Xylem, a Pavilion for Tippet Rise Art Center by Francis Kéré

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Architects
Kéré architecture, Diébédo Francis Kéré.
Project Team
Vincenzo Salierno, Nina Tescari.
Contributors
Kinan Deeb, Andrea Zaia, Lina Wittfoht, N’Faly Ismaël Camara
Client
Tippet Rise Art Center, Fishtail, Montana
General contractor
On site management, Bozeman, Montana.
Collaborators
Project management.- Pete Hinmon, Tippet Rise Art Center, Fishtail, Montana. Architect of record.- Laura Viklund, Fishtail, Montana. Structural Engineer.- AECOM, London, United Kingdom. Structural Engineer of record.- DCI engineers, Bozeman, Montana. Civil Engineer.- DOWL engineering, Billings, Montana. Wood fabricator.- Chris Gunn, Gunnstock Timber Frames, Powell, Wyoming. Steel fabrication.- TrueNorth steel, Billings, Montana. Steel erection.- Western States Ssteel Erection, Billings, Montana. Concrete.- Davis and Sons construction, Absarokee Montana.
Dates
Design.- December 2017 – ongoing Construction.- November 2018 – June 2019 Opening.- July 2019 Status.- completed
Area/Size
Total footprint area.- 256 sqm Altitude.- 1,394 m a.s.l. Platform area.- 195 sqm Platform diameter.- 15.80 m Roof area.- 256 sqm Roof diameter.- 18.10 m Maximum roof height.- 4.75 m

Diébédo Francis Kéré

Diébédo Francis Kéré (b.1965, in Gando, Burkina Faso, west Africa) trained at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, started his Berlin based practice, Kéré Architecture, in 2005. Kéré Architecture has been recognised nationally and internationally with awards, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2004) for his first building, a primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso; LOCUS Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2009); Global Holcim Award Gold (2011 and 2012); Green Planet Architects Award (2013); Schelling Architecture Foundation Award (2014); and the Kenneth Hudson Award –European Museum of the Year (2015).

Projects undertaken by Francis Kéré span countries, including Burkina Faso,Mali, China, Mozambique, Kenya, Togo, Sudan, Germany and Switzerland. He has taught internationally, including the Technical University of Berlin, and he has held professorships at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Accademia di Architettura di Mendriso in Switzerland.

Kéré’s work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions: Radically Simple at the Architecture Museum, Munich (2016) and The Architecture of Francis Kéré: Building for Community, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2016). His work has also been selected for group exhibitions: Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010) and Sensing Spaces, Royal Academy, London (2014).

Among his main works are the Primary School (2001) and the Library (under construction) of Gando, Burkina Faso; the Health and Social Promotion Center (2014) and the Opera Village (under construction), both in Laongo, Burkina Faso; the Satellite of the Volksbühne Theater at the Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin (temporary installation, 2016); or the Pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery of the year 2017.

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