Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center
 
Merit Award—2004 Nevada AIA Design Awards
Honor Award—2001 Nevada AIA Design Awards (Unbuilt Category)
1st Place—2001 Invited Competition Entry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 
Owner: The University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: University of Nevada Las Vegas Campus
Project Type: Educational & Research Facility
Budget/Cost: $4.5 Million
Completed in 2004
 
This 20,000 square foot educational facility was designed as a “campus within a campus,” which functions as a child-care center and educational research facility for the faculty and students of the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  The result is an educational village that both meets the needs of the client and fosters a unique sense of place within the larger university campus.  The design features separate classroom buildings for a variety of age groups, a multipurpose/kitchen building, research classrooms, and an administrative center.  By reading down the institutional scale of the overall project into smaller, more accessible buildings, each structure gains an individual identity, which fosters a greater sense of ownership on the part of the students and staff.  The overall design strategy, which included private outdoor classroom gardens and a large “public green space,” was described by the jurors of the 2004 Nevada AIA Design Awards program as “simple” yet “fun and fanciful.”  Additionally, the integration of interior and exterior classroom and play-spaces were cited as offering as lessons for future school designers.  This project was completed in association with assemblageSTUDIO.  For more information about assemblageSTUDIO, please visit assemblagestudio.com.
 
 
 
 
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Independent Designer 2002-present Designer 1999 - 2002 assemblageSTUDIO, Las Vegas, NV. Independent Designer 1997-1999 Los Angeles, CA / Portland, OR Archivist and Researcher 1995 Zaha Hadid Architects-London / Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Architectural Associate I 1993-1994 San Francisco Housing Authority, San Francisco, CA Architectural Intern 1992-1993 Van Meter Williams Pollack Architecture + Urban Design, San Francisco, CA Architectural Intern 1991 CES Japan, Tokyo PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION Fist Place 2007 Casas Del Quinto Sol Housing Competition See: http://www.casasdelquintosol.com/design-competition.htm Merit Award 2004 Awarded in the Built Category for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Development Center, UNLV, 2004 Nevada AIA Design Awards (Assemblage Studio, Las Vegas). Honor Award 2003 Awarded in the Built Category for the Mesquite Heritage Museum and Art Center, 2003 Nevada AIA Design Awards (Assemblage Studio, Las Vegas). Merit Award 2003 Awarded in the Built Category for the Mesquite Heritage Museum and Art Center, 2003 Western Mountain Region AIA Design Awards (Assemblage Studio, Las Vegas). Honor Award 2001 Awarded in the Unbuilt Category for the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Development Center, 2001 Nevada AIA Design Awards (Assemblage Studio, Las Vegas). Honor Award 2001 Awarded in the Unbuilt Category for the Mesquite Heritage Museum and Art Center, 2001 Nevada AIA Design Awards (Assemblage Studio, Las Vegas). Citation Award 2001 Awarded in the Academic Category for the BRT Transit Shelter Proposal, 2001 Nevada AIA Design Awards (with Dan Chenin and Joseph Campenille). Associates Award 2001 Awarded in the 2001 Nevada AIA Service Awards Citation Award 2001 Awarded in the Unbuilt Category for the Mesquite Heritage Museum and Art Center, 2001 Western Mountain Region AIA Design Awards (Assemblage Studio, Las Vegas) First Place 2000 Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Development Center Invited Design Competition (with Eric Strain, Architect). Design competition for a $3.5 million childhood education facility to be located on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. First Place 2000 Las Vegas Arts Park Competition (with S. Coulter and D. Romano) Honorable Mention 1999 Los Angeles Downtown Arts District Urban Design Competition (with A. Navarro and R. Ramirez). DESIGN COMPETITIONS & PROJECTS RIBA Sustainable Urbanism Competition 2007 Urban design competition focused on sustainable urban development and new patterns for urban infrastructure, infill, and architecture (with C. Beorkrem and C. Gault). Friends of the High Line Public Space Competition 2003 Design competition for the reuse of the High Line railway in New York City (with S. Rogers). Horvath House 2001 Design proposal for a vacation house in Egg Harbor, Michigan (with Jeff Hartnett, UNLV). Garcia House Remodel 1993 Renovation of a San Francisco home, San Francisco, CA.  RIBA Sustainable Urbanism Competition 2007  Horvath House Unbuilt 2001  Las Vegas Arts Park 1st Place 2000  Los Angeles Downtown Arts District Urban Design Competition 1999  Garcia House Remodel 1993  BRT Competition Citation Award 2001  assemblageSTUDIO AIA Las Vegas Design Awards 2001 links www.assemblagestudio.com www.vmwp.com www.coa.uncc.eduhttp://www.casasdelquintosol.com/design-competition.htmhttp://www.assemblageSTUDIOhttp://www.vmwp.comhttp://www.coa.uncc.edushapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3
Mesquite Heritage Museum & Art Center
 
Merit Award—2003 Western Mountain Region AIA Design Awards
Honor Award—2003 Nevada AIA Design Awards
Honor Award—2001 Nevada AIA Design Awards (Unbuilt Category)
Citation Award—2001 Western Mountain Region AIA Design Awards
 
Owner: City of Mesquite, NV
Location: Mesquite, NV
Project Type: Art / Cultural Facility
Budget/Cost: $800,00.00
Completed in 2003
 
This 5,000 square foot cultural facility is an addition to an existing art center that dates to the 1930’s.  The project reflects the vernacular architecture of the region and the historically rooted courtyard traditions of the early Spanish and Mormon settlers.  In order to minimize the addition’s impact upon the site and in order to avoid overshadowing the existing historic structure, the program of the art center was broken down into small components organized around a central court, which serves as spill-over exhibition, event, or social space.  The new buildings add to the existing heritage museum a feature gallery, classroom spaces, artist studio, and a gallery/administration block.  The project was praised by the design awards jury for avoiding simplistic Spanish colonial historical motifs often found in the area, which related not to Nevada but to the California’s mission legacy, and for seeking a regional approach focused upon the native materials and forms of region.  This project was completed in association with assemblageSTUDIO.  For more information about assemblageSTUDIO, please visit assemblagestudio.com.
 
 
Central Desert Facility
 
Owner: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas
Project Type: Educational Facility (Temporary)
Budget/Cost: On-going project
Completed in 2003 (phase I)
 
This “temporary” classroom facility was developed to house various departments  while building renovations take place across the UNLV campus.   Initially commissioned as a site-planning project for the location of prefabricated trailer units, the design was transformed into a “long-term” temporary mini-campus project. Campus renovations plans called for the use of “swing space” over the course of 8 to 10 years in order to accommodate existing classroom needs.  Given this long-term need, our design proposal aimed to an architecture with both a short life cycle and a high degree of design investment. By grouping prefabricated units around new courtyards and out-door classrooms, this project transforms the anonymous classroom trailer into academic quads.  Prefabricated modular units were commissioned and delivered to the site without exterior cladding.  Final exterior finishes were then installed on site using a variety of materials, which give each building a sense of identity.  Desert sensitive landscape compliments the site planning.  This project was completed in association with assemblageSTUDIO.  For more information about assemblageSTUDIO, please visit assemblagestudio.com.
Design + Society Research Center
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Owner: School of Architecture /
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
 
Location: 2151 Hawkins Street, Suite 100, Charlotte, NC              
    28203 (Historic South End)
Project Type:  Educational Facility
Budget/Cost: N/A
Completed in 2008
 
This 1800 sq.ft. studio / classroom and research facility was developed to house the curricular needs of the Master of Urban Design Program in the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte.  The location is also home to the former Charlotte Community Design Studio, which has been transformed into inter-disciplinary research venue, the Design + Society Research Center.  The center and the MUD program both serve the region as the pubic outreach arms of the College and School.  The project was design with the help of Shook Kelley Architects with Cox Schepp serving as the construction team.  For more information on the MUD program, please visit: www.coa.uncc.edu/mud/masters_of_urban_design/mud_home.html