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         🔗 see The Barn at !melk.global

Form is only complicated when you dont control complexity

archifreese worked on The Barn from conceptual design to the start of construction documentation. Creating custom definitions in grasshopper, archifreese created unique solutions and tools that allowed the team to work through complex geometric modeling in order to clearly demonstrate the ambitions and specifications for building the form, the structure, the purlins and the shingles in a way that produced models the engineers could run through and simulate. This reinformed the project and archifreese created a definitioin to integrate the details of the bracing woven into the trusses.

The Barn 

Team: !melk landscape architecture urban design + archifreese (then Freese Design Studio) +   
           Magnessum Klemencic Associates + Bimtech Inc. + Brown Construction 

Type: Pavilion, Public Space,, Landscape, Commercial, Timber
Client: Fulcrum Property
 Location: the Bridge District, West Sacramento,
CA
985 Riverfront Street West Sacramento, CA 95691

Year: 2012-2016      

The Barn Awards:   2018 Architecture Master Prize                    2017 Gold International Design Award            2017 Design Citation Award AIA Central Valley
2017 Best Real Estate Projects Sacramento Business Journal     2017 Award of Merit Gold Nugget Award ​       2017
WoodWorks Design Award  
2017 Best Project Award Landscape/Urban Development Category Engineering News Record California

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