Selected Projects
Tongass Coast Aquarium
2002-2004 Concept Report Update and Schematic Design
Provided architectural programming, and conceptual site and facility design in conjunction with EHDD and BIOS Inc. for a proposed 27,000 sf $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. Program area has expanded to include research facilities, and total project area is currently 40,000 sf, $32 million construction costs.
Ketchikan Shipyard
Masterplan Illustration and Cost Analysis/Phase I Expansion
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 two 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.
Ketchikan Civic Center
Ketchikan, Alaska
AIA Award of Merit, 1994
A room with a view. Exposed timber trusses freespan a room for 700 that can become 2, 3, or 4 rooms, each having a view through clerestory shed dormers reflecting the forms of the distant mountain peaks. A linear gallery space flanking the main meeting halls also functions as the lobby and main circulation spine with additional break-out and support spaces. Storage and Kitchen functions connect to each main hall space division from the service corridor. Connected to the town below through the lobby and tramway via the adjacent hotel, and the road system as well, it becomes the "living room" of the town serving as meeting rooms, concert hall, playhouse, studio, assembly hall, and exhibit rooms.
Cambria Commercial Center
Ketchikan, Alaska
A 10,000 sf, two-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 St. 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 ft. 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 over-lapping 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. Two 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 covered 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 mills sawblades and the adjacent piers now hold and unload their ships cargoes of people rather than logs.
