Interior Render

The main Administrative lobby, this is not the reception desk for the complex just the office area. Notice the exterior wood slat ceiling, and the inner curtain wall surface as the ceiling on the upper left accents this exterior skin.

South East Exterior and Roof

CLICK to see the full image, this is a picture of the South East exterior and view of the slopping hill and 5 atrium spaces throughout the complex. Where the public is able to walk up and enjoy the sprawling green roof.

The Research Library: The dark wood floors an wood accented ceiling, mixed with the horizontal exterior slatted-skin is complemented here again by a modern selection of furniture and sleek bookshelves. The slats are 5" apart, so from a distance they create a wall while up close they are very transparent.

Interior Renders

Conference room in the community education wing, East side of the building. The entire building is a mix of wood slats, and wood floor, with a bold interior or modern wall colors and sleek furniture.

Interior Renders

South East; private office space in the administrative area.

Lights On!

Below is a rather lengthy series of photos, but I kind of wanted to include a tiny bit of what I do when I am not at studio. I am the Technical Director or Fargo's First Assembly Church, where I oversee all the lighting, audio recording, video production and media functions of this huge facility. Aka.. it is a giant toy box for me! These are pictures of our sanctuary/stage and worship band during one of our worship nights where I spend hours designing the lights and cues for these high energy concerts! For all of us architecture kids, here are some facts: the sanctuary seats 2,700 people, and the main sanctuary itself is 28,000 square feet with a 3,850 square foot stage, its awesome to see when all the lights and media get rolling for a service or concert. The whole building totals about 43 thousand square feet. Thats just a bit about my life when I am not at my desk in studio. 

 

Cotton, Cotton and Cotton

Hi Everyone!

I don't know if there has been cotton coming out of our ears or details! This project has become more of a detail oriented project than we had expected, but I would rather have it that way any day. We kind of bulldozed through the space planning and structural planning phases, but absolutely did not forsake function and good use of space during it. The floor plan really did just naturally develop from a few first sketches and loose outline ideas. I used those two dozen plan sketches, and three dozen other sketches of sections, elevations and perspectives and complied a design into Revit about 4 weeks ago. Once I had the entire building done along with Cassie's help she was then given the file to start adding the architectural detailing such as the cedar wood slat skin, finalizing the curtain walls and the bold-curved-mullions of the atrium spaces.

Recently, I have been working at putting lighting and finished floors and ceilings into the digital model as Cassie has been doing the detail work on the curved mullions in the 6 atrium spaces. Before friday we hope to have all the lights, mullions and furniture in the model. To date we have probably created about 30 renderings that mark our progress and material choices along the way.

Thanks for being interested and reading this as Cassie and I continue to have fun and design the Cotton Research and Community Engagement center.

Matt and Cassie