Architecture and Master Planning | New Construction and Adaptive Re-use
Clark County, Indiana
Unbuilt to date
PUBLICATION The Courier, April 6 2008: Green arts center’s design has power
Ceramics, December 1 2007: Ohio Valley Creative Energy: Turning Trash to Treasure
Project Description
A grassroots non-profit organization intends to make pursuing the fire arts (ceramics, metal, glass) affordable by providing artists with a “green” complex of studios that will use energy from methane gas emitted by the nearby Clark-Floyd Landfill to run kilns and foundry. The project scope includes designing all the new structures in the complex and adaptively re-using a 100-year-old farmhouse. The site design will emphasize the path of energy from landfill to kilns and foundry, anchored by a source pipe of excess methane at the beginning and an energy “silo” at the end. An existing pond will cool and recycle wastewater. Along with engaging the public with the fire arts, the complex will be a destination for anyone interested in the interrelated nature of green engineering and sustainable architecture and construction.
Credits
Architecture: Douglas Pierson as partner with (fer) studio
Darren Chen, Clemente Macias, Chris Faulhammer