Planning

Limao Mountain

BrininstoolLynch — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 22:21:53 +0000

Limao Mountain

In advance of the development of more than 1,800 vacation villas, the Limao Mountain Visitor’s Center and Marketing House set the tone and design themes for a thoughtfully designed series of luxury structures spread across 2,000 acres. Located just four hours from the hectic urbanity of Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Shanghai, the Visitor’s Center situates guests in three small buildings whose brick walls create quiet spaces free of distraction with large windows under vaulted roofs that focus views to historic villages, mountaintops. The Marketing House complex at the mountain’s crest includes a luxury hotel tower, high-end restaurant, and large multipurpose exhibition and convention facilities.

BrininstoolLynch Thu, 03/07/2019 - 22:21

West Side Corridor

Lingyang, China

Master Plan

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Planning

Arts + Culture

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West Side Corridor

bear_admin — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 05:58:48 +0000

West Side Corridor

The West Side Corridor is located within a Chicago Planned Manufacturing District, an area zoned to foster manufacturing by prohibiting residential development and other specific uses. This lack of flexibility has left areas with vacant and underutilized land without integrating the surrounding neighborhoods. The site, a prime example, consists largely of vacant lots with a train line cutting directly through it. By building a platform on top of the rail lines, the programmatic functions of a light-manufacturing district are kept intact at the base while creating a space for new types of development above. The roofs of the base buildings join with the rail platform to create a landscaped area that serves as a 28-acre park for the surrounding neighborhoods.

bear_admin Mon, 02/12/2018 - 05:58

Paranapiacaba

Chicago, ILLINOIS

Master Plan

SIZE

Building Area: 7.58 million square feet
Infrastructure Area: 1.84 million square feet

EXHIBITIONS

“Invisible City, Planning for Chicago’s Future." Chicago Architecture. March 6 – April 27, 2003.
Kamin, Blair. Exhibits draw on different images for city's future." Chicago Tribune, 26 March 2003.

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Planning

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Paranapiacaba

Jacob — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:58:02 +0000

Paranapiacaba

In the mid-nineteenth century, a British company laid a network of railway tracks over Brazil's green mountains and founded a workers' village, Paranapiacaba. After thriving for thirty years, automated machinery led Paranapiacaba's population to disperse, leaving its buildings to be abandoned by all but a few. Working with local government agencies and communities, it became clear that redeveloping the railway, both as a transportation system and a connecting corridor, was crucial to future success. The design was developed from the premise that sustainable ideals are incontrovertibly linked to the lives of the people who live there, and as such, the infrastructure and buildings must have a sense of permanence and substance to fulfill the principles of sustainability and sound environmental practices.

Jacob Wed, 04/11/2018 - 13:58

Wood Land

Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil

Master Plan

SIZE

2,188 acres

CONSULTANTS

Urban Works, Associate Architect & Planner
Studio Mostarda, Associate Architect & Planner
EcoVidal Design, Consulting Planner
AP Monarch, Sustainability Consultant
ZFV Architecture, Consulting Architect
CM Smyrski Arbor Consulting, Consulting Landscape Architect

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Planning

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Wood Land

BrininstoolLynch — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:11:45 +0000

Wood Land

Wood Land was inspired by the Boston Mountains and woodlands of the southern Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas. Like the indigenous Maple-Leaf Oak, and its surrounding habitat, this proposal offers a variation in height and form that enhances the experience and creates a sense of place. Drawing upon the architectural vernacular of the area, cedar and cypress clad the buildings, along with other locally sourced wood products and materials. Wood Land was developed to provide a viable, affordable and meaningful place to live and work in Northwest Arkansas.

BrininstoolLynch Fri, 10/12/2018 - 19:11

Limao Mountain

Bentonville, Arkansas

Competition, 2018

CONSULTANTS

Goodfriend Magruder, Structural

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Planning

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MP3

Jacob — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:56:46 +0000

MP3

MP3 is an acronym for Mineral Point three. Mineral Point is a small town and rural farming area in southwest Wisconsin. This weekend home's remote, 160-acre site is beautifully rich in old-growth oaks, fruit orchards, trout streams, and rock formations. The home's form echoes agrarian structures in the area. In this new building, the vernacular weathered gray wood siding of the area is referenced with long, thin brick masonry with shades of gray on the exterior and red and brown on the interior. The main living area is defined by extremely high ceilings topped by a skylight system and two parallel glass openings on either side that are 40-feet long and 10-feet high. They evoke barn door openings, while providing viewing portals over the property, centered on the interior by a fire pit. Slate flooring continues to the exterior terraces to emphasize the indoor-outdoor relationship, and any additive volumes within the exposed brick interior are wrapped in micro-perforated end-grain birch plywood for acoustical benefits.

Jacob Wed, 04/11/2018 - 13:56

Wood House

Mineral Point, Wisconsin

In Progress

SIZE

4,200 square feet

CONSULTANTS

Coen + Partners, Landscape Architect
Goodfriend Magruder, Structural

AWARDS

2019 Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design – American Architecture Award

PUBLICATIONS

Conroy, S. Claire. “In Deep,” Residential Design, Volume 1, 2018.

Project Type

Houses

Planning

Residential

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