LOCATION: Rogers, AR
BUILDING AREA: 13,800 s.f.
COMPLETION DATE: December 2018

AWARD: AIA KENTUCKY MERIT AWARD 2019

MY ROLE: I acted as the project manager and associate designer. I worked with a team to help create the design and acted as a bridge between both the client and the construction team throughout the process of design and construction.

The project is the first of three pilot projects to be completed under the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. Sponsored by the Walton Family Foundation, the Program funds projects developed with “the highest level of design in the development of future public buildings and spaces in Arkansas’ Benton and Washington counties, with a clear understanding of how people use and experience public space in the intersection of life, space, and buildings.”

Working with a modest budget, the project salvages the structural framing and shell of the circa 1947 Hailey Building and its more recent circa-2006 addition. Formally, the design strategy envisions the project as two conjoined buildings that are expressed in contrasting but complementary approaches. The Art Deco-inspired façade of the original 1947 Hailey Building, found partially intact within the 2006 façade, was restored through historical photographs. The newer addition, re-clad using the same material palette (brick and metal), is articulated in a deliberately muted strategy that continues the massing composition of the original historic structure. Both building halves are united through their use of architectural embellishment.

quote taken from deLeon Primmer
http://deleon-primmer.com/work#/rogers-historical-museum-campus-expansion/