Chestnut Building

Chestnut Building Front Entry | Patriquin Architects, New Haven Architectural Services

Located on the corner of Chestnut Street and Ivy Street in downtown Branford, Connecticut, the site is at the crossroads of Main Street’s commercial area and a residential neighborhood. The architecture reflects the site’s residential/commercial use duality. The 4,000 SF floor plan is divided into four volumes, to reduce its scale. The second story houses…

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FuZion Medical Aesthetic Boutique

FuZion Medical Aesthetic Boutique | Patriquin Architects, New Haven Architectural Services

Once the Chestnut Medical Building was complete, FuZion Medical Aesthetic Boutique commissioned Patriquin Architects to design spaces for the recently completed Chestnut Building in Branford, CT. Fuzion required a reception area with room for retail items. The challenge was to place larger treatment rooms away from daylight, while smaller treatment rooms, serenity rooms and staff…

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Best of 2011

At the close of the year 2011, we want to thank you, our readers, for reading, for commenting, and hopefully, enjoying! We have compiled our top blogs of the year, based on interest from our newsletter readers and visitors to our site (with the help of our trusty ‘Mad Mimi’ and ‘Google Analytics’). TRAVELING ARCHITECT…

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Healing Spaces

FuZion Medical Aesthetic Boutique | Patriquin Architects, New Haven Architectural Services

Here are three medical spaces we have designed, each with its specific setting, its specific needs, its specific solutions. TRITOWN FAMILY PRACTICE Located in a medical condo complex, this space was converted from a radiology group – including large equipment, changing rooms and limited waiting area – to a family practice, with traditional exam rooms…

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From Our Portfolio: Shoreline Downtown Living

 / / THE CHESTNUT BUILDING INFUSES A MIX OF LIVING AND COMMERCIAL SPACES INTO THE HEART OF BRANFORD A key corner in Branford, CT, at the historical crossroads of industry, commerce, and a residential neighborhood was an ideal place to create commercial and medical spaces at street-level, with apartments on a second floor. THE NEIGHBORHOOD…

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A Neighborhood Scale

    These elevations of the Chestnut Building in Branford were prepared for presentation to the Town of Branford’s various boards. The drawings, as well as accompanying photos, showed the scale and massing of the immediate neighbors. When designing in a mixed neighborhood, especially a historical one, it is important to look at the scale and materiality…

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TOOLS OF THE TRADE

From Left to Right: Guilford Residence, Chestnut Building, and Kitchen Zinc in New Haven, CT TOOLS OF THE TRADE What happens when you hire an architect? How many steps are involved in planning an ideal space? What kinds of documents are created? Take a look at the drawings from three projects as they go through…

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Capitalizing on the Power of Passive House Design at Our HQ

Capitalizing on the Power of Passive House Design at Our HQ

At Patriquin Architects, we’re vocal advocates of — and certified in — passive house design. The “Passivhaus standard” was developed in the late 1980s by Bo Adamson of Lund University, Sweden and Wolfgang Feist of the Institut für Wohnen und Umwelt (Institute for Housing and the Environment) in Germany. Passive House USA adapted the German concept…

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From Our Portfolio: Fuzion Medical Aesthetic Boutique

Photo credits: Olson Photography (above and 2nd through 5th below), Karin Patriquin (1st below) / FUZION COMBINES ART AND SCIENCE, AESTHETICS AND FUNCTIONALITY When the owners of a new medical aesthetics group were looking for space to open their practice, they found that the building at 2 Chestnut Street, in the heart of Branford, would…

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