TR A HA N A R C H ITE C T S Design Team Profile and Master Plan

TRAHAN ARCHITECTS
Design Team Profile and Master Plan Vision - DRAFT
The Baton Rouge International School
For Immediate Release, September 25th, 2009
Contact
Trahan Architects
445 North Boulevard
Suite 570
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
USA
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Design Team Profile
Trahan Architects, an award-winning firm led by Victor F. “Trey” Trahan,
FAIA, has received international acclaim for work that is at once
intensely personal, historically grounded, and aesthetically sublime
Trahan’s architecture designs are among the most honored and
published architecture projects in the world.
each project shares a high level of technological sophistication and innovation coupled with a sense of quiet and experiential beauty. Trahan’s aesthetically minimalist work is rooted in a profound understanding of Louisiana and
the surrounding region, yet contemporary through state-of-the-art execution. Much of the firm’s material palette of light and concrete is informed by
the region’s architectural history, such as the eighteenth-century use of
bousillage (a primitive form of concrete that is native to the area) These
age-old materials, combined with Trahan Architects intense research into
emerging materials and construction methods, leads to work that feels
simultaneously rooted and contemporary. Trahan’s architecture avoids
pastiche, cliché and easy symbolism; each building has a depth and an
element of surprise that inspires constant discovery.
Since its founding in 1992, Trahan Architects has approached the details of
each project – from client and user to site and program – with an intense
level of focus and individuality. dismissing preconceived formulas or
generalized solutions of the status quo, each building project responds
precisely to the clients’ unique needs and expectations.
The broad range of clients working with Trahan Architects includes universities and financial institutions, as well as government entities at the federal,
state, and local levels. The firm has experience in a diverse range of building
types including ecclesiastical, retail, industrial and medical facilities; office
buildings and sports arenas. Internationally, the firm has won three premier
international design competitions in Beijing, china, for a Pharmaceutical
and Bioengineering Industry Base; for a medical research facility; and for
the design of a new city.
Trahan Architects will collaborate with renowned landscape architecture
firm Reed hilderbrand for this project. Reed hilderbrand will bring to the
Baton Rouge International School project a breadth and depth of experience
in campus planning and landscape design demonstrated by work with
educational institutions in both urban and rural settings over the last
twenty-five years.
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Reed|Hilderbrand
Victor F. “Trey” Trahan, III, FAIA is President and Principalin-charge of Trahan Architects, APAc and has been
recognized and published nationally and internationally for
innovative design and creative use of materials. An
accomplished designer, Mr. Trahan was elected to the AIA
college of Fellows in 2006 at the age of 45 for his contributions in design and is fluent in all phases of design and
construction administration on projects up to $200 million.
Trey Trahan was the only American architect to receive the
prestigious Architectural Review Award for emerging
Architecture in 2005, and was invited to participate in the
Architectural League’s 25th Anniversary “emerging Voices”
lecture series. he is the recipient of three National AIA
honor Awards and has received numerous state, national,
and regional design awards.
Reed hilderbrand provides comprehensive services in site
research, design, implementation, and management to
bring forth meaningful and evocative landscapes. douglas
Reed and gary hilderbrand, the firm’s two principals, bring
a combined fifty years of project experience and a shared
dedication to the highest level of thought and execution in
all their work. They are committed to rational and practical
design solutions and to the values that guarantee sustainable and durable designed landscapes. In collaborative
work with institutions with multiple constituencies, the firm
carefully negotiates the process of rehabilitation and
change within highly valued settings, developing distinguished projects that must meet highly constrained budgets
within ambitious schedules.
he is Principal-in-charge on a new Louisiana State Museum in Natchitoches, Louisiana, a new housing prototype
for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right project in the Lower Ninth Ward
of New orleans; a new building for the River center Library
in Baton Rouge and a new Presbyterian church complex in
colorado Springs, colorado. After hurricane Katrina, he
was selected as lead architect for the renovation of the
Louisiana Superdome, the only stadium in NFL history to be
destroyed by natural disaster. Under his leadership, the
Superdome reopened ahead of schedule and under budget
and is widely considered to be one of the most successful
large scale renovation projects ever completed. Mr. Trahan
has lectured extensively and his designs have been published in eighteen countries.
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The firm has received significant national recognition, twice
winning the Award of excellence from the American Society
of Landscape Architects, the highest honor a project may
receive in the ASLA professional awards program. Planning
awards include a Society for college and University
Planning/American Institute of Architects excellence in
Planning honor Award. other honors include garden
design magazine’s green Award, the Trustees emeritus
Award for excellence in the Stewardship of historic Sites
from the National Trust for historic Preservation, and the
selection of the firm’s principals for The Architectural
League of New york’s emerging Voices program, an honor
usually reserved for architects.
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dESIgN TEAm pRofIlE
Lead Architect - Trey Trahan, FAIA
AIA LOUISIANA STATE HONOR
AWARD 2009
Baton Rouge International
School Master Plan
A master plan for the first permanent campus of the thriving Baton Rouge International School,
the design weaves fragments of an incongruous water management strategy into a holistic
expression of the landscape’s hydrological system, cultivating a dense succession of habitats for
observation and discovery. Conceived as a hidden oasis, the design provides a didactic landscape
informing the student’s relationship with their environment.
LO CATI ON
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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The Baton Rouge International
School is an independent, non-profit
American school offering a rigorous
curriculum in a multilingual
environment. Since opening in 2000,
the school has already outgrown
three locations, prompting the
purchase of an 18-acre property 10
miles south east of downtown on
which to establish a permanent
campus.
Since the relatively open site is
nearly 50% constrained by open
water and wetlands, the expression
of water moving through the site
plays a critical role in the organiza tion of building and site programs.
So near the Mississippi and just
upstream from New Orleans’ Lake
Ponchartrain, the project’s
integration of hydrological systems
can help students link their
relationship with water on a local
level to its impact globally.
The landscape is partitioned into a
series of discrete, sheltered
habitats by program strands
undulating through the site. These
boundaries are rendered as ribbons
across the site, generating
sheltered outdoor spaces, linked
through thresholds of instructional
space.
Vehicular circulation parallels the
east and west edges, minimizing
encroachment on the campus.
The programmatic distribution on
the site places younger children and
civic components at the site’s public
face, with older children in the more
remote reaches of the site.
The undulating thresholds create
distinct fragments or regions for
each year, while still interconnect ing the school with a clear
expression of a single community.
Project Team: Reed Hilderbrand
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Bridges
Circulation
parking
open Space
Hydrology
drainage
Hydrology
Wetland
Context
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Baton Rouge International
School Master Plan
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gymnasium (2) + Special use Rooms
International Cultural Center
High School + middle School
High School + middle School
High School
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ElIC outdoor Space
Spectator Bleachers
Sports field
Tennis Court (Regulation Size doubles) | overflow parking
North Bridge Access
North Bridge
Wetland lab | middle School outdoor Space
middle + High School outdoor Space
High School outdoor Space
South Bridge
Elementary outdoor Space
Basketball Court (High School Regulation Size) | loading | overflow parking
pre-K outdoor play Area
pre-K outdoor play Area
pre-School outdoor play Area
Campus-wide outdoor gathering
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