At Thrive, we’ve created a firm that is generalist by nature, and versatile by design. With equal facility, we design for a wide variety of clients and project types, helping you envision healthful buildings that promote wellness and encourage active lifestyles.
At Thrive, we’ve created a firm that is generalist by nature, and versatile by design. With equal facility, we design for a wide variety of clients and project types, helping you envision healthful buildings that promote wellness and encourage active lifestyles.
University of Virginia
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The John Paul Jones Arena has become one of the iconic buildings in Charlottesville and was voted “Best New College Basketball Arena” of the decade by Sports Illustrated and “Best New Major Concert Venue” of 2006 by the leading concert industry organization. The design effectively minimizes the building’s scale by nestling nearly 400,000 square feet of building into a hillside with forty feet of grade change. With its modern brick exterior and state-of-the-industry features, the building is at once sensitive to its university context and compelling for aspiring basketball players and performers.
On-site and off-site stormwater management strategies including native meadowscape plantings, biofilters, vegetated wetlands, stream restoration, and facilitated inundation have significantly improved the health of the Meadow Creek stream corridor and the Rivanna watershed.
Steve Davis was the overall design team Project Manager overseeing $14 million in design contracts from 23 different consulting disciplines. In addition, Steve was the lead designer for many of the tenant fit-outs, including the Academic Center, the Media Relations offices, the Video Services offices, the Team Store, and the Hall of Fame.
Architect of Record VMDO Architects | Steve Davis, Project Manager and Design Team Member
Virginia Commonwealth University
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This state-of-the-art training facility redefines the project type for Division I collegiate athletics with an innovative program and a sophisticated material palette that is exciting university benefactors, student- athletes, and staff.
The symmetrically planned building features 100% equivalent facilities for the men’s and women’s teams. Each team has a dedicated practice court, lounge, kitchenette, locker room, and video viewing room, as well as a spacious office area. The men’s and women’s teams share fitness, training, and hydrotherapy areas, and alternately use a central team dining area.
The site features an underground cistern, with no potable backup, that fully serves all site irrigation needs. Resilient design strategies include roof design and structural engineering to support the future installation of roof-top photovoltaics. The electrical infrastructure is also configured to support the future addition of on-site renewable energy and the rapid connection of roll-off emergency generators should the need arise for sheltering large numbers of community members.
Architect of Record VMDO Architects | Steve Davis, Lead Designer
Winchester Public Schools
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This upgrade to Handley High School’s primary athletic facility is immediately adjacent to the historic high school and is surrounded by a much-loved arboretum.
The renovation included new concessions and restrooms, and renovated locker rooms, as well as sitework, seating, lighting, and accessibility upgrades to the existing home and away stadiums.
The new artificial turf field drains to a dedicated stormwater infiltration area, and is wrapped by an Olympic-quality track complex with state-of-the-art timing technologies.
Architect of Record VMDO Architects | Steve Davis, Lead Designer
Duquesne University
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This concept design for Duquesne University’s aging basketball arena suggested a bold new presence on Pittsburgh’s Forbes Avenue. The proposed solution relied on re-cladding the most visible areas and providing selective screening applications in other areas. Inside, the proposed scheme reclaimed space from under-used upper-bowl seating areas to create premium seating boxes and new spectator amenities which would have driven new revenue streams for the university. To increase student-athlete support spaces, the study also proposed to re-claim one of the two practice gyms for more intensive use.
Architect of Record VMDO Architects | Steve Davis, Lead Designer
Image Courtesy of Peter Vanderwalker and Schwartz|Silver Architects
Image Courtesy of Schwartz|Silver Architects
Image Courtesy of Schwartz|Silver Architects
Image Courtesy of Peter Vanderwalker and Schwartz|Silver Architects
Image Courtesy of Schwartz|Silver Architects
Image Courtesy of Peter Vanderwalker and Schwartz|Silver Architects
Image Courtesy of Peter Vanderwalker and Schwartz|Silver Architects
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Image Courtesy of Schwartz|Silver Architects
The Abbe Museum, in Bar Harbor, Maine, tells the story of the American Indian Wabanaki tribes who populated the northeastern United States. Located in a prominent Shingle-style building on the town green, the Museum’s new facility includes galleries and archives, staff offices, a gift shop, educational space, and special events space.
The project consists of a comprehensive renovation to the historic building, as well as a prominent addition that respects the massing, scale, and materiality of the existing building. A ceremonial Circle of the Four Directions, symbolizes the Wabanaki building tradition and honors the Wabanaki craft of woven ash basketry.
Architect of Record VMDO Architects | Steve Davis, with Schwartz/Silver Architects
