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The Sierra Alternative Housing / Kadre Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 17:00:00 +0000

In the high desert of Antelope Valley, CA (LA County), The Sierra introduces 38 new transitional housing units for families currently experiencing homelessness. Designed by award-winning emergency housing experts Kadre Architects, and built by Ford E.C., for their longtime partners at Hope the Mission (the largest rescue shelter organization in the country), the sprawling, colorful, 4-acre campus employs the firm’s signature modernist paint accents and graphic approach to create a contemporary, uplifting community for incoming residents. As a new housing prototype, the Sierra explores the rapid conversion of existing hotel stock into transitional housing in a rural setting. The entire Sierra campus comprises 38 self-contained units, a commercial kitchen (the residents receive 3 hot meals a day), a play area for children, a stage, a chicken coop, a basketball court and exercise area and several spaces throughout the property specifically designed for small and large social gatherings to help fortify a sense of belonging and community. On-site case management offices serve as a navigation center and the forthcoming pre-school construction will further provide residents with necessary support in re-entering the workforce and transitioning out of homelessness.

Health Innovation Hub / John McAslan + Partners

Andreas Luco — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Lancaster University’s Health Innovation Campus is focused on improving preventative healthcare, a medical specialism that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown to be of utmost importance. In 2016, John McAslan + Partners was commissioned to design a master plan for an 11-hectare site for the Campus including its first phase, the Innovation Hub building. Designed to instill a sense of orderly calm conducive to both mental and physical wellbeing, the Innovation Hub will bring together academics linked to the University’s Faculty of Health and Medicine with local service providers including NHS tenants. This a large, five-storey building, yet its pavilion-like form disguises its scale and fits in unobtrusively with the surrounding topography.

Winter Visual Arts Building / Steven Holl Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0000

On the historic campus of Franklin & Marshall College, the new Winter Visual Arts Building takes shape as a raised pavilion formed by the site’s 200-year old trees, the oldest elements of the campus. A new campus destination for all students, the building’s spaces aim to evoke the creative energy involved in teaching and making art.

Lancaster Campus of History / Centerbrook Architects & Planners

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) / Sheppard Robson

Victoria King — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In 2011 the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) became the first higher education building and only the second building ever to receive a BREEAM Outstanding rating post-completion. The Institute houses a range of flexible performance and workshop spaces that support an exciting programme of music, drama, design and fine art. The design was developed as an exploration of the interplay between nature and the manmade, inspired by the woodland setting.