The Salem Public Library’s downtown location was due for a renovation to bring its structural resilience and building systems up to modern standards. The 96,000-square-foot concrete structure was built in 1970 and underwent an expansion in 1990.
Project name
Salem Public Library Renovation
Architecture firm
Hacker Architects
Location
Salem, Oregon, USA
Principal architect
Laura Klinger (Project Manager & Principal-in-Charge), David Keltner (Design Principal)
Design team
Daniel Childs, Nick Pectol, Caleb Couch, Lewis Williams
Collaborators
Project QA/QC: Matt Sugarbaker. Acoustical Engineer: Listen Acoustics. Signage/Wayfinding: The Felt Hat. Code Consultant: Code Unlimited
Interior design
Jennie Fowler, Anya Smith, Whitney Jordan, Tracey Olson, Mayumi Nakazato
Landscape
Ground Workshop
Civil engineer
Westech Engineering
Construction
Howard S. Wright
Typology
Educational › Library
In the final semester of architectural school, a student is given their first opportunity to create a design brief. After four years of working with faculty to develop detailed briefs and doing routine projects as assigned by the course curriculum, it's finally time to choose your own topic.
Photography
Graphic Mindbd
Nowadays, many more educators are looking for innovative methods of teaching that go beyond the traditional model of rote learning and rigid classroom structures. Dynamic and engaging strategies are being explored, such as creating a playful learning environment.
Photography
Adventurous Global School in Cambodia by Orient Occident Atelier, © Magic Kwan, Kenrick Wong
BE_Design proudly presents the Komera Leadership Center, a facility in the rural eastern province of Rwanda providing health, education, and mentorship programs for young women, and a place for family development initiatives and community gatherings.
Project name
Komera Leadership Center
Architecture firm
BE_Design
Principal architect
Bruce Engel
Construction
Local workforce that maintained an average of 40% female representation, and provided on-site skilled labor training
Material
Woven eucalyptus screens and brick patterns
Typology
Cultural Architecture › Community Center
As we trace back our academic culture to the gurukul system while evolving into a society that focuses on technology in education, the Indian demographic context cannot be ignored. The quest for knowledge doesn’t know restrictions, it is where the willingness is— across age groups and interests, and it has to be addressed at the grassroots level in...
Architecture firm
Craft Narrative
Location
Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
Photography
Studio recall, Sohaib Ilyas
Principal architect
Yatindra Patil, Vijay Kharade, Tanvee Abhyankar (Author)
Design team
Bharat Yadav, Shubham Kapre and Ajay Harsure
Structural engineer
Sonal Nimbalkar
Material
Galvanised Iron, Mild Steel, Rubber Wood and Brick Paving
Typology
Educational › Library Pod
The importance of architecture in building a learning environment for students is exciting and one that begs to be studied. Naturally, the way you design a place shows how it will be used; thus, architecture is indispensable in the future of learning.
Written by
Bernard Williams
In the mountain city of Chongqing, there is such a middle school that integrates
individualized educational thinking into the campus environment. It is like a spaceship
that landed on the earth out of nowhere. The conflicting and inclusive traits are just
rightly integrated, which makes you wonder whether there a possibility to subvert the...
Project name
Chongqing Nankai Liangjiang Secondary Schoo
Location
Chongqing, China
Photography
gad, Shiromio Studio, Jinrong Huang, Guangkun Yang
Principal architect
Qiulong Zhu. Project creator: Yan Wu, Yu Guo, Yuanxing Cao, Siyuan Zeng, Lu Gan, Ning Kang, Xin Guo, Kai Tang, Zhen Lu, Xiangpeng Xing
Design team
Qiulong Zhu, Yan Wu, Xin Guo, Yang Yu, Yu Guo, Yuanxing Cao, Siyuan Zeng, Lu Gan, Ning Kang, Lingyan, Wang, Lin Li, Zhen Lu, Kai Tang, Xiangpeng Xing, Jianwei Yang, Lu Zhng, Min Li
Landscape
Chongqing Liang Jiang New District Xixnnan Education
Structural engineer
Tao Yu, Xiaodong Lv, Zhiwei Shan, Jia Huang, Bo Zhou, Qijun Shu, Jitao Shi, Tao Li, Lianhua Wang, Chuankun Wang, Huaqiang Wang, Changling Pei, Haiyang Liu
Environmental & MEP
Water Supply and Drainage: Junfang Cui, Fengyuan Zhou, Zhen Li, Dan Zhao, Haibin Liu, Yunlong Jiang. HVAC: Yuankun Liu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Luchun Wan, Jidong Xia, Zhengguang Liu, Shufeng Liu. Electrical: Lin Zhou, Weihao Mu, Longsheng Feng, Yuanyuan Sui, Xingyue Zhou, Yutuan Wang.
Construction
CMCU Engineering Corporation (Construction Drawing)
Tools used
SketchUp, Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator,Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Enscape, V-ray
Client
Chongqing Liang Jiang New District Xixnnan Education Information Consulting Service Co., Ltd.
Typology
Educational › School
In recent years, the aviation industry in China has accelerated rapidly. Relying on this, Jiande Aviation Town has become the only characteristic town in Zhejiang province to build the whole industrial chain of general aviation. Jiande Aviation Training Base is located in the center of Jiande Aviation Town, which will focus on the role of aviation...
Project name
Zhejiang Jiande Aviation Industry-University-Research Base
Location
Jiande, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Photography
Schranimage, gad
Principal architect
Ming Yang, Shouqing Wu (Project Creator)
Design team
Shengzu Guan, Huiting Lu, Fabing Tan, Ye Su, Mingru Zhuang, Haili Ma
Interior design
Hangzhou Dianshang Architectural Decoration Design Co., L td.
Completion year
April 2020
Structural engineer
Yingdong Wu, Xuefeng Wu, Xiaoling Li, Xiaodong Shen
Environmental & MEP
HV AC: Zhenhuan Zhang, Fangfang Li. Electrical Engineering: Guoping Chen, Yue Wang. Water Supply and Drainage: Maoqing Shao, Min Hu
Landscape
gad Architectural Design (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd
Material
Concrete, Glass, Steel
Client
Zhejiang Provincial Airport Group
Typology
Educational › University