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Design Team Profile and Master Plan Vision - DRAFTThe Baton Rouge International School

For Immediate Release, September 25th, 2009


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Contact

Trahan Architects

445 North Boulevard

Suite 570

Baton Rouge, LA 70802

USA

tel. 225.924.6333

fax 225.924.6498

www.trahanarchitects.com

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DesignTe

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rofile

Trahan Architects, an award-winning firm led by Victor F. Trey Trahan,

FAIA, has received international acclaim for work that is at once

intensely personal, historically grounded, and aesthetically sublime

Trahans architecture designs are among the most honored and

published architecture projects in the world.

Each project shares a high level of technological sophistication and innova-

tion coupled with a sense of quiet and experiential beauty. Trahans aestheti-

cally minimalist work is rooted in a profound understanding of Louisiana and

the surrounding region, yet contemporary through state-of-the-art execu-

tion. Much of the firms material palette of light and concrete is informed by

the regions architectural history, such as the eighteenth-century use of

bousillage (a primitive form of concrete that is native to the area) These

age-old materials, combined with Trahan Architects intense research intoemerging materials and construction methods, leads to work that feels

simultaneously rooted and contemporary. Trahans architecture avoids

pastiche, clich and easy symbolism; each building has a depth and an

element of surprise that inspires constant discovery.

Since its founding in 1992, Trahan Architects has approached the details of

each project from client and user to site and program with an intense

level of focus and individual ity. Dismissing preconceived formulas or

generalized solutions of the status quo, each building project responds

precisely to the clients unique needs and expectations.

The broad range of clients working with Trahan Architects includes universi-ties and financial institutions, as well as government entities at the federal,

state, and local levels. The firm has experience in a diverse range of building

types including ecclesiastical, retail, industrial and medical facilities; office

buildings and sports arenas. Internationally, the firm has won three premier

international design competitions in Beijing, China, for a Pharmaceutical

and Bioengineering Industry Base; for a medical research facility; and for

the design of a new city.

Trahan Architects will collaborate with renowned landscape architecture

firm Reed Hilderbrand for this project. Reed Hilderbrand will bring to the

Baton Rouge International School project a breadth and depth of experience

in campus planning and landscape design demonstrated by work witheducational institutions in both urban and rural settings over the last

twenty-five years.

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Lead Architect - Trey Trahan, FAIA

Victor F. Trey Trahan, III, FAIA is President and Principal-

in-Charge of Trahan Architects, APAC and has been

recognized and published nationally and internationally for

innovative design and creative use of materials. An

accomplished designer, Mr. Trahan was elected to the AIA

College of Fellows in 2006 at the age of 45 for his contribu-tions in design and is fluent in all phases of design and

construction administration on projects up to $200 million.

Trey Trahan was the only American architect to receive the

prestigious Architectural Review Award for Emerging

Architecture in 2005, and was invited to participate in the

Architectural Leagues 25th Anniversary Emerging Voices

lecture series. He is the recipient of three National AIA

Honor Awards and has received numerous state, national,

and regional design awards.

He is Principal-in-Charge on a new Louisiana State Mu-

seum in Natchitoches, Louisiana, a new housing prototypefor Brad Pitts Make It Right project in the Lower Ninth Ward

of New Orleans; a new building for the River Center Library

in Baton Rouge and a new Presbyterian Church complex in

Colorado Springs, Colorado. After Hurricane Katrina, he

was selected as lead architect for the renovation of the

Louisiana Superdome, the only stadium in NFL history to be

destroyed by natural disaster. Under his leadership, the

Superdome reopened ahead of schedule and under budget

and is widely considered to be one of the most successful

large scale renovation projects ever completed. Mr. Trahan

has lectured extensively and his designs have been pub-

lished in eighteen countries.

Reed|Hilderbrand

Reed Hilderbrand provides comprehensive services in site

research, design, implementation, and management to

bring forth meaningful and evocative landscapes. Douglas

Reed and Gary Hilderbrand, the firms two principals, bring

a combined fifty years of project experience and a shared

dedication to the highest level of thought and execution inall their work. They are committed to rational and practical

design solutions and to the values that guarantee sustain-

able and durable designed landscapes. In collaborative

work with institutions with multiple constituencies, the firm

carefully negotiates the process of rehabilitation and

change within highly valued settings, developing distin-

guished projects that must meet highly constrained budgets

within ambitious schedules.

The firm has received significant national recognition, twice

winning the Award of Excellence from the American Society

of Landscape Architects, the highest honor a project mayreceive in the ASLA professional awards program. Planning

awards include a Society for College and University

Planning/American Institute of Architects Excellence in

Planning Honor Award. Other honors include Garden

Design magazines Green Award, the Trustees Emeritus

Award for Excellence in the Stewardship of Historic Sites

from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the

selection of the firms principals for The Architectural

League of New Yorks Emerging Voices program, an honor

usually reserved for architects.

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BatonRougeIn

ternational

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asterPlan

A master plan for the first permanent campus of the thriving Baton Rouge International School,

the design weaves fragments of an incongruous water management strategy into a holistic

expression of the landscapes hydrological system, cultivating a dense succession of habitats for

observation and discovery. Conceived as a hidden oasis, the design provides a didactic landscape

informing the students relationship with their environment.

The Baton Rouge International

School is an independent, non-profit

American school offering a rigorous

curriculum in a multilingual

environment. Since opening in 2000,

the school has already outgrown

three locations, prompting the

purchase of an 18-acre propert y 10

miles west of downtown on which to

establish a permanent campus.

Since the relatively open site is

nearly 50% constrained by open

water and wetlands, the expression

of water moving through the site

plays a critical role in the organiza-

tion of building and site programs.

So near the Mississippi and just

upstream from New Orleans Lake

Ponchartrain, the projects

integration of hydrological systems

can help students link their

relationship with water on a local

level to its impact globally.

The landscape is par titioned into a

series of discrete, sheltered

habitats by program strands

undulating through the site. These

boundaries are rendered as ribbons

across the site, generating

sheltered outdoor spaces, linked

through thresholds of instructional

space.

Vehicular circulation parallels the

east and west edges, minimizing

encroachment on the campus.

The programmatic distribution on

the site places younger children and

civic components at the sites public

face, with older children in the more

remote reaches of the site.

The undulating thresholds create

distinct fragments or regions for

each year, while still interconnect-

ing the school with a clear

expression of a single community.

Project Team: Reed Hilderbrand

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LOCATION

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

AIA LOUISIAN A STATE HONOR

AWARD 2009


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Canopy

Building

Paths

Bridges

Circulation

Parking

Open Space

Hydrology

Drainage

Hydrology

Wetland

Context


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BatonRougeIn

ternational

SchoolM

asterPlan Master Plan Key

1. ELIC

2. ELIC

3. Gymnasium (2) + Special Use Rooms

4. International Cultural Center

5. High School + Middle School

6. High School + Middle School

7. High School8. Elementary

9. Elementary

10. Pre-Elementary

11. Pre-Elementary

12. Administration + Learning Differences

a. ELIC Outdoor Space

b. Spectator Bleachers

c. Sports Field

d. Tennis Court (Regulation Size Doubles) | Overflow Parking

e. North Bridge Access

f. North Bridge

g. Wetland Lab | Middle School Outdoor Space

h. Middle + High School Outdoor Space

i. High School Outdoor Spacej. South Bridge

k. Elementary Outdoor Space

l. Basketball Court (High School Regulation Size) | Loading | Overflow Parking

m. Pre-K Outdoor Play Area

n. Pre-K Outdoor Play Area

o. Pre-School Outdoor Play Area

p. Campus-wide Outdoor Gathering

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