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In honor of Earth Day, we have complied a preview of the top ten most sustainableexemplars of U.S. architecture selected by the American Institute of Architects(AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE). Each project featured will behonored with a COTE Top Ten Award for “sustainable design excellence” at the2014 National Convention in Chicago.
1. Arizona State University Student Health Services: Tempe, Arizona /Lake|Flato Architects + Orcutt|Winslow
The Arizona State University (ASU) Health Services Building is an adaptive reuseproject that transformed the existing sterile and inefficient clinic into a clearlyorganized, efficient, and welcoming facility. The design imbues the new facility with
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a sense of health and wellness that leverages Tempe’s natural environment andcontributes to a more cohesive pedestrian oriented campus. The building’s energyperformance is 49% below ASHRAE 90.1-2007, exceeding the current target ofthe 2030 Challenge. The facility achieved LEED Platinum certification and is one ofthe best energy performers on campus as evidenced by ASU’s CampusMetabolism interactive web-tool tracking real-time resource use.
2. Bud Clark Commons: Portland, Oregon / Holst Architecture
As a centerpiece of Portland’s 10- Year Plan to End Homelessness, this LEEDPlatinum project provides a continuum of services to help transition homelessindividuals toward stable, permanent living arrangements. The architecture helpsachieve this goal with a walk-in day center with public courtyard and access tosupport services; a 90-bed temporary shelter; and a separate and secure entranceto 130 efficient, furnished studio apartments for homeless individuals seekingpermanent housing. The building’s design aims to de-institutionalize services and
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housing for the most vulnerable in our population. Sustainable features includelarge-scale graywater recycling, zero stormwater runoff, solar hot water, and ahigh-performance envelope, resulting in energy savings estimated at $60,000annually.
3. Bushwick Inlet Park: Brooklyn, New York / Kiss + Cathcart, Architects
This project is the first phase of the transformation of the Greenpoint–Williamsburgwaterfront from a decaying industrial strip to a multifaceted public park. Thedesign team integrated a program of playfields, public meeting rooms, classrooms,and park maintenance facilities, into a city-block sized site. The park buildingbecomes a green hill on the west side, making 100% of the site usable to thepublic, and offering views to Manhattan. Below the green roof is a complex ofbuilding systems – ground source heat pump wells, rainwater harvest and storage,and drip irrigation. A solar trellis produces half the total energy used in the building.
4. Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt (EGWW) Federal Building Modernization:Portland, Oregon / SERA Architects with Cutler Anderson Architects
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On track to be one of the lowest energy-use buildings in the U.S., EGWW is amodel for U.S. General Services Administration nationwide. The project’s goal wasto transform the existing building from an aging, energy hog to one of the premiereenvironmentally-friendly buildings in the nation. With a unique facade of “reeds”,light shelf /sunshades designed by orientation and a roof canopy that supports a180 kW photovoltaic array while collecting rainwater, EGWW pushes theboundaries for innovative sustainable deign strategies. In addition to the energyimprovements, the design reveals the history of the building, exposing the artifactsof the original builders.
5. Gateway Center – SUNY-ESF College of Environmental Science & Forestry:Syracuse, NY / Architerra
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The SUNY-ESF College of Environmental Science & Forestry Gateway Center is astriking symbol of environmental stewardship and climate action leadership. ThisLEED Platinum campus center meets ESF’s goal of reducing the overall carbonfootprint of the campus through net positive renewable energy production, whilecreating a combined heat and power plant and intensive green roof that serve ashands-on teaching and research tools. The double-ended bioclimatic formexemplifies passive solar design. Net positive energy systems integrated with thedesign serve four adjacent ESF buildings, providing 60% of annual campusheating needs and 20% of annual power needs.
6. John & Frances Angelos Law Center: Baltimore / Behnisch Architekten andAyers Saint Gross
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The John and Frances Angelos Law Center is the first large-scale opportunity forthe University of Baltimore to demonstrate its intent to pursue strategies thateliminate global warming emissions and achieve climate neutrality. With this inmind, the Law Center is a highly sustainable and innovative structure that strives toreduce reliance on energy and natural resources, minimizing its dependence onmechanical ventilation and artificial lighting of interiors. This is part of a largercomprehensive effort on the part of the A/E team to approach sustainability from amore holistic vantage point from the outset of the project.
7. Sustainability Treehouse: Glen Jean, West Virginia / Mithun with BNIM
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Situated in the forest at the Summit Bechtel Reserve, this interactive, interpretiveand gathering facility serves as a unique icon of scouting adventure, environmentalstewardship and high performance building design. Visitors ascend indoor andoutdoor platforms to experience the forest from multiple vantages and engage witheducational exhibits that explore the site and ecosystem at the levels of ground,tree canopy and sky. Innovative green building systems—including a 6,450-wattphotovoltaic array output, two 4,000-watt wind turbines, and a 1,000-gallon cisternand water cleansing system—combine to yield a net-zero energy and net-zerowater facility that touches its site lightly.
8. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Headquarters: Los Altos California/ EHDD
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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation headquarters acts as a catalyst forbroad organizational sustainability and brings staff, grantees and partners togetherto solve the world’s most intractable problems. The Foundation’s connection to theLos Altos community dates back to its inception in 1964. For the last two decades,as its grant making programs expanded locally and worldwide, staff andoperations have been scattered in buildings throughout the city. This projectenhances proximity and collaboration while renewing the Foundation’scommitment to the local community by investing in a downtown project intendedto last through the end of 21st century.
9. U.S. Land Port of Entry: Warroad, Minnesota / Snow Kreilich Architects, Inc.
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This LEED Gold certified Land Port of Entry is the first to employ a ground sourceheat pump system. Sustainably harvested cedar was used on the entire exteriorenvelope, canopies and some interior walls and 98% of all wood on the project isFSC certified. Additionally 22% of the material content came from recycledmaterials and 91% of all work areas have access to daylight. Rainwater collection,reconstructed wetlands and native plantings address resource and site-specificresponses. The facility proudly supports the mission-driven demands of USCustoms and Border Protection while addressing the sustainable challenges of ourfuture.
10. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse: Grand Junction,Colorado / Westlake Reed Leskosky with The Beck Group
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The LEED® Platinum renovation preserves an anchor in Grand Junction, andconverts the 1918 landmark into one of the most energy efficient, sustainablehistoric buildings in the country. The design aims to be GSA’s first Site Net-ZeroEnergy facility on the National Register. Exemplifying sustainable preservation, itrestores and showcases historic volumes and finishes, while sensitivelyincorporating innovative systems and drastically reducing energy consumption.Features include a roof canopy-mounted 123 kW photovoltaic array, variable-refrigerant flow heating and cooling systems, 32-well passive Geo-Exchangesystem, a thermally upgraded enclosure, energy recovery, wireless controls,fluorescent and LED lighting, and post-occupancy monitoring.
The 2014 Jury:
Frederick Steiner, School of Architecture at the University of Texas at AustinCatherine Gavin, Texas ArchitectBill Browning, Hon. AIA, Terrapin Bright GreenThomas E. Simpson, PE, LEED® AP, US East Integral GroupJennifer Yoos, FAIA, LEED AP, V J A A
>Project descriptions and images provided by the AIA.
AIA Names Top 10 Most Sustainable Projects in U.S. originally appeared onArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 22 Apr 2014.
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