2017 Directory

31 Location: Casper, WY Size: 126,075 sq ft Category: Educational Location: Teton Village, WY Size: 4,150 sq ft Category: Residential The new Natrona County School District campus includes two high schools under one roof. While individual schools, Roosevelt High School and Pathways Innova- tion Center both strive to engage students and provide innovative, personalized educational opportunities that will prepare them for success beyond graduation, whether it’s moving on to college or highly skilled career trades. To achieve this mission, the district and community challenged the architecture team to design a facility that didn’t resemble a traditional high school. They envi- sioned a place that would be an innovative model for learning that would inspire students to think and act differently so they are equipped to adapt as the world changes. The design of the facility needed to accomplish the following: • Support the idea of transformation, engage and connect learners with their future. • Be an environment where transformation is encouraged and new ideas are incubated, not thwarted. • Encourage creativity and engagement with others. • Allow students to change, morph, innovate, lead, pioneer, modernize and transform. The building’s design reflects teaching methods utilized at each school. As one moves west from Roosevelt into Pathways, spaces open up and the interior infra- structure becomes visible to stimulate creativity, design and encourage students to “think outside the box.” There are fewer hallways and defined spaces in Pathways to encourage collaboration. The architecture’s clean lines and industrial aesthetic are intentionally designed to encourage creativity and is also serve as a teaching tool. While they are two different schools, Pathways and Roosevelt share a main entry and common spaces. The schools are connected by a metaphorical bridge, a space where students exhibit projects, engage with other students or mentors, and host community events. Pathways Innovation Center/Roosevelt High School MOA Architecture Award of Excellence The Boulder Retreat is located adjacent to a ski resort in Wyoming. The owners’ program called for a modest but expandable residential program to be interpreted in an architectural language that is abstract rather than literal in referencing the ubiquitous “western log cabin.” The site’s limited buildable area and the clients’ desire for minimal impact on the landscape required a small footprint for the building. This constraint, together with specifications of the owners’ program, pushed the living areas of the house onto an upper floor and into the canopy of trees, creating an upside-down version of a traditional house diagram. Steep slopes, dense tree cover, and an enormous boulder are all site influences central to the design solution. The primal, geologic character of the boulder had a profound impact on the building form. Boulder Retreat Carney Logan Burke Architects Award of Merit