The US Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) directs the worldwide overseas building program for the Department of State and the U.S. Government community. OBO’s mission is to “provide safe, secure, functional, and resilient diplomatic facilities”. OBO has announced its 2023-2025 term Industry Advisory Group (IAG) which will be tasked with advising the OBO on best practices and innovative methods. Read on HERE.
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Nader will be presenting The Animate Analytique Monday, April 10, for Portland, Maine’s architecture, landscape, and design series Architalx. The lecture will begin at 6pm at Aura, 121 Center St, Portland, ME.
Tickets HERE!
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On Friday, March 31st at New York’s Center for Architecture, Nader Tehrani and Toronto-based Nima Javidi will join AIANY guests for conversation and a custom cocktail. Using “Circles & Grids” as mapping devices and metaphors, Tehrani will be in dialogue with Javidi to explore the state of the profession as a response to the urgent question, “What is at stake?”
More info and event registration HERE.
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Nader Tehrani with Nima Javidi
We are very pleased to announce that our flexible residential project, Poché Habitats, has won the top award in Architect Magazine’s 70th annual Progressive Architecture Awards program.
Dive deeper into the project HERE.
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NADAAA is participating in the Chicago Come Home: Missing Middle Infill Housing Competition, organized by the City of Chicago and the Chicago Architecture Center. The intention of the competition is to build much-needed new housing stock in Chicago’s South and West Sides. An exhibition of the 42 submitted projects that range from single-family houses to six-unit buildings are now exhibited at the CAC and will be on view until March 26. Public feedback is welcomed both in person at the exhibition and online.
Helix2
URBANISM: The doubling of plots sets up an opportunity to transform what would conventionally be two row-houses into multiple dwellings that creates a community within a single structure. HELIX2 achieves this by creating an inner court that is shared by all units, while each unit also gets its own separate terrace.
A TYPE TRANSFORMED: The proposed circulation of two traditional row-houses is merged into a double-helical staircase that accesses all units, one interior and another exterior, as the second means of egress. The row-houses are rotated perpendicular to the street, separated to form a court, with an exterior stair providing terraces for social interaction.
UNIT ‘TETRIS’ LOGIC: Most units are organized on two levels in a sectional L-configuration, creating a public/private level, or allowing a separate suite on another floor for the independence of an in-law/parental suite. While the units stack in a bespoke organization, all plumbing is stacked vertically to allow for flexible planning around units, should transformations be needed.
TECHNOLOGIES: While economy suggests wood-stud framing is the most economical for a single building, if multiple structures were considered on varied sites, mass timber, and modular systems allow for pre-fabrication and enhanced sustainable solutions. Veneer wood resin composite or fiber cement panels make for a flexible cladding rain screen envelope.
THE REAL ESTATE PROFORMA: An apples-to-apples comparison between a conventional double row-house and this proposal establishes a net-to-gross difference of 9500/900sqft of circulation for the row-house and 9500/840sqft for HELIX2, with the added advantage of a courtyard and multiple terraces.
Read more about the competition and initiative to build in Chicago’s South and West Sides via the Chicago Sun Times, Dwell, and Austin Weekly.
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We are honored to announce the Adams Street Branch Library has received a 2022 BSA Honor Award for Design Excellence as well as an Interior Architecture Merit Award!
Our masterplan realization project for the Rhode Island School of Design’s Freshman Quad Block has also brought home a Campus Planning and Urban Design Merit Award!
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The Adams Street Branch Library will be winning both a Boston Society for Architecture Honor Award for Design Excellence and an Interior Architecture Award at the 2022 BSA Awards Gala. As well, the full RISD Quad Block project will be winning a Campus and Urban Planning Award. Join us on January 18th at the Gala at Artists for Humanity, register HERE!
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September 24, 2022
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“The transformational design walks a delicate line, as Tehrani admits, between framing the pieces—metallurgy, textiles, sarcophagi, statuary—in their correct capacity and giving the context its material specificity, without trying to upstage the work. […] But the project is part of a bigger discussion that rescripts the narrative of ancient cultures. By attempting to evoke these various realities through character, affect, color, materiality, and immersive space, NADAAA’s intervention enters into the complex discussion of what role a museum plays in today’s world.” – Patrick McGraw
Read on HERE.
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