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1. BRANCH_210905_12.JPG: Helper BMAD Design Challenge Competition Winner 2021 Summer 2021 - "Helper" is an architectural installation for the BMAD Design Build Challenge 2021. The construction starts at the 1st week of June and aims to open to the public 1st week of July. "Helper" will live at the courtyard of the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design on Monument Avenue through this fall. The "Helper" design aims to address wasted materials by highlighting human's impact on the natural world. By creating two different experiences from inside to the outside through all sensations, occupants cannot disregard the sharp ends of the abandoned materials used and, thus, must acknowledge the lifecycle of wood, as well as any materials human consumes. The sticks point to countless places that resonate with visitors. An Liu, a.k.a. Sledge, is a concept-driven designer at SMBW Architects and an adjunct faculty at the Department of Interior Design at VCUarts. As a VCUarts mOb studio alumni, An's design solutions continuously acknowledge environmental and social impacts. Want to volunteer to help construct this project (6/5 – 7/4)? Please contact Sledge for details (804-42-7934 / anliu0715@gmail.com).
2. BRANCH_210905_19.JPG: Helper An Sledge Liu BMAD21 Branch Museum of Architecture and Design Generous Funding Provided by Sally Brown
3. BRANCH_210905_26.JPG: Helper Project Statement
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Wikipedia Description: Branch House
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Branch House in Richmond, Virginia, was designed in 1916 by the firm of John Russell Pope as a private residence of financier John Kerr Branch (1865–1930) and his wife Beulah Gould Branch (1860–1952).

The house lies within Richmond's Monument Avenue Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1967. Branch House itself was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district's status was extended in 1989 and subsequently upgraded to a National Historic Landmark in 1997.

After a Branch family heir gifted the home to a local charity in the 1950s, the house changed ownership several times until it was purchased in 2003 by the Virginia Architecture Foundation (formerly the Virginia Center for Architecture Foundation) and reopened in 2005 as headquarters of its successor, the Virginia Center for Architecture (VCA), offices for the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA) and its now defunct publication, Inform magazine. The building also houses the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design.

Historical significance

After designing Branch House, the firm of John Russell Pope (1874–1937) became widely known for designing the National Archives and Records Administration building (1935), the Jefferson Memorial (1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (1941) in Washington, DC. Pope's partner, Otto R. Eggers (1882–1964), completed those commissions after Pope's death in 1937, and subsequently designed prominent projects including the interior of the SS United States (1952) and the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Branch House was thus elevated to the National Register because it was designed by one of the country's prominent architectural firms during the early 20th century; because it is the only example of the firm's domestic work in Virginia; and because it is the only ...More...
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