We’re excited to announce that our Little Tiger Chinese Immersion School has been selected as a 2020 Architizer Architecture Award Finalist. It is one of 5 kindergartens short listed for this prestigious international award. Thank you to our wonderful team, Clients: Meggie Chou and Mike Osborne of Little Tiger. Structural Engineering: Fort Structures, MEP Engineering: ATS Engineers, Civil Engineering: Urban Design Group. You can check out all the finalist here and vote for your favorites. Please consider voting for our project in the kindergarten category.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who voted for our Soft Dog Den nomination. We won! We’re honored to have our Dog House win an Architizer Award. We designed and built this project for Barkitecture Ausitn and it was auctioned off. Proceeds from the sale went to help fund not-for-profits that support pets in the Austin area. Thank you to our loyal dog model Lucy. photo Leonid Furmansky
A huge thank you to our great high school intern Andrew Williamson. Andrew worked in our office part-time for two weeks as part of the Austin Waldorf School Scholastic Internship program where students find positions on the work place for two weeks as part of the tenth grade curriculum. Andrew is now off to Germany as part of an exchange program. We wish him the best of luck!
We’re very excited to announce that the New York Times featured our David Street project in both print (Sunday paper!) and online versions of the “On Location” column. A big thanks to author Tim McKeough, clients Nirav and Carla, builder Alex Ferdman, cabinet maker Wayne Owens, and photographer Leonid Furmansky.
Students spend a lot of time moving between classes. The stairs and hallways, they move through are important spaces. At the Griffin School the two hallways are vibrant functional social spaces. Read more about the school here.
The hallway contains exhibition space for the student’s artwork as well as the lockers. Acoustics are controlled by a layered ceiling system that contains concealed acoustic insulation and lighting while also concealing the supply air diffusers.
First Floor Hallway
On the first floor the hallway is single-loaded, meaning the functional spaces the hallway serves, like classrooms, are on one side.
Douglas Fir Hallway Window Wall
The other side is a window wall built from exposed Douglas Fir wood studs which looks out on the outdoor courtyard and porch area. The large shaded south facing windows connect the hallway with the outdoor space and bring in abundant natural light.
Section diagram showing the relationship between the first and second floor hallways
On the second floor the hallway widens to become a student lounge and informal work area. The second floor lounge area overhangs the south facing courtyard creating a porch space on the first floor next to the hallway shading both the porch area and the large hallway windows.
A Griffin School teaching taking a break in the second floor lounge
Second Floor Plan showing wide Hallway/Lounge Area
A deep recessed operable window in the 2nd floor lounge allows views out across the neighborhood and into the trees.
Night View showing both first and second floor hallways visible from the courtyard
