Brian Libby provides an overview of our collaboration with COLAB Architecture
http://chatterbox.typepad.com/portlandarchitecture/2018/10/youre-my-density-visiting-colabs-vermont-10.html
Aurora House wins Boston Society of Architects Award
Congratulations to NOA Architecture. Madden & Baughman engineered this glass enclosed structure which continues to receive recognition. Recently, the Boston Society of Architects presented this residence with an Honor Award
http://designawards.architects.org/projects/housing-design/courtyard-house/
Hood River Commercial Office
We're pleased to work with Surround Architecture in the completion of this concrete masonry and wood office building and and adjacent metal building warehouse, completed spring of 2017 with CS Construction, General Contractor
2017 AIA Housing Award winner for Cutler Anderson and MBE
We've posted earlier on this balloon framed, two story, residence in rural Pennsylvania. Cutler Anderson provided a twist on the barn door with two story tall wood sliders. 2017 American Institute of Architects Award winner.
https://www.aia.org/showcases/78256-pennsylvania-farmhouse
Wildwood Ranch near Eugene, Oregon
In collaboration with 2Form Architecture in Eugene, and Six Degrees Construction, we're pleased to see the completion of this residence. The heavy timber framed residence combined Timberlinx fasteners for the main post to beam connections and the pool roof had a steel WT and wood flitch beam to support a green roof. The wood members were fabricated off site in a controlled environment to regulate the moisture content of the wood components of the flitch beam.
Lakeside at Black Butte 2017 Wood Design Award Winner
Portland-based Hacker Architects wins three international awards
Created on Monday, 06 February 2017 | Written by Jules Rogers |
The Black Butte Ranch Lakeside - or Bistro/Pool/Recreation Complex - was the only project recognized with three awards.
Three international awards went to a Portland-based architecture firm to celebrate the use of wood as material.
Portland-based Hacker Architects received three Wood Design Awards this January for one project in Central Oregon. The Wood Design Awards celebrate projects at the forefront of architecture and design.
Hacker won a merit award for Lakeside at Black Butte Ranch and two sponsorship awards from the Sustainable Forest Initiative and Western Red Cedar.
SUBMITTED: JEREMY BITTERMANN - Lakeside, the only design to win three Wood Design Awards, is located in Central Oregon.
Northeastern Pennsylvania Residence
Madden & Baughman and Cutler Anderson Architects are pleased to see the nearing completion of this residence in rural Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Lakeside at Black Butte Ranch
Congratulations to Hacker Architects and Kirby Nagelhout Construction, for winning a Merit Award for the Lakeside Buildings at Black Butte Ranch in Sisters, Oregon
Residence feature in Seattle Times
Recently completed residence in Seattle featured in the Seattle Times. Project completed with Cutler Anderson Architects, see link below:
http://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/towering-trees-are-worked-into-the-design-of-a-beaux-arts-village-home
Newberg Residence AIA Award Winner
Congratulations to Cutler Anderson Architects for being selected by the AIA for a 2016 award for the Newberg Residence. The residence, engineered by MBE, utilizes Corten steel moment frames to achieve the open front of the house that meets the pond. General Contractor R+H from their Bend, Oregon office.
Grow Development Nearing Completion
5 Wood Framed Housing Building on Structure Parking on Bainbridge Island, Washington with Cutler Anderson Architects
Inside The Pavilion with a view of the new Ice Rink. The Pavilion is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2015. Photo by Brian Hudspeth, Bend Parks & Recreation District
The Pavilion is almost finished!
The Pavilion, a new outdoor sports facility for the Bend Parks and Recreation District, is nearing completion and will soon host ice skating, hockey, and other ice sports on a new seasonal ice rink. The outdoor rink, which will operate for five months each year, is covered by a 28,000-sf steel framed roof. During the off season, the facility will convert to outdoor sport courts and will host basketball, tennis, volleyball and even pickle ball.
The Pavilion will rent equipment, sell concessions and provide locker rooms for drop-in users and for competing teams. The facility will also have meeting rooms and viewing areas for events on the rink and sport courts.
Madden & Baughman Engineering provided structural engineering for the building with Opsis Architecture of Portland, Oregon. The General Contractor is Apollo, Inc.
For more information about the Pavilion, visit the Bend Parks and Recreation District's web site at http://bendparksandrec.org/the-pavilion/.
A Protocol for Estimating Lumber Grade
The National Design Specification for Wood Construction - the wood design code - provides wood material properties such as allowable bending stress and modulus of elasticity based in part on lumber grade.
When we analyze existing wood-framed or heavy-timber buildings, lumber grade is usually unknown. One way to make a reasonable determination of grade - and to avoid undervaluing high-quality existing construction - is to follow the procedures outlined in "A Grading Protocol for Structural Lumber and Timber in Historic Structures," published by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training."
The protocol provides a way for design professionals to use physical features of wood members such as grain angle, knot size and location, and the presence of checking to estimate lumber grade for use in design and analysis.
The document, along with a Microsoft Access database file to help simplify the grade estimation process, are available for free from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.
Black Butte Ranch Addition Opens
Madden & Baughman is pleased to see the opening of three new buildings at Black Butte Ranch in Sisters, Oregon. Thomas Hacker & Associates designed the low-sloped roofs to frame views of the nearby mountains. The buildings include a new pool house, locker room, bistro, and recreational barn and they were framed with 5x14 cedar posts and a combination of steel girders and glulams. The window frames were load-bearing and wind-resisting glulam posts designed in collaboration with Westview Systems of Dallas, Oregon.
Congratulations to THA and contractor Kirby Nagelhout!
Rigging Analysis for Cirque du Soleil's "Varekai"
Posted by Tom Baughman, Principal
Cirque du Soleil Stage and Rigging in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Photo: Justin Brady
Madden & Baughman completed a rigging analysis for a Cirque du Soleil production in Portland, Oregon’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Built in 1958, the Coliseum roof trusses were designed to support weight from suspended equipment for concerts and other arena events. However, the combined weight of equipment for “Varekai”, the 2015 production from Cirque, exceeded the arena’s specified maximum weight for event rigging.
Using original building drawings, historic steel codes, and information gathered on site, Madden & Baughman analyzed the roof trusses for rigging loads provided by Cirque du Soleil and assisted the building operator in determining rigging configurations to safely distribute the loads to the roof trusses. After the rigging was installed, Cirque du Soleil performed to sold-out audiences from May 6 to May 10, 2015.
Newberg, Oregon Residence
Posted by Jerome Madden, Principal
October 17, 2014
Madden & Baughman Engineering recently completed construction phase services for a residence designed by Cutler Anderson Architects of Bainbridge Island, Washington and constructed by R&H Construction of Bend, Oregon. The residence is located in the Dundee Hills wine region outside of Newberg, Oregon.
The house is formed by a shed shaped rectilinear structure serving as the main living quarters, flanked by a garage and bedroom wing. Part of the main house is suspended over a pond which abuts the house’s south face. The house is framed with Corten steel moment frames, which allows for the expanse of glazing in this photo.
Collaboration in Structural Design
Posted by Jerome Madden, Principal
June 3, 2014
A few times a year Madden & Baughman Engineering is fortunate to collaborate on a project that highlights pure structural design as a key feature of the completed form. This project, a light vehicular bridge over a creek, had the goals of shallow structural depth, and the use of naturally weather resistive material to complement the naturally forested site.
Working with architect Ellen Fortin, from Ellen Fortin Design + Architecture, the king post truss form was selected to match the profile of the creek bed. Corten steel was selected for its weather resistive characteristics and natural appearance. Madden & Baughman Engineering has experience specifying Corten steel for other small residential projects, providing the design team with the experience necessary to work around availability and cost constraints that would otherwise make the use of Corten steel impractical.