Fall Studios

Mixing in Industry

Instructor: Ross Barney

In many ways, the Mixed-use development represents an optimal approach for people to live in cities. As the need to densify our population for spatial, economic, and environmental reasons grows, mixed-use developments provide a way to integrate daily life in a way that combines functions and amenities that are desirable for communal living. However, the current concept of mixed-use mostly incorporates residential with office and/or other commercial functions such as retail. This leaves one of the main pillars of zoning, Industrial, out of the mix. This studio will be investigating is how to create a new type of mixed-use development. Our goals will be to create a development that foster’s the City of Boulders’ artesian industrial base and enhances the city’s diversified economy for the general welfare of its citizens. In recent years there has been a sort of renaissance of manufacturing at the local level. Businesses such as local breweries, coffee roasters, small-scale/urban farms, etc. bring a vital new type of local, clean manufacturing to the city that can be used in a different way than the old stalwarts of industry. The studio will be tasked designing a development to accommodate manufacturing in synergy with residential and retail to create an environmentally sustainable place for live, work, and play.

Instructor: Brandon Anderson

This design studio will explore the human need to be social and how designers can embrace the opportunities presented within culinary spaces. Students will study local, national, and international marketplaces to understand their historical and cultural impacts. These studies will set foundational knowledge used to examine the programmatical data to create a vibrant self-supporting environment. Design explorations in natural daylighting, materials, lighting, and furniture will reinforce the development of a space that brings people together.

Studio 2: Intermediate Architecture

Architecture as a product

Instructor: Marcel de Lange

This studio explores where architecture and product-based design could overlap and possibly strengthen one another. In the current world of architectural design and construction there is a shift happening towards wanting better designed and better build buildings. A lot of this shift happens through “pre-building” parts or “fabricate” entire buildings off-site. This has led to better performance, quicker assembly, better quality, better tolerances, more sustainability and safer environments for workers to work in, just to name a few. In this studio you will explore the design and development of innovative building design through the lens of an Architect, Product designer and builder/contractor while staying true to the core principles of being an environmental designer.

Biophilic Emergence: Mass-Timber Buildings and High Performance Building Façades

This course will be taught by Instructor Frank Romero. Frank is the Principal of RRDW Architecture here in Boulder, CO. He was the design lead for two major CLT, Mass Timber + Hybrid projects in the Denver Metro region: The Viega Headquarters Office and Seminar Building in Interlocken in Broomfield and The Boulder Chung Thai Zen Center in Boulder County. This course will ask students to investigate Mass-Timber building technologies and High-Performing, Energy Efficient building façade systems. Students will investigate the relationship between structure and skin to create a building that is carbon sensitive and high-performing. An emphasis on a Biophilic Design principals will allow for a variety of building forms to emerge from the design process. Program: Cultural Centre + Pavilion Site: TBD *Students will visit a Mass Timber Building designed by the Instructor *Students will visit a Mass Timber Saw Mill and Timber Fabrication Facility *National Renewable Energy Lab and Woodworks will be guest critics