A Busy Spring for AIANH Education Outreach Programs
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June 2014 Three Dollars For those who shape the built environment Published by x A Busy Spring for AIANH Education AIA New Hampshire x Outreach Programs with contributions AIANH Education Programs improving their built and natural environ- from the Granite State were busy this spring with a Box ments. AIANH architects and other volunteers City program at Little Harbour coordinate the event and oversee the program. Landscape Architects School in Portsmouth and the 2014 The program at Little Harbour culminated AIANH High School Design Competition. with an Open House on April 22. Volunteers The Box City Program, for elementary age for the Little Harbour program were Gillian and PlanNH students, is an interdisciplinary program in Baresich, TMS Architects; Tracy Kozak AIA which participants design and build a scale- and Caleb Sloan AIA, JSA Inc.; and David model town from the ground up. Children Witham, Chairman of the Portsmouth Board answer the question “What makes a good of Adjustment. Scott Vlasak AIA is Chair of city?” and learn how they can participate in Cont’d on p. 4 Inside View Perspective 2 Emerging Professionals Network 3 Structural Column 5 by Jeff Karam PE Patmos...Island of the Revelation by Bruce Hamilton AIA 6 AIA+2030 Series Session II 8 Recap by Dale Doller AIA AIANH Annual Report 10-14 Construction Summary 15 Photo of the Month 16 Box City, Little Harbour School, Portsmouth, NH Calendar 16 2xxxxxxJune 2014 Perspective Point of view from the president of AIANH Shannon Alther AIA played with some various ideas and decided President 2014 to work on multiple smaller images rather 2014 Board of Directors than one large one. My result was a collage President: Shannon Alther AIA Good day! If you took of thoughts. President-Elect: Paul Bourbeau AIA the challenge from last Typically when I sketch I have a purpose V-President: Jay Lawrence Purcell AIA month, “Please Draw in mind so doing the actual sketching is not a Sec/Treas: Sheldon Pennoyer AIA Today,” then you may difficult part of the task. And I almost always Immediate Past President: have found at least one sketch only for work purposes. There are the Karolina Burtt AIA lesson from that exercise. If you did not try the occasional times that I sketch a map or explain Directors: Nick Isaak AIA challenge, I am guessing that you can easily something visually, but that is about it. Dennis McNeal AIA relate to what a lesson or two might have been. One last bit on sketching. A pretty cool trick Susan Phillips-Hungerford AIA • Drawing outcome can be based on your to pull on clients and hopefully solidify your Bart Sapeta AIA mood. status as a person they should hire (or continue Associate Representative: • Drawing is easy / hard depending on the to pay) is to sketch upside down from your po- Matt Lawton Assoc. AIA time of day. sition while across the table from them. Having Affiliate Representative: • You would rather use the computer than the client see you sketch and do so relative to Liz LeBlanc pen / pencil. their position can be very impressive to them. Executive Director: Carolyn Isaak • You hate drawing because you are less Being able to do this with moderate success than 40 years old. has gained me three jobs that I know of. NH Forum is published monthly by AIA What I found was that drawing / sketching Conclusion: drawing is fun, challenging New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Chapter of The American Institute of for 15 minutes was hard to do without a spe- and not always useful…but keep drawing so Architects. cific task to focus on. How do you determine that you do not get rusty. Who knows when For advertising rates and sizes, contact the what is drawn if you have no purpose other you will need this skill, and if the electricity AIANH office. than to fill up 15 minutes of your time? I goes down, you can at least remain billable. n For membership information, contact the AIANH office. Articles and graphic submissions should One last bit on sketching. A pretty cool trick to pull on clients and hope- be sent to the AIANH office by the first of the month prior to publication. fully solidify your status as a person they should hire (or continue to pay) NH Forum Editorial Board: is to sketch upside down from your position while across the table from Bruce Hamilton AIA, Liz LeBlanc, Dale Doller AIA, them. Having the client see you sketch and do so relative to their position Carolyn Isaak, Executive Director; Proofreader: John Urdi AIA; can be very impressive to them. Being able to do this with moderate suc- GSLA: Jenniver DiNovo PlanNH: Robin LeBlanc cess has gained me three jobs that I know of. The AIANH Editorial Board reserves the right to edit articles for available space and to review all material for appropriateness prior to inclusion. The editors of the NH Forum seek to encourage a lively discussion of design and other topics of concern to design- ers. Opinions and proposals presented in the newsletter are those of the writers to whom they are attributed and are not a statement of official policy by AIANH, un- less so stated. AIANH 310 Marlboro St. 2nd Flloor, Keene, NH 03431 Tel: 603-357-2863; Fax: 603-357-0835; E-mail: [email protected] Visit our Website at www.aianh.org NH Forum June 2014xxxxx3 Emerging Professionals Network Details... The Dearborn Hall Renovations for by Matt Lawton Assoc. AIA, AIANH Associate Director the City of Manchester has been recog- nized with three awards. The project, Matt Lawton Assoc. AIA transition to ARE 5.0 when it is most conve- designed by CMK Architects, and constructed by Milestone Engineer- Associate Director nient for them. The rolling clock remains in ing & Construction, Inc., received a effect however, so people currently taking the 2014 Preservation Achievement Award NCARB and ARE 5.0 ARE 4.0 should still try to complete it before from New Hampshire Preservation Al- Earlier this year, I had the transition. liance, a Historic Preservation Award introduced information For those who may be starting the ARE from the Manchester Historic Associa- from NCARB regard- process at this time, there is an opportunity to tion, and a Merit Award from Plan NH ing the Architectural Registration Exam, take the AREs in only five sections, as opposed for smart growth, social responsibility, and mentioned that in 2016, ARE 5.0 will be to six or seven. If you are just beginning your and creative approaches to collabora- released. The new version of the exam tests journey, focus your studies on three particular tion and cooperation. The project the candidate’s competency with practice divisions: Construction Documents and Ser- entailed the complete renovations and performance based questions, instead of vices, Programming, Planning and Practice, and rehabilitation of Dearborn Hall on Lake Street in Manchester, revital- knowledge as previously tested. The exam in and Site Planning and Design. By completing izing a vacant building and turning version 4.0 was broken into seven divisions. those three exams before transitioning to ARE it into the offices of the Manchester The new format will be broken into six divi- 5.0, one would only need to take two more Community Resource Center (MCRC), sions: Practice Management, Project Manage- exams covering the remaining content areas: Organization for Refugees and Im- ment, Programming and Analysis, Project Project Planning and Design, and Project migrant Services (ORIS) and a Police Planning and Design, Project Development Development and Documentation. On the substation. The project was completed and Documentation, and Construction and NCARB website, there is a credit transition over two phases with assistance from Evaluation. The exams will no longer include model, showing how the current divisions J5architects in Phase 1. a distinct graphic portion, but will instead translate into the new divisions. Information utilize new technologies to demonstrate regarding the interactive tools, new question ability, such as drag-and-drop exercises or types, and study materials will be released in identifying correct locations/”hot spots.” Ad- 2015 and 2016, so continue to visit the website ditionally, there will be case studies consisting for updates. n of scenarios with related resource documents (drawings, specifications, codes) that require the candidate to asses pieces of information and make evaluative judgments. THE ARCHITECTS’ As with the transition from ARE 3.1 to ARE 4.0, version 5.0 will be delivered at the CHOICE SINCE 1933 same time, for a period of at least 18 months. Spaulding Brick Co., Inc. Candidates will have the option to choose to 28 Daniel Plummer Road Goffstown, NH 03045 (603) 647-8442xxFax (603) 647-8439 5 Lopez Road Wilmington, MA 01887 (617) 666-3200xxFax (617) 625-8110 250 Station Street Cranston, Rhode Island 02910 (401) 467-2220xxFax (401) 467-2359 NH Forum 4xxxxxxJune 2014 Details... OUTREACH Cont’d from p. 1 permission of Albacore Park, however the the AIANH Education Committee. design and program requirements do not J5architects was retained by Ad- The High School Competition this year necessarily reflect the desires of Albacore vanced Kiosks to assist the company was to design a Submarine History Center Park. A big thank you goes to Phillip Munck, with expanding their product and for Albacore Park. Winners were announced President of the Portsmouth Submarine Me- services sales network into the build- at the May Chapter Meeting (see May NH morial Association and John Maier, Executive ing construction industry. The firm worked closely with Advanced Kiosks Forum) and some of them went on to present Director, Albacore Park for their assistance President and Owner Howard Horn their projects to the Board of Directors of the and willingness to have the Albacore Museum III to develop an implementation plan USS Albacore Museum on May 15.