Ferrous
Park Slot Canyons
Kansas City MO
Winner, Ferrous Park International Artist Housing Competition
Blostein/Overly Architects was selected, along with Johnsen Schmaling
Architects (Milwaukee, WI) and Rockhill & Associates (Lecompton,
KS) from over sixty design firms and will work with the development
team to create a unique mix of artist housing options for the Crossroads
Arts District of Kansas City, a rejuvenating industrial area that
has become a destination for the local art scene. The competition
was established to generate fresh and diverse proposals for innovative
and sustainable, eco-friendly housing construction in the urban
core. The
competition was organized by STRETCH, a sculptor and Kansas City
entrepreneur, and partners including architect Tom Stiller of SquareOne
Collaborative.
BL/OV''s proposal, entitled Slot Canyons, is a three story townhouse
featuring a south facing “Terrace Slot,” uniquely shaped
to deflect light into the living spaces and to generate solar power
year-round via building integrated photovoltaic panels (BIPV). The
terrace and living spaces can combine in good weather by opening
an eighteen foot glass wall that separates the spaces. A roof garden,
which uses a modular green roof system to handle most of the structure’s
stormwater runoff, is accessed through interior slot rain garden,
which allows diffuse light into private spaces of the house. A two
car garage can double as expansion of the entry gallery for special
events.
Competition Boards (pdf): one
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