University of Arkansas Razorback Golf Facility

Johnson, Arkansas (2004)

 

The University Golf team and the Blessings Golf Club members share a golf course and practice facility in the Clear Creek valley. The activities of the east side, with a greater direct link to the golf course, are, appropriately, transparent and open. In contrast, the thickened wall or zone of the locker rooms and offices along the west side has a sense of density and weight.

 

Acting as a silent mask, a single copper clad wall conceals the building’s internal activities from motorists along the adjacent state highway, forming a folded shell, an elytra that extends beyond the stone body as cantilevered wings to shelter terraces at each end of the building. An orthogonal box set against the tree-lined valley, the building’s surface is given volume by its minute separation from the dry stacked Ozark stone base beneath.

 

Awards:

2005

Gulf States Regional AIA Design Honor Award

 

2004

Arkansas State AIA Design Honor Award

 

2002

Competition Winner

Design of Clear Creek PGA golf clubhouse, infrastructures, and University of Arkansas golf training facility