Pub. 7 2019 Directory

26 THE MONTANA ARCHITECT | 2019-2020 | www.aia-mt.org Garden City Harvest Farmstead Natural Dwellings Architecture Honorable Mention Award Project Description: The Garden City Harvest Farmstead (GCH) entailed helping an existing public agency fulfill an immediate need for office and assembly spaces, as well as setting the course for future sustainable growth. For over 20 years Garden City Harvest, a Missoula based 501c3 nonprofit has been providing people of all incomes and walks of life with locally grown produce and education on healthy eating through local farms, CSA programs, community gardens and educational programs. In 2015 GCH started their capital campaign to build a new facility to house the growing team and provide a community facility to help better serve its farming and educational programs. With a mandate to keep the new facility in context with its humble agrarian roots and complementary to the neighborhood the Architects embraced the farmstead aesthetic to help inform and organize the hierarchies within the GCH organization. A barn, farmhouse, corn crib and associated outbuildings were sited on GCH’s established five acre urban farm. The farmhouse portion houses the offices and management op- erations, an adjacent ‘corn crib’ houses a common toilet group, the barn connected via a breezeway houses assembly spaces for meetings and teaching workshops in conjunction with a commercial kitchen. Incorporated into the barn is the farm managers office, a large walk-in cooler, a caretakers’ apartment and a drying loft for winter vegetables. An adjacent tractor shed completes and compli- ments the farmstead. Program Requirements: Offices 4 Private offices Workspace for 4-6 flexible staff and up to 12 during winter months Reception Conference room Support spaces Toilet group: for offices, barn functions, farm personnel and ‘renter gardeners’ Barn Assembly space for 40-50 in meeting/classroom setting Commercial kitchen Farm managers office and toilet room Caretakers apartment Drying loft for winter vegetables Walk-in cooler Covered farm share pick-up location Tractor shed Shop Tractor bay Storage of tools