© Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105

Astula，Raul Garcia；Meridian 105

架构师提供的文本描述。十八号

Text description provided by the architects. The 18th & Boulder Townhouse development is situated in Denver’s Lower Highlands (Lohi) neighborhood on the North side of Denver’s downtown boundary. The Lohi neighborhood has become an especially popular destination for new development and includes a mix of single family homes, commercial buildings, and large apartment blocks, all juxtaposed against one other. Small two-story homes share the same block, adjacent to and in the shadow of 5-story structures. This project resides on a corner lot and shares street frontage with two such structures, including an apartment building to the West and a single-family residence to the South. The context presents a special challenge to new development, requiring both a macro and micro scaled design response.

 © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105

Astula，Raul Garcia；Meridian 105

“子午线105”的设计包括三栋并排的私人联排住宅，每栋房子都是三层楼高的四层外屋顶甲板。这座建筑以一种正式的集中表达方式回应了它与西方更大的邻居的关系。它的物质性很强，而且在几何上没有被破坏。在建筑材料中，砖块纹理给质量增加了兴趣，并将设计与人造尺度连接起来。随着建筑的拐角处，它的体积开始以更小的1层和2层的空间传播，其中包含外部甲板。这些外部空间吸引住了居民。设计团队的目标是吸引人们对这些空间的关注，并选择了黑白材料，以便在外观上提供对比。

Meridian 105’s design includes three side-by-side private townhouse residences in a single building structure.  Each home is 3-stores in height with a 4th story exterior rooftop deck.  The building responds to its larger neighbor to the West with a single formal massing expression along that street front, heavy in its materiality and unbroken geometrically.  The façade makes a finer expression in the building material, where brick textures add interest to the mass and bridge the design to a man-made scale.  As the building turns the corner, its volumes begin to disseminate with smaller 1 and 2-story void spaces containing exterior decks.  These exterior spaces draw the residents out, presenting a more active use to that façade.   It was the design team’s goal to draw attention to these spaces and has chosen black and white materials in order to offer contrast along the façade. 

 © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105

Astula，Raul Garcia；Meridian 105

 © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105

Astula，Raul Garcia；Meridian 105

早期的项目目标之一是丰富建筑基础周围的行人体验。这是在建筑材料的表达上完成的。砖瓦贴面、木墙板和金属筛板传达了手工制作的工作质量，并被认为外观不完美，在每个建筑的立面上都增加了一个不可预测的维度。在重叠安装中使用的寿司板(烧焦的木材)让人们对其阴影浓密的外观感兴趣，而质地的表面在很近的距离内再次被欣赏。随着光线的变化，这种处理的光泽在一天中发生了变化。砖被安装在非常规的粘合图案和表面方向上。

One of the early project goals was to enrich the pedestrian experience around the base of the building.  This is accomplished in the expression of building materials.  Brick veneer, wood siding, and metal screening convey a hand-made quality of work and are acknowledged to be imperfect in their appearance, adding a dimension of unpredictability to each building façade.   Shou Sugi Ban siding (charred wood) applied in a lapped installation offers interest in its heavily shadowed look, and a textural surface appreciated again at close proximity.  The resulting sheen of this treatment transforms through the day with the changing light.  Brick is installed in unconventional bonding patterns and surface orientations. 

 © Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105

Astula，Raul Garcia；Meridian 105

Architects Meridian 105 Architecture

Location Denver, United States

Lead architect Chad Mitchell

Team Daniel Lipscomb

Area 8.606 ft2

Project Year 2017

Photographs Astula, Raul Garcia; Meridian 105

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