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Architecture can go beyond being healthy to actually being healing. Environment
By A. Ray Pentecost III DrPH, FAIA, FACHA, LEED-AP
Does the environment really influence our health?
Certainly. It can contribute to our getting sick, and it can contribute to our better health. Understanding how design impacts health should be an important dimension of how we shape our communities and facilities. It has been a central element in our public health studies for many years.
How does public health begin to explain the Agent Host role of the environment in personal health?
The Agent-Host-Environment triangle is a fundamental " Environments contribute to public health tool that is used to describe the contagious the risk of disease when they or infectious disease model. An infectious AGENT transits an ENVIRONMENT to reach a HOST and make that host allow agents to reach potential ill. One goal in public health is to do something to interrupt hosts, so it is easy to see the that interplay between the three variables, such as establishing transmission barriers in the environment that importance of the environment keep agents from reaching hosts. Environments contribute in protecting and developing to the risk of disease when they allow agents to reach good health. " potential hosts, so it is easy to see the importance of the environment in protecting and developing good health, Using disease as the organizing element in planning, design, or even policy development, is called pathogenesis So how does salutogenic design work? because it is oriented around origins of disease. Just as the environment can be part of the equation for Is the relationship between the environment disease, so, too, can the environment become an enabler and health only for infectious disease? for better health. Dr. Aaron Antonovsky (credited with the term salutogenic) did research that helped explain that one Not at all. The environment can actually function as an of the key determinants in whether people get sick or not AGENT itself. For example, environments that encouraged when exposed to disease is whether personal stress has the use of cars instead of walking negatively impacted weakened them and thereby heightened their vulnerability. personal exercise habits and actually contributed to the The human response to stress is hormone production that epidemic of obesity in the United States. Environments reduces the effectiveness of the immune system. While that are unsafe can actually contribute to accidents and stress doesn't make us sick, per se, it can make us more injuries. The influence of the design community to impact vulnerable to disease. these situations is significant. Antonovsky's work suggested that individuals apparently But again, this thinking is pathogenic, beginning with the have what he called a Sense of Coherence (SoC), made risk of injury or disease, and then developing designs to up of three components: comprehensibility manageability mitigate that risk. Design that looks instead to ways that and meaningfulness. Each of us has resources that relate design can contribute to health is called salutogenic design to those three areas that help us cope with the stressors in to denote the origins of health. our lives. I
Among the buildings Clark-Nexsen has reviewed for it healing qualities is the Fort Belvoir Joint tlospital Center (see pages 16-21) here seen on its dedication October 28.
So how does the Sense of Coherence relate to So, do these insights ultimately make their design that helps our health? way into the building code?
The three components of the SoC each can, and must I hope so. My vision would be that the creation of be addressed, at least in part, in our built environments. environments that contribute to health would become the For example, are our designs easily comprehended by norm and central to mainstream design thinking. One day building users, visitors, and service contractors? Is it easy salutogenic design will be widely demanded by clients, city for individuals to manage their way through our facilities officials, and building users who want the best possible in terms of access, signage, and vertical and horizontal buildings for their communities. circulation? Are they sending the message to all that they are important, that their lives and indeed their very Is there a danger that salutogenic design presence in the building is a meaningful event? guidelines would impede creativity and introduce a cookbook architecture? Shortcomings in any of these three areas potentially contribute to stress, which can weaken our resistance to That is certainly not the case now, nor do I see that disease. Successful designs in these three dimensions developing in the future. These insights about designing can improve our resistance to stress, and by extension for health for the most part address building performance our resistance against pathogens that can do us harm. guidelines and are not generally prescriptive. Architects They can be salutogenic, contributing to our health. And, deploying their design creativity for innovative solutions face of course, there are multiple other researchers making a limitless horizon. I believe salutogenics can empower the exciting discoveries of other ways that the environment can design community to contribute to a national outbreak of actually contribute to our health. good health. inform 2012: number two Net Works Nurturing Future Leaders
By Nicholas E. Vlattas, AM, and Deborah Marquardt
"As important as the project is to the program, our main goal in one short year is simply to expose these young leaders to the lessons it has taken us 30 years to learn."
hose of us who started firms and have plan or hire a consultant to help them, individuals each year who benefit from in• Tinvested a lifetime in them would there are other tools, (chambers of com• formed speakers and a class project to test like to know that what we've worked so merce sometimes sponsor leadership pro• new skills and knowletlge. hard to achieve would continue long past grams. Toastmaster Clubs teach speaking Seribner, chair of the EL.A Steering our retirements. But many of us don't do skills. The PSiMJ Resources Inc. offers an Committee, notes on the Virginia a very good job of making sure that hap• A/E/(; Principals Bootcamp course for Society AIA Web site: "As important as pens. Not that we don't have good inten• approximately $1..?()(). Closer to home, we the project is to the program, our main tions. Not that we don't ta 1 k ahout it. But are fortunate to have the Virginia .Society goal in one short year is simply to expose we get busy, and the best laid plans get AIA's Emerging Leaders in .Architecture these young leaders to the lessons it has pushed to the back of the pile. Then, cme (ELA) program, which just concluded its taken us M) years to learn." day, it can be too late. third year. .\dd a recession into the mi.\, when Bringing an idea to life many .\/F,/(". firms lay off their youngest The ELA genesis The program charges $H5() tuition members, and soon lirms, and the pro• Brian Frickie, AIA, LEED-AP, with to cover project costs. Firms often pay fession, are in a crisis—a talent shortage, Kerns (iroup Architects in Arlington, and this on behalf of their nominee, though a leadership gap. .\W President Jeffery a former Virginia Societv \I.\ president, some nominees have shouldered the ex• Potter, FAIA, recently acknowledged the remembers being troubled about leader• pense ihemscKcs. A linn also must be issue when he announced that a key pri• ship in the profession. "We struggled with willing to give the ELA member time ority he has set for the Institute "is to how to prepare yoimg architects for leader• for the program, which sometimes con• help address the challenges of emerg• ship, and there wasn't a program out there, flicts with work hours. ing professionals so that we can develop, other than IDP. If you had a mentor and Abigail Grubb, a young designer mentor, and retain young and aspiring worked for 30 years, you might be halfway with Ilanbury F.vans Wright Vlattas architects so that our organization and there. I kept thinking: What can we do to + Company, was a member of the 2011 the profession at large can thrive well make the profession better? How can we class. "I saw it as a unique opportunity to into the future." im|)act that outcome sooner?" get involved and broaden my view of the Firm-management consultant Scott With the help of like-minded pro• Commonwealth, because I'm not from Bra ley, FAIA, FRSA, recommends de• fessionals such as Will Scribner, FAIA, here," she says. "Our class represented veloping in-house an initiative he terms principal at SMBW in Richmond, and a range of age and experience, from stu• Rapid and Sustainable Leadership Jim Clark, FAI.A, principal at .Arlington's dents to people starting their own firms. Development (RSLD). Me explains that MTF.A .Architecture, the EL.A emerged. I liked the interdisciplinary aspect of the to be genuinely effective, the RSLD Dozens of ideas were consolidated into program, and while I don'i personally must be more than a well-orchestrated seven intense day-long sessions, covering enjoy the business side of architecture, training and development program. It everything from financial management, it is very important to have an under• must be a fully integrated initiative that negotiation skills, risk management, eth• standing of how it works. It was inter• ranges in influence from recruiting and ics, and contracts to community activ• esting to see how others approach prob• retention to sustained performance man• ism and presentation and communication lems in different ways." The best part, agement. skills. "This is an Honors Academy, meant says Grubb, was the professional net• work she developed with her classmates. For A/E/C firms that may not have to attract the best and brightest," Frickie "We got very close." the resources to accomplish Braley's explains. The program accommoilates 16 Dan Zimmerman, principal of Alloy Workshop in C^harlottesville expounds: " I came away with an optimism for the Each Emerging Leaders in Architecture class is responsible for a team project. The 2011 future of our profession. I learned that group was charged with making recommendations for the improvement of the Commerce the profession is not static but an evolv• Road corridor in the Manchester neighborhood of Richmond. The class began the process ing profession, one that we are able to de• by meeting in March with city representatives, including a surprise drop-in by Mayor Dwight fine and mold through our actions in our Jones. They also toured the area and met with developers and other stakeholders. office and, more importantly, our com• But rather than just produce another master plan that might gather dust on a shelf, this munity." team organized itself into a "design-build firm" that conceived of a modular kiosk that could Thom V\'hite, who just opened travelto different locations in the area and be used as a gathering place for residentsto share Work Program Architects in Norfolk, ideas.data, and oral histories of howthe neighborhood has changed overtime.Team member says he received validation about steps Thom White, Work Program Architects, Norfolk, called it a "content generation machine." he had taken when starting his firm, and Each member of the "firm" assumed roles, from marketing and public relations to he learned a lot about managing time, managing funds. They designed, built, and installed a modular kiosk of wood/fiber panels including marketing versus actual prot• and a corrugated plastic roof. They spent $3,500, including materials, announcement ect work. postcards, andt-shirts. Frickie says the Virginia Society They built it, and residents came armed with ideas for adaptive use of buildings, how ,\IA has never tried to measure the pro• betterto use open space and ideas on generating activity for the neighborhood. The kiosk gram's ROI, but, he says, the steering made three public appearances at different neighborhood locations. committee asked themselves: "If we have "In professional practice, sometimes you lose perspective of the opportunities a culture that doesn't value architecture architecture can really provide on a small scale. Designing and building a structure and architects, what do we need to do and then inviting the public into the space has been such a fulfilling experience, and it differently?" Their conclusion: "Make reinvigorated me as an architect," says Anna B. Barbour, AIA, LEED-AP BD+C, of Shalom young architects more effective earlier Baranes Associates architects in Washington, D.C. "Developing camaraderie and on." This program tills in gaps that aren't friendship in tandem with the project with like-minded professionals has also been the being taught in architecture schools. He most rewarding part of the project." has had more than one individual tell The kiosk was on display atthe ArchEX conference in November 2011 and during the him that "the program changed my life. AIA Grassroots Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C, March 7-10. It will next go on I didn't get it in school." display in September at the Virginia Center for Architecture in Richmond. We are fortunate to have a resource —Debotah Marquardt like the KLA so close to home. We en• courage every firm and every regitmal chapter to nominate a promising young leader. It's in all our best interests to develop the future leaders—and own• ~7 ers—of our firms. It's also critical to the future of our profession.
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"I came away with an optimism for the future of our profession. I learned that the profession is not Static but an evolving The 2011 ELA Team constructed a kiosk that allowed neighborhood profession, one that residents to re-see their surrounding we are able to define context by sketching on a translucent red plastic-film panel. and mold through our Team members presented their actions in our office and, findings on the exposition floor at rtie 2011 ArchEX conference. Photos more importantly, our courtesy of the 2011 ELA Team. community."
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The Pierre, The Rolling Huts and Highlands House are all here, along with the False Bay Writer's Cabin with its floor-to-ceiling shutters that open and close to reveal or obscure a Puget Sound landscape on four sides. It's an effect achieved with wire ropes and a hydraulic winch. It's gizmos like this that set Kundig apart. He finds his inspiration from early experiences growing up in the West, surrounded by machinery for mining, logging, and farming. As his architectural voice developed, he incorporated that machinery into his work. The devices, though, are simply means to an end. "For me, the site is sacred," he says. "The goal for the architecture is to help reveal and unfold the site." Even the materials he chooses—the steel, the stone, and the concrete—are secondary to the site. "If you start with the belief in the primacy in the site, material choices become a direct response to that particular place," he says. His books may be a struggle, but his work is a delight. -J. Michael Welton Montecito Residence mong his many honors, Tom Kundig has received Aa National Design Award in Architecture Design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; four National AIA Honor Awards; six National AIA Housing Awards; and an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2011, he was included in The Wallpaper ]50 people who have most influenced, inspired, and improved the way we live, work, and travel overthe last 15 years. In 2010, his design for the Pierre received the World Architecture News House ofthe Year Award, and Residential Architect's (ies\qn awards named Art Stable their Project of the Year. Architectural Record has chosen two of Kundig's projects for Record Houses—the Rolling Huts and Delta Shelter. To date, Kundig has been awarded a totalof 37 AIA awards and more than 70 awards total. Olson Kundig Architects received the 2009 National AIA Architecture Firm Award (as Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects) and has twice been named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Architecture by Fasf Company. Kundig's work encompasses residential, commercial, and institutional projects and is located around the world. His signature detailing and raw, kinetic construction explore new forms of engagement with site and landscape. His houses combine brute strength and tactile refinement in sublime equilibrium. Recent projects and current projects include the mixed-use Art Stable and 11 1111 E. Pike, as well as the adaptive reuse of the Georgetown Brewing Company. Kundig has been published in more than 250 publications worldwide, including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Architectural Record, Dwell, A + U, and Architectural Digest Eight of his projects have been featured in the The work of Tom Kundig, FAIA, is New York Times. Other books in which his work has rooted in the essential nature of been featured include Tom Kundig: Houses (2006), the site itself, he says. His focus one of the Princeton Architectural Press' all-time on orientation to topography, sun, best sellers; £7/son Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects: climate, and wind is enhanced Architecture, Art and Craff (Monacelli Press, 2003); with the firm's sensitivity to mini• The Good Office: Green Design on the Cutting Edge mizing construction waste and (Collins, 2008); The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary making appropriate choices for World Arch itectu re (Pha\6on, 2008); and Architecture building systems and materials, Now! Houses 2 (Taschen, 2011). passive cooling, natural ventila• tion, managing daylight, energy He has been a university studio critic throughout the United States and in Japan, including Harvard use, life cycle cost analyses, and University and the University of Oregon, and has green roof technology. served as the John G. Williams Distinguished Professor atthe Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansasandthe D. Kenneth Sargent Visiting Design Critic at Syracuse University's College of Architecture. In the winter of 2010/2011, he was the sole North American architect chosen to represent the continent in an exhibit at TOTO GALLERY MA in Tokyo. Kundig is also a member ofthe U.S. General Services Administration's 2010 Class of Peer Professionals, which advises the GSA with the goal of achieving design excellence in public buildings. inform 2012; number two VIRGINIA CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE
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mnginc ohtaining ii .SD model of a technologicall}- challenging. But now "You can capture a site 'as-is' or you can I buikiinii without modeling it ... the technology has matured to a more provide a design-intent, perfected model Well, we're ni)t quite ;ill the u;iy consumer le\ el. making it a \ iable optK >n for use to get funding or for a special there yet, hut laser scanning will get for most design offices. In this article, presentation. The results are compatible you closer to that reality thnn you think. we'll find out who the laser scanning with most software, for example Revit F.specially now that this technology is service pro\ iilers are in your area anil how for architecture and Solidworks for much more approachable than it has been they might help your office streamline engineering." in the past. Laser scanning is a method your modeling workllou. Speed and accuracy are two major of obtaining digital data from the real Based in Baltimore, Direct fiictors when considering laser scanning world by scanning the surface of physical Dimensions Inc. is widely known for of existing site conditions. .Anderson and I hose ohjccts L-,iii l>c ,is sin.ill as having scanned the Liberty Bell and the .Associates, out of Blacksburg, \ a., are museum artifacts, as big as a building or Tomb of the L'nknown Soldier, but they recogni/.ed for their large-scale scanning as vast as a mountain landscape. \ laser have also engaged in scanning projects projects, such as the Norfolk Southern flashed onto the surface of an object that range across many different .scales. Heartland Corridor, which in\()l\eil creates a mass of points in space called a At any le\ el of detail, the scanner is able scanning numerous railroad tunnels. point cloud that can be easily converted to provide 3D data that can be used for But their services have applied to var\ ing into an object model for your .^D i'..\D any standard (].M) model down to sub- scales of spatial input from theater program. In the not so distant past, the millimeter .nciirac}-. Charlie .\latlin of interiors to the utilities intrastructure equipment and resources to do this kind Direct Dimensions defines model end- of a water treatment facilit\- in Rural of survey work was quite cvjiensive and product delivery upon two conditions: Retreat, \'a. \s joe (ionrad. seaniiing tech specialist for Anderson explains, hurricanes strip out the sand, York has to existing conditions." "when the client doesn't have maps and send requests to FE.M A for funding, and I'or the more adventurous there is needs |)lans. a quick scan network in five scanning can help prove the volume of the option to buy scanning equipment minutes can get the job done fast without sand needed for replacement if the beach directly and develop these services in- interruption. Time eonsideration is an is scanned before and after a hurricane." house. One of the more popular scanners important factor in project set up." Laser York is also provided with archival data f)ut there totla\ is the FARO Focus 3D. It scanning is a convenient option when of existing site conditions that they can is a highly portable, relatively affordable a survey needs to be done of existing keep on hand for the future. device that can scan from a distance of conditions during the time of normal Although laser scanning has become 120 meters to a level of accuracy of 2mm operations at a working project site. As a much more approachable technology all for a price around S4{)k. (Jreg Richards Conrad relates: "You can just set the than in the past, it is still not a simple of F.\R() Technologies Inc. descril)es the scanner up and it scans away, but you'll one-step process. The laser scanner can newer scanners as "designed h)r extreme want to set it up so it doesn't interfere provide raw 3D data as ;i point cloud, accessibility and ease of use. The Focus with the workflow and captures your but then it needs to be converted into a 3D has a touch screen interface that's entire scan proiect at the same time." usable, BIM-ready object model. There easy to use like a smart phone. Just stick Laser scanning technologies have are software tools and services available it onto a standard photograph) tripoil also proven to be a fast and convenient for that as well. Laser scanning service and scan. There's even a big green button way of providing 3D data for presentation providers can provide tlata manipulation to push so you can iust start scanning." models that can be used to obtain of scanning results, but there arc third- So how do ytm get siarted u iili laser funding. Precision Measurements, Inc., party solutions that deal with handling scanning? Most service providers offer out of Virginia Beach, scanned the the data in a way that is ojitimal for a an online Web form to describe what train depot at Norge, V'a., to provide design office. Michael Tardif, director of \ ()u need scanned and the context of your a fast model for V'DOT to provide a IPD systems for Grunley Construction proiect. Pictures of the site in question are simulation for the James City County C>ompany in Rockville. Mil., relies very helpful as well. Or of course you can local government that the structure on Tntelisum building enterprise call directly to any of these offices, and could be moved and then placed exactly solutions. According to Tardif: "There the process for obtaining fast, accurate, back in its original location. In another is a tendency to assume that vou can just and affordable 3D data can commence. case, P.\1I worked with York County scan and import a model into Revit, and g()\ernment officials to scan beaches for BoomI you have your BL\L Intelisum For ///ore information on ho-y to contact sand erosion loss to obtain funding from has the best algorithms for automating the professional service providers mentioned 15 FEM.A after hurricanes have struck. As the conversion of point cloud data to a in this article visit Will Ronrk's hlofr at Kelli Stamm of PMI explains, "when B1.V1 model that will accurately represent http://reznSr.-d-ordpress.com
Direct Dimension Inc. gathered a laser-scan point cloud from a ruins uneartfied in Williamsburg (left). The resulting CAD extrusion (right) will aid in replicating the historic coffeehouse.
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New Military Community Hospital the Jewel of Fort Belvoir link ami you might mis.s it. Tucked Bbehind a scrim of trees offheav iU traveled L'.S Route 1 at the Fort Belvoir .'\nny Base in Fairfa.x County sits a gleam• ing new world-class hospital—one that's been touted as the first LEED-certified military healthcare faciHty in the nation. The $1 billion, joint services Fort Belvoir Community Hospital was guided by best practices in evidence-based and sustain- al)le design, coalescing around the no• tion that design contributes to healing. The hospital, which opened in sum• mer 2011, replaces the 19.^0s-era DeW'itt Army Community Hospital anil makes room for in influ.x of additional military healthcare beneficiaries who will be af• fected by the closing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in W^ashington, D.c:.' The hospital came about as a result of the Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closures (BR.\C>), a federally mandated reorganization of U.S. military installations to allow for more efficienc)' among operations. W ith the national capital region popu• lated with the largest concentration of military healthcare beneficiaries in the world—there are appro.ximately 4.^0,000 17 in the area, says Dr. Rick Repeta, the hospital's director of integration and transition—part of BR.^C meant mov• ing military care assets closer to where beneficiaries live. "The size of that population is very significant, and if you essentially draw a line east-west across the Pentagon, you'll find about half of that population lives south of that line, half of that popula• tion lives north of that line," says Repeta. "The impetus for this hospital was redis• tributing that large medical footprint so that it better represented the geograph• ical distribution of our beneficiaries so that folks, quite frankly, don't have to drive from U oodbridge to W alter Reed for some sort of primary care or second• ary care. They can do that right here in Fort Belvoir." The facility was designed and con• structed through an integrated design- Welcoming outdoor areas for sitting—alone or bid-build process, which allowed the in groups—encourage patients to go outside. hospital to be completed on an accel• The resulting fresh air, exercise, and interaction erated timeline. "It was a race all the with fellow patients and nature aid measurably \\a\ up until the enil to hnish the proj• in the healing process. The landscape here looks ect. When you have a project like that, By Jennifer PuUinger sparse now, but will grow and fill in over time. it tends to take—probably with no ex• aggeration—10 years from the moment design gets started until you move into inform 2012: number two II
the hospital," says Terence Williams, came the healing power of nature. are many elements of design that enhance AIA, LEED-AP, vice presidcni ol "There's going to be a lot of hospital con• healingand are also environmentally sus• IIDR Architecture, which, along with struction going on in the military over tainable—green roofs, views to the out• Dewberry of F'airfax, formed the archi• the course of the next 5 to 10 years, and side, natural lighting, storm-water man• tectural team. "This project was done in we are really at the leading edge ot that." agement, water-efficient landscaping, ;uij five years, and that's just an incredible says Repeta. "So we saw this as an ojipor- other energy-efficient measures. pace, which put a tremendous amount of tunity really to espouse not only a sus• The swooped roofs, designed lo re• pressure on both the design team and the tainable pattern but look at some of the duce storm-water runoff, are one of the construction team in order to accomplish other beneficial aspects of a hospital in hospital's most noticeable exterior ar• that—and the hospital themselves." terms of things like evidence-based de• chitectural features. Rainwater har• sign and how it can better create a build• vested from the roofs is captured in two Nature's healing power and re• ing to achieve positive health outcomes. 80-thousand-gallon cisterns that also source efficiency And the idea of sustainability fits with that collect condensate from air conditioning With the evidence-based approach, \ cry well." systems. The water is used for landscape the core theme of the new hospital be• Integrated throughout the building irrigation. This rainwater and conden- Even the parking garage features ample daylight and colorful column covers
The hospital's River and Eagie pavilion lobby, and the Oaks Pavilion tower (background), taken a week after the ribbon cutting.
sate collection system allows the hospi• look out over the roofs and they are not ami patient rooms throughout the hos• tal to save 1.6 million gallons of potable seeing the typical roofs filled with me• pital. "There are lots of glass walls and water per year and will support about 90 chanical equipment, they are seeing atria—lots of ways to bring the outside percent of the hospital's irrigation needs. more green," Williams says. "Many of influence into the hospital," says Repcta. "It's a nice combination, because in the the features that were put into this hos• "People who have access to nice views months when rain is maybe not so plen• pital have dual or triple roles in terms and natural daylight actually tend to heal tiful, we can usually gather a good quan• of how they support sustainability, evi• faster. They perceive their care as l)cing tity of condensate water to offset that," dence-based design, or simply good en• better and overall have a much better ex• says David Ellis, energy services man• gineering practices." Use of pervious perience within the hospital." Park-like ager at HDR. pavement, curbless parking spaces, and exterior courtyards—healing gardens— Green roofs planted with native and biosoil areas that collect surface runoff filled with native and adaptive plants also adaptive plants also help reduce rainwa• were also part ot the site's overall storm beckon people to go outside, which al• ter runoff, alleviate heat-island effect, water management strategy. lows them to take respite from the set• and provide pleasant scenery for pa• Views to nature and natural day• ting and avail themselves of fresh air, tients to view from their rooms. "I'hev light can be found in the public spaces sunshine, and exercise. inform 2012: number two *f liii
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Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli (center) made his inaugural inspection in July 2011.
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The roofline of the Meadows and Sunrise pavilions soar over a sunlight-welcoming building axis.
On the exterior, the building em• throughout the building itself," says egies in place, the hospital is on track to ploys a high-performance terra cotta Repeta. "You'll see them on the wall, on use 27.3 percent less energy than pre• rainscreen system, which is more en• the floor, and in the furniture, so that vious medical facilities and achieve ergy-efficient than brick and has fewer somebody who's walking through vari• LEED® Silver, although the design team water-penetration-related maintenance ous clinic areas should be able to iden• believes LEED Gold is possible. In the requirements. Other energy-efficient tify what building they are in just based meantime, Repeta says he has received strategies include high-efficiency vari• on the color palette around them." a "very positive" response from patients able-speed-drive chillers and a multi- A main concourse that runs along and staff on the hospital's design, with stack heat recovery system that reduces the front ot the hospital accesses all of many considering it the "jewel of Fort the need to move that heat mechanically those clinics, which Repeta likens to Belv;)ir." into or out of the facility. the layout of an airport. "You have your "The overall layout of the buikl- main concourse and then you have your ing—the fact that there is so much open An interior that aids navigation terminals coming off of it. So we took space, that it really does tie beautifully Due to the sheer size of the hospital, some lessons from the airline industry— in with the exterior environment—that Repeta says they knew way-finding was they know how to move a lot of people is what a lot of patients have really com• going to be a challenge, so they wanted through a fairly large structure with a mented on," says Repeta. "It is a walk- to make navigation around the facility as certain amount of signage," he says. able campus and it just seems fairly seam• intuitive as possible. End to end, the 1.2 A close visual connection to the nat• less to go from outside to inside. I think million square foot, seven-story, 120-bed ural setting outside also helps people find the design team has done a marvelous job hospital spans approximately an eighth of their way around. "The building is very tying together the landscaping with the a mile. To make orientation easier, the close to the landscape. So you can kind functional arrangement of the hospital, design team broke the building up into of visually connect with the outdoors and that quite frankly is going to make five color-coded sections, each with its and the natural environment as you walk our patients happier, its going to make own nature-themed icon. around the building," Ellis says. our staff happier, and its going to make "You'll see those color patterns U'ith the various green design strat• us a better healthcare organization." inform 2012: number two -1
When You're Handed a Box, he site for the Transurban Fxpress Lanes Operations (>enter Tin Fairfax County, \'a., is in the midst of a warehouse district. The existing building was a nondescript, albeit high-ceilingeil printing and warehouse facility surrounded by paved, grade-level parking. 'The client's vision, though, was transcendent. .\nd that's what inspired the design team at Kishimoto, (Jordon, Dala\ a P(^ (KCJD) for this public-private partnership. "F.very project we undertake will get a thorough analy sis in terms of resource- efficient design," says firm Principal .Vlanoi Dalaya, "From the outset, though, we saw this proiect as special," adds .\ssociate Principal 1 Icnry \l.iliiis. " The client was establishing its presence in the area, they were committed to a facility that supjiorted its users physical 1\' and in a way that minimized the sc\ erc stress that comes from monitoring and controlling traffic flow on some of the country's most congested traffic arteries. This was the kind of challenge that we. as tiesigners. reallv wanted to take on."
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Punched windows, to the left, provide meeting areas with daylight and concurrently connote cars moving on the highway. The original building and parking lot were indistinguishable from dozens of others surrounding it (below).
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Open, skylighted ceilings, a robust air-handling system, and low-VS€ materials provide an The visitors' area (below) is bright a
The challenge The client didn't specifically ask for LEED® certification in the program for the facility, said Transurban Project Manager Brett Griffith. But, in fact, they were committed to LEED certification from the project's inception, and the headquarters building is now pending 25 a review for LEED Silver. In addition to housing the administrative functions ot globally active Transurban-Fluor in Northern Virginia, the facility houses monit(3ring equipment and personnel, including state police, for Virginia's high-occupancy toll lanes on the Capital Beltway, 1-66, and the Dulles Toll Road. What the client's program did call for were a two-story control room with a 2()x9-foot video wall monitor, which is to operate continuously; an ineident room lor handling road emergencies in real time; corporate offices; an operations center; and, supporting those activities, a maintenance workshop, visitors' lobby, break room, and private garden. Ample daylight and fresh air were also elements of the program meant to reduce the stress that is inherent in operating such a traffic-control center. The design problem, then, was to create a high-tech telecommunications center in what was once a road-map printing facility and warehouse.
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/A they would both depend, the design team decided to lift up the roof, beginning at the existing buikling's miildle bay. The exterior exjiression as a long, upu ardly angled proiection gi\es the building a decidedly retro-.Modern aesthetic by which it stands apart from its neighborhood of low-rise, unadorned bo.xes. One imagines this as a design-sensitive seed among the tilth of well-situated but uninspired real estate whose base use as a warehouse district has long outlasted its prime location. .•\mong the exterior elements added to enhance daylighting are skylights, glass curtain walls, clerestory windows, and punched window openings at the back of the building that further break up an otherwise box-like exterior presence of that end of the facility. The north-facing clerestory windows also provide glare-free light into the control room. To further set the site apart from the monotonous rhythm of the surrounding warehouse-lot-warehouse-lot-(and repeat), the The open-office design solution pulled the parking area out from the l)uilding, arrangement and Dalaya explains. This also creates a triangle of exterior space meeting cubicle that the designers landscaped to create the recuperative garden await full staffing of the client wanted. The garden and lawns also hold rain-water the facility (left). that the new roof configuration channels to them to minimi/.e The original printing runoff from the site. facility depended on In addition to the natural light, interior visual interest is fluorescent lighting, supplemented with bright colors that unite and invigorate the giving the space an open office spaces. unwholesome cav• On a more pragmatic level, the fire-suppression system ernous feel (below). for the critical traffic monitoring areas had to be able to knock down any fire quickly yet not threaten sensitive computer equipment with moisture inundation. The answer was a hybrid sprinkler system that mixes nitrogen with water, which creates 27 a fine mist that immediately robs any flame of its heat and then just as quickly evaporates. The cost of the system is equivalent to a .standard sprinkler system, CJriffith says. For KCiD. this project has meant several things, Vlahns says: • It has been a rewarding design exercise to face a chal• lenging site and program and create a work of functional and aesthetic elegance • By providing satisfaction to a client whose work in the area 1 is certainly liound to grow over the years, KGD has establisheil
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dhering to the Episcopal Church's Genesis Covenant retain groundwater and reduce the need for potable-water Aof 2009 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per• irrigation. More than 75 percent of on-site construction waste cent in 10 years, the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) was recycled. And the site's ready access to public transit and now lays claim to Alexandria's first LEED®-certified semi• other connnunity resources earned further LEED credit. detached residences. Designed by Alexandria-based Cole & Other resource-conserving elements include high- Denny Incorporated and built by Harry Braswell, Inc., these efficienc)' gas furnace and air conditioner units, low-flow homes are sited on the spacious west end of the VTS campus at l)athroom fixtures and faucets, spray foam insulation for the 1509 and 1511 N. Frazier Street just off Seminary Road. The walls and roof, Energy-Star appliances, fluorescent and LED homes' style reflect their setting amid the traditional I9th cen• light fixtures, and low-VOC paints and sealants. tury structures on campus, but both 2,700-s.f. units are thor• "Our design encompasses both aesthetics and efficienc}," oughly modern with regard to their energy-saving features. says Kristine Hesse, LEED-AP, the architect for this project The homes share a common wall, which significant!)- and a principal at (^ole & Denny. "Efficient land management reduces their overall footprint. The surrounding open and energy savings were top priorities for our client," she says. landscaping accommodates geothermal wells and adjacent trees. "The contractor wanted the experience of doing a LEED Drought-tolerant plantings and permeable driveway pavement project. .\nd the seminary was interested in getting LEED 7
Natural materials and low-VOC finishes enhance the interior 2S air quality while LEO and fluorescent lighting supplemem abundant natural light and conserve energy.
certification, even if they had to pay a little bit more. It was and contractors incorporate more of LEED's concepts and truly a team effort and fits in with the culture of Alexandria as practices, we will likely see greater adoption of green building a whole in this day and age." standards among both commercial and residential projects," Alexandria's recent adoption of energy conservation and she says. green building design standards aligns with VTS's sustainable Likewise, VTS will continue pursuing green building ethos. "We view LEED as an important investment tool principles, both as an integral part of resource-efficient providing greater operational efficiency and long-term benefits physical plant operations and for the sake of environmental for all of our buildings," says VTS Facilities Manager Dave stewardship. "The Seminary Board of Frustees is deeply Mutscheller. He notes also that the LEED certification process committed to witnessing the importance of the environment reinforced the seminary faculty's and students' appreciaticm ot in all our building projects," says V'FS Dean and President, the their pastoral setting in an otherwise bustling area of Alexandria. Very Reverend Ian Markham. "We are proud that the recently Kim (-arr, LEF'D-AP,a.ssistant commercial project manager constructed townhouses received LEED certification. Going at Harry Braswell, foresees more residential projects pursuing forward, environmental values will remain a top priority for our LEED over time, though she says certification is currently design and campus planning portfolios." more prevalent among commercial structures. "As architects inform 2012: number two 1" Green Products Directory 2012 o
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Built in association with Koettcr Kim & Associates, the newly completed LF.F.D® (Jolil-targeted Federal courthouse This 130,0()()-sf LEED® Ciold project provides state-of-the- provides a framework for the new urban di.strict within the art multipurpose classrooms, lecture halls, resource centers, citv. Tel: 703.6'.J8.905{) / www.dewherrv.com and a l,00()-seat theater for instruction and war college simulations. Tel: 757.455.5800 / www.clarknexsen.com 32 Architect: DJG, Inc., Williamsburg Architect: HKS Architects, Richmond Project: Repair & Renovations to Facility 1004, Hampton, Va. Project: Palmetto Health Baptist Parkridge Hospital, Columbia, S C. This project will transform a former Air Force hydrogen This spring. Palmetto Health will break ground on this new production building into a new administrative and storage 76-bed hospital. The facility broadens its network to the facility for the Security Forces Squadron. Tel: 757.253.0673 greater Columbia area. Tel: 804.644.K400/wv\ \v.hksinc.com / www.djginc.com On the Boards listings are placed by the firms. For rate information, call Cathy Guske Inform at 804-644-3041. _3 Architect: Moseley Architects, Richmond Architect: ODELL Project: Loch Lomond Elementary School, Manassas Project: Research Forest Lakeside, Buildings 4 and 5, Woodlands, Tex. This |)hased expansion and modernization project includes Research Forest Lakeside Buildings 4 and 5 are part of a adiiinti a more prominent entry, as well as providing new 10-oftice building and convenience retail project totaling classrooms, administrative spaces, and art and music rooms. over 1,798,398 sf near Woodlands, Tex. Tel: 804.287.8200 / 'I'el: K()4.794.7555 / www.moselevarchitects.com www.odell.com 33 Architect: Price Studios Architect: SFCS Inc., Roanoke Project: Primary and Urgent Care, Spotsylvania, Va. Project Rockhill Mennonite Community Healthcare Addition, Sellersville, Pa. This 8,750-sf medical office building is a prototype for a small I\ \l(; Healthcare will have 36 healthcare and memory care primary- and urgent-care facility, with the first model to be beds arranged into nine-person households. There are 72 built in a retail center outpareel in Spotsylvania's Southpoint beds total. Rehab services will be available. Tel: .540.344.6664 area. Tel: 804.521.2266/ www.pricestudios.com / www.stcs.com inform 2012: number two How do I get my firm's project featured in On The Boards in Inform magazine} Contact: Cathy Guske Architect: Wiley|Wilson Project: Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site—Moton Field 804-644-3041, ext. 301 Rehabilitation, Tuskegee. Ala. [email protected] or visit www.aiava.org/inform This current phase will complete the restoration effects of the 44-acre/16-building historic site for the National Park Service. 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Here are his responses to a handful of questions related to resource management in Virginia. Inform: How will the issues of sustainability-water /nform; Possibly connected to that: Is there a strategy that management, energy conservation, local resourcing of building you see for accelerating the transportation infrastructure (mass materials, and technology development, for instance-drive transit and highways, both) in Virginia? Virginia forward for all Virginians? Sen. Petersen: One of the biggest problems we have in Sen. Petersen: Sustainability is going to be one of the key regards to transportation is funding. The existing revenues issues as we transition from traditional development to future are stagnant or decreasing. As citizens drive more efficient development. LEED standards are a great way for buildings vehicles and drive fewer miles, the gas tax revenues are never to have a smaller impact on our society, both by saving us going to increase. All the while, our existing transportation money by increasing efficiency as well as recycling materials for infrastructure has become derelict and is in need of replacement 35 reuse. I was pleased to have my buildings standards bill (SB160) or maintenance. That's why I introduced SB162, which will pass the Senate this year. It calls for certain state buildings to index the gas tax to increases in vehicle mileage. As a net conform to Virginia Energy Conservation and Environmental revenue, we won't pay any more to the state than in 2007, Standards developed by the Department of General Services but we will have much more money to fund these necessary considering the U.S. Green Building Council (LEED®) transportation projects. green building rating standard, the Green Building Initiative As for transit, successful transit development often starts (Green Globes®) building standard, and other appropriate at a local level. Streetcars have been very successful in Norfolk, requirements. Hopefully, after the House of Delegates hears and soon we will be seeing streetcars along the Columbia it, it will become law. corridor in Northern Virginia. Metro, despite its problems, As for locally sourced building materials, we have a plethora serves millions of commuters who would completely clog our of great developments right here in Virginia. Our timber roadways if they commuted by car. Transit buses are a low industry is strong and those trees should be manufactured impact (construction and land use) option that we can use to into planks and boards here in Virginia rather than shipping increase transit mobility by connecting nodes. Finally, transit the whole trees to China and then back as finished materials. is an important need for seniors and those with disabilities. As Globalization has brought incredible changes to our world, but our nation grows older, we are going to need to have transit that sustainability often has not been one of them. I think one of allows those who cannot drive to continue to be active, mobile, the big changes in the coming years will be a pushback on far- and a part of our communit\ . reaching shipping as local materials become more competitive Inform: I low is the Commonw calth positioned to meet what and consinners demand great Virginia wood and stone. looks to be a growing economy in the next five years? Inform: Does the military drawback from wars in Iraq and Sen. Petersen: As our economy continues its recovery, we .\fghanistan have a negative impact or is there a positive side? will have to make changes to the budget to recover services Sen. Petersen: Obviously we are all pleased that our veterans that we had to trim during the recession. The Commonwealth will be coming home to their families. One of the most important is positioned well: we fell less than other states, and we started things that we can do for our veterans is help them find stability our recovery faster. This, along with V'irginia being the best and jobs. Some of them will continue their work with the military state in the nation to do business, will jumpstart our economy but many of them will need jobs. 1 am happy to have been co- and give us a head start for growth. patron to several bills this session and last that deal with licensing Right now, economic forecasts for Virginia are excellent in and education for veterans here in Virginia. As ours is one ot the the next five years, and although many people have been hit hard most important states for the military, we need to make sure it is by this recession, I am optimistic about the future prosperity one of the most accommodating for our veterans. of the (k)mmonwealth. inform 2012: number two Taking Note The New Profession on the Block: Estimators rchitects have long found that their talents for estimating construction costs have ASPE promotes education, Abeen under-appreciated by clients and fellow design and construction team mem• ethics, standards, certification, bers. As unfair a characterization as that might be, there seemed little they could do about it. Furthermore, for those professionals who are adept at putting together ac• and fellowship to further the curate and timely bid packages—architects or not—there seemed to be little recog• recognition of construction nition of their talents or adherence to ethical practices. estimating as a profession. These are a few of the reasons that 20 construction estimators came together in 1956 in Los Angeles to form the American Society of Professional Estimators. It has been a long, difficult 55 years of development and growth, but the .\SPE now Anyone who is interested, certified boasts thousands of members nationwide and, in 2011, admitted its 82nd chapter, the or not, is welcome to attend the ASPE- Richmond ASPE. Richmond meetings, Semel says. There The organization as a whole promotes education, ethics, standards, certification, is a nominal admission fee, and the meet• and fellowship to furtlier the recognition of construction estimating as a profession. ings are currently held at the Baskervill The Richmond chapter, which currently has about 25 members, meets downtown the offices at 101 S. 15th St. in downtown third Wednesday of each month. In its first full year of operation, the chapter was es- Richmond. For more information, visit 36 pecially proud to have been chosen to host the Northeast Regional ASPE Meeting the ASPE-Richmond Web site, aspe- March 2-3. richmond.org. With building planning, design, and construction getting more complicated by Meetings feature time to meet and the day, the professions and industries have found certificati(m as a reliable confirma• greet as well as a continuing education tion for clients and fellow professionals to know they are working with, to name just a session. At the January 18 meeting, for few examples, trained and experienced sustainable-design experts, project and quality instance, attendees enjoyed a lively dis• managers, specifiers, and non-licensed design specialists. Anyone with the background cussion of moisture barrier design, in• and ability can become a certified professional estimator, including architects, engi• stallation, and costing led by a registered neers, constructors, subcontractors, and building owners and their representatives. AIA/CES Provider. Noting that 81 per• Although construction estimation does involve a certain amount of intuitive abil• cent of construction litigation is related ity that comes with experience, the ASPE focuses on one's ability to understand the to moisture infiltration, she showed processes and technical aspects of construction time and cost estimaticm. To be cer• properly designed details as well as con• tified as a professional estimator, one must pass two examinations and submit a re• struction site photographs that showed search paper for peer review. Daunting as the tests are, they are passable reports ASPF,- what is and what is not proper detailing Richmond President-elect Ronald Semel, AIA. In retrospect, he says, the certification and applicaiion. was as challenging as he recalled the ARE to have been. Laps must be properly sealed, espe• cially at horizontal-to-vertical joints and Ethical estimation penetrations, which is particularly prob• The national ASPE has established nine ethical canons by which it holds its mem• lematic when multiple trades are involved bers accountable for the good of the design professions and construction trades as a and coordination among them is not whole and the clients and public they serve. Those canons cover: monitored closely, she said. Although the Discipline competence presentation focused on large construc• Continuing education tion projects, the continuing-education The promotion of inter-disciplinary cooperation provider also compared cost per square Business and technical confidentiality foot of a variety of commonly used sys• Integrity and adherence to the law tems, their puncture resistance, concrete Commitment to making detailed and accurate estimates and assignments adhesion, and pros and cons of various Rejection of "bid peddling" (revealing subcontractors' bids to other subs to solicit construction practices. Attendees were lower bids) eligil)le to earn AIA continuing educa• Rejection of acts of collusion or conspiracy (bid rigging) tion learning units. Rejection of the giving or receiving of gifts that might even be construeil as bribery. —DEC 2012: number two inform Build with an added layer of protection. 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