Kevin Beechinor

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Project Architect

Credit: Semple Brown

Photography: David Lauer

The carefully crafted exterior and lighting environment reflect the school’s passion for sports. Dedicated to a long-time coach, was conceived to meet demanding sports schedule and ease strain on existing facilities.

The large volume of the gym is tightly constrained between competition court requirements, local zoning and adjacent wetlands. To separate and express the new large volume, a single story bar of circulation and support spaces is inserted between the existing and new.

Insulated tilt-up concrete exterior walls were utilized for speed and economy. A custom pattern of reveals articulate the commonly monolithic concrete surface. Polycarbonate panels at the north and south faces provide ample day lighting and are tuned for even light distribution.. In the evening, when most games are played, the glow from the gym expresses the activity within.

LEED Gold Certified

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Architect

Credit: Semple Brown

Photography: David Lauer

An urban home to host family, enjoy alfresco living, and display a global art collection. A symmetrical floor plan balances the kitchen and living wings on either side of a central stair. Multiple indoor and outdoor fireplaces as well as exposed wood structure above ensure a warm feeling throughout the house. Window and doors porportions pay homage to the past, emphasizing the vertical, but still achieve large expansive openings. A high quality stucco system unifies the exterior, while black steel offers contrasting accents, and wood soffits above provide inviting visual textures.

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Role: Architect

Credit: Semple Brown / H3

Photography: David Lauer

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

The first purpose-built performing and visual arts center for the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. A multi-venue, 89,000 sf facility, which includes a 750-seat theatre; a 225-seat recital hall, a 250-seat flexible format theatre; a new home for the Gallery of Contemporary Art; and a 75-seat black box for the campus drama program. The building also houses teaching, practice and support spaces. The complex facade geometry relates to prominent regional geological formations. The glazed lobby and outdoor entertaining spaces face nearby Pikes Peak.

LEED Platinum Certified

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Architect

Credit: Semple Brown

Photography: David Lauer

Situated among the idyllic rural surroundings of horse farms and a historic golf course, This home’s design absorb & reflect it’s surroundings. A client driven collaboration, melding styles of Texas Hill Country with Colorado’s indoor-outdoor lifestyle. The result is a carefully organized floor plan that enhances porch access and expansive views of the surrounding landscape. The space is divided into public and private zones, linked together by a bright daylit hallway and foyer. Deep overhangs and oversized glass windows and doors allow for alfresco activities and hosting all year.

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Architect

Credit: Semple Brown

Photography: David Lauer

The home exterior expresses a mid-century-modern feel, with its elegant, low-slung horizontal expression in dialogue with eclectic interior design. The home is mostly wrapped in a warm, champagne-colored brick, contrasted with chocolate terracotta cladding & a bourbon-painted structural steel fascia. Extremely large sliding-stacking glass doors connect interior to exterior; the boundaries of inside and outside are further blurred by mixing of exterior & interior materials. The L-shaped plan sits within required setbacks, enclosing the site’s mature trees, creating an outdoor room.

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Design Architect

Credit: Semple Brown

This home was the first in a new luxury single family development near Cherry Creek North. Designed and built on spec. The Aestetics of the home draw extenively from the modern tradition in this area of Denver, dating back to the 1950s. Expressive roofs and extensive masonry talk to the past, while the form and details of the spaces speak to modern, refined sensabilities

Location: Frasier, CO

Role: Architect

Credit: Semple Brown

True Alpine Modern design, nestled into the Colorado pines, this residence uses regional vernacular & materials to fully integrate into its surroundings. The design concept is a ‘family cabin that has grown through a series of additions’. It is aligned along an east-west axis, graciously responding to views and topography. Expansive windows capture dramatic valley and nearby mountain views Bedrooms and private spaces book-end the open-plan living areas, where the owners can warm up by the stone fireplace and be immersed in the stunning scenery. Warm Modernism.

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Architect

Credit: Semple Brown

Photography: David Lauer

A large home in rural hills outside Denver, with refined Mountain Modern design. Conceived as a low, ranch-like profile, with the primary living areas of the home on the ground floor. The site offers unobstructed views of the mountains. The residence finds harmony between the alluring views to the west, while managing solar heat gain from late afternoon sun. The residence was laid out to maximize views from the public spaces. While private spaces to recede, taking advantage of the private site.

Location: Greeley, CO

Role: Architect - Performance / Arts Spaces

Credit: Semple Brown

The Campus Commons will be the new heart of the University of Northern Colorado. As the new Front Door of the campus, the project expresses the aspirations of UNC academics and student life. The performing and visual arts are signature academic programs at university and UNC seeks to showcase performances and arts education to set themselves apart.

Art spaces in the 115,000 SF building include a marquee Concert Hall [600 seat], Multipurpose Auditorium [400 seat], Music Rehearsal Studio, and Art Gallery. All these spaces find a balance between their own spatial / material expression, supporting performers and the demanding technical requirements of the arts.

The Concert Hall arrangement and architecture create intimate performance experiences regardless of how many of the 600+ seats are full. The sculpted masses enclose audience spaces and reduce the spaces’ visual volume. Warm and dynamic walnut subtly introduces warmth and is accentuated by dramatic architectural lighting to mask required aggressive acoustic shaping of outer walls.

The Multipurpose Auditorium takes material cues from the Concert Hall, but incorporates daylight, a retractable seating and stage. Demanding technical requirements coupled with convertibility and an unimposing aesthetic.

The Rehearsal Hall & Art Gallery exemplify the difficult and dirty work of creating simple, clean spaces. Demanding acoustical and visual requirements are distilled to minimal expressions that recede when the artists perform.

All designs are governed by principles of enhancing art and user experience.

Pursuing LEED Platinum Certification

Location: Cheyenne, WY

Role: Project Architect

Credit: Semple Brown

Laramie County Community College Performance Venue addition and Art School renovation. Helping LCCC gather their community, promote the arts in southern Wyoming and generate revenue is a two part project:

A new 400 seat multipurpose Performance Venue, Art gallery & Reception Space. Strategically located both to reinforce new campus construction & share support spaces with existing buildings.

Complete renovation of existing arts facilities. Re-imagining the outmoded and outdated building by reducing it to a concrete shell, adding in industrial, loft-like art studios, unrefined performance spaces, teaching classrooms and faculty offices.

The new construction and renovation are designed with an economy of space, scale and materiality that achieves visual and programmatic impact, while lowering the clients financial burden.

Conversion of a historically significant work of architecture from mixed-use classroom spaces to art studios. The building is a great example of complex plan geometry and exemplifies many Mid-Century architectural ideals. Unfortunately, the spatial configuration of the building is no longer useful for the new program. The renovation seeks to simplify layouts, consolidate services and enhance focus on the beautiful structural system of wood deck and trusses.

Program studio spaces include Photography [digital & analog], Jewelry, Ceramics, Drawing & Painting and the schools first Maker Space. Also included are a darkroom, restrooms, naturally lit gallery space and outdoor teaching areas for each studio.

Expected Completion: Fall 2019

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Designer / Project Manager

Credit: Semple Brown

Photography: David Lauer

Renovation and transformation of a school library into a 21st Century learning center. Space formerly used for book stacks was transformed into rooms for team collaboration, instruction and small-group interaction. To enhance the sense of connection and collaboration, a new mezzanine and stair connect all of the rooms, and interior glass walls showcase all of the activity. The insertion of large-scale windows into the shell of the building provides natural light and frames a distinctive view of the rural campus. Dark and insular is now open and inviting.

LEED Gold Certified

Location: Denver, CO [Former Lowry AFB]

Role: Designer / Project Manager

Credit: Semple Brown

Photography: David Lauer

This new neighborhood dining district infills a surface parking lot adjacent to historic Air Force hangars. This intimately scaled, pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use project includes two new buildings, each with two restaurants spaces. The restaurants are flanked by spacious patios, and integrated with the hangar buildings. In 2015, Hangar 2 received an Innovation Award as part of the Urban Land Institute’s Colorado Impact Awards.

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Project Architect / Design Team Lead

Credit: Semple Brown

The Garts Sportscastle is one of Denver’s most unique historic buildings. As recognizable and ubiquitous as it’s eponymous owners for generations. Covering 9.5 acres across two blocks; existing conditions include the Sportscastle, concrete parking structures, low-rise offices, warehouses, surface parking and an alley right-of-way.

Just south of downtown Denver, the Sportscastle and surrounding properties are re-imagined as an outdoor-sports hub. Capitalizing to the arrival of the Outdoor Retailer trade show and related industry growth, the concept includes marquee tenant space, climbing gym, restaurants, a 150 room hotel, multifamily residential and additional related retail.

Key to the design / development concept are strategic public spaces, an activated pedestrian alley, commercial rooftop spaces & pedestrian bridges between programs on multiple levels.

Project design helps the client realize a vision through phasing and adaptive reuse, helping to quickly generate public interest and maintain project momentum over many years.

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Architect / Design Team Lead

Credit: Semple Brown

Master plan and Design of a mixed use development on the historic Rock Drill site located in Denver’s Rhino neighborhood. Rock Drill is 9 acres of existing historic buildings with ample open space accessible from all buildings, creating a campus of interconnecting spaces. The layout, light quality, and scale translates perfectly to a twenty-first century campus vibe, with multiple opportunities for indoor-outdoor connections.

Demolition of certain lesser structures provides a variety of outdoor spaces, fronted by existing historic masonry facades. The main North-South spine through the campus is a 25 foot wide by 200 foot long vacated street, lined with brick facades and steel storefronts, creating a perfectly scaled activated urban space. The main piazza, running east-west, created by the removal of non-historic structures, is perfectly suited for a large urban farm as well as weekly farmers markets, and outdoor dining for restaurant in the proposed retail zone surrounding it. At the hub of these two urban spaces are two new 3 & 4 story infill mixed use buildings. The campus allows for multiple uses, such as housing, retail, restaurants, concerts, and events, creating a truly vibrant mixed-use neighborhood infused with divers and creative uses.

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Designer - Urban Design

Credit: Semple Brown

Photography: David Lauer

Hotel and Office Building in the heart of Denver’s Union Station Redevelopment. The project includes a new 65,000 square foot office building, a full service hotel and a parking garage. The Hotel features 200 custom guest rooms and 9000 sf of ballroom, meeting and board room spaces, which are shared with the office building. Featured within the complex will be two restaurants, and offices.

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Designer

Credit: Johnson Nathan Strohe

Photography: JNS

The Crawford Hotel energizes the historic terminal with “Denver’s Living Room”, Amtrak and Regional transportation services, restaurants and retail shops, and this 112 room boutique hotel.

Much effort was made to maintain the essence of the spaces and meet the historic requirements. The design of the guestrooms balances the old building and the revitalizing spirit of the project.

To achieve the number of rooms required, a mezzanine level was created in the wing buildings and the attic was re-purposed into “loft” rooms. The transformed attic spaces express the historic heavy timber structure, adding texture to the luxurious, open rooms.

Location: Denver, CO

Role: Designer

Credit: Johnson Nathan Strohe

Photography: JNS

A hybrid of hospitality and education,

This custom hotel is part of Metro State University’s new Hospitality and Learning Center. The project is a working hotel on a thriving urban campus. The 150-rooms with 5,000 SF of meeting space serving the adjacent downtown business center becomes a laboratory for the 28,000 SF learning center.

Linking the campus edge with downtown, large expanses of glass provide guests with incredible skyline views of the hotel’s surroundings.

A new 3bd/2ba Villa on a steep forested slope, overlooking a jungle valley and the ocean beyond. Perched between the jungle and the views, the house is open to both and the everpresenet breezes. Features 4m ceilings, a sunken lounge and extensive openness throughout

A split plan lofted casita. A coverend patio separates the main living spaces from the bedroom suite. The bedroom sits emeresed in the jungle while the lofted double-height living space faces the valley view. It takes advantage of the sloped site by shifting down a level to create a lofted space above the kitchen, created a 5m ceiling height and allow both volumes to be covered by a single elegant roof.

A large 3bd 2ba lodge house, set on a very steep site in the hills above Playa Hermosa. In more of a deep forrest than jungle, The house sits on the edge of a ridge surrounded by large, mature trees. The entrance is at the highest point and the floors of the house continually drop down, following the slope of the hill below. The central roof is continuous, so that as one travels from the entry to the living area, the ceiling height increases from 3m to 6m. The dining, kitchen and living room open onto a deck that encircles a large tree with stadium style bench seats.

A major addition to a small studio casita. Concieved as a classic 2 story beach house with a covered porch and outdoor dining area wrapping around a small stand of existing palms. All rooms open on to the new small courtyard that faces the ocean view. Placed on a steep hillside the house still maintains opens on the backside for natural ventilation. Originally a sudio, the building will now be 3bd, 2ba with an open terraced living area and private office/music space.