A STATION IN NEED OF REPAIR

For 25 years, NOAA scientists have been using the existing Cape Shirreff Facility to collect data on the marine ecostem. But unmanageable leaks, black mold, and peeling paint threaten the scientists’ health and forced them to spend countless hours on building maintenance instead of science.

Campus Layout Iterations

Cladding And Decking

Core Values

A beacon in the snowy winter conditions which will aid in loacting the campus upon arrival, while camouflaging it during the snowless summer conditions allowing the campus to blend into its context. With a deck that highlights the ground it sits on. With the Antartic marine climate metal cladding became the material of choice.

Iterated on panel patterns/sizing and profiles of metal cladding.

As a class we mocked up a 1:1 scale ‘frankenstein’ model of the design. This allowed us to quickly test and work through ideas/details before we started to prefabricate in Denver.

Through the help of our consultant Shafer Metals and a trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we as a cladding team were able to discover an electrochemical process to color stainless steel called Light Interference Color (LIC). Which creates a protective layer on top of stainless steel that behaves like a prism. The color seen is dependent on the environment, light, weather, and the angle observed.

With the earthy tones of the site we chose the Medium Bronze color.

TYP Wall Section

4x4 Pressure Treaded Footing - Size Varies

(3) 4x4 Spreader

(2) L4x4x1/4 HDG w/ Through Bolt at Column & HDG Threaded Rod at Spreader

HDG Steel Wire Rope With HDG Thimble and HDG Turnbuckle

4x4 Pressure Treaded Column Post

Simpson AC4 Post Caps

Built Up 2x Drop Beam

24 Gage 316 Mill Finished Stainless Steel Belly Cladding

Outrigger

Drip Edge Flashing

10 1/4” Floor SIP

2x10 Rim Plate

2x6 Base Plate

Vapro Shield - Panelshield SA Air and Weather Barrier, TYP

6 1/2” Wall SIP

1/2” Vaprobatten by Vaproshield

Bronze LIC 16 Gage 304 Stainless Steel Cladding

Convector Baseboard Heater at Windows, TYP

Comms Desk Interior Millwork

Plywood Sill

Manko Fixed Frame Window

Custom Break Metal Shroud - Finish Varies

Integrated Interior Lighting Within Overhead Millwork

Overhead Interior Millwork Protruding Into Window Opening Acting as Sill

Black-out Commercial Roller Shades

2x6

1/4” Interior Wall Sheathing, TRP.

(2) 2x10 Ridge Beam

10 1/4” Roof SIP

2x10 Rim Plate

Gutter Hanger With 5” Gutter Box

D-Style Eave Flashing

Vapro Shield - Slopeshield Plus SA Air and Weather Barrier

7/8” Corrugated Mill Finished 316 24 Gage Stainless Steel Roof Cladding Stainless Steel Ridge

Bump-In Wall Section

4x4 PT Footing, SIze Varies

(3) 4x4 Spreader

(2) L4x4x1./4 HDG w/ Through Bolt at Column &HDG Threaded Rod at Spreader

HDG Steel Wire Rope w/ HDG Thimble and HDG Turnbuckle

4x4 PT Column Post

Simpson AC4 Post Caps

Built Up 2x Drop Beam

Drip Edge

2x10 Rim Plate

10 1/4” Floor SIP

2x8 Deck Framing

Fibergrate Decking

Ledger FLashing

2x6 Base Plate

6 1/2” Wall SIP

Vapro Shield - Panelshield SA Air and Weather Barroer, TYP

1/2” Vaprobatten by Vaproshield

Mill Finished 24 Gage 316 Stainless Steel Cladding

SIP Spline

Interior Millwork

3 1/2”x3 1/2” Inside Corner Flashing

10 1/4” Floor SIPS

Drip Edge

3 1/2”x3 1/2” Exterior Corner Flashing w/ Drip Edge (3) 2x10

Gutter

D-Style Eave Flashing

Vapro Shield - Slopeshield Plus SA Air and Weather Barrier

7/8” Corrugated Mill Finished 316 24 Gage Stainless Steel Roof Cladding

Phase One Team

B randon ‘Shaggy’ Neahusan*, Carson McKee, Paola Larios, Benjamin Jaworski, Jennifer Dear, Robert Cleary, Antonion Valencia, Sean McBride, Peter Myller, Evan Norkosky, Katie Tardif, Taylor Kortas

Rick Sommerfeld**, Adam Dergosits, Adam Sangiolo, Jacob Taswell, Jasmine Jones, Kathryn Landers, Erin Walrath, Leo Borasio, Charles De Pottere, Casie Hilyard, Will Koning**, Caitlin Kennedy, Ciara Debusk

Not Pictured:

K ate Hiartung***, Jaime Yelvington*

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Bespoke Project Solutions Colorado Building Workshop Faculty Colorado Building Workshop Staff

Journey from land or water to converge with people and nature. Paths connect for visitors to build as a team, expand knowledge and experience environment.

Site Sketches

Wall Section W-1

Metal Parapet Flashing

1x6 Exterior Cedar Siding

Weather Barrier

2’ Zip Panel

Engineered Lumber

Rigid Insulation

Wood Strapping

2x4

2x6

Metal Flashing

Triple Pane Glazing

Curtain Window Wall Framing

Batt Insulation

Brake Metal Flashing

1/2” Drain Matt

12” Conc. Foundation Wall

Wood Strapping

1x6 Interrior Cedar Veneer loose Gravel

Perimeter Drain

MB House explores ways in which a Mountain Bluebird might observe the viewer and how the viewer might respond to their relationship to the bird. The duality of understanding/viewing each other begins to develop an architectural dialogue derived from a birdhouse between these two occupants. By the position of the bird houses in the landscape there develops a system of marking one’s position in site and therefore developing a greater awareness of one’s place in the architecture.

Renders

A crater punctures a baren corner in the concrete waste land that is Albuquerque, New Mexico. The crater is surrounded by green space that offers a welcoming way to wait for the bus at the Albuquerque Rapid Transit station at the same time having a sense of mystery as to what is inside the crater?

The crater acts as the roof to a sub-grade dual use building housing a tattoo parlor and a bath house. Entering through the two doors one is immediately submerged under a pond. Mimicking the effects of being below the surface of water and foreshadowing to the baths. The bath house portion is comprised of three pools: two outside and one inside. The two outside pools in the courtyard are exposed to the elements from the crater. The ceilings of the three pools form the curvature of the wooden planks above, a testimony to wood warping after being exposed to moisture over long periods of time.

At 5:30 am on July 16, 1945, the nuclear device known as “Gadget” was successfully detonated. What once was a tower that stood 100 feet over the New Mexican desert now a crater one-half mile across and eight feet deep, all that remained were two small parts of the northwest structural leg: becoming the first casualty of nuclear warfare.

For a fragment in time the tower existed at the Trinity Site. You miss the fragment at the site and all you see is dismembered metal.

Renders

Under the Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons every country possessing nuclear weapons must disclose the amount they currently possess. Even with the treaty countries don’t completely disclose the amount as a scare tactic and fear; they tend to be estimates. In 2019 the world’s nuclear-armed states possessed a combined total of nearly 14,000 nuclear warheads.

Each line associated with a country that has disclosed a nuclear weapon in their arsenal represents 5 nuclear war heads - with 90% belonging to Russia and the United States.

This mapping exercise was done as part of Studio 401 to better understand the history and reactions to the Trinity Site and the detonation of the first nuclear weapon in human history. What started as one test, quickly grew to the means of ending World War II and the subsequent stock piling of nuclear weapons during the Cold War, continuing to this day.