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2007
Honor for Excellence in Architectural Design
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Architect
RATIO Architects Inc,
Columbus, Indiana
Project
High Acres Indiana House,
Columbus, Indiana
Photographer
Esto Photographics, Inc.,
Mamaroneck, NY
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Project
Description:
Originally built in 1929 by a prominent
Indiana industrialist, this small country cottage was originally
built as a summer-time respite, and would eventually in the 1950’s become a weekend cottage of local Columbus area business leader,
and time-honored contemporary architecture champion and philanthropist, J. Irwin
Miller. The cottage’s new owners, a young family with small children, would
require the cottage to be expanded to three times its existing square-footage,
yet remain modestly scaled in proportion to the existing hilltop. The concept
for “growing” the cottage suggested the addition of two new cottage-wings
spreading outward from the main body, forming a nicely-scaled terrace garden
to trap the mid-day sun, and receive the cool valley breezes. The key to the
massing composition is the development of the glass connectors, or two-story
bridges, which are designed to isolate the new wings added to each side of the
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The more contemporary bridges allow a
sort of time-lapse to occur, between the old and the new, and affords
the introduction of exterior materials like stone, slate, and clapboard
siding to enter the interior. The buildings are anticipated to
age and weather handsomely, and with a timeless sense of permanence
over the coming years.
Jury Comments:
“We respect the strategy of the two additions…they don’t look
like cheap imitations…they are equal in detailing and craft
to the original....”
“It would be hard for me to not look at this project, to
triple the program, and I would do two things that are so completely
different from the original that you understand the original is
a different thing….that’s not what they did, they
chose a different approach and they did it really well and that’s
what is admirable about it.”
“I think it’s the best of them all….”
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About
The AIA Indiana
Architectural Design Awards
Excellence
in Design Awards are presented by AIA Indiana as follows:
For Excellence in Architectural Design, buildings and structures,
architects and owners are presented with awards. Honor being
the most prestigious, Merit the
second most prestigious, and Citation the
third most prestigious category. Entries are accepted from architects
throughout Indiana, and award winners are selected by an independent
jury.
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