Baldridge Architects Office Baldridge Architects

2014-12-19 01:00

架构师提供的文本描述。这个项目是一个小的城市填充改造，位于克拉克斯维尔，唯一的混合使用社区在老西奥斯汀，得克萨斯州。这个建筑作为巴尔德里奇建筑师事务所的办公室，这是一个位于奥斯汀的小型建筑工作室。1450平方英尺的翻修坐落在一个低调的位置，在一个停车场沿着主要的双车道商业街，贯穿克拉克斯维尔。最初是一座混凝土砖石单元仓库，被忽视了上世纪60年代的电视维修业务。改造后的建筑不仅是该公司的家，也是从奥斯汀住宅区盛行的“软现代”本能，以及餐厅和商业机构的时尚表面的转向。

Text description provided by the architects. This project is a small urban infill renovation located in Clarksville, the only mixed use neighborhood in Old West Austin, Texas. The structure serves as the offices for Baldridge Architects, a small architecture studio in Austin. The 1450 square foot renovation sits in an unassuming location amidst a parking lot along the principal two-lane commercial street the runs through Clarksville. Originally a concrete masonry unit warehouse glommed on to the neglected 1960s building of a television repair business, the reinvented structure serves not only as the firm’s home but also as a redirection from the “soft modern” instincts that prevail in Austin’s residential neighborhoods, and from the trendy surfaces that characterize its restaurants and commercial establishments.

 © Casey Dunn

凯西·邓恩

该项目规模很小，包括10名设计师的住宿、一间会议室、小厨房、浴室以及一个材料库和休息室。作为对奥斯汀目前设计景观的主导地位的形象驱动的模仿，设计师们使用的是有限的调色板和有限的足迹。其结果是一种赤裸裸的形式，覆盖着光滑的白色灰泥，装饰着它不规则的膨胀节的节奏(选择加入并理解从相邻的电视维修大楼继承下来的各种海拔数据)。一个3英尺长12英尺长的窗户/天窗，它的玻璃与外部灰泥齐平，标志着前面的正面，作为公司生机勃勃的标志。

The project is small, comprising accommodations for ten designers, a conference room, kitchenette, bathroom and a materials library and lounge. In response to the image-driven pastiche predominating Austin’s current design landscape, the designers worked with a limited palette and a circumscribed footprint. The result is a stark form clad in smooth white plaster, adorned only by the rhythm of its irregular expansion joints (chosen to incorporate and make sense of the various elevational data inherited form the adjoining TV repair building). A single 3’ by 12’ window/skylight, its glazing flush to the exterior plaster, marks the front façade, acting as dynamic living signage for the firm.

 Floor Plan

下面，通过一个独立的门进入一个材料库和休息室，以容纳建筑实践中较为混乱的元素。一个半透明的遮阳篷覆盖着入库和毗邻业务的后入口，为经常聚集在电视机下面的员工提供避风港和空间。外壳由不规则间隔的彩绘钢管和扩大的网眼制成，将入口与电视维修的服务核心分开，提供一个空间来组织(如果不是完全隐藏的话)它的垃圾。

Below, a materials library and lounge are accessed through a separate door, accommodating the messier elements of the architectural practice.  A translucent awning covers the entries to the storage and to the rear entry of the adjoining business, allowing shelter from the elements and a space for its employees who often congregate beneath.  Enclosures fabricated from irregularly spaced painted steel tubes and expanded mesh separate the entry from the service core of the TV Repair and provide a space to organize, if not completely hide, its refuse.

 © Casey Dunn

凯西·邓恩

内部呈现简单的白色，强调与大胆的积木地板和悬臂红木货架。协调揭示和冲洗底座细节回到18“深墙-外部未绝缘CMU结构的净结果-创造微妙的错觉，墙壁漂浮在一个4”的基准面之上。紧凑和务实的布局，博物馆光滑的表面，协调的排列和无声的细节，作为说服性的对立面的平方和舒适性驱动的本能，往往伴随建筑客户时，他们首先考虑自己的项目。

The interior is rendered simply in white, accented with bold cumaru flooring and cantilevered mahogany shelves. Coordinated reveals and flush base detailing turn back into the 18” deep walls – the net result of the exterior uninsulated cmu structure – to create the subtle illusion that the walls float above a 4” datum. The compact and pragmatic layout, museum-smooth surfaces, coordinated alignments and silent detailing act as persuasive counterpoints to the square-footage and amenity driven instincts that often accompany architectural clients when they first consider their own projects.

该项目是在有限的预算下交付的，该公司的成员以前是作为一个设计-建造企业运作的，他们每个人都贡献了自己的技能来建造这个空间。在其不吉利的背景下，这个结构是毫无歉意和简单的，精确但毫不费力，醒目而明显。

The project was delivered with a limited budget and the members of the firm, which previously operated as a design-build concern, each contributed his or her skills to build the space. In its inauspicious context, the structure sits unapologetic and simple, precise but effortless, striking but obvious.