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    Austin, TexasCompetition Finalist2010

  • The TOGS (temporary outdoor gallery space) competition asks its participants to design a modular art pavilion that can be easily assembled and disassembled, shipped, and stored. These small galleries are intended to be utilized during Art Week Austin - clustered along 1st Street, providing spaces for local artists and craftspeople to display their work.

    Among the stated purposes of the TOGS is to showcase the synergy between art and architecture. The exterior architec-ture of museums and gallery spaces often respond to the

    built and cultural environments in which they fi nd themselves, but often that connection dies in a glow of white walls, wood fl oors, and diffuse lighting as soon as we enter. The pieces, at this point, may hold some fragile bond to their residence, but very little to the world outside those walls, and much less to those visitors who wander the halls. Lens attempts to explore this disparity through integration of context, both live and environmental, by pulling the outside into the gallery space while, at the same time, pushing the art out. This is done, primarily, through a system of modular panels, infi lled

    with lenses.Convex lenses make up the majority of the panel. This lens shape has the effect of blurring and magnifying whats viewed through it. While one is within the TOGS, they perceive an ar-ray of magnifi cations of the environment surrounding them; at the same time, these images are blurred. So, while the viewer is at once having environmental context thrust upon them, it is also abstracted to the point of non-recognition, leaving them with the ability to absorb the art without intense distraction.

    For those passers-by of the TOGS, the reverse occurs, and the interior is arrayed and magnifi ed; projecting itself into the world. This is true for all but an eye-level (from the exterior) band of concave lenses, which condense what is viewed through them, allowing a wider fi eld of vision. Through these, the TOGS draws people close to peer through its surface, and receive a new perspective on whats within.

    Concave lens band

    Lens effects diagram

    Diagrammatic section Exterior detail perspective of lens array

  • While the lens panels acknowledge the more static context (placement and product), a dynamic panel system address-es the impact of the audience; the more transient force at play. These panels make up a second layer within the lens shell, and may consist of varying materials to serve a variety of uses, dependent on the needs of the exhibitor. Able to slide, they encourage interaction between the viewers and the space, and therefore the art. Light and shade can be manipulated, as can views from the outside be affected. A visitor is allowed to more directly explore their relationship with the work by adjusting its environment, as can they af-fect the perceptions of others simultaneously.

    Above: TOGS interiorBelow: Evening perspective

  • C A S T L E C L I N T O N

    New York, New YorkUT-SOAThomas Phifer studio2005

    Castle Clinton, in Battery Park, has a long and dynamic history. Constructed in 1811, it served originally as part of the system of battery defenses against a potential British attack. After its tour of duty was complete, it saw time as a promenade, beer garden/restaurant, exhibition hall, opera house, theater, the first immigration station, and the New York Aquarium. Today it is identified as a national monument and houses limited exhibition space and ticketing for the nearby Ellis Island ferry.

  • Our studio program, which was one Thomas Phifer had been actually granted, was to design a conceptual outdoor am-phitheater space within the castle walls. When not used as a theater, the project was to be used as a gateway to the Ellis Island ferries, containing ticketing, exhibition space, and a viewing promenade.

    Given the existing structures historical signi cance, it was im-portant for the structure of the new development to sit lightly within the castle, careful to avoid the existing sandstone walls

    as well as some basement areas below grade. To that end, the project relied on a woven, diamond structure that brought loads down to nite points. This was applied to a spherical, double hull form that rises from within the castle walls. This is the primary form of the project in addition to a rectangular element at the front of the caste, framed and derived from the inner shape of the masonry walls, that houses ticketing, restrooms, and frames the stage above.

    The two walls of the lattice sphere create a circulatory ramp

    from the lower level to the promenade and amphitheater above. It is once the sphere rises above the castle walls that it is affected by several planes, the rst of which being a struc-tural glass deck that serves as the promenade and primary upper circulation plane. This extends over the castle walls, sheltering them from rain and providing an excellent viewing platform. The second plane is contained entirely within the inner sphere and is sloped for audience seating, directed to-wards the stage. The nal plane alters the sphere itself, slicing it based on the angle and movement of the sun during the

    time most evening performances would take place, shielding the stage and its performers from natural direct light.

    Finally, the lattice structure of the sphere shells also provides and opportunity for additional shading through the inclusion of translucent blades in lling the diamond shaped spaces between structural members. These blades can be swiveled and rotated in order to provide more or less light, opened to increase ventilation of the audience or, conversely, closed in order to better shield the audience if necessary.

    Above: Circulation / program diagramsOpposite: View between lattice shellsBelow: Site aerial of Batter Park

  • Front elevation

    Ground level plan

    Section

    Auditorium level plan

  • Section through entry & stage

  • BOATHOUSE C O N D O S

    Austin, TexasUT-SOAAlmy / Danze studio2004

    Perspective towards boat slip Level 1 plan

    Level 2 plan

    Level 3 plan

  • Provided with a small embankment on Lady Bird Lake, our task was to develop a residential structure with 4 condo units, park-ing, and a boating/fi tness center. The site had many variables acting on it. Contextually, it was bound by an existing multistory housing development to the south, a rather highly traveled road on the east, a public boat slip to the north, and of course the lake to the west. Additionally, the site had roughly 15 of vertical drop from Lake Austin Boulevard to the lake itself, as well as an arti-fi cial cove formed by the boat dock of the adjacent multifamily development and a fi nger of property alongside the public slip.Given the dramatic difference of amenity on each side of the

    property, the decision was made to attempt to allow each unit a piece of every site adjacency. Rather than having a mix of units, some better than others, the goal was to have residences that benefi tted uniformly from each aspect of the site surroundings.

    Additionally, it was desirable to have a more private outdoor area for the residents, removed from the lively public space nearby. This, in conjunction with the distribution of site adjacencies, led to a design in which several distinct zones were built around the perimeter of the site, creating a shielded courtyard within.

    The entry to the project is through a private garage that is open to the lake on one side, and ringed by residential entries to the east and south. These spaces are primarily small offi ces or guest bedrooms, lit by clerestory windows off the courtyard above the garage structure. After entering underground, residents then walk up enclosed, but expressed stairways, glazed with frosted glass on the courtyard side, to the loft section of their unit which are ringed by balconies framed with sliding polycarbonate pan-els for varying degrees of privacy and light. This level provides primarily living spaces that have access to daylight on both two sides, one facing the private courtyard and the other of the large

    oak trees within the public boat ramp.

    The stairways connecting the lower portion with the loft spaces become structural elements, supporting the loft volume, as well as defi ning aesthetic devices; counteracting the mass of the pri-marily cast in place concrete structure through an expression of lightness. From these loft areas, each unit has a space that faces down river, providing every resident with spectacular views of the lake. Finally, the boathouse is expressed as a glazed volume, di-rectly on the water, from which residents can launch their crafts.

    Above: Circulation / massing diagramsBelow: North elevation

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  • FOUR CORT APARTMENTS

    Austin, TexasPageSoutherlandPage, LLP2005 - 2006Project Designer

    245,000 sf256 beds259 parking$14M

  • Located several blocks from the University of Texas, Four Cort was targeted at an increasingly dense student population west of campus. An arrangement of 156 units, three levels of enclosed garage, and a variety of exterior spaces, the design is informed primarily by the challenge of determining a com-promise between the demands of density in this ever more populated neighborhood as well as the desire to create a safe and social living environment that appeals to the widest range possible of student lifestyles.

    In order to achieve this, the basic plan of the project takes on the character of a human hand, consisting of one four story building mass running the length of the interior property line with five other similar volumes arranged perpendicularly to it. These fingers step down along their length in response to the enclosed parking garage beneath them as well as the relatively severe grade of the site, giving the project a more human scale through transitions in height. This arrangement also creates four distinct courtyards in the spaces between the fingers that step in a similar fashion, transitioning from

    grade level areas to above-garage activity decks, each land-scaped with a character unique to itself but clearly related to the composition as a whole and representative of Austins nat-ural vegetation. These spaces are open to the street, reducing the feeling of enclosure that is often overshadowing in interior courtyards, as well as creating a more inviting street faade, animated by the comings and goings of the buildings tenants.

    As a continuation of this gesture, the standard device of inte-rior, double-loaded corridors is abandoned in favor of a layout

    that allows for the corridors to instead be exposed to any one of the open spaces created by the buildings massing. This inherently increases the safety of the projects residents by reducing spaces that are not easily visually accessible, while at the same time enhancing the social interactions of its inhabit-ants for the same reason. The quality of the circulation spaces is also greatly improved through this visual access to the ex-terior environment - periodically through textural screens of Ipe hardwood or galvanized steel - as well as an abundance of fresh air.

    Casement Window

    1/4 Fiber Cement Board

    6 LGMF @ 16 o.c.

    5/8 Gyp. Board

    4 Conc. Over 1 Galv.Mtl. Deck Ref: Struc.

    Ipe Wood Battens

    Batt Insulation

    Sprayed Thermal/AcousticInsulation - 4 Thick

    7/8 Hat Channels

    Fluid AppliedMembrane Air Barrier

    1/2 Glass-Mat GypsumSheathing Board

    Continuous Mtl.Soffit Vent

    Galvanized SteelBarrier Rail

    5/8 Weather ResistantSoffit Board

    Level 3 plan

    Level 1 plan Typical wall section

  • Designed as a single loaded scenario, the accompanying drop in effi ciency of such a move is absorbed both through the elimina-tion of the need to mechanically ventilate the shared spaces, as well as the fact that the majority of units are two-bedroom town-homes, requiring corridor access on only one of their two levels. These corridors are laced together through a combination of sculpturally arranged exterior stairs and bridges, connecting each unit with any one of the lower courtyards as well as several roof-top terraces at the buildings fi ngertips, created by the stepping of those volumes and offering clear views to nearby Pease Park.

    The building skin is a lightweight rainscreen system composed of painted fi ber cement panels and interrupted by battens of Ipe hardwood that lend warmth and scale to the faade, its muted tone balanced by the boldly painted interior stucco surfaces of the residential corridors. Units are a mix of effi ciency, one and two bedroom fl ats, and two bedroom townhomes. All have access to light and air in each primary room through large, operable case-ment windows.

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    Study model of south stairSouth stairCentral stairNorth stair

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    Above: Perspective along LongviewBelow: Typical elevation / section

  • QUADRANGLE C O N D O S

    Dallas, TexasPageSoutherlandPage, LLP2006Project Designer

    675,000 sf430 beds701 parking$83M

    Garage

    Townhomes

    Flats

    To Quadrangle

    Flats

    Above: Ground level planBelow: Section through breezeway

    Pool level plan Breezeway level plan Upper residential level plan

    Flats

    Flats

  • The massing concept for this development centers on bal-ancing the maximum density for the project within a given building envelope and the optimum quality of life for the tenants while providing a lively and human scaled facade. To accomplish this, a central courtyard arrangement with open corners was selected. Each side of the courtyard contains fl ats that face out across the neighborhood and others which look inwards toward the courtyard. The interior corners of the courtyard, spaces that often create awkward and dark unit plans, are opened vertically to the sky and

    horizontally out toward the activity deck to bring natural light into the corridors, and allow views into the central outdoor space. Additional natural light and views out to the neigh-borhood are provided by opening the faade at one end of each corridor.

    Around the perimeter of the lower fl oors, the garage is en-closed by the leasing offi ce along Howell St., town home units at Laclede and Vine Streets, and fl ats at the second fl oor looking out toward the Quadrangle retail. The ground

    fl oor parking that faces toward the Quadrangle retail opens out toward the center of the that retail development while being buffered by a linear urban plaza with integral land-scaping. This minimizes the exposure of the garage, allows all facades of the project to be occupied, and creates a more traditional urban condition at the street and retail edges.

    The exterior skin design differentiates the individual volumes of residential units from one another. The openings at the

    exterior skin and the courtyard corners, that allow light into the corridors, breaks the ring of residential units into a series of bars. Each bar extends across each elevation from a fa-ade break to the following corner. The exterior of each bar receives a different color and arrangement of cement fi ber board panels as shown in the elevations. The combination of faade breaks and color shifts differentiate the individual project elements and brings the project down to a more human scale.

    Above: Preliminary massing modelsBelow: Vine Street elevation

  • SURGICAL SCIENCES

    Temple, TexasPageSoutherlandPage, LLP2008 - 2009Team Designer

    475,000 sf$143M

  • The second phase of the new facilities project, replace-ment of perioperative services, is the 474,541 SF, six-story Surgical Sciences Building (SSB). The new compo-nent will be directly attached to the CAM as well as other campus buildings and provide space for 36 operating rooms featuring state-of-the-art surgical technology. Ad-ditionally, the facility will contain 54 post anesthesia care unit stations, 70 pre/post-operative rooms plus a pre-surgical evaluation unit.

    More specifically, the new operating rooms, sized at a minimum of 650 SF for maximum flexibility, will feature large, wall-mounted and smaller, movable flat-panel view screens to assist surgeons viewing X-rays and pictures from medical imaging systems. These rooms are also be-ing designed to accommodate surgical robotic systems, support advanced minimally invasive endovascular tech-nology, use efficient lighting systems and provide room for equipment and support services.

    The exterior design of the addition continues the architec-tural dialog opened by the adjoining Center for Advanced Medicine (also by PSP) through extensive use of copper cladding and vertically oriented window clusters in the patient tower. Along the entrances and pedestrian routes at ground level, the use of banded native limestone pilas-ters has been continued, but they now interact with crisp glazed rectangular prisms rather than a larger stone wall - the resultant juxtaposition of mass and glazing is quite an effective visual feature of the new facade.

    Also included in the project are an expansion to the CAM Level 1 Trauma Center, a new central processing depart-ment, a new kitchen and bistro for patients, family and staff and a new central power plant to serve hospital de-velopment on the southern sector of the campus. Other support services like Blood Lab, Pathology and Anesthesia offices will be located in the new SSB between surgery services and existing services within buildings already in use on campus.

    Long Term Planning & AdaptabilityDiagrams showing Adaptable Core with Major Through-Floor penetrations outside the core for maximum exibility.

    Above: Scott & White Temple campus planBelow: Exterior curtainwall & shades

    Above: Clinical Core diagramBelow: Level 3 waiting area

  • CONOCOPHILLIPS C A M P U S

    Louisville, ColoradoPageSoutherlandPage, LLP2008Team Designer

    1.2M sf (phase I)5M sf (full phase)

    PageSoutherlandPage was asked by ConocoPhillips to par-ticipate in a competition to design a large corporate campus between Boulder and Denver Colorado, on a 432 acre plot they had recently purchased. To be constructed in several phases, this development was intended to provide space for their research and development teams, conferences and seminars, hospitality, general offices, and for potential future relocation of their entire headquarters. Partnering with Har-greaves Associates, PSP developed a master plan for full phase buildout, as well as a more detailed design study for

  • phase I construction, which was to include a hotel and confer-ence center, offi ces, and laboratories.

    The parti for the campus master plan was a series of lin-ear structures that cluster themselves along the high point of property, alongside and above the adjacent highway. Each building would be paired with others, creating a pedestrian avenue between them that linked all parts of the campus, inviting interdisciplinary interaction and creating opportuni-ties for intimate spaces within a large campus. These linear

    pairs oriented themselves along the natural topography of the site, creating a formal arrangement of built program driven directly by the characteristics of the topography. Parking was designed to be structured beneath the buildings and public plazas, hidden from view.

    The majority of the site was left undeveloped, providing gen-erous space for outdoor recreation as well as preservation of natural habitat for several species of plants and wildlife.

    PRAIRIE

    PICNICMEADOW

    SECURITY FENCE

    EXPERIMENTAL LANDSCAPE/ POWER GENERATION

    CONTEMPLATIVEGARDENS

    JUMPING MOUSE HABITAT

    WETLANDS

    WETLANDS / RESERVOIR

    HIGH PLAINS GRASSLAND

    GARAGE OVERLAY

    HOTEL

    SECURITY BOOTH

    RETAIL

    HOTEL

    VISITORS CENTER

    EXISTING POWER PLANT

    RETAIL

    PICNIC / PASSIVE RECREATION

    PH 3 BUILDINGS

    ATHLETIC CENTER

    CONFERENCE

    OFFICE

    OFFICE

    PRAIRIE

    ENTRY PLAZA

    IRRIGATED LAWN

    PH 2 BUILDINGS

    CONTEMPLATIVEGARDENS

    CAFELAB

    OFFICE

    INFORMAL LA

    NATIVE MEADOW

    AMPHITHEATER

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    GREEN ROOF

    DENVER BOULDER TURNPIKE / 36

    Above: Full phase campus masterplanOpposite: Phase I aerial

    Phase I planCampus pedestrian mall

  • Operable glass vent

    Raised floor displacement air system

    Exterior blinds/shades

    Ventilation cavity

    Interior light shelf

    Horizontal photovoltaics

    Vertical photovoltaics

    Building integrated photovoltaic piers

    The offi ce facade system was designed around vertical strips of building integrated photovoltaics. Paired with these were continu-ous horizontal exterior shades and interior light shelves, as well as a non uniform distribution of porous vertical shades clipped to the curtainwall.

    Multistory winter gardens punctuated this facade, and were to assist with local natural ventilation. Both systems employed un-der fl oor climate delivery systems.

    As one of the goals of the campus was to drive development of effi ciency systems and alternative energy sources, it was impera-tive that the campus structures themselves embraced contem-porary architectural technology systems.

    Both the laboratory and offi ce facade systems were case studies in somewhat varying approaches to effi cient glazing systems. The laboratory skin design consisted of a double, ventilated glass facade with automatic operable lites to assist with interstitial air fl ow, as well as integral horizontal blinds and rolling solar shades.

    Above: Offi ce interiorBelow: Lab & offi ce skin system diagrams

    Learning Center & Hotel lobby

  • Above: Learning Center & Hotel entryBelow: Campus portal & retail

    Lawn adjacent Learning Center & Hotel

  • LAKEWAY REGIONAL

    Lakeway, TexasPageSoutherlandPage, LLP2009Team Designer

    230,000 sf$86M

  • This 230,000 square foot facility was planned within a new medical and mixed-use development located in Lakeway, Texas; a short distance west of Austin. Lakeway Regional Medical Cen-ter serves as the primary acute care hospital for that community and provides a full continuum of both inpatient and outpatient services including cardiology, obstetrics, oncology, and orthope-dics. Upon opening, the facility included 108 licensed beds with shell space to accommodate an additional 40 beds as demand requires. Lakeway Regional also provides a full array of diagnos-tic and treatment services, including an emergency department/

    urgent care clinic planned for up to 40,000 visits per year.

    The site for this facility is spectacular and will afford patients, staff and visitors exceptional views to the Central Texas hill country, valleys, and lakes beyond. Though scenic, the site creates de-sign challenges as contours drop over 80 feet from one end of the site to the other. Because of this, as well as limited acreage available for the hospital, the building massing takes advantage of this slope by placing the main entry three oors above the lowest level with each of those lower levels having access to

    landscaped courtyards and views to a man-made water feature that abuts the site.

    A hurried project schedule led to extensive use of integrally colored pre-cast concrete panels as the principal exterior clad-ding material. Near the public entrances, the material dialogue is dominated by Texas Leuders limestone, expansive glazing, and wood sunscreens. This conversation continues as one enters the lobby and waiting areas, where stone wraps into the interior from outside, wood sunscreens become slatted walls, and Ipe

    clad columns break the rhythm of curtainwall along the perim-eter, turning horizontally at the ceiling plane to add a touch of plasticity at the waiting areas and concourses.

    Key to the building program is the ability for the facility to expand, because the Lakeway community has experienced a steady growth pattern for over a decade that is expected to continue. The building plan has been designed to permit lateral expan-sion at each level as well as vertical expansion for additional inpatient beds.

    Above: Lakeway Regional site plan showing additional planned developmentOpposite: Main lobbyBelow: Section depticting future expansion

    Preliminary lobby rendering

    Lower balcony level

  • Exterior at main entry & drop off

    Front deskPreliminary exterior rendering depicting healing garden, drop off, & entry

  • Above: Typical patient corridorBelow: Level 1 concourse & waiting

    In-patient waiting & healing garden

  • TRAVIS COUNTY HEALTH CLINIC

    Austin, TexasPageSoutherlandPage, LLP2010Project Designer

    48,000 sf$18M

  • The site on Braker Lane is a beautiful natural environment that is much appreciated by residents of the neighborhoods around it. Our goal was to maintain the natural character of the site, creating a park that preserves and highlights the oak trees and provides meandering trails for both users of the clinic and residents of the surrounding neighborhoods to enjoy. Parking snakes and winds between the trees and is tucked into the landscape in small clus-ters of cars rather than in large orthogonal parking grids. The most important clusters of oaks have no parking around them and are preserved to retain their very beautiful current configuration.

    Tables and benches will be placed under the continuous canopy of the trees to create a peaceful, shady place that will provide a calming oasis for users of the clinic and their families and a lovely place for quiet recreation for neighbors.

    The building itself defers to the landscape by pursuing a simple, quiet, and unobtrusive presence. The major architectural feature is a deep trellis that will have lush vegetation on it complimenting the natural environment, providing generous shade for windows on all sides of the building, and creating a cooler microclimate

    immediately adjacent to the building. On the Braker Lane side, its single story volume is consistent in scale with the residences to the west and south, and the soft green feeling of the vegetation on the trellises will continue the soft green feeling of neighbors front yards in those areas. A low native stone wall anchors the structure to the land and continues beyond to create a strong edge for the site similar to that created by residences on the north side of Braker just east of the site. On the south side of the building the trellis not only provides solar shading and a soft green image for the building, but also creates a shelter for a bus stop.

    The same simple, restful architectural character is maintained in-side. Generous natural light carefully controlled by the wood trel-lises animates the central concourse. Wood ceilings extend the character of the buildings exterior into the interior as well as pro-viding a warm, comfortable feeling for this primary waiting space. Each of the clinics has a distinct address on the concourse mak-ing orientation for new clients easier. Views from the outer ring of offices and exam rooms return occupants to the experience of the landscape, offering vistas into the nicest parts of the site on the north side and up into the vegetated trellises elsewhere.

    Above: Public park behind clinicBelow: View along Braker Lane

    Clinic lobby & waiting areas

  • PERFORMANCE C E N T E R

    The University of Texas - Pan AmericaEdinburg, TexasPageSoutherlandPage, LLP2010Team Designer

    67,000 sf$26M

    The new Fine Arts Performance and Academic Complex at UT Pan American replaces two existing 40 year old buildings, which will be demolished, in the existing Fine Arts complex on campus. This new 70,000 square foot building will complete the Fine Arts Quad, and greatly en-hance the performance and rehearsal capabilities of the Music Department.

    There are seven primary spaces in the building a grand porch and lobby, the main 1,000 seat theatre which will

  • accommodate a variety of music, dance and theatrical performances, a 180-seat recital hall, and dedicated re-hearsal spaces for Band, Orchestra, Choir and Mariachi/Jazz.

    The building is located near the southeast corner of cam-pus - a grand porch and lobby are oriented toward Univer-sity Boulevard and Downtown Edinburg to the south and east to make this building a unique gateway onto campus from the City. A series of structural brick arches soar along

    this porch and lobby as a welcoming gesture, and as an introduction to the unique architectural context of both the campus and the Rio Grande Valley.

    The building is carefully knit into the existing campus it completes the Fine Arts Courtyard to the west, and aligns its main circulation spine with the principal north-south axis of campus reinforcing its role as a key entry point onto the University.

    UT-PA School of Fine Arts campus plan Lower orchestra level

    Performance hall section/perspective Lower balcony level

    Upper orchestra level

    Upper balcony level

  • Intersitial circulatory zone Recital hall

    Main lobby Performance hall

    Intersitial circulatory zone

  • Performance hall

  • 2 4 0 0 N U E C E S

    Austin, TexasPageSoutherlandPage, LLP2009 - 2011Project Designer

    588,000 sf622 beds558 parking$57M

  • An important new trend in university residence halls cen-ters on creating active urban neighborhoods adjacent to campuses that blur the boundary between town and gown. The goal is to establish pedestrian-friendly mixed-use environments that are a compact, safe and friendly extension of the campus. City councils and plan-ning commissions are working closely with university of-ficials and planners to make urban campuses, in particular, a seamless part of the larger city. University residence halls are a key element in this transformation.

    The 2400 Nueces Student Housing Project will be a major landmark in the developing West Campus neigh-borhood adjacent to the University of Texas at Austin. It puts physical form to the vision created in the University Neighborhood Overlay (UNO) rezoning initiative in 2004. Conceived to increase density in central Austin, reduce commuting traffic to the university and enhance a strong sense of community in the campus area, the UNO initiative is transforming a neighborhood that was once dominated by single family houses interspersed with fraternity and

    sorority houses into a pedestrian oriented urban neigh-borhood.

    The new housing will accommodate 622 students in 306 units with almost 10,000 sf of academic/retail space on the ground level. The building is broken into 8 bars of unitseach of which is marked by a distinctive mate-rial and color. The bars are organized into an S-shaped configuration that creates two great outdoor roomsan active court with a pool that has views to the hills of west

    Austin and a quiet court that is oriented east toward views of the campus. The architectural treatment of the build-ing is designed to create a pedestrian and neighborhood scale while creating the higher density that is essential to achieve the sustainability and community building goals of UNO.

    Above: Tower partisBelow (left to right): Ground level, activity deck, typical tower level

    Level 6 cutaway

  • Pool courtyard on level 6 Lobby / leasing office

    North facade Southwest corner

  • Southeast corner

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