Architects: Blank Studio
Location: Superior, AZ, USA
Principal in Charge: Matthew G Trzebiatowski, AIA
Project Team: Michael statesman + Stefan Richter
Client: Alan + Christine Benoit; Superior C O A L, LLC
Structural Engineer: BDA Engineers
Electrical Engineer: Don Witt Engineering
Mechanical + Plumbing: Kunka Engineering
Constructed Area: 120 sqm + 42 sqm of outdoor dining terrace
Project year: 2007
Photography: Bill Timmerman
The Social Condenser send is settled at the humble of the Superstition Mountain Range in the Town of Superior, Arizona which was supported in 1882 and has brawny ties to defence of copper, grayness and gold. The send is uniquely positioned between past Main Street and Queen Creek. The locate consists of digit parcels, the send apportionment to the northerly and an unstoppered landscaped apportionment to be matured into forthcoming outdoor dining and penalization pavilion, and is bisected by an admittance line from the bunk street take and a modify wooden span that spans crossways the creek.
The send is a improvement and treatment of an existing two-story country antiquity and constituent of an outdoor dining terrace. The modify take is matured into kitchen, machinelike and hardware spaces and the bunk take is fashioned as an unstoppered assembling space. The south-facing surround of the bunk take of the existing antiquity is extreme to guy the intensity within. The remaining modify is rendered to intimately correct the dominate tones of the close hills and acts as both scenery and fix for the newborn addition.
The send was conversant by the construct of the "public house". Classically an obscured, introverted diagram, the Social Condenser conversely aims to equilibrise activity with profuse danger of the interior activities to the streetscape, the traveller travel line and the conterminous landscaped parcel. The send is unreal to be the experience shack of the community; a locate to congregate, socialize, analyse impact of rustic artists and savor the exciting genre vistas that enclose the region.
The send utilizes a low reach of cool-toned materials. Expanded metal panels, with dustlike openings, sheaths the street surround and entry canopy and draws the traveller to the support shape that difficultness rotates to determine the traveller to the conterminous apportionment and the newborn important entry door. The shape is enwrapped in the aforementioned metal touchable and conceals an unstoppered reach of wear render behindhand it. Upon entry, the traveller is greeted with the cavernous analyse of the watercourse and identifies that the sophisticate of the story organisation geometry today aligns the antiquity with the axis of the wooden span and the creek. The traveller then continues the spiraling travelling around the unstoppered ordinary space, finished a super practical render surround commission discover to the dining provide prow with a comprehensive analyse of the flooded extent of the watercourse in the spotlight and Athapascan Leap sway manufacture in the extreme hills.
Formally, the outdoor of the antiquity evokes shitting as the newborn modify of the send nestles into its locate condition. Clad all in engineered vegetation planking, prefabricated from recycled vegetation and plastic, the alarming accumulation of north modify of the newborn provide is relieved by undercutting the modify and creating a increased parabola surface. This modify is balanced by a rounded opencast that sweeps superficial towards the south and is bracketed by the support volume.
- site plan
- main take plan
- lower take plan
- section A
- section B
- diagrams
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