AIA Maine, announced
four winning projects in the AIA Maine Biennial Design Awards Program
at its 68th annual meeting, held in Portland. A jury of prominent architects
from the Boston area selected the winners from 58 entries. Jury members
were Boston architects Andrea Leers, FAIA, Leers Weinzapfel Associates;
Elizabeth Ericson, FAIA, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson; and Charles Rose,
AIA, Charles Rose Architects, Somerville, Mass.
The winners are:
Honor
Award
Writer’s Studio
Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Carol A. Wilson Architect
The jury appreciated the spare yet highly resolved approach to volume
and detailing and savored the quality of insertion into the compelling
naturalism of the site. “This project is a wonderful example of
subtle and retrained uses of materials and details. The plan is implicitly
organized to respond to the views,” they said. “Each room
offers another perspective, inspiring for a writer: new views …
new ideas.”
Photo © Brian Vanden Brink
Honorable Mention Awards
Waynflete
Arts Center
Portland, Maine
by Scott Simons Architects
“A very thoughtful project … a careful weaving of older structures
with new building elements, where the new are clearly distinct, yet do
not upstage the old. There is a powerful insertion of light in the whole
composition,” said the jury. “The project takes on the risk
of developing a much greater density on the already crowded site, yet
it successfully creates pocket gardens that become outdoor rooms, extending
the architectural tapestry.”
Photo © Brian Vanden Brink
Maine
State Veterans Cemetery,
Augusta, Maine
by Turk Tracey & Larry Architects
The jury applauded the high degree of invention and the forceful sensitivity
of the solution, the play between the known and the unknown. “The
use of stone is not only a suitable choice, but reinforces the primitive
need for a sense of the monumental,” they said. “Appreciation
occurs at a distance from across the landscape. The roof forms are a bit
enigmatic and primitive, gables in the landscape that are shrine-like
in character.”
Photo © Brian Vanden Brink
Ridge
House,
South Freeport, Maine
Winton Scott Architects PA
“An experiment in an unfamiliar yet rugged form derived from fragments
of the land itself. The result, creating a series of quite compelling
spaces whose real purpose is to see above the land, in the treetops, to
enjoy the views,” is how the jury categorized this project. They
appreciated the effort to depart from familiar exterior materials and
said they would be interested to see how the copper will weather over
time to blend with the green of the trees. “The juxtaposition between
the plan and section is most interesting,” the jury opined. “The
plan responds to the movement and direction of the bedrock on the site.
The section works against the grain of the site, moving upward as the
site moves downward.”
Photo © Sandy Agrafiotis
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