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Our presence in Ketchikan and commitment to time-saving project management and delivery techniques and methods allow us to perform a number of concurrent projects while consistently meeting project milestones and deadlines. We utilize a full range of traditional architectural tools in design drawing and sketching and model building, along with the highest computer technologies and software to develop, communicate, and help construct your vision.
Tongass Coast Aquarium
2002–2004 Concept Report Update and Schematic Design
We provided architectural programming, and conceptual site and facility design in conjunction with EHDD and BIOS Inc. for a proposed 27,000-square-foot, $20 million aquarium on a remote Ketchikan waterfront site with an active salmon stream. The report developed site, architectural, and exhibit concepts focusing on Alaskan marine ecosystems and fauna.
The open-system facility features visitor oriented exhibits with support functions, as well as strong research and education components. Based on projections of strong revenue from the visitor industry, the report forecasts a positive revenue flow allowing further investment in exhibit, research, and education development. With fundraising underway, final architectural, engineering, and exhibit design is projected for 2003-8, with construction start-up in 2008.
Additional consulting for TCA continued in 2003 with further site and program development, including water-zone use definition and renderings, and participation in exhibit concept development with the TCA board and TENJI, Inc. Full Schematic Design was completed with EHDD in 2004.
Ketchikan Shipyard
Masterplan Illustration and Cost Analysis/
Phase I Expansion
We provided detailed computer renderings and animations utilizing SGI soft and hardware and project construction cost analysis were developed for the phased $40 million expansion and renovation of the existing Ketchikan Shipyard Facility. Long-term development includes providing full manufacturing, assembly, and launching as well as maintenance capabilities for vessels of all types up to the 750 ft length range.
The plan adds a side ship-lift, rail system, and 2 large ship halls with support functions to the current floating drydock and deep-water pier system. Detailed review and input into the cost analysis for the build-out reflected local and historical Southeast Alaska cost trends for an accurate capital-funding program. Full architectural services were provided for the $2.7 million Phase I Expansion: New specialty fabrication shops, tools supply, crew supervisory offices, employee lunch, locker, and support functions, and HAZMAT handling. Phase I is now fully occupied, and phase II development of the ship-lift is underway. Full services were provided for a $2.5 million machine shop in 2000, and additional office and fabrication structures in 2005–6.
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Cambria Commercial Center
Ketchikan, Alaska
A 10,000 square foot, 2-level mixed-use wood-frame structure is the first completed and fully occupied in the Commercial Center in 2008, with the home office of an insurance company on the upper level, and light industrial tenants below. Full architectural services included shell and core, and interior/contract furnishings for the office tenant featuring craftsmen style doors, casework, and trim of native softwoods.
The site, located near the airport and other amenities, complements other adjacent light commercial/residential mixed-use buildings and residential development for custom homes. Constructed of economical, durable materials, including composition siding and metal roofing, the structure presents massing and low-hipped roof profiles consistent with the neighboring structures and reflects the nearby island mountains.
Interconnected pedestrian ways, landscaping, and sweeping views of Tongass Narrows create the ideal location for growing mid-size tenants unable to locate within the inner town fabric of existing structures.
Cape Fox Tram Landing
Ketchikan, Alaska
AIA State and Northwest Regional Honor Award
Combining hand-adzed cedar round timber and a high-tech Swiss funicular, the Tram Landing is constructed at the edge of Ketchikan Creek on the Creek Street boardwalk as a large open vierendel truss, serving as the landing and passenger transfer station connecting the town center with the Cape Fox Lodge hotel facility on the hillside above. The unattended tramcar carries 20 people at a time about 350 feet at an approximately 30-degree slope, offering sweeping views of the town and adjacent Tongass Narrows below carrying its passengers to the Lodge and Civic Center on Cape Fox Hill.
Challenges included construction within a Historic District and an active salmon stream, day and night operation with adjacent residential use, 4 overlapping property boundaries on the site, and the logistics of trackway construction utilizing pre-assembled sections set in place by helicopter.
Salmon Landing Market
Ketchikan, Alaska
An exposed wood and steel structure open market structure constructed on the site of and with the same axis of the historical downtown waterfront sawmill. 2 levels of mixed-use retail and office hold a lively variety of food and deli services and coffee shop, crafts, books, electronics, and kayak and fishing charter services. An adjacent open-market building hosts seasonal stalls, with fresh foods and artisan wares. Reflecting simple gable metal-roofed linear waterfront building form and basic exposed timber, wood decking, and steel materials, the Market sounds, sights and smells revive the liveliness of Ketchikan's waterfront that once hosted the roar of the mill's saw blades and the adjacent piers now hold and unload their ships cargoes of people rather than logs.
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