DOC_Narrative DRHatch
Design
Architecture
200 w. 36th st., boise, idaho 83714 • phone 208.475.3204 • fax 208.475.3205 • email info@hatchda.com
October 6, 2020 Project Narrative
Development Services, Planning Services
City of Meridian
33 E. Broadway Ave.
Meridian, ID, 83642
Re: Design Review for Fowler Orthodontics
2015 S. Eagle Rd., Meridian, ID, 83642
Dear Planning Staff,
The owner of the property located at 2015 S. Eagle Rd. is proposing the construction of a new
single-story commercial building. The proposed project is for a new orthodontics office. The building will
consist of a waiting room, reception, consultation rooms, restrooms, a lab, a sterile room, an office, staff
room, storage rooms, and a treatment area.
With cues taken from the Meridian Architectural Standards and UDC, as well as the surrounding
context, we have endeavored to develop a project which satisfies or exceeds all requirements of
Architectural Character.
As per the City of Meridian Design Review Application Checklist:
1. Architectural Character:
a. Cohesive Design- The proposed building takes form inspired by a contemporary industrial
aesthetic, further informed by its immediate surroundings near Monterey Place and Stewart
Title. Its architectural style and materials are complimentary to its place and purpose.
b. Building Scale- The proposed building is one story in height, similar to the surrounding
development.
c. Building Form- The form of the building is viewed as rectilinear from the surrounding area and
similar to the surrounding developments.
d. Architectural Elements- The architectural elements of the building include a structural steel
framework clad with architecturally textured metal paneling, stucco, cultured stone, and
metal awnings.
e. Materials- The building materials include high quality architecturally textured metal paneling,
stucco, and cultured stone.
f. Signs and lighting - The proposed building will have exterior egress lighting at its entrances.
Accent lighting, both interior and exterior, will tastefully highlight the building. Signs will be
placed on the building façade and will be a cohesive element of the building design. The
project may include a future monument sign.
2. Parking Lots:
a. The parking lot offers ample space for the customers anticipated. 17 regular parking spaces
and one ADA parking space with access aisle are provided on site.
3. Pedestrian walkways and facilities
a. The proposed project will have public sidewalks that enhance and connect to existing public
sidewalks as well as providing additional safety egress access for the building.
Hatch
Design
Architecture
200 w. 36th st., boise, idaho 83714 • phone 208.475.3204 • fax 208.475.3205 • email info@hatchda.com
Architectural elements proposed for exception from Meridian Architectural Standards:
1. Elevations:
a. Cohesive Design, Non-Residential Standards – Goal 3.1A:
“Incorporate at least one type of the following modulations in the façade plane,
including but not limited to projections, recesses and step backs that articulate wall planes and
break up building mass.”
The dominant wall planes are an immediate reflection of the project’s core structure,
which is intended to be used as an educational component to the building. Great care has been
taken in fenestration sill and head heights, alignment of the structure, fenestration and
programmatic elements, as well as screening articulation and material selection. A tangibly proud
and distinguished three-dimensional rhythm across the entire building, is accentuated on the
West by the covered entry structure and on the East with a series of large shade buttresses.
b. Design, Non-Residential Standards – Goal 3.2A:
“For at least 30% of applicable facades use any combination of concrete, masonry or
stone or unique variation of color, texture or material, at least 10-inches in height around the
base of the building.”
c. Design, Non-Residential Standards – Goal 3.4A/3-4B:
“For flat roofs, incorporate primary and secondary roof elements…such as along
entryways”
“For sloped roofs incorporate at least two of any one roof element…”
d. Design, Non-Residential Standards – Goal 5.1i:
“Untextured concrete panels and prefabricated steel panels are prohibited as field
materials for building facades, except when used with a minimum of two other qualifying field materials
and meeting all other standard fenestration and material requirements.”
The metal elements proposed are high quality, architecturally textured panels that give
excellent shadow lines and a handsome appearance. Variation in material texture, color, size, shape and
translucency varies across the project in the windows, covered entry and patio areas, screening and trellis
elements, roof shapes and increased landscaping. The pattern of the panels, the variety of materials and
their interactions, as well as the arrangement of these various elements and the overall layout of the
project have been tailored to a human scale, to be inviting and to be understated and subtle, yet exciting.
All of these metal elements are also to be used as educational features.
The operations within this project inherently require a large volume, and significant effort has
been focused on making that large volume remain durable, functional and educational as the client needs,
while being beautiful, balanced, inviting, pedestrian friendly, aesthetically appealing and an enhancement
to the city of Meridian.
Hatch
Design
Architecture
200 w. 36th st., boise, idaho 83714 • phone 208.475.3204 • fax 208.475.3205 • email info@hatchda.com
Please contact our office with any questions you may have in reviewing the application materials.
Sincerely,
Jeff Hatch, AIA LEEP AP
Hatch Design Architecture