Four Architecture School Alumni Honored With Design Awards
The design of Eco Modern Flats in Fayetteville won Chris M. Baribeau an Honor Award in the 2013 Fay Jones Alumni Design Awards competition. Baribeau is a 2003 graduate of the university. (Photo by Timothy Hursley)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Chris M. Baribeau and Timothy W. Maddox, who both work in Fayetteville, John Harrison Jones, working in Memphis, and Andrew Saunders, who teaches in Troy, N.Y., received this year’s Fay Jones Alumni Design Awards from the Fay Jones School of Architecture. They were recognized for their design work April 19 during the school’s annual Honors Recognition Reception and Ceremony at the Arkansas Union on the University of Arkansas campus.
Designs for residential, educational, fitness and commercial spaces were among those vying for recognition in this year’s alumni design awards competition. Entries came from Fay Jones School alumni practicing in cities around the state, as well as in California, Tennessee, Michigan, Illinois and New York. After careful review, the three-member jury chose four projects for accolades – resulting in one Honor Award and three Honorable Mentions.
Chris M. Baribeau won an Honor Award for Eco Modern Flats, a renovated apartment complex in Fayetteville. Baribeau, who graduated in 2003 from the university with a Bachelor of Architecture, is a principal architect at Modus Studio in Fayetteville.
The jury said the project didn’t approach sustainability as a “green wash,” but instead viewed it as “an opportunity to consider how an ethic of resourcefulness can open up design to new aesthetic possibilities. The project uses minimum means – like simple materials and architectural elements – to make the maximum impact, radically transforming the existing brutal architecture. Thoughtful and playful, the design comprehensively considers exterior, interior and landscape, creating a new vision for a domestic environment. This creative and economical LEED Platinum project is a credit to the designers.”
John Harrison Jones won an Honorable Mention for Hillstone, a residence at Pickwick Lake, Tenn. Jones, who graduated in 1979 from the university with a Bachelor of Architecture, is principal architect at John Harrison Jones Architect in Memphis, Tenn.
“The integration of building with site and material palette is the strength of this project’s design,” the jury members said. “The entry sequence, motor court, roofline and color are particularly successful at subtly integrating the landscape with the land and vistas of the lake. Additionally, rich natural materials merge the building into this difficult site. Managing the lakeside, spatial relationships, and interior detailing was more challenging. However, this submission supported the sensitive description of the design process involved in blending land and building.”
Timothy W. Maddox won an Honorable Mention for Round Mountain House in Fayetteville. Maddox, who graduated in 2002 from the university with a Bachelor of Architecture, is a principal architect at deMx architecture in Fayetteville.
“The imaginative transformation of the vernacular barn profile into a seamless envelope serves as an interesting point of departure for the design process and a powerful architectural gesture,” the jury noted. “Additionally, the architecture relates prominently with existing outbuildings and landscape. This submission made fine use of diagrams to illustrate process decisions and correlation between the farmstead and the design solution. While some space planning and interior detailing seems counter to the exemplary exterior, this laudable entry is a fine example of conceptual integration of the cultural landscape with the built response.”
Andrew Saunders won an Honorable Mention for Sartorial Tectonics, an installation for the main large-scale exhibition gallery at The Hyde Collection, a museum designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes in Glens Falls, N.Y. Saunders, who graduated in 1998 from the university with a Bachelor of Architecture, is assistant professor of architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
The jury called the project “a great example of rigorous research into advanced form making and fabrication techniques. Elegantly executed, the installation produces compelling lighting and material effects that dramatically enhance the gallery space. The presentation is exceptional in comparison with many other submittals; it provides evidence of a clear line of inquiry and a thorough explanation of the design and assembly process. The project contributes simultaneously to the disciplines of architecture, interior design and landscape architecture.”
Jury members for the awards competition were all faculty members of the architecture school: Judy Brittenum, associate professor of landscape architecture; Marie Gentry, associate professor of interior design; and Marc Manack, assistant professor of architecture.
All entries can be viewed on the school’s website.
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Judy Brittenum, associate professor, landscape architecture
Fay Jones School of Architecture
479-575-7385,
jbritten@uark.edu
Michelle Parks, director of communications
Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design
479-575-4704,
mparks17@uark.edu
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