Best Multifamily - Irene & George Woodruff Family Residence Center, Atlanta, Ga.

Best Multifamily - Irene & George Woodruff Family Residence Center, Atlanta, Ga.

This hospital residence center was built to provide a place for families to stay and remain emotional and physically involved in the rehabilitation of family members who have suffered catastrophic spinal injury. The project attempted to maximize accessibility as well as take the not-for-profit hospitals limited budget as far as possible. Pivotal to this was the use of precast concrete, which did more than just save money and allow the expansion of services; in this project, it allowed the architect to establish a new design language. Beginning with the buildings southeast corner, an interesting geometric pattern formed in glass and precast concrete causes the observer to leave the repetition behind and focus instead on the interplay of tessellated rectangular forms. This geometric play continues as one follows the buildings exterior across the east face. Attached to the base of each window pair is a precast geometric form that makes the observer question its true nature and the scale of the window units themselves. Such an engaging design that remains durable and cost effective is just one more example of the flexibility of precast concrete. Precaster: Metromont USA, Dalton, Ga. Website: www.metromontusa.com/ Architect: Howell, Rusk, Dodson Architects, Atlanta, Ga. Website: www.hrd-arch.com/ Engineer of record: Rosser International, Atlanta, Ga. Website: www.rosser.com/

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