Colorado Coalition for the Homeless’ first-of-its-kind respite care center offers a safe space to recover—while cutting down on health care costs.

Your home may be your castle, but when you’re dealing with an illness or injury, it’s much more valuable as your infirmary: a safe, clean space where you can get better. Unfortunately, individuals experiencing homelessness don’t have access to permanent shelter where they can recover or receive consistent respite care. Upon being discharged from hospitals, they often return to the streets, where their afflictions can worsen and force them back into emergency rooms.

by Cydney E. Millstein and designed by Jeffrey M. Isom

This new book takes readers on a fascinating journey of the transformation of the Kansas City Art Institute and cements its importance in the architectural history of Kansas City. It follows the college’s nomadic beginning in 1885 as the amateur Sketch Club to the current architecturally diverse, award-winning sixteen-acre campus. Archival photos and plans demonstrate how architects and landscape architects created a meaningful and diverse place of distinction, unlike anywhere else in Kansas City.

COVER STORY
“Major Trends in University Residence Halls”
Showcase: Northwest Campus Expansion at Colorado State University, Pueblo and 2400 Nueces, a high rise / mixed use student housing and international offices complex on the West Campus Gateway to the University of Texas at Austin

“Colorado School of Mines significant development efforts align with Colorado School Mines growth” Following an aggressive capital plan – significant expansion efforts align with Colorado School of Mines growth goals, by Chris Cocallas, Campus Architect & Director of Capitol Planning and Construction stated that- “Perhaps the most impressive addition to the campus is the Elm Street Residence and Dining Hall. The schools goal is to house 66% of all undergraduates. As part of our campus residence plan – this plan has transformed the university from a commuter campus to a place the students call home” says Cocallas. “The Elm Street project extends the pedestrian Maple Street Mall from the urban campus while creating dramatic mountain Vistas” says Carvell.

(A McGRAW-HILL COMPANIES, REPRINT)
”An integrated learning environment”
Shared space – “Students from all disciplines can learn and work together to treat the whole patient” said Howard Landesman, MD Former Dean of the School of Dentistry. The SOD is a unique combination of classrooms, labs, offices & patient care clinics that can support more than 40,000 patient visits/year. ‘It’s the most visible building anchoring the education commons” said Chris Carvell, Design Principal

Author: William R Deno FAIA
Christopher Carvell AIA in conjunction with Ren Mason FAIA and Cabill Chidress FAIA provided assistance and suggestions utilizing images and graphics from the photographic archives of the University of Colorado Boulder library collection and articles from Architectural Forum circa 1919 by Aymar Embury II and the October 1966 issue of Architectural Forum entitled “Colorado U. Respect for a Robust Environment.”

* Note: A fresh architectural interpretation (“Tip their hats to the past) employing the Tuscan vernacular style with a nod to modernism of the Engineering Center is the Mathematics Building Expansion. This expansion to the engineering center is- “Influenced by the less complex detail of that building” (Carvell PIC at Fentress) – WC Muchow / Hideo Sasaki / Lamar Kelsey & John Prosser collectively – the design review board members.

Recreation Centers Article (designs for every community)
Feature: Christopher Carvell, AIA designed the Ashland Recreation Center “to serve as a beacon for the community”

INVENTIVENESS AND RESTRAINT: A DIALOGUE WITH THE PAST AND FUTURE
A case study about the planning process for the new Mathematics and Engineering Library Building at the university of Colorado at Boulder, the first new Freestanding Academic Building to be built in 15 years on the main campus.
Panel:
Christopher Carvell, AIA
Principal – C.W. Fentress J.H. Bradburn Architects
William R. Deno, AIA
Director of Facilities Planning and University Architect – University of
Colorado at Boulder
The American Campus:
Le Corbusier when traveling the U.S. in the 1930’s observed that “each college or university is an urban unit in itself, a small or large city, but a green city…the American University is a world in itself” a college in nature, removed from the corrupting forces of the city (unlike Europe).
From Princeton to Boulder: Cram took pains to position new Groups Buildings so that the whole campus would take on a rough symmetrical frame, composed around axis.

THE DOUGLAS DARDEN AWARD FOR DESIGN STUDIO 4
The Darden Award was established in 2012 by the noted Denver architect Christopher Carvell in honor of Douglas Darden (1951-1996). The Award is given at the end of Fall Semester to the student whose project represents the highest level of excellence in Studio 4. The Award includes $1500 in prize money.

The Finalists present their projects on Friday at the end of Final Studio Reviews week to a panel of faculty and/or visiting critics. The panel members deliberate and make a recommendation to the Chair of the Department of Architecture who announces the winner(s) of the Darden Studio 4 Award.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
Past Professors and graduate/masters studio classes include the following professors: Peter Schneider, Keith Loftin, Taisto Makela, Ranko Ruzik, Patricia O’Leary FAIA 1992-present

SELECTED JURY
James Polshek, FAIA – Polshek & Partners (jury chair) / now Ennead Architects
Dwayne Nuzum, Former UCD Dean of Architecture and Planning (jury member)
Douglas Darden, Professor UCD Architecture (jury member)

COLORADO CONSTRUCTION MAGAZINE
JUDGES SPECIAL AWARD: RENAISSANCE RIVERFRONT LOFTS
OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
By Christopher Carvell Architects, PC

COLORADO BIZ MAGAZINE
‘Sustainable Construction: A Century Old Concept”
The Philadelphia Architect Charles Klauder designed buildings on the CU Campus in Boulder in the early 1900’s. “ Building orientation, mass of the buildings, how shade affects the structure, this was intuitive to the design” says Carvell. “ It’s a high plains desert. How would you provide buildings that extend cover and shelter that would respond to both winter and summer climate issues?”
Showcase Projects: CU Boulder Mathematics Building and Renaissance Riverfront Lofts were highlighted in this publication – said Carvell, Design Principal

COLORADO BIZ MAGAZINE
With a jury from AIA Colorado, Urban Land Institute Colorado and The United States Green Building Council Colorado.
CSDA Commercial 2nd Place:
Renaissance Riverfront Lofts / Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
Judges Comments: “This project from the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless blends strong architecture with environmental features and a strong emphasis on social sustainability, including its proximity to a river and public transportation. The economic impact of getting people off the street can’t be overstated. This project speaks well of us as a society.”

BEST GREEN PROJECT FOR 2009
Award Winner: Renaissance Riverfront Lofts