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Four unique Tennessee projects by HK Architects: Your Next Employer?

2024-08-05T11:45:00-04:00

Following our previous visit to New York-based BMA Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Tennessee this week to explore the work of HK Architects.

From their office in Chattanooga, the firm has built a twenty-strong team of architects and interior designers developing a portfolio ranging from adaptive reuse to private residences and school campuses. “We hold dear existing spaces through restoration and renovation,” the firm says about its approach. “We plan every building around natural daylight and the land the building will inhabit. We delight in using sustainable materials that respect the environment they’re built into and that last for generations to enjoy.”

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring an Architect to join their Chattanooga office. For candidates interested in applying for the position or anybody interested in learning more about the firm’s output, we have rounded up four unique Tennessee projects by HK Architects that exemplif...

"Curve Appeal" will be globe's first Freeform 3D printed house

2016-07-06T14:11:00-04:00

First, it was an office, and now, it's an entire 3D printed house. Well, mostly 3D printed: while the "primary vertical structure, roof, and large portions of the facade will be freeform 3D printed, the glass enclosure and interior finishes will be conventional construction" for the future Chattanooga, Tennessee house, according to a Forbes article.

Freeform 3D printing is far more versatile than traditional 3D printing, primarily because it allows designers to create shapes in open space, while traditional 3D printing requires that the printer be larger than the object it is trying to create.

In this particular case, a 3D-printed matrix of carbon-reinforced ABS plastic will be used to print the complex outer facade of the house. No official construction cost has been released as of yet; the 800 square foot house, which was designed by WATG’s Urban Architecture Studio, has an estimated completion date of 2017.

Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback?

2012-03-08T13:26:00-05:00

Around the world, only a few hundred people make a living as fulltime typeface designers. Two of them happen to live in Chattanooga, Tennessee, population 167,000, where they've embarked on an ambitious project to distill the city's artistic and entrepreneurial spirit into a font called Chatype. The goal is to help the city and its businesses forge a distinct and cohesive identity through custom typeface [...].