Happy Leap Day from in situ studio! It has been an busy month with projects under construction, and several new projects coming online. Check out what we have been up to below!
Germany!
Our entire office will be in Germany next week! We leave Saturday, 03 05 16, and return the following Saturday, 03 12 16. The trip is courtesy of Mesa Quality, a millwork and window supply company in Asheville, and the purpose is to see the UNILUX window factory in Trier. In addition to factory tours and workshops, we are planning to visit two projects by Peter Zumthor – the Bruder Klaus Field Chapel and the Kolumba Museum – and make a day trip to Luxembourg City. We are pretty excited. In faSave & Closect, we’ve even made T-shirts for the occasion, printed by AHPeele.
Activate NC
Members of ACTIVATE NC invite you to share your ideas on contemporary housing in the inner city. The site is located along South Mint Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte has an intense and vibrant Uptown Center City surrounded by leafy suburbs. The competition site is within walking distance of the Uptown district and is representative of an in between zone that is neither Center City nor suburban. Thus it may be considered a resource for connecting different parts of the city that are currently separate. This is an ideas competition generated by the need for new ways of dwelling in our growing cities. Please consider registering!
Farmhouse DWELL
This month, we were thrilled to be featured in an online DWELL article, Our Modern Farmhouse Dreams Come True in this North Carolina Gem. Which was released in tandem with the article, 7 Takes on the Modern Farmhouse. We were honored to be featured among great projects with similar goals, including one from another North Carolina Architect, Chad Everhart. The feature also included details on the Farmhouse’s interior design, thanks to Kris Ozburn of Second Mile Designs.
Jubala Coffee
We are happy to announce that Jubala has opened their new space in the aLoft Hotel on Hillsborough Street! Working with Andrew and his team over the past year has been incredible, and we are excited for them to finally be downtown. The space wouldn’t be what it is without the hard work of Diversified Consulting Group (PME), Josh Allen (lighting), New Kind (branding), Counter Culture Coffee (barista equipment), and Southeastern Properties and Development Company, who built the space. Thanks to everyone involved!
Book of the Month: “thanks for the view, mr. mies: lafayette park, detroit” by Danielle Aubert
Last week, Erin visited Detroit for the AIA Grassroots Conference. While there, she visited the largest collection of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe buildings in the world – Lafayette Village. The 78 acre project is a post war, modernist housing development – a collaboration between architect Mies van der Rohe, planner Ludwig Hilberseimer, and landscape architect Alfred Caldwell. Though construction began in 1956, many qualities of this development remain relevant – beautiful and thoughtful design, varieties in housing types for residents with mixed incomes, appropriate scale, integrated landscape and amenities, and proximity to downtown.
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