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tree house, residential

wildflower centre, institutional

©2008-2009 standard® | National Wildflower Centre | Liverpool, England 18,000 sq ft | competition entry for wildflower cultivation and visitor centre architect project team: Silvia Kuhle | Jeffrey Allsbrook | Alexander Babich | Kazu Shichishima | Alexis Carver mechanical | structure | sustainable systems: Buro Happold The Living Conservatory is a glasshouse with a green roof, enveloped by the National Wildflower Centre's historic walled garden. The new building is a terraced landscape that links the ground and the sky; the microscope and the telescope. Like the walled garden, the Living Conservatory avails to natural forces to temper the microclimate, creating a comfortable and habitable interior. Its wildflower covered green roof extends the existing demonstration garden to the west brickwork wall. The PV “Sunflowers” follow the movement of the earth, visually synchronizing the garden with the sun. The “Megaliths” anchor the scheme structurally and compositionally. Orientated toward the southern sky, these volumes transform the sun’s light. With their proportions based on the Golden ratio, the Community Room “Megalith” diffuses the light evenly while the Contemplation/Prayer Room “Megalith” has a narrow, deep slot that will mark the changing seasons on an interior calendar. Placed near the entrance to the new facility, the Wind Spire is proposed to provide power and as a vertical landmark for the NWS. With planning approval, additional wind turbines would be proposed for Court Hey Park, as this is a significant site resource.

james perse beverly hills, retail

©2006-2008 standard® | James Perse flagship store| Beverly Hills, CA 5,000 sq ft | retail store project team: Jeffrey Allsbrook | Silvia Kuhle | Caroline Smogorzewski | Jaime Roveri photos: ©benny chan/fotoworks Tasked with designing the new flagship and a flexible prototype for a James Perse store roll-out, Standard created a fluid plan that defines distinct areas through subtle transitions. Open and transparent, outdoor and indoor spaces defined by their materials are layered through the building, framed with light and dark wood, stone, plaster, glass. Sliding shutter-doors are used both as veiled screens between spaces and integrated into the full height millwork.

revolve, retail

©2007-2008 standard® | Revolve Flagship Store | Los Angeles, CA 2,600 sq. ft. | multibrand retail project team: Silvia Kuhle | Jeffrey Allsbrook | Moira Henry | Travis Muroki | Gregg Oelker | Caroline Smogorzewski photos: ©benny chan/fotoworks Online couture retailer Revolveclothing.com desired a flexible space for their physical debut store and the design of the boutique responds by showcasing a changing selection of designers while transforming periodically into an event space. Set back from Melrose Avenue, a square display window within a dark metal wall announces the store’s entrance. Inside, a long wall of vertical fins emphasizes the space’s verticality while affording individual display niches for a changing group of apparel labels. Each fin is cut to a unique curved profile, countering their repetition in plan with a soft vertical topography. Custom designed fixtures of stainless and black dyed MDF are minimal, low, and removable. A passage way leads to a walled garden containing a set of museum-like vitrines displaying contemporary and vintage fashion pieces.

ridge house, residential

tarina tarantino, commercial

jsm+ communications, commercial

hidden house, residential

maxfield bleu, retail

james perse new york I, retail

open house, residential

jenni kayne, retail

james perse malibu, retail

infinity terrace, residential

canyon house, residential

james perse las vegas, retail

james perse los angeles, retail

elm drive residence, residential

madison/diavolina, retail

james perse new york II, retail

m1, commercial

hillside gallery, other

desert house, residential

maxfield gallery, other

streamline house, residential

lyte stores, retail

co-op canyon, residential

©2009 standard® with coen partners | Co-op Canyon | Dallas, TX 380,000 sq. ft. | competition entry for re:vision dallas, a net zero energy sustainable city block | honorable mention project team: Silvia Kuhle | Jeffrey Allsbrook | Alexis Carver | Kazushige Shichishima | Brandon Bown | Alex Babich | Gregg Oelker landscape architects: Coen Partners structural engineer: Thornton Tomasetti mep engineer: IBE Consulting Engineers sustainable systems: Atelier Ten cost evaluation: Davis Langdon CO-OP CANYON is a cooperative community of 1,000 people living together in terraced cliff dwellings overlooking lush urban canyon. Residents gain equity in the co-op through participation in construction, agricultural, maintenance, education and conservation programs central to the sustenance of the community. The dwelling terraces are lined with FRONT YARD gardens hosting native plants that vary in color and texture as they ascend above the canyon floor; BACKYARD gardens punctuate the ends of the terraces. Below, in the green CANYON FLOOR residents exchange knowledge and resources under the shade of trees. Small live-work and commercial spaces, child care, play and fitness spaces and the COMMUNITY KITCHEN, the co-op’s wellness center, are active with people, while native birds and insects inhabit the canyon’s plantings. The canyon walls are relatively thin, ample natural illumination and air circulation within the dwellings. At the street level, these porous walls form the threshold between the community and the urban context, linking the terraced canyon floor to the streets of Dallas. Vertical circulation to the dwellings is travels through SKIP-STOP lobbies, where an elevator stops on one level of multi-story space, and stairs lead to adjacent levels. Skip stop lobbies promote fitness and interaction; they are the DRIVEWAY spaces where residents share laundry facilities, recycling chutes, and exercise bikes. FOOD is the thread that knits the community together. Garden allotments, both concentrated in the project’s Community Farm, and dispersed throughout the backyard terraces, allow residents to grow, exchange and share canyon-grown produce. Hobbyists grow produce for daily needs and informal exchange in the Backyard allotments, and the terraces host small gatherings and cookouts. The Community Farm is the focal point of the southern canyon, situated on the stepped terraces that link the levels of the canyon floor. Produce from the Community Farm is consumed in the Community Kitchen and sold in the market spaces below. The Community Kitchen, where the exchange of knowledge about healthy diet, cultural and family cooking techniques is a resource for healthy eating. Located adjacent to the child care center and the fitness center, the Community Kitchen offers regular classes and food tastings focused on nutrition, locally grown produce, and sharing cultural traditions. The Community Kitchen is a part of holistic approach to health that includes exercise and inter-generational social interaction encouraged by work in the canyon’s gardens.

chamber of commerce, commercial

james perse brentwood, retail

james perse san diego, retail

art studio, other

james perse corporate, commercial

gondwana circle, institutional

©2009 standard® with coen partners | Gondwana Circle | San Francisco Botanical Garden competition entry for an interpretive landscape project team: Jeffrey Allsbrook | Silvia Kuhle | Alexis Carver | Sylwia Pasciak | Alex Babich | Kazushige Shichishima landscape architect: Coen Partners: Stephanie Grotta | Bryan Kramer | Erica Christenson The project transforms the San Francisco Botanical Garden’s Gondwana Circle into a visually dynamic and figurative landscape representing the five Gondwanan continents shifting in a shallow fountain tiled to recall tectonic plates and plate boundaries. Gondwana circle, located at the convergence of the SFBG’s various southern hemisphere gardens, expresses the former unity and commonality of the now separated, and floristically unique, continents. At Gondwana Circle, the diversity of the SFBG’s collection gives way to a limited palette of flowering Protea and Grevillea. These two prehistoric plant families, which evolved on Gondwana and later co-evolved on separate land masses, represent the significance of a single origin and the subsequent parallel-diversification on separate continents. Grevillea covers the continent-planters and is mixed with Protea at the abutting borders of the Austrailian, New Zealand, Chile and South American Gardens. The design forms a physical and visual link between these gardens, and is a significant locus for orientation in the SFBG. Gondwana Circle expresses the dynamics of plate tectonics and the movement of the earth’s crust through the pool’s tile pattern and color, and in the form of the planter walls. The vertical faces of the planters - molded in concrete, layered like geologic strata, are imprinted with “fossils” of ancient plants. The planters overlap the geometric inner circle, hinting at the slow outward spreading of the continents.

air force village chapel, institutional

bahia meadows, residential

©2009-2010 standard® | Bahia Meadows | Novato, CA 20,000 sq. ft. | competition entry for net zero energy sustainable senior housing | honorable mention project team: Silvia Kuhle | Jeffrey Allsbrook | Alexis Carver | Alex Babich | Brandon Bown | Sylwia Pasciak structural engineer: Buro Happold sustainable systems: Buro Happold A competition entry for low cost, sustainable senior housing in California - Bahia Meadows is a suburban infill project of 29 accessible dwellings and a range of community facilities focused on habitat preservation, agriculture, and local commerce. New buildings are proposed only on existing graded pads, leaving extensive areas of the site dedicated to agriculture and open space, encouraging coexistence with wildlife. Agricultural uses are planned at the level of the individual and the community, encouraging a neighborhood identity that's based on a sustained balance between the beneficial use and preservation of nature.Inspired by the turf-roofed structures of the Coast Miwok, each dwelling has a grass roof hosting native meadow plants, promoting biodiversity and replacing the ground displaced by the housing. Entering the community from Bahia Drive, the roofscape of solar panels and meadow-covered roofs presents a new terrain. Dwellings placed side by side in groups of up to three are informally staggered as they terrace down the slopes. Patios and decks are located at the east and west end of each home, taking advantage of the expansive views, and promoting social interaction between residents next door. Drought tolerant native oak trees and bunch grasses are planned for the spaces around the houses; restoring habitat while reducing maintenance and water use. Raised planting beds allow residents to maintain small kitchen gardens. The main street intersection is planned as a neighborhood public space, linking Bahia to Novato, activated by the traffic in and out of the community. A mix of services converge at this node: a General Store with local produce and light food service, a pharmacy/part-time nurse, an outdoor gathering space, a demonstration garden, and a vineyard maintenance area. Laundry and housecleaning services for senior residents are also based here, creating a small community hub where residents, visitors from adjacent neighborhoods, and hikers from the adjacent trail interact. A new accessible walking trail through the natural and agricultural open space within Bahia also meets this junction. The dwellings reduce energy consumption through their solar orientation, as well as their passive and active features. Depending on the season, indoor air is pre-heated or pre-cooled via a heat recovery ventilator and a ground duct heat exchanger. A roof-installed solar thermal collector heats domestic water and hydronic system. Photovoltaic panels cover the parking areas, capable of generating well in excess of the dwellings' energy consumption.

tommy bahama, retail