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Form is only complicated when you don’t 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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