3rd & 4th Floor Fit-Up
Citation Award // Excellence in Architectural Design, Commercial Interiors
Architect // MAKE Architects, PC
GC // DEW Construction Inc.
Acoustic Engineer // RSG Inc.
Structural Engineer // Engineering Ventures
MP Engineer // JFPCS Consulting Services
Electrical Engineer // DuBois & King Inc.
Lighting Consultant // J&M Lighting Design, Inc.
Interior Designer Consultant // J. Jasmin Interiors
Jury Comments
The architectural details are clean and precise. The changing role of office space is expressed in transparency while allowing aural privacy. It looks like a wonderful place to work.
Description
The 3rd & 4th Floor Fit Up is an office tenant fit up in a new building that created new office space in the downtown area of Hanover. MAKE Architects worked together with the Owner’s interior designer, J. Jasmin Interiors to create high end office space that was previously not available. This project brings an industrial chic style together with elements of human centered design to nurture the well being of its hard working occupants. Located on the top two floors of a new high performance building, it captures light and views on 3 sides which are shared throughout the space by the liberal use of glass partitions at every office and conference room. Sound isolation techniques protect privacy and promote productivity without compromising community connectivity.
UNH – Telecommunications Building Addition
Citation Award // Excellence in Architectural Design, Commercial
Architect // Oak Point Associates
GC // Charters Brothers Construction
Geotechnical Engineer // R.W. Gillespie & Associates
Jury Comments
The use of fold-up insulated metal panels give the simple shape both a mechanical presence and a sense of a temporary structure: both appropriate to its intended purpose in a technologically changing landscape.
Description
Welcome; but please, don’t come in. This addition/renovation project challenged Oak Point Associates and Charters Brothers Construction to creatively balance the need for tenant privacy with a very public façade that fronts a pedestrian walkway in the center of the UNH campus. The charge was further complicated by the need to keep the existing ground floor occupied during construction; and the existing building was constructed on piles, so the design solution had to be fast and lightweight. A single-component insulated metal wall panel system was envisioned as a single span from top to bottom. A variegated color scheme was used to create visual interest. The playful pattern is inviting to look at but contrasting the colors, materials and forms with the neighboring academic buildings make it clear this is not likely your destination; thereby fulfilling the paradox of the original brief: welcome; but please, don’t come in.
