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PORTFOLIO: OFFICE & COMMERCIAL
Cook Inlet Tribal Council Non-Profit Center
Anchorage, Alaska
Prime Consultant: RIM First People
Architect of Record: RIM Architects
Interior Design: RIM Design
2006 Merit Award (Office & Commercial Buildings)
American Institute of Architects, Alaska Chapter
Cook Inlet Tribal Council and their associated non-profit agencies have joined together to create a facility from which to provide convenient, comprehensive services that benefit the health of the Anchorage and Alaska Native Community. The project is being built on Athabascan land. It was determined that it should be respectful of that Culture while reflecting the values of the non-profits providing the services. This criteria calls for a culturally sensitive and humble facility that is welcoming and inviting to all visitors.
RIM incorporated the birch tree as a central design element in this facility, representing the health and natural connectivity of the Native culture to its surroundings. The architecture of this facility reflects a context of birch skin and birch forest. The building’s exterior skin is primarily white metal panes with irregularly spaced dark glass fenestrations and metal panel lines. This composition emulates the random white and black patterning of the skin of the birch. Entry points to the building are inset and transparent, with accentuated randomly spaced white vertical window mullions thus mimicking the trunks of birches in the forest. This aesthetic is further reinforced by a landscape design at each entry point to the building utilizing a natural birch forest theme.
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Project Details
72,000 sq ft
Completion: October 2005
Client: J L Properties
General Contractor: Davis Constructors & Engineers
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