2020
The Architect Newspaper published University of Arkansas Adohi Hall
Adohi hall was featured in The Architect Newspaper as a wood construction case study. Read the article here on page 58.
Dartmouth News: Views From the Green
Dartmouth College features new Anonymous Hall in their March issue of Dartmouth News.
Located at the heart of 1960s medical school buildings on the school’s siloed north campus, the 32,995sf Dana Hall project — as well as new entrances for its surrounding buildings, a wide pedestrian bridge, and new circulation between buildings — is transforming the college’s least compelling area into a well-scaled, inviting north quad.
The initiative will generate an accessible, seamless link between north campus and the historic green and main campus, allowing it to be shared with undergraduate sciences.
The demolition of an unused laboratory adjacent to Dana Hall made way for its new addition, which reorients the building to create inviting campus connections to the south.
Comprising the new social center of north campus, the addition houses the building’s lobby and a café, with an adjacent terrace overlooking a green.
Tied together by a spiral object stair visible from the south lawn, the building’s upper floors contain faculty offices, classrooms, and places for student gathering. The penthouse level features a solar-paneled canopy and a south-facing planted terrace that overlooks the iconic main campus.
The feature shows the red spiral staircase and Dartmouth students gathered. Photo taken by Robert Gill.
See feature here: https://news.dartmouth.edu/photos/galleries/views-green-march-2020?utm_source=dhome&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=carousel
Chronicle for Higher Ed features Dartmouth College’s Anonymous Hall
Dartmouth College announces the name of the newly renovated Dana Hall.
Chronicle staff writes, “Many colleges have been pressed to rename buildings that honor donors or leaders whose bigotry or other offensive behavior doesn’t jibe with 21st-century values. A new building at Dartmouth College will never have that problem. It’s Anonymous Hall, named for its donor.”
Adohi Hall Receives WoodWorks 2020 Award
Adohi Hall Residence Hall at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR was selected as a winner of the 2020 WoodWorks Award in the Multi-Family Wood Design category. Adohi Hall is the largest cross laminated timber (CLT) building in the United States and the first large-scale mass timber residence hall and living learning setting. Woodworks writes, “The use of wood both structurally and aesthetically makes this project a groundbreaking example of student housing design”.
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The Dartmouth features Anonymous Hall
Newly renovated building honors anonymous donors to Dartmouth.
The Dartmouth highlights the building’s name in how it reflects the generosity of alumni, as well as its sustainability features and design overall. Principal and graduate of Dartmouth College, Josiah Stevenson, is quoted, “The average Dartmouth [pEUI] is well over a 100, so this is almost a net-zero building. It’s really the almost net-zero that’s an accomplishment.”. He is later quoted addressing traditional design of a campus with modern buildings, saying, “Most progressive colleges want to do buildings of the time,” Stevenson said. “I think that’s appropriate to have a campus of different periods of buildings. The challenge is to make it fit in with scale and material.”
Read Article Here: https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2020/02/newly-renovated-building-honors-anonymous-donors-to-dartmouth
Juliet Chun, AIA receives 2020 Young Architects Award
Juliet Chun has been recognized as an AIA 2020 Young Architect.
The AIA Young Architects Award honors individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the architecture profession early in their careers. Juliet Chun has worked to create more accessible pathways to architectural education and practice and is an advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion in the architecture profession. Co-founder of Girl Uninterrupted, a research initiative that has significantly amplified the dialogue on workplace culture and equity, Juliet and co-founder Zhanina Boyadzhieva have produced a manual that highlights workplace strategies for professionals in the workplace. AIA quotes,”It is clear that Chun’s efforts, coupled with her boundless optimism and enthusiasm, are positively affecting gender equity in the profession”.
Adohi Hall Recieves Honor Award in Building, Design & Building Magazine
Adohi Hall has been recognized for excellence in wood architecture, receiving an Honor Award.
“The Wood Design & Building Awards program provides a platform to acknowledge the strides that have been made for wood architecture over the years, as well as an opportunity to celebrate the omnipresence of wood in architecture around the world.” explained Etienne Lalonde, Vice-President of Market Development for the Canadian Wood Council. “The range of submissions, from the smallest wood installation to the largest building, displayed a sophistication and innovation that is celebrating in our evolving wood industry.” – Wood Design & Building Magazine Press Release
School Construction News features Dartmouth College Dana Hall
Dartmouth Renovation Project on Target for LEED Gold
This project reuses and adds to a vacant 1960’s library in the heart of the medical school quad, transforming it into a vibrant faculty center.
Located at the heart of 1960s medical school buildings on the school’s siloed north campus, the 32,995sf Dana Hall project — as well as new entrances for its surrounding buildings, a wide pedestrian bridge, and new circulation between buildings — is transforming the college’s least compelling area into a well-scaled, inviting north quad. Read more
Read article here:http://schoolconstructionnews.com/2020/01/15/dartmouth-renovation-project-on-target-for-leed-gold/
ArchDaily features Adohi Hall
ArchDaily features Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects, Inc., Mackey Mitchell Architects, Modus Studio and OLIN’s pioneering project; the nation’s first large-scale mass timber residence hall and living learning setting at University of Arkansas.
2019
“Forget the log cabin. Woodbuildings are climbing skyward-with pluses for the planet.”
Washington Post features Adohi Hall at The University of Arkansas and Design Building at The University of Massachusetts Amherst in recent article on Mass Timber construction and its potential on slowing climate change.
Principal, Andrea Leers, FAIA is quoted in the article saying, “There’s an experiential aspect of wood, It feels like a connection to nature. Everyone yearns for it.”
Read full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2019/12/12/forget-log-cabin-wood-buildings-are-climbing-skyward-with-pluses-planet/?arc404=true