April 5, 2024

The State of Idaho Department of Agriculture Diagnostics Lab is an 18,500-square-foot building that houses the state’s laboratories for Animal Health, Dairy, Seed, Feed & Fertilizer, IFQAL (Idaho Food Quality Assurance Lab), Plant Pathology and Metrology. The building is designed to assist the agency in its mission to ensure food supply safety, monitor the health of our public, animals and plants, and secure the futures of Idaho’s farmers and ranchers.

Located less than 1.5 miles to the Northwest of the Idaho State Capitol Building, the beautiful, historic Guernsey Dairy Milk Depot was built and designed by Tourtellotte & Himmel in 1937. The Depot was originally built to house both commercial and light industrial operations — including a retail space under the iconic corner tower.

Split Rail Winery is an exploration of creating a functioning winery aimed at supporting the growth and cultivation of a vibrant local wine culture. Working closely with the client, the design team focused on developing a building that could accommodate future growth as well as a tasting room that expressed Split Rail’s unique character.

Design for Integration
The scale, form, materials and details of 5th & Grove combine Boise’s new and old urban architecture and fabric. The design approach seeks to enhance the life of the street and the alley while blending into the city. The resulting dialogue adds to and invigorates the existing buildings and neighborhood by creating a space for new businesses and introducing a contemporary form within the downtown streetscape.

This relatively large house has only two bedroom suites and one guest room which doubles as a meditation and yoga room. The large open spaces, made possible with a unique layered beam system, are meant to accommodate large gatherings of people. By layering glue-laminated wood beams at intervals of five feet on center, four layers of six ¾” x 12” beams provide a truss-like action that allows for two-way spans of 60 feet and overhangs of 15 feet. Acting in shear against a through bolt at each five-foot joint, this system acts as a modified Vierendeel truss, greatly reducing the depth-to-span ratio, in this case, a reduction of one-third. This contrasts with a simple truss, which utilizes diagonal elements in conjunction with vertical elements between the truss chords to resolve external loads in tension and compression only.

Located in the heart of downtown Ketchum, First & Fourth utilizes mass-timber construction, cross-laminated timber and prefabricated panelized walls in an innovative way.

Previously utilizing a very outdated facility, the Ketchum Fire Department needed to accommodate a varied force with specialization in different forms of rescue — including back-country rescue, wildland firefighting and urban firefighting teams.

Autovol Volumetric Modular spearheaded a new manufacturing facility valued at $45 million and located in Nampa, Idaho, which occupies 52 acres. This groundbreaking industrial project introduces North America’s first fully automated production line for constructing affordable housing units.