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(FER) Studio, LLP goes ‘GREEN’ in Louisville |
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Press Packet
For Immediate Release
Project Type: Mixed-Use
Project Location: Louisville, KY
Completion Date: Spring 2008
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| Project Brief |
Holland MUD’s 110 year old masonry structure, replete with super thin mortar joints, harks of a guilded craft that has long disappeared, but remains comfortably embedded within the fabric of this emerging urban Louisville neighborhood, dubbed by our client as NuLu. Sharing the city block with a restaurant, vintage retail, galleries, a non-profit mission, and office studios, the new 15,000 square foot mixed use facility will house street facing café/retail and two multi-purpose event spaces on the ground floor, office studios on the upper two floors, and an indoor/outdoor courtyard toward the rear.
Going ‘green’ while maintaining outstanding design sense has been the primary directive of our client, husband and wife team Augusta and Gill Holland. In order to achieve ‘gold’ certification with the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) as monitored by the U.S. Green Building Council in Washington DC, several environmental features have been woven into the project’s design fabric:
- Solar panels drape the open roof structure in the courtyard and provide a vibrant shadow montage on the stark concrete masony unit walls.
- The triple height atrium ascends through the main lobby, weaving all floor levels into a continuum of uninterrupted shared space and providing a natural ventilation ‘chimney’ for air movement and indoor comfort in lieu of a mechanically controlled environment.
- A green roof carpeting the lower roof, provides a natural setting for the glass enclosed conference rooms perched above.
- Natural daylight washes all the interior spaces while maintaining privacy via the glazed central roof spine.
- Salvaged century old lumber dresses up the ceiling and floor finish, and provides warmth and a contemporary loft-like old/new feel to the spaces.
- Locally distributed and supplied materials and trades ensure a regional design that dismisses the common ‘franchise’ feel of contemporary commercial construction.
- Geothermal continuous looped heating and cooling coils conceal cluttered plumbing services within floor slabs and provide an additional renewable energy source that will help move the power meter in the backwards direction.
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| Publications
Project Credits |
The Courier-Journal, December 29, 2006
Architect: ( f e r ) studio
Contractor: Tim Peters Construction
For additional information regarding this project:
www.ferstudio.com |
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