丨美国图森丨Rob Paulus Architects

Barrio Metalico

Barrio Metalico is a small community of nine freestanding houses set within the industrial and residential neighborhood of Millville, east of downtown Tucson, Arizona. Initially conceived as a speculative project to enhance the neighborhood in anticipation of the adjacent 51 unit conversion of a 1923 Ice and Cold Storage the Metalico homes quickly took on their own personality and feel.

The conceptual approach for this project was to not shy away from its mixed industrial environment but rather, to embrace it. The exterior skin of each Metalico unit is corrugated metal with a galvalume finish. An existing adobe structure that once provided housing for factory workers in the early 1900s has been adaptively reused as perimeter site walls along with distressed wood and corrugated metal salvaged from a demolished building on a neighboring site. Rainwater harvesting with metal culvert tanks and super-insulated wall systems round out this award winning modern infill village.

Location

Tucson, AZ

Client

Fremont Partners One, LLC

Contractors

CaliberWest LLC

Area

9 units @ 1570 sf each

Completion Date

June 2004

Awards

AIA Southern Arizona

Home of the Year 2004

AIA Southern Arizona

Citation Award

AIA Western Mountain Region

Citation Award

Sonoran Institute Building from the Best of Tucson Awards

Urban Development/Infill

Residential Architect Magazine Design Awards

Single Family Production Housing Grand Prize

Builder Magazine Builder's Choice Award

Special Focus Award

Builder Magazine Builder's Choice Award

Production/Semi-Custom Housing Award

AIA Arizona

Merit Award

Press

Design Diffusion News – 2008

Architect – May 2007

Metal Home Digest – November December 2006

Builder – October 2006

Arizona Daily Star – 2006

Metal Buildings – 2006

Desert Living – August 2006

Tucson Home Magazine – Summer 2006

Residential Architect – May 2006

Summa – 2005

iSH – 2005

Desert Living – May June 2005

Tucson Lifestyle Home and Garden – January February 2005

The New York Times – December 2004