15 May 2012
Construction has started along Fifteenth Street in Southeast DC for a new headquarters building for a local non-profit. The Community Action Group provides social services for residents of their neighborhood. In 2008, while undergoing renovation, the existing building occupied by the Group suffered a structural collapse and was subsequently razed. The Community Action Group's new sixteen thousand square foot building will hold offices for twelve staff members, a multipurpose room, dining area and fitness room. The ground floor will be used for the assembly of constituency meetings and other social events, while the second floor will house staff offices and training rooms.
30 April 2012
Next month, Studio Twenty Seven Architecture will present their Southwest book at the AIA National Convention. The firm's principals will lead a seminar on the findings and proposals of the study.
30 April 2012
Construction is two-thirds complete on the new home the studio is designing in Brookland. Framing and window installation are complete while the black concrete board rain screen exterior is now being applied. The views from the attic-level work studio are imposing and expansive of the neighborhood. The massing of the house is a clean and complementary take on the typical home found in this upper northeast Washington, DC neighborhood.
29 February 2012
Studio Twenty Seven Architecture is collaborating with the Catholic University School of Architecture's Advanced Fabrication Studio to design a new entrance for our office. The design will feature the installation of a digitally fabricated construction that will define arrival, illuminate passage, and announce spatial opening. We are describing the construction as a "figurative space translator." It will solve the current unregulated condition of transitioning from darkness to light and constriction to openness. The program, design, and operation of this "figurative space translator" will have dialectic references that will tie back into the firm's design philosophy. The CUA students will design, fabricate, and install the piece during the Spring 2012 semester.
6 February 2012
Union Station, the District's majestic train terminal designed by Daniel Burnham, is slated to become the central location in the City for regional and national bus service. In a shrewd planning decision, transportation officials have decided that Union Station should be the hub for bus as well as train service in and out of the City. Studio Twenty Seven Architecture has been retained by the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation to design a waiting area, ticketing office, and facilities for customers using the different bus lines. The intent is to create an experience of design excellence for bus travelers consistent with that experienced by train passengers. The fast track design and construction project will utilize modular design and construction principles.
31 January 2012
For the last few weeks, the Studio has been studying master planning diagrams for the Kay Anj Village. The new village, funded by the non-profit Helping Haitian Angels, will be a refuge for eighty orphans. Master planning efforts are focused on site conditions, sustainability requirements, and establishing an implicit framework for future growth in the village. Individual homes will be identified by simple and limited massing and positioned and programmed to create functional outdoor and indoor rooms. The homes will support and encourage organic growth as future rooms are added to meet the evolving needs of the orphanage.
26 January 2012
Studio Twenty Seven Architecture is constructing a second project for previous clients in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC. After completing their new office, the clients returned to Studio Twenty Seven Architecture with a request for a new house. With a black concrete board rain screen exterior and wrap around windows at the rear, the new house will be a fresh take on the typical home found in the Brookland neighborhood. The interiors will be light filled with a minimum of interior walls. Using prefabricated panels as a construction method, the house is moving from foundation to close-in in just under three weeks.
23 January 2012
10 January 2012
3 January 2012
The studio is submitting permit drawings for a new house project on Fire Island, New York, to start 2012. This will be Studio Twenty Seven Architecture's second project on the island. The design is a theme and variation study of the relationship between solid and void. The four elevations compose variations of voids punched in a field of solid and solids balanced in a field of void. The theme for the arrangement of the interior spaces is the same. Two solid containers for sleeping float in an open void. Construction will begin this summer.
Construction Starts on New Headquarters for Community Action Group
Studio Twenty Seven Architecture is working with local general contractor MCN Build on this design-build venture.
30 April 2012
SW Book to be Presented at the AIA National Convention
Today, in both a physical and psychological sense, Southwest is an area removed and isolated from the rest of the city's urban fabric. It is a palimpsest of Washington's political and economic winds, with a physical form defined by over 100 years of benign neglect and best intentions. Studio Twenty Seven Architecture believes that Southwest needs neither a new urban plan nor the wholesale resurrection of L'Enfant's original plan, but rather specific interventions to reconnect the quadrant to the rest of the city.
The seminar will open these ideas for discussion. The convention will be held May 17 - 19 in Washington, DC.
30 April 2012
Brookland Construction Progresses
29 February 2012
Collaboration on a "Figurative Space Translator"
6 February 2012
Studio Twenty Seven Architecture awarded new bus terminal at Union Station
31 January 2012
Haitian Village Moves Forward
26 January 2012
New Home in Brookland
23 January 2012
Hadley Residence
Construction will begin this month on a new house in Arlington designed by the Studio. Located in a neighborhood of small pillbox homes built in the 1930s, the new residence will take its massing cues from this residential context. The massing will mimic the original pillbox form. Unlike the other homes in the neighborhood, the house will be rotated ninety degrees to take advantage of the narrow, deep site. With walls of windows at the short ends of the house, the pillbox form is reinterpreted to a modern home. The Hadley residence will feature geothermal heating and sustainable landscaping.
10 January 2012
Grow Academy starts 2012 in New Space
The first phase of construction on the Scott Montgomery School renovation is complete. Grow Academy, a KIPPDC preschool and kindergarten, took possession of twenty three thousand square feet of renovated space on January 4th. Grow Academy's nine new classrooms and associated spaces are part of a larger makeover of the one hundred and five thousand square foot facility at 421 P Street in northwest DC. Construction is slated to finish in July of 2012.
3 January 2012
Ocean Walk House
