[Kieran Timberlake] PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT(S): [Stephen Kieran & James Timberlake] LOCATION: [Philadelphia] FIRM OPENED: [1984] EMPLOYEES: [805] FIRM PHILOSOPHY Kieran Timberlake espouses a philosophy of sustainable, collaborative design, and in-depth research. The principles of sustainable design continue to make up their core beliefs. They say that they understand the need to balance the ideals of resource conservation, energy efficiency and pollution prevention with the realities of performance criteria, constructability and budget. HISTORY James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran met at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture, joining Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates, before receiving Rome Prizes separately and finally founding their practice in 1984. The firm maintained itself as a noted sustainable design firm for many years, building a reputation for attention to detail and consistency. The partners were awarded the inaugural Latrobe Fellowship from the American Institute of Architects in 2001. KieranTimberlake received more attention after the publication of Refabricating Architecture, a book that explains and argues for the prefabrication of buildings using Building Information Modeling and close coordination of architects and contractors. Timberlake and Kieran argue that offsite production of buildings would be less expensive, more sustainable, and offer tolerances and techniques not possible in on-site construction. They also insist that mass-customization, as they call it, is the proper extension of the ideas expressed by Le Corbusier and other early modernists, who sought to develop inexpensive and easily built housing. PROJECT TYPE Environmental Responsibility Cellophane House, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Make It Right, Lower 9th Ward Housing Prototype, New Orleans, LA Loblolly House, Taylors Island, Maryland Education Physics Building, Rice University, Houston, TX Davenport College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut COMPLETED PROJECTS Davenport College, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Alice H. Cook House, West Campus Residential Initiative, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre, Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Make It Right Lower, 9th Ward Housing Prototype, New Orleans, LA REFERENCES Kieran, Stephen, and James Timberlake. Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural, 2008. Print. "KieranTimberlake." KieranTimberlake. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2012. <http://kierantimberlake.com/home/index.html>. Nahum/Corona UIN:675017744 ARCH 101 ITA FALL 2012 Doojin/Huh UIN:652134968 [Cellophane House] LOCATION: [Museum of Modern Art, NY] COMPLETION: [2008] BUILDING TYPE: [Residential] The building is a contemporary residential home, yet it differs from most residential structures because it is pre-fabricated and assembled on site. It consists of two bedrooms and two bathrooms, living and dining space, a roof terrace and a carport. BUILDING DESIGN INTENTIONS The design was initially created for a contest and exhibition at the Museum of Modern Architecture in New York to show the current and future possibilities of prefabrication architecture.. 21 proposals were selected from a pool of 500 with the theme being prefabrication. KieranTimberlake wished to expand on some of the methods they had previously used, but also had goals unique to the project. The firm wanted to focus on three goals for this project: improving on-site assembly speed, designing a projected that could also be disassembled, and being able to recycle or reuse all materials. BUILDING PLANS, SECTIONS, ADDITIONAL IMAGES REFERENCES Isenstadt, Sandy. Foreword. Cellophane House. By KieranTimberlake. Philadelphia: KieranTimberlake, 2011. Print. KieranTimberlake. Cellophane House. Philadelphia: KieranTimberlake, 2011. Print. Nahum/Corona UIN:675017744 ARCH 101 ITA FALL 2012 Doojin/Huh UIN:652134968 .