AIA Eastern Pennsylvania 2011 Design Award Winners & Submissions

Pristine, almost ethereal room – assured, well detailed, simple, and spare.

Despite relatively small size of project, it provides evidence of thinking at multiple scales.

Creating a common focus of existing and new rooms on the patio space reorganizes the house in relation to its exterior.

We applaud the architects’ success fitting a clean, modern interior into a neo-Georgian shell.

The result is thoughtfully underspoken – complex and contradictory, but without distracting irony.

A single facade addition with a densely layered section for an existing building which lacked a public face.

Facade composition uses material layering and changing planes to create shadows and depth that are visually interesting and performatively appropriate.

A high level of design execution at large and small scales – an elegant, intelligent design.

Artful management of limited project budget with strategic interventions to preserve historical fabric, replace less sensitive alterations and fix non-functioning construction.

Subtle, respectful, well analyzed.

Very thoughtful detailing; beautiful results.

Thoughtful site planning – clear organization balancing multiple demands and ‘fronts’.

Low corridors release into the layered volume of the stair lobby, opening to views and overhead daylight.

The lobby has the potential to be a true community space at the heart of the school.

The apparent indifference of house to tree is a suggestion of fantasy, as if the house was built on the ground and the tree grew up through it.

Free play of workmanship and problem solving in the construction feels right for the building type and site.

Pleasure taken in the rustic detailing is apparent and skillful.

Building conceived as topography inside and out, yet it still presents a facade to High Street.

Evocative drawings suggest a rich spatial experience – we hope the executed project retains the wonderful quality of the conception.

This project responds to the challenge of making a very large building legible by creating a network of day lit interior streets.

Public concourse solves the multiple point of entry problem.

Articulation of differentiation with economy of means and within a clearly defined overall language.