{"id":3242,"date":"2025-08-14T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:27:53","slug":"karamuk-kuo-creates-jagged-addition-to-houston-architecture-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/karamuk-kuo-creates-jagged-addition-to-houston-architecture-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Karamuk Kuo creates jagged addition to Houston architecture school"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swiss architecture studio Karamuk Kuo has designed an extension<\/a> to the Rice School of Architecture in Texas<\/a> composed of “linear forms that slip and slide”, with facades wrapped in glass and terracotta<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The project \u2013\u00a0named the William T Cannady Hall for Architecture \u2013\u00a0is located on the Rice University campus in Houston<\/a>, along its historic quadrangle ringed by brick buildings.<\/p>\n

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The William T Cannady Hall for Architecture is located on the Rice University campus in Houston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project involved designing a large extension to an existing building, known as MD Anderson Hall, which was originally designed in 1947 by Staub & Rather. The building received an update by British architects James Stirling<\/a> and Michael Willford<\/a> in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

The latest update called for a new building to foster “architectural production, research, and exhibition”.<\/p>\n

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The studio integrated the new build with the existing structures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Karamuk Kuo<\/a> conceived a two-storey addition that is highly contemporary yet draws upon the historic context. The project is the first in America for the Zurich<\/a>-based firm, which is led by architects Jeannette Kuo and \u00dcnal Karamuk.<\/p>\n

Encompassing 22,000 square feet (2,044 square metres), the new building has an irregular, jagged plan that steps around a mature tree and other elements on the site. Part of the building sits directly over an existing arcade, supported by metal pilotis.<\/p>\n

The remainder of the freestanding extension features a cantilevered upper level, also supported by the beams, with an external stairway that leads to a courtyard.<\/p>\n

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The building was designed to preserve the natural elements of the site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“One of the design challenges was integrating Cannady Hall into Rice’s landscape of long, narrow brick buildings while preserving an iconic live oak tree on site,” the team said.<\/p>\n

“Karamuk Kuo embraced this challenge by breaking down the building into linear forms that slip and slide, creating a dynamic relationship between indoors and outdoors.”<\/p>\n

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Inside, the building contains airy spaces filled with natural light<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The building is topped with a distinctive sawtooth roof<\/a> that “echoes the industrial vocabulary of fabrication spaces”.<\/p>\n

For the facades, the team used metal panels and vast stretches of glass on the ground level. The upper portion of the building is clad in terracotta battens.<\/p>\n