RESTAURANT

STAIR

INTERACTION PHASE III INTERACTION PHASE II INTERACTION PHASE I

TEACHING KITCHEN

TEACHING KITCHEN

STAIR STAIR

PASTRY KITCHEN
ERY BAK

INTERACTION VISIBILITY

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