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MARKET OF CHOICE: Products for Healthcare Facilities

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Be it thermal superiority, a second skin, or a dynamic nature, novel glazing ideas are leading to amazing results.

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GLAZING

Turn inside for several case studies ranging from a school to a cancer center that showcase such innovations.

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Trend Lines by Barbara Horwitz-Bennett

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Form by Mindi Zissman Converse HQ, Boston The city’s Lovejoy Wharf building is converted into cool, new offices.

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Function by Megan Mazzocco Offices of Overland Partners, San Antonio, Texas

Continuously Advancing: Glazing

April 2016

MARKET OF CHOICE: Products for Vertical Multi-use

H I G H

Be it thermal superiority, a second skin, or a dynamic nature, novel glazing ideas are leading to amazing results.

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GLAZING

Turn inside for several case studies ranging from a school to a cancer center that showcase such innovations.

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Daylighting dominates this warehouse retrofit.

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market of choice: healthcare on the cover What a View: Glazing selection is a balancing act between addressing glare, thermal performance, and of course, views. Page 29.

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Rehabbing Rehab Remote, re-envisioned rehabilitation facilities are on the rise.

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perspective

Wrestling with WWR

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the cost of conditioning a glass heavy-space starts to spike. Here’s the trick—how does one provide lots of view, but bring down energy bills? In the case of Seventhwave, who report on their Potter Lawson-designed offices (see the 10/15 Achieving LEED), little things can go a long way. For example, simply by eliminating glazing from the floor, to say the average person’s upper thigh—where more

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times than not, furniture resides—view and daylight are not hindered, yet performance improvement is

Contributing Editors:

significant. Adding say, a mineral wool insulated wall

Vilma Barr Ellen Lampert-Greáux Chuck Ross Alan Weis Mindi Zissman

assembly yields big results, as such work at their What a view. In case you don’t recognize it, you’re

Madison, Wisc. HQ resulted in a 7% WWR reduction

looking at PPG Place in Pittsburgh from a public

and $2,800 in energy savings; more importantly,

Barbara Horwitz-Bennett John Mesenbrink Stan Walerczyk Kevin Willmorth Elizabeth Hall

space within Gensler’s new Tower at PNC Plaza.

The former, a Philip Johnson classic, is a kind of Post-Modern-NeoGothic homage to London’s Parliament complex and Victoria Tower specifically.

The seat of British government is one of my all-time favorites, so it’s no surprise that I love Johnson’s glassy counterpart. But there’s the rub—look at all that glass—nearly a million sq. ft. of it—or for that

ART + DESIGN

A WWR around 40 still yields a visible transmittance range not far off from higher WWRs, but with 14% energy savings.

matter, this spectacular Gensler gem also features a

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lot of glazing. There’s no question what we’re seeing from both locales is inspiring, even beautiful—and

it reduced façade materials costs by $27,000, or

not surprising given the PPG tower houses a major

nearly a 3% savings. I don’t know about you, but

glazing manufacturer—but as we inch toward imple-

maybe that pays for the automated shading or dim-

menting 2030 initiatives, can the design community

ming system… Anyway, here’s the organization’s

afford to be so extravagant?

best practices:

In the case of the Steel City’s newest tower, the answer is clearly yes, as Gensler managed to find

• Conduct conceptual energy/daylight modeling as early as possible, even before schematic design.

a way, despite the fact that it’s certainly nowhere

• Analyze window assembly U-value, not just

near the 30% window-to-wall ratio (WWR) that’s

glazing U-value, because frames can vastly reduce

the generally accepted standard advocated by

the effectiveness of high-performance glazing.

those espousing more responsible envelopes. So that’s the million-dollar question—can we let in more light and views—even on grand scale—and

• Apply continuous insulation to minimize thermal bridging.

• Pay attention to infiltration reduction in façade

still be responsible? The answer lies somewhere in

design. The Seventhwave building used a liquid-

the middle. We’ll probably never see such a temple

applied air barrier which is easier to use in detailed

to glass as Johnson’s American wonder, but when

areas, and generally will have fewer failures.

contemplated as a whole, architectural solutions can lead one to having their cake and eating it too.

But let’s examine WWR more closely. Fortu-

• Review all architectural details with an eye on places where thermal bridging would occur.

Be sure to check out Trend Lines for even more

nately for us, SeventhWave, formally the Energy

coverage of PNC Plaza, as well as our Function

Center of Wisconsin, are “sciencing the s*@t” out

feature on p. 32, for a deeper look at daylighting

this kind of stuff, to borrow from The Martian, and

options that work in harmony with tighter WWR

have some very useful information to communicate.

desires. Hopefully, these tips will give you the inside

By the way, if you haven’t checked them out, do

track in putting the Figure Four leg lock on energy

so: seventhwave.org—not only do they have great

slipping through your glass.

resources, they are also experts in energy modeling.

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Anyway, WWR: At least in cold climates, it’s not a good thing to have lots of floor-to-ceiling glass. Data from Seventhwave shows a range of 30%-40% is pretty good for allowing daylight autonomy before

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Federal Office Building Architect: Gensler (Project Architect); Krueck + Sexton Architects (Design Architect)

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CONTINUING EDUCATION

April 2016

Eaton offers a 2016 calendar of classes at its Source Lighting Education Center, below, in Peachtree City, Ga. Visit cooperindustries.com.

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Coverings April 18-21 McCormick Place, Chicago www.coverings.com Lightfair International April 24-28 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego www.lightfair.com

May 2016 A series of how-to articles about commercial remodeling are now available on the Trim-Tex website. Visit www.trim-tex.com/whats-new/tips.

The New Buildings Institute offers free workshops on California’s K-12 schools and community colleges can achieve ZNE through whole-building retrofits. Visit energydesignresources.com.

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LITERATURE

The New Construction Guide from Advanced Buildings offers a comprehensive approach to new commercial construction projects that achieve effi ciencies up to 30% higher than conventional buildings. Visit newbuildings.org.

Bostik recently published two all-inclusive 4-color product catalogs. Visit bostik-us.com.

A pdf preview of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats Journal is available at ctbuh.org.

The PPG glass catalog features an educational section about glass and energy management that explains how coated low-E glasses such as Solarban and SUNGATE 400 diminish energy use in commercial buildings by reducing heating and cooling loads and transmitting high levels of natural light. Visit www.ppgideascapes.com.

TRANSPARENCY UPDATE

CertainTeed Ceilings’ offers third-party verified EPDs for its Ecophon product families: Ecophon Advantage, Ecophon Gedina, Ecophon Solo and Ecophon Focus.

Duro-Last offers EPDs for All Single-Ply Roofing Membrane Product Lines: Duro-Tuff, Duro-Fleece and Duro-Last EV membranes, in addition to Duro-Last membrane, which was certified in 2015.

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Living Future Institute Unconference May 11-13 The Westin Seattle, Seattle, Wash. www.livingfuture unconference.org

AIA Convention 2016 May 19-21 Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia aia.org/conferences

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By Dr. Alan McLenaghan, Ph.D., CEO, SageGlass

BEST PRACTICES IN GLAZING ›› ELECTROCHROMIC GL ASS

Photo © Phil Daubman Photography

Transforming the Patient Experience with Dynamic Glass

Healthcare facilities, historically, were built for the sole function of providing medical care, leading to the creation of environments that were overly sterile, dark and often completely disconnected from the outside world. They certainly weren’t designed with patients in mind—at least the notion of providing them with a particularly comfortable or inviting experience—or even to aid in the healing process.

This was the standard in healthcare facility design for decades. However, over the last few years, there has been a major shift to create more positive indoor spaces that help patients heal faster, more comfortably, and ultimately provide better care.

Healthcare facilities, including hospitals and outpatient centers, are now creating environments built for both function and occupant comfort. One of the ways in which healthcare facilities are improving the indoor experience is through the incorporation of more natural daylight—a powerful healing tool.

Recent research has linked natural daylighting to faster patient recovery rates, decreased dependency on medication and reduced staff and family stress. The incorporation of more daylight, of course, requires more windows in a facility, which in the healthcare setting can provide unique challenges for architects.

Windows are the connector between the built and natural environments. However, the incorporation of more windows presents challenges related to heat gain, glare control and privacy. To overcome these challenges using traditional window solutions requires the use of blinds or shades, which can lead to additional issues related to dust and

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dirt accumulation in an environment that needs to remain sterile. An alternative method for working in more daylight involves the installation of “dynamic glass,” which controls sunlight to optimize daylight, outdoor views and comfort while preventing glare and heat gain. Electrochromic glass—which can tint or clear on demand or be programmed automatically based on solar conditions—is a leading type of dynamic glass for commercial architecture. By maintaining a connection to the outdoors, and providing constant access to daylight, electrochromic glass allows patients and staff to experience the biophilic effects of nature and daylighting, including stress reduction, enhanced clarity of thought, an improved sense of well-being as well as better patient outcomes.

In fact, electrochromic glass’ ability to prevent heat gain and glare, was the reason for SageGlass’ recent installation at the new Butler County Health Care Center in David City, Neb. (pictured above).

The building faced a significant glare problem, particularly in the winter months when the low-angled sun shined brightly into the Center’s open space.

Other maintenance options, such as mechanical shades, would have blocked the view, and in-turn eliminated the therapeutic and health benefits of natural daylighting. Alternatives, such as blinds or shades also presented a hygienic and maintenance problem for the hospital due to dust accumulation.

Thus, electrochromic glass was the perfect solution for this project.

With all of these clearly identifiable benefits of natural daylighting’s role in health and the healing

GLARE REDUCTION Electrochromic glass was installed on the south-facing end of the Butler County Health Care Center in David City, Neb., to tame the sun’s glare while flooding the center with natural light.

process, why aren’t more healthcare facilities utilizing electrochromic glass? One barrier is perceived cost vs. traditional single-paned glass. However, architects should consider the long-term return on investment that dynamic glass offers as well as the entire solution they would need in order to meet the facility’s sun management needs.

Cost is More Than Just Glass When performing a cost comparison, architects and building owners must compare the price of electrochromic glass not just against the glass itself, but should also include the cost of some type of sophisticated solar control system—such as mechanized blinds, shades or louvers. In a healthcare environment, traditional blinds or shades also are problematic as they collect dirt and dust, which can have a negative impact on patient comfort or healing.

Electrochromic glass can also reduce the need for over-built HVAC systems. By relying less on energy-intensive HVAC systems and overhead electrical lighting, electrochromic glass can produce significant energy savings, which are not often considered in the up-front cost. Dynamic glass can help a facility operate more efficiently, generating energy savings of more than 20% without requiring

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ongoing cleaning, sanitizing or maintenance like traditional blinds or shades.

There are also additional benefits for hospital staff. The presence of natural daylighting has also been associated with reduced absenteeism and increased productivity in the workspace, which in the long-run can result in significant dollars saved on staffing and human resources costs.

For these reasons, The Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora (pictured to the right), utilized dynamic glass in one of their surgical units. This improved daylighting and enhanced the unit’s work environment.

After evaluating a variety of sun control solutions, including shades and integral blinds, the project architects determined the functionality and

performance value of electrochromic glass offered the best practical solution. The installation of electrochromic glass, in fact, allowed the surgical unit to maintain its pristine, high-tech environment.

Electrochromic glass truly provides the opportunity to transform the design of healthcare facilities from dark and sterile spaces into more open and inviting environments filled with natural light.

Along with the biophilic effects of maintaining a connection to nature, through the incorporation of dynamic glass, healthcare facilities can increase energy efficiency while maintaining the facility’s need for a pristine environment. It’s time for architects and building owners to consider the benefits of natural light, and how dynamic glass can provide a better experience for patients and staff.

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Dynamic glass can help a facility operate more efficiently, generating energy savings of more than 20% without requiring ongoing cleaning, sanitizing or maintenance like traditional blinds or shades.

INCREASED EFFICIENCY Dynamic glass allowed The Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora to increase the building’s energy efficiency while maintaining its pristine environment.

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By Moshe Steinmetz, President, Shildan Grove

BEST PRACTICES IN FACADES ›› TERRACOTTA CL ADDING

Bridging Past and Present Context has both intrigued and vexed architects for centuries. At its heart, the conversation surrounding the subject has been about managing change; how do today’s architects insert new buildings into an existing—often historic—architectural fabric?

The modernist movement famously bowed to tomorrow, invoking a rational design method that espoused function, but also singularity—producing buildings that were form-pushing, though often divorced from the architectural vernacular of their surroundings. Post-modernist thinking has reversed course, reappraising context’s significance and pre-

BANK ON IT Channeling terracotta’s color flexibility, COOKFOX specified a custom white and gray palette that referenced the adjacent Dime Savings Bank—superimposing its historic colorway onto City Point’s modern paneling.

“Translating history into a modern form is what this project is all about.” senting many architects with a challenge possibly greater than the modernist drive toward building to stand out—which is, conversely, building to fit in.

In designing City Point, a 1.8 million sq. ft. mixed-use development in Brooklyn’s eclectic Albee Square, COOKFOX grappled with this very challenge. They found the solution in terracotta, specifically, a rainscreen facade system.

Popular in the U.S. from the late 1800s through the 1930s, terracotta, until its recent pairing with rainscreen systems, was largely deployed as exterior ornament. Evolving with contemporary architecture’s push for facades as high performing envelopes—rather than simply decorative skins—today, terracotta is increasingly employed as the primary “building block” in full envelope systems, which tend to offer benefits well beyond the simply aesthetic, including sustainability, energy efficiency and maintenance-free durability.

Creatively, using the material in a panel system offers versatility in color, shape and arrangement, making this facade option particularly appealing in cases where buildings must rise within an existing stylistic context—where the contextual dialogue between a new building and its preexistent neighbors must be carefully coaxed and facilitated. That was certainly the case with City Point.

“It is kind of at an interesting spot in downtown Brooklyn,” observes COOKFOX spokesman Jared Gilbert, who notes that the area is a bit of a fractured community because of the way it was developed. “And so our goal and challenge for the project as a whole was to try to knit together all

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those various pieces.”

The architects chose ALPHATON terracotta rainscreen from Shildan. Harking back to the myriad terracotta ornamentation invoked throughout historic Brooklyn, the decision was an apt stroke of heritage conservation. However, City Point’s cladding speaks in a decidedly contemporary language.

The translation between history and modernity at the core of City Point’s design manifests notably in its reference to one particular landmark— Mowbray and Uffinger’s 1908 Dime Savings Bank, a neoclassical masterpiece distinguished by fluted columns reaching up to a domed roof, and GrecoRoman style marble cladding.

Terracotta was the perfect bridge. It’s that amalgam or that apparent paradox—that collision of history and modernity—that makes it the perfect solution for contextual building. It isn’t old or new; it is timeless.

The material has an age-old look and feel, but is extremely flexible and can be produced in any number of contemporary shapes, colors and profiles.

Another true believer is Kevin Daly Architects, who employed the material for a project at UCLA. “I think the earthiness of terracotta comes through in its tactility,” says firm Principal Kevin Daly.

“There’s something that’s really kind of primitive and fundamental about a clay product which allows you to think of things in a different way.”

Terracotta, he adds, also has qualities of being more like a textile than a conventional cladding material. “The fact that you can kind of rearrange things so readily and piece them together in almost an unlimited matrix is a little bit of a stand-alone.”

The arrow is certainly looking up for the material. Shildan is seeing an enormous increase in demand as designers are pushing the envelope to create more complicated shapes, details and custom finishes. And it’s not just the architects and owners that need to be satisfied. Shildan worked closely with various kinds of administrators, historic commissions, city planners, government boards and committees, etc.—those with a vested interest in seeing the entire context unfold cohesively.

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product developments

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QUARTZ-ZINC is an elegant, uniformed preweathered gray.

Noteworthy PIGMENTO is VMZinc’s line of colored, preweathered zinc. Pigmento bronze is shown here.

AIA’s semi-annual Construction Consensus Forecast expects construction spending in the nonresidential market to increase by just over 8% this year.

The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) reports project inquiries scores remain high, with an average of 60.7 due to continued growth across the

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interior design industry including renewed growth in housing and construction activity.

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Armstrong’s Alterna Engineered Stone has won a 2015

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CBRE Group and Delos formed a strategic alliance to transform interiors into spaces that help nurture, sustain and promote human health and well-being.

Walker Zanger opened its new global headquarters in the central San Fernando Valley region of L.A. LaCantina Doors was selected to Ocean Home’s 2015

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RPBW’s innovative take on historical preservation and energy efficiency resulted in a conventional stone façade that behaves like a high-performance building material.

A historically sensitive architectural and urban reorganization of Malta’s La Valetta City Gate, a complex of buildings comprises Parliament and an opera house rebuilt from ruins.

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Energy Efficiency Turns to Stone The Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) is famously known for its use of daylighting and modern technology, which even carries over into historical designs. The firm devised a historically sensitive architectural and urban reorganization of Malta’s Valetta City Gate, a complex of buildings comprising Parliament, and an opera house rebuilt from ruins. RPBW used stone to create a dialog between the old and the new façade types; and, by applying energy modeling capabilities to the project’s stone design the entrance to the historic center of Malta’s capital also serves as an energy and lighting control. RPBW worked with CFF Filiberti to engineer traditional carved patterns in facades; these brises-soleil elements modulate the light entering the building and reduce A/C loads while providing natural ventilation in swing seasons. Visit www.rpbw.com or Circle

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SUN GUARDIAN The cladding of the new parliament could be considered a site-specific work of art representing strength and austerity, but it goes beyond aesthetics to absorb new functions of lighting and climate control—including housing 40 geothermal heat exchangers bored 140 meters into rock.

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utilization and user preferences pertinent to HVAC and lighting systems are collected in a cloud platform where intelligent software aggregates the data. Building operators may access detailed findings via the new apps, which present the data in usable, visual interfaces that can indicate adjustments for a complete building systems overhaul or simply fine-tuning. Visit www.enlightedinc.com or Circle

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adjusting the thickness of those layers, a design or rainbow of colors may be created within a single solar cell, explains Optics Express, the journal of the Optical Society. These enhanced design capabilities may lead to more widespread adoption of solar energy and facades that serve a dual purpose of simultaneously branding the generation and consumption of green energy—an attractive proposition to most corporations.

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Spaces: Conditioning High Bay Areas

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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIV. NORTHRIDGE STUDENT RECREATION CENTER NORTHRIDGE, CALIF. Ideal for large-volume facilities with high-ventilation requirements, thermal displacement ventilation was a great strategy for the student recreation center.

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Gymnasiums and TDV Effective operable window design to add natural ventilation to a space is more nuanced and complex than it might seem.

With their high ceilings and large ventilation requirements, gymnasiums are well-suited for thermal displacement ventilation (TDV). Los Angeles-based LPA employed the concept for a pair of recreation centers they designed: California State Polytechnic’s Pomona Bronco Recreation Center (BRIC), and California State University Northridge’s (CSUN) Student Recreation Center.

At the BRIC, LPA incorporated the diffusers in large wall panels on one side of the gymnasium and into fixed seating on the other side. Ducted supply air is distributed through a lower level, below the gyms. Air is delivered on the floor level, closer to the occupants, providing better ventilation.

Supplementing the TDV are automated operable windows in the center’s three-story atrium.

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connection between the recreation center and the adjacent outdoor recreation fields,” says Erik Ring, P.E. LEED Fellow, and a principal at LPA. Because rec centers are often plagued by stuffiness and odors in absence of proper ventilation and exhaust, displacement ventilation and operable windows were strategies for the BRIC. Similarly, at CSUN, TDV is used in the gymnasium and multi-activity court spaces to promote good IAQ. For this project, supply air is distributed in the ceiling of the first level and up through floor penetrations to floor-mounted displacement air diffusers, while the return air is captured in the gym ceilings.

As noted, TDV requires a close level of integration between the architectural, structural and mechanical designs, which was the case at CSUN. “The TDV strategy for the gymnasiums contributed an overall design effort to reduce the height and mass of the building and limit the services and structure in the ceilings above the gyms,” adds Ring.

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV. POMONA BRONCO RECREATION CENTER Delivering air at the gymnasium’s occupant level, along with operable windows in the three-story lobby, creates a very efficient and effective ventilation scheme.

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Materials: Precast

An Argument Against Precast Preconceptions Precast concrete offers numerous decorative advantages for more workaday assignments, with clients appreciating its economy, strength, water tightness and sound attenuation, especially in high-traffic corridors.

Often specified for its more utilitarian advantages, precast concrete might not be the exterior material of choice that first comes to mind for a signature high rise or cutting-edge boutique. However, Washington, D.C., architect Barry Habib, AIA, says the material offers numerous advantages for more workaday assignments, along with opportunities for creative expression for those willing to see a beauty that’s more than skin deep.

“It is tough, it lasts a long time, it doesn’t leak if it’s installed correctly—and we’re getting a very good price for it,” says this principal with D.C.-based Shalom Baranes Assocs. Plus, the speed with which precast exteriors can be assembled can be a boon for projects on tight deadlines. “For apartment buildings, getting them enclosed quickly is critical, because there is so much interior work to do.”

Habib and his colleagues at the firm are wellexperienced in working with precast. Habib says Shalom Baranes has installed several-hundredthousand sq. ft. over time, with a number of projects earning awards for their use of the material—including 2015 prizes from the Architectural Precast Assn. for City Center, a Washington, D.C., multifamily complex and a new D.C. headquarters for the Assn. of American Medical Colleges. Clients have come to appreciate its economy, strength and water tight-

“You can make it into almost any shape—you can form it into a unique shape and repeat it over and over again, once you’ve made the mold.” ness. Plus, in high-traffic areas, precast concrete offers them great sound performance—a major plus along traffic corridors like the D.C. area’s notorious beltway, where sound codes might otherwise require expensive sound-insulation schemes.

“It’s quiet, it’s very quiet,” he says. “It’s better than the metal skins, in terms of sound performance.”

Habib also believes precast has gotten a bit of a bad rap on the issue of attractiveness, both on its own and as a backing for thin brick, terra cotta and other higher-design cladding materials. In these applications, in which the concrete is cast directly onto the cladding that has been pre-placed into forms, it can be an alternative to the rain screens that are becoming increasingly popular. And, even without added cladding, the material offers decorative advantages… “You can make it into almost any shape—you can form it into a unique shape and repeat it over and over again, once you’ve made the mold,” Habib says, noting the affordability of this

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Architect: Foster + Partners

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Project: Washington, D.C.’s CityCenterDC

DECORATIVE PRECAST Washington, D.C.’s CityCenterDC mixed-use project—designed by Shalom Baranes along with Foster + Partners, won the residential project category in the Architectural Precast Assn.’s 2015 Awards for Excellence. The precast panels resemble oversize masonry units, here, creating a decorative pattern.

approach. And he adds that the material’s tintability has drawn the attention of some signature architects in the not-so-distant past.

“Michael Graves did many projects with precast concrete, pushing it about as far as he could with the colors—the colors last,” he says. Additionally, because the tinting penetrates through the material, precast stands up to stains and graffiti that might permanently damage less durable material. “If something gets on it, you can clean it. It takes abuse.”

The architect has a few tips for other designers who might be new to working with precast concrete. First, he suggests becoming familiar with the standards published by the Precast Institute, especially when working with cast-in-place cladding, such as thin brick and terra cotta. Second, careful delineation of joint details is critical to successful installation.“The worst thing you can do with precast is put the panels too close to each other,” he says. “You need at least 0.75 in. or so between panels.” And, he adds, as in any project where close attention to tolerances is important, the right partners also are crucial to a successful project. “You need to have a good subcontractor and you need good erectors. It takes an experienced workforce.” Visit www.archprecast.org.

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1. Become familiar with the standards published by the Precast Institute, especially when working with cast-inplace cladding.

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Barry Habib, AIA

3. “The worst thing you can do with precast is put the panels too close to each other,” he says. “You need at least 0.75 in. or so between panels.” And, he adds, as in any project where close attention to tolerances is important, the right partners also are crucial to a successful project.

4. Have a good subcontractor and good erectors. “It takes an experienced workforce,” says the architect.

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Gestural Modeling Talking with your hands—a trait sometimes pinned on Italians—helps to get the point across, but what if architects gesturing with their hands could actually design spaces?

It sounds like something out of science fiction, but in a reality version of movie, Inception—in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s character constructs imaginary immersive worlds in which others interact—architect Casey Mahon brings DiCaprio’s role to life by donning a pair of virtual reality goggles integral to software and sensors. His hands trigger computational processes in architectural software—what he refers to as gestural modeling. The ability to manipulate immersive environments is impacting the way firms practice, says Mahon, digital technologies manager at Carrier Johnson CULTURE and contributing faculty member at NewSchool of Architecture & Design’s School of Architecture.

Carrier Johnson CULTURE has integrated virtual reality into immersive client presentations; it’s more communicative than looking at renderings, or even a scale model, says Mahon. “The virtual experience of space and walking around in it facilitates better feedback and conversations with the client.”

For those concerned about motion sickness, Mahon says biofeedback can prevent the issue.

“Without the tactile feedback we’re asking our brain to do a whole lot extra; I believe that when a final product comes out, there are integrated air puffs, clicks or vibrations and headphones—so it’s a total immersive A/V experience.”

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HAND IS QUICKER Casey Mahon, digital technologies manager at Carrier Johnson CULTURE, experiments with sensors and software to achieve the integration of architectural design and virtual reality.

SANS GOGGLES An R+D mock-up studies how one may actually walk in a virtual space without goggles—which may require 21 screens.

Gestural modeling takes virtual reality to the next level in architecture by letting the designer step into the space at true scale and move and push walls to widen a hallway for instance; but commanding a mouse and keyboard while blinded [by goggles] can be frustrating, so Mahon developed a series of hand gestures that correspond to commands in the design program. Perceived and translated by sensors, the gestures affect the 3D model.

This takes considerable stamina, remarks Mahon.

“You’d be shocked at how exhausting it is to have your hand floating over your desk for long periods of time.” On the other hand, it’s a time-saver,” says Mahon. “If this were a physical model and we were going to chamfer off the side of that cube, there would be a whole [long] discussion about it.”

In practice, this is sort of a dangerous tool, cautions Mahon, who continues a philosophical examination of the implications of his work. “We need to understand what it means to be in this 3D representation, before we actually start working with it.” He references a French philosopher who sees digital maps as a form of augmented reality created and inhabited by humans. “I see virtual reality as saying we don’t need to fight scale, and we don’t have this challenge anymore, we can design and experience our spaces in the size that they actually will be.”

OCULUS RIFT Oculus Rift released their first official interactive product and controllers that allow for interaction with certain virtual environments, reports Mahon.

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Trend: Wood

Developer Earns $1.5M Grant for Timber Tower Design Grant will help research the feasibility of creating tall wood structures, including assuaging concerns about safety due to seismic issues. Ongoing work with code authorities and peer reviews of construction contributing to wood’s defining moment.

The USDA Softwood Lumber Board and Binational Softwood Lumber Council U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize competition is helping uncover and fund the best new technologies relating to mass timber construction. One of the two winning entries, dubbed Framework (right), reflects the ethos of farm-toframe, a way to create a symbiosis between urban development and the region’s agricultural industry.

“Being in a wood building is a great experience,” says Thomas Robin, LEVER Architecture and leader of the winning team. “People love to live and work in wood buildings and if we can find a way to create product that’s sustainable, less impactful and a great experience—especially in places where we have resources at our fingertips—why wouldn’t we?”

Competition: USDA Softwood Lumber Board and Binational Softwood Lumber Council U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Winner: Framework, LEVER Architecture Location: Portland, Ore.

“Mass timber is not going to replace all building types, but it is going to become another option.”

—Eric McDonnell, Structural Engineer, KPFF

Farm-to-frame is applicable in many parts of the country, especially in Portland. Still “mass timber’s not going to replace all building types, it’s going to become another option,” says structural engineer Eric McDonnell from KPFF, part of the winning team for the planned mixed-use timber tower.

One of Framework’s most innovative attributes is its exposed lateral Cross Laminated Timber (CLT).

“It’s very panelized,” says McDonnell, “like pre-cast, everything comes down to the connections.” Connections ensure the building’s seismic stability, reinforcing them in a smart way, and can sustain a structure through a 500-year seismic event, says McDonnell, who witnessed innovation in structural engineering while helping to rebuild Christchurch, New Zealand after a large earthquake.

McDonnell became familiar with their techniques and imported his knowledge stateside. The keystone is the deployment of a U-shaped F-plate (UFP). It’s also been applied to precast walls and tested in studies at Stanford, and deployed in Canada. The UFP acts as an electrical fuse to protect the structure from seismic stress, says Robin. Like fuses, UFPs are easily accessible to evaluate for damage, or replace if necessary—although typical seismic activity experienced in the Portland area should not damage the UFPs. The team’s $1.5 million award will fund the project’s necessary research and development to test the process. The likelihood of its success is very high, McDonnell says: “It’s way beyond code.” The building has an anticipated completion date of Dec. 2017.

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Optimizing Comfort for Cancer Patients In adding a 16,000-sq.ft. two-story Cancer Center to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Ore., the hospital was able to consolidate all cancer services serving a 300-mile region into one beautiful facility.

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steel-frame orthogonal structure is positioned to take advantage of Pilot Butte’s beautiful views to the south and the snow-capped Cascades to the west.

A glazed, two-story lobby, along with floorto-ceiling windows on the perimeter, bring in

copious amounts of natural light while affording patients on the second floor infusion clinic those beautiful views in the comfort of the building interior.

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Architects specified Guardian’s SunGuard AB 50 low-E glazing on clear glass with a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.33. “The SHGC is approximately 20%

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St. Charles Medical Center, Bend, Ore. | Architect: ZGF Architects | Glazing: Guardian

better than Oregon code. This was the best SHGC that fit the project budget, and the best VLT was selected as well,” states Doug Morris, associate partner, ZGF, Portland.

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Meanwhile, the curtainwall is 30% better than Oregon’s state code and effectively reduces the heating load and comfort in the space.

“The low west and northwest solar expo-

sures are also moderated by deep deck roof overhangs at both levels,” he says. “The north exposure has an integrated aluminum exterior fixed sun shade along its entire length,” says Morris.

Complementing the façade is a sustainable, durable cladding made of wood-like hybrid panels comprised of rice husks and mineral oil, and lightweight cement fiberboard in subtle shades of gray.

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Tower at PNC Plaza, Pittsburgh, Penn. | Architect: Gensler | Glazing: PPG

The World’s Greenest Hi-Rise Billed as the greenest office tower in the world, utilizing approximately 50% less energy than a typical high-rise, Pittsburgh’s Tower at PNC Plaza features the first true double-skin facade in the U.S., as well as a solar chimney, motorized blinds, and a rainwater/wastewater treatment system.

According to Mike Gilmore, PNC’s director of construction services, the team went beyond LEED by create systems to facilitate natural ventilation. They did this by orienting the building to maximize access to natural light; recycling wastewater for cooling, flushing and irrigation; and employing hydronic-based radi-

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ant panels and chilled beams. But the greatest highlight is the double-façade system.

It features two different skins: An interior and exterior façade is separated by a cavity— which doubles as an accessible patio—and delivers energy-free ventilation and temperature control.

“Maximizing the use of natural light and optimizing occupant comfort were among PNC’s goals for The Tower,” states Gilmore.

Rather than squaring the building to the street, the Tower’s work spaces were positioned in such a way that they receive direct sunlight. To minimize glare, an automated blind system is

tied to solar sensors that control how much light enters a particular space.

The automated blinds, from MechoSystems, rise, lower and angle based upon outdoor conditions to mitigate solar heat gain. “By using the blinds rather than low-E coatings on the exterior facade, we created a building that is highly transparent and that provides incredible views of the city,” says Gilmore.

In fact, the natural daylighting extends to 92% of the entire floor plate.

For the inner and outer curtainwalls, PPG’s Starphire glass is either laminated or fabricated into dual

Double Duty: A unique, double-operable façade with an accessible patio in the cavity, automated shades and a rooftop solar chimney brings high levels of controlled daylighting, ventilation, and natural heating and cooling to the tower.

insulating glass units.

Together with the Starphire clear glass in a standard 1-in. IGU, PPG’s Sungate low-E glazing in the exterior facade offers a visible light transmittance of 80%, a solar-heat-gain coefficient of 0.68 and a winter nighttime U-value of 0.28.

The inner façade’s highly insulating properties are achieved with Argon-filled air space, warm-edge technology spacer bars for the IGUs and thermally-broken aluminum framing that connects the glass facade to a wood mullion for further insulation. The woodenframed curtainwall creates hospitable space for building occupants.

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As one of the first facilities to incorporate dynamic glazing technology that supports geometric shapes, the unique façade at Miami University’s Frost School of Music is decked out with triangular windows framed in white concrete walls.

According to Alex Rodriquez, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, project architect, HOK, Tampa, Fla., the goal was to create a highly sustainable, state-of-the-art facility for teaching, learning, performing and recording music, as well as provide a

ity employs a lightharvesting, energyefficient design that requires less than half the energy of comparable buildings.

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For this particular

where each room is a “floating box” within a box, with no two rooms sharing walls, floors or ceilings.

Thanks to its South Florida location, the university’s Coral Gables campus sees the sun during 70% of available daylight hours, so electrochromic glazing was a great fit to help the facility pursue LEED Platinum certification while providing natural daylight and outdoor views to the lakefront campus throughout the day.

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Each room is a ‘floating box’ within a box, with no two rooms sharing walls, floors or ceilings.

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California’s Latest Net-Zero Template Armed with a $1.5 million grant from the California Energy Commission, the Mathilda project, spearheaded by dynamic glazing manufacturer View, is being offered up as a net-zero blueprint based upon its incorporation of energy-effi cient strategies—three of which are emerging technologies: low-cost dynamic windows, advanced skylighting, and extreme insulation/ night flushing.

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the zero-energy-ready design offers immediate payback, net-positive cash-flow and an ROI 20% higher than conventional projects.

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A lot of natural light, design encouraging mobility, and wellorganized, clutter-free therapy gyms characterize today’s growing physical rehabilitation facilities.

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riven by healthcare reform and a greater focus on patient outcomes, physical rehabilitation facilities are growing in demand to better support the full spectrum of medical care required by today’s reimbursement model.

According to Michael P. McDonnell, AIA, principal architect, chief operating offi cer, IKM, Pittsburgh, post-acute care facilities are seeing increased volume as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Specifi cally, he says acute providers need to manage patient outcomes post discharge so that re-admissions are reduced. “This means that more marginally needy patients are fi nding their way into these facilities, which presents a new class of patient not previously designed for,” says McDonnell

In essence, it boils down to better managing short- and long-term patients who may or may not need nursing care, or time in an acute care hospital in order to strengthen their Activities of Daily Living (ADL) skills to the point that they can manage at home. For example, one patient group typically requires two to four weeks in such rehab settings. Another demographic only requires a few days of additional occupational therapy to ease the transition back home. In both cases, the goal should be to create more of an independent living setting closer to a residential setting, where possible. In fact, these rehab spaces often incorporate common household items such as a cooktop stove, microwave and washing machine, for practical ADL purposes, and to create more of a homey feel.

Physical therapy can be a stressful, painful process, making it a tricky balance to both collectively encourage patients, yet provide them with a sense of dignity and privacy.

Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Routine activities that people tend do everyday without needing assistance.

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The 6 basic ADLs:  Eating  Bathing  Dressing  Toileting  Transferring (Walking)  Continence

COLOR ME SAFELY Upbeat colors and bright lighting at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Cypress, Texas were used in the hospital’s higher-activity rehabilitation areas to improve wayfi nding and enhance patient safety. The fl ooring pattern in the hospital’s corridors and gym area are designed to assist in gait training for patients.

The flooring pattern itself displays the distance markers needed for assessment.

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The flooring itself provides distance markers needed for assessment.

Team-Based Care Because physical rehabilitation is a complex process requiring coordinated care–including therapists, nursing care, physicians and dietitians—it’s important for designs to provide staff work spaces and adjacencies that promote group work environments, visibility, acoustic privacy and sufficient space, notes Eddy Alonso, AIA, a senior architect, Gresham, Smith and Partners, Nashville.

Paul Widlarz, principal, medical planner with HGA Architects and Engineers, Milwaukee, agrees, noting the trend is to design space where all caregivers can work within a dedicated area to support collaboration. “The key is creating opportunities for collaborative space,” says Widlarz.

According to Allen Buie, RA, NCARB, LEED AP, senior project designer, HDR, Boston, the old nurse’s station is giving way to multi-disciplinary team workspace, and has also been re-designated as a “welcome center” for patients and arriving visitors. Furthermore, therapists are embracing mobility with the use of tablets for charting, and therapist work areas are now often treated as hoteling space.

Another trend is co-location of areas for dual use, for example, utilizing the dining/lounge area as therapy spaces when not supporting meals or recreational activities. “This breaks down the barriers in the minds of staff and patients that this room is only used for physical therapy, and therefore, the mind set that when not in this space, they don’t need to be thinking about the therapy goals,” says IKM’s McDonnell. “Placing lounges next to therapy space also encourages patients to try additional activities on their own outside scheduled therapy times.”

Essentially, strategically locating things such as ADL equipment and tools will increase the likelihood of patients working on their skills outside of regular therapy sessions. “Adjacency matters and can effect patient outcomes and how the care team shares information,” says McDonnell.

Walking to destinations such as therapy spaces, dining, dayroom and outdoor patio/therapy gardens become part of the therapy process. Architectural planning plays a significant role in promoting this healthy process, says Alonso.

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“It’s important for the design to provide staff work spaces and adjacencies that promote group work environments, visibility, acoustic privacy and sufficient space.”

—Eddy Alonso, AIA, Senior Architect, Gresham, Smith and Partners, Nashville

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Daylighting views for an uplifting therapeutic environment.

Therapy Gym In terms of gym areas designated for physical and occupational therapy, natural light is key, as is an open, comfortable space, which is organized and free of the clutter that can easily accumulate when therapists are dealing with a large amount of tools and portable equipment.

Light, says Alonso, is essential for enabling therapists to accurately evaluate gross motor skills, and to create an uplifting environment for the patients. “Therapy gym design is all about providing an open flexible plan with ample circulation space, plenty of controlled natural daylight, vistas and access to outdoor spaces, and acoustic control,” explains Alonso.

He adds that physical therapy can be a stressful, painful process, making it a tricky balance to both collectively encourage patients, yet provide them with a sense of dignity and privacy.

HDR, Chicago promotes a “co-visual” presence. According to HDR’s Abbie Clary, AIA, ACHA, LEED AP, the fi rm’s central region healthcare director, such an environment reduces the feeling of isolation and promotes a greater understand-

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ing that patients are not alone in their struggle. “A friendly competitive spirit is fostered and it allows for group celebration of each accomplishment,” she says.

As for the organizational component, thoughtfully designed alcoves and storage solutions can go a long way toward reducing clutter. For instance, visible closets should be organized in a sequential fashion, eventually enabling patients to easily access and store the items they require for their personal routines; heavier equipment should be grouped and organized around therapy types.

Some facilities also are tapping into new technology, such as smart cardiac rehab equipment, where a key fob is given to each patient to take around with them as they move from station to station. Exercise data is recorded and the transmitted wirelessly to a portal where progress is tracked.

“Through design and technology, the spaces are becoming increasingly integrated while remaining personalized,” observes Rick Wood, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, principal, LPA, Irvine, Calif.

LIGHT REHAB Covering the entire post-acute continuum of care, Reading Hospital and Medical Center, Reading, Penn., was designed with warm wood interiors and a lot of natural light to provide patients with an uplifting therapeutic environment.

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Rehab-Specific Designs days of discharge, the facilities make more money.”

All patient areas must be ADA-compliant, adds Alonso, and handrails and grab bars should be installed throughout the facility, particularly patient corridors, patient bed to bathroom including toilet to shower and in therapy areas to promote patient safety.

To boost patient comfort and satisfaction, providing patients with a sense of control over their environment—namely lighting, temperature and sound— lends an important sense of choice and normalcy.

One interesting feature HDR is incorporating into a current project is a gating system, which is a harness that is attached to a rail in the ceiling. “This allows patients who have diffi culty with mobility, or may be learning to walk again, to feel secure with walkers, and eventually progress to using a cane, then ultimately, to independent walking again,” says Wood.

Photos: Andy Caulfield/Gresham Smith and Partners

While technical patient floor designs for rehab facilities are similar to regular hospitals, some aspects are given extra attention.

For example, designers should tune into details like knee space at counters, sharp corners, floor transitions and handrails, as a majority of patients are newly adapting to life with wheelchairs, adaptive devices or experiencing limited mobility, notes Buie.

With longer lengths of stay, she also recommends building in more comfort and fl exibility to the patient rooms to better accommodate family.

In fact, Citrus Valley Health Partners, Covina, Calif., specifically requested as many private rooms as possible for its rehab center. “This not only helps increase reimbursement rate, it also improves patient satisfaction,” explains Wood. “Oftentimes, the two factors are connected—if they can increase patient satisfaction with improved outcomes for their patients, and reduce or eliminate readmits within 30

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CONNECTIONS Featuring floor-toceiling windows and views to the therapy garden and courtyard, Rehabilitation Hospital of Western Massachusetts at HealthSouth’s Ludlow Hospital is a new 74,000-sq.-ft. facility. Long corridors connecting the gym encourage walking and allow for gait training by using the finishes to mark the flooring.

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Private rooms can better boost reimbursement rate and patient satisfaction.

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Moving forward, with the current healthcare landscape mandating improved healthcare outcomes across the full spectrum of care, healthcare designers can expect to see more rehab projects coming their way.

Increased patient satisfaction with improved outcomes and a reduction of re-admits within 30 days of discharge correlates to more money for facilities.

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Bringing the outdoors inside, patient and family spaces are designed to feel more residential and less institutional with lightfilled day rooms, an atrium “town center” with storefronts and “outdoor” café seating.

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PPAs help institutions mitigate costs, fund clean and renewable energy development, lower overall utility costs, and access tax incentive programs that may not otherwise be available. This funding option leverages the benefits of on-site energy generation through third-party ownership.

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Precision woven SEFAR® VISION fabric interlayer coated on one side with a 60 nanometer layer of gold

“ Some of the most important buildings and architects have come out of Western Europe. And part of it goes back to the sustainability issue where the cost of buildings is in such a different ratio to the building itself that architects have been forced to examine certain issues much more carefully – functional issues, mechanical issues, ventilation issues – which have given rise to a certain sophistication of approach.”

- Robert A.M. Stern (Source: BigThink.com) The ‘sophistication of approach’ referenced above by Mr. Stern has yielded a great number of stunning, but also smart architectural products and systems in Europe.

One of the most recent and most impressive is SEFAR® VISION – a metal-coated fabric interlayer for glass facades and curtainwalls.

The gold coated fabric is then laminated between glass

What is SEFAR VISION? Next generation SEFAR VISION fabric interlayer has an aesthetic unlike any other material, and functions more cost-effectively as a glare or solar gain reduction tool than other exterior shading materials or mechanized interior shading systems. These performance indicators, combined with myriad creative options and clear views from the interior all allow SEFAR VISION to operate with less installation and operating costs than any other glazing shading system.

SEFAR VISION glass interlayer coated on one side with an extremely thin layer of metal, results in a brilliant building exterior, while maintaining a high degree of transparency from the inside.

VISION fabric is available in four density configurations and each can be coated with three standard metals – Aluminum, Copper, and even Gold – in addition to custom printed Pantone® colors or patterns. This allows for unlimited combinations to suit any corporate color or theme, graphic or logo. Each VISION fabric style features plain or twill weaves in a variety of apertures allowing a range of light transmission percentages (18-50%) and shading coefficients as low as 23%. The interlayer also uniquely creates visual depth in glass.

Once the architect and/or designer has specified the fabric type, density, metal coating, and printing options, SEFAR VISION is readily available from multiple laminated glass providers.

Opaque from the Outside, Transparent from the Inside SEFAR VISION is the only building facade product that offers limitless designs from the outside, while maintaining transparency from the inside. When VISION fabric is digitally printed using UV stable inks, it can either be single- or double-sided. If single-sided, the exterior colors and designs are not seen from inside the building.

No other product on the market can do this.

Moreover, while printing directly on glass affects the interior aesthetic of a building (incoming light transfers designs and colors), SEFAR VISION does not augment the light that passes through. Regardless of the color or complexity of the facade design, it will not affect the interior space.

From the outside, VISION can create any design imaginable. From the inside, VISION reduces solar heat gain and glare, while maintaining a high degree of transparency and quality light transmission.

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and never degrades. Cleaning is easy, as it is part of regular window washing.

VISION also outperforms interior mechanized shading systems. The material itself is a fraction of the cost of a mechanized system, which also requires costly maintenance and is susceptible to dirt, dust, and the damage of wearand-tear from building occupants.

The metal coated and/or printed side of SEFAR VISION reflects beautifully from the exterior (left and above), while the uncoated interior side (left inset and below) shades and maintains views.

First, exterior shading systems are expensive to install.

It is, quite often, a significant structural undertaking that costs building owners more than the shading system itself. Whereas, use of SEFAR VISION requires no additional structural considerations. The VISION solution can reduce solar heat gain, glare, and shade up to 60% of incoming sunlight depending on the aperture of the chosen fabric.

Second, traditional exterior shading systems not only require cleaning and maintenance of their own, but make cleaning and maintenance of surrounding glass very difficult. Because it is laminated within the glass, SEFAR VISION interlayer does not degrade and does not need to be cleaned or maintained. It will look as pristine as the day it was installed, with standard window cleaning.

If a traditional exterior shading system is still preferred, VISION can be integrated into glass louvers, fins, or other exterior features. In these applications, the VISION fabric is often coated and/or printed on both sides, instead of just one. The result is a highly opaque exterior shade that reduces solar heat gain

For a very reasonable price per square foot, a glass facade can feature SEFAR VISION interlayer. The fabric can be any aesthetic imaginable, and will perform better than most other exterior or interior shading systems. In fact, when paired with Low-E glass coatings, SEFAR VISION can maintain views, reduce glare, and deliver an SHGC as low as 0.18.

Smart Sophistication Architects and Facade Engineering professionals are constantly in search of smarter design solutions – those that are not only visually arresting, but sustainable, functional, and cost-effective. Today’s spaces must be as usable as they are beautiful.

SEFAR VISION gives architects a canvas for any facade concept. But more importantly, VISION ensures that dramatic designs and vibrant colors do not bleed into building interiors, and that they don’t obstruct views from inside. VISION also ensures that one initial investment pays the building owner back, year after year in building performance and reduced maintenance costs.

With its roots in Western Europe, SEFAR VISION now brings its smart sophistication to the U.S. Soon, it will grace World Trade Center Three and 626 1st Avenue in 2016 in Manhattan, and Toronto’s The One, which when completed will be Canada’s tallest building.

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Revolutionary Style Many are hopeful that U.S. developers may soon have the opportunity to discover Cuba’s business climate.

As the POTUS tours Cuba, many remain hopeful that warming relations with the island nation may offer inroads to U.S. development there, but I’m having difficulty envisioning some of these New and Improved products appearing in an architectural rendering any time soon—save for hospitality venues at modern coastal resorts. It is said that a visit to Cuba is like stepping back in time; its architecture includes Colonial, NeoClassical, Art Deco and Revolutionary styles; the latter being unique to OPEN TO INTERPRETATION

Three architects had two months to design an entire campus using only locally sourced materials.

Cuba. A short story called “Viva La Arquitectura!” offers some insight into Revolutionary style: produced by the 99% Invisible podcast, the narrative chronicles the design and construction of Cuba’s Instituto Superiore de Arte, which Fidel Castro ordered to be erected on a former golf course.

Architects Ricardo Porro, Vittorio Garatti and Roberto Gottardi were given two months to design the entire campus. Using a palette of brick and terracotta tile, the trio devised a series of Catalan Vaults to house each school of fine art. Whether you plan to visit Cuba or not, it’s worth a listen.

Campus construction was never completed, except the Instituto, which remains in operation—a revolutionary concept by today’s standards.

Pure + Freeform offers a unique take on metal accents and wall panels, ceiling designs in branded architectural environments. Guided by New York studio founder Will Pilkington and creative director Geoffrey Hahn, the company’s clever interpretation could be perceived as a metals memory box for the NBA flagship store, Nike, Underarmour and the Moxy Hotel. Circle 417

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“Custom metal panels offer designers a jewel box of options for exterior texture and visual differentiation— a little building bling at the pedestrian level.”

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CEILING THE DEAL Achieve a clean, organized ceiling plane with visual interest using lightweight aluminum beam and baffl e solutions from Hunter Douglas. Four additions to the Tavola series include Divergent, Levels, Canted and Cassettes ceiling profi les. Circle 416

“Often referred to as the ‘fifth wall,’ ceilings with texture offer acoustic value and visual interest while maintaining sleek aesthetics.”

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OLD AS GOOD AS NEW The new car smell does not apply to vintage patio installations. For re-use and renovations or period style architecture, exteriors call for the timeworn look of Rumbled Bluffs clay pavers. Tweaking the manufacturing process to include planned nicks, fissures and throughbody colorations instantly add reclaimed aesthetics that boast like-new paver performance for years to come. Circle 415

DRILL-FREE DIVIDERS Clamping Panel Brackets handsomely attach panels to every style and width of desk, table-top or benching design. Edge-mounted or in between work surfaces, the panels accommodate different panel and table thicknesses to provide privacy and acoustic solutions without defacing the furniture. Circle 414

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TUNABLE LIGHT FOR HEALTH Tridonic’s new Tunable White TALEXXengine QLE PREMIUM LED module can be used to create area luminaires that produce dynamic white light for healthcare settings.

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“Wood is one of the most flattering complements to outdoor environments. Readily available and economical, new wood products offer increased durability using natural processes to overcome the maintenance obstacle associated with the conventional building material.”

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360° OF FABRIC TENSIONING LET SkeleCore™

Chemical-free steam treatment transforms this wood. It renders stable, rot-resistant wood with rich color variations.

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Whether it is the Pull-Tight or FTS system, SkeleCore tensions and supports the fabric—meaning no noise, no sagging, and no wrinkles. With SkeleCore, you also enjoy the traditional benefits of fabric ductwork, including better air dispersion and lower overall cost than metal ductwork.

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STEAMY CREATIONS Thermory decking, cladding and flooring is fabricated from North American and European hardwood and softwood (primarily white ash and Scots pine) using a chemical-free heat- and steam-treating system that offers both aesthetic and performance advantages. First, the woods colors change to resemble more exotic wood products, and also the wood becomes both rot-resistant and less likely to expand and contract based on exterior environmental conditions. Circle 410

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NEW CURTAINWALL IN TOWN Clocking in at a U-value of 0.30 and a frame condensation resistance factor of 81, the 400TU Series highperformance thermal curtainwall system is available for medium- and low-rise commercial buildings. Along with its aluminum framing, dual thermal strut and highperformance insulated glass, the curtainwall can be assembled using screw spline or clip joinery. Circle 409

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Like a Breath of Fresh Air Discover the Benefits of Natural Building Ventilation

Armstrong and Lutron have collaborated on an ingenious invention that simplifies the specification and deployment of window shades in commercial building applications. The new window treatments consist of a roller blind mechanism inside a slotted housing; it installs kind of like a luminaire for seamless integration where ceiling plane meets roller shade. Circle 408

Natural ventilation uses the natural forces of wind and buoyancy to deliver fresh air into buildings, providing increased thermal comfort, improved energy efficiency, and a sustainable building design. Colt natural ventilators are equipped with electric actuators for automated climate control and are offered in a number of designs to satisfy virtually any design or ventilation requirement.

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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ A REALITY Not even your iPod is designed and manufactured in California, but LaCantina Doors are. The company’s Vinyl Folding system offers an economical price point for the exclusive look of an expansive wall of floor-to-ceiling windows. The system features contemporary styling, clean Tough_Pretty_HP-ArchProducts.qxp 4/24/15 3:35 PM Page 1 profiles and a sleek hardware package. Circle 407

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Duro-Tuff ® and Duro-Fleece® are known for having the thickest top weathering films in the industry. Available in both 50, 60, and 80 mil with roll widths from 21⁄2 to 10 feet wide, they are water and wind resistant. Now they come in a whole new spectrum of colors.

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MAKING AN ENTRANCE Alotian, from Colour and Design adorns walls worthy of the red carpet. A new proprietary emboss technique expresses diamonds in intricately embossed patterns in 24 colorways and three metal-influenced Mylars. Circle 406

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Fire-Rated Aluminum Window And Door Systems For beauty, the best in safety and design flexibility look to Aluflam. Built to blend effortlessly with non-rated storefront and curtain wall systems, our virtually limitless portfolio includes true extruded aluminum vision doors, windows and glazed walls fire-rated for up to 120 minutes. You’ll see why we’ve become the favorite of architects and installers alike. Aluflam gives you a barrier to fire, not inspiration.

LIGHT COVE AND FIXTURE INTEGRATION Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Systems Axiom Direct and Indirect Light Coves, a preengineered solution featuring light coves and light fixtures designed to work together, making them easy to specify while providing predictable lighting performance, consistent fit and finish, and a seamless visual. Circle 405

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ON-THE-AIR QUIET BuzziFrio acoustical room dividers from BuzziSpace allow for greater acoustic performance in a smaller surface area. The new organic shapes offer a layered look that creates a dynamic of depth. BuzziFrio’s two fully customizable styles, Machu and Picchu, work together to create custom orientations and a color palette that adapts to any space. The panels can be covered in a range of signature BuzziSpace textiles with a black or gray baseplate. Circle 404

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FOR YOUR NEXT MESH-Y APPLICATION The latest addition to a broad line of stainless-steel mesh patterns takes its name from its first project application. The “Lanier” design was created for use at the Georgia BioScience Training Center on the shores of Lake Lanier. Accommodating the plans of architects from Atlanta-based Cooper Carry, the mesh pattern was specified with a standard 50% open area. However, the open space can be expanded by removing fill wires as the pattern repeats. For monolithic applications, Lanier can be woven onto panels up to 100 ft. high.

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FRENCH FUSION Naïve Slimtech, a collaboration of Lea Ceramiche and French designer Patrick Norguet is a dialogue of the two design cultures. Norguet interprets the Italian tile as an avant-garde expression of glazing and porcelain technology. A preview at Cersaie last September now gives way to an immersive installation of the finelined tiles, which will debut this month at Salone di Mobile in Milan. Circle 402

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EXPRESSIONS IN LIGHT Punctuate interiors with dynamic luminaires from Studio Italia Design. These functional beauties bring effective illumination with panache to hotel, hospitality or retail environments. Use Puzzle Round’s versatility in a scenario with changing displays, merchandise and angles, while pin-up disappears onto the wall until its lens is flipped up to deploy the light source. Circle 401

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ABBLIGHTING LED Light Troffer www.abblighting.com

HUMAN-CENTRIC LED RETROFIT ABBLighting’s human-centric LED Light Troffer retrofit kit creates comfortable, natural light for healthcare patients. With a 38-W LED source, the panel mimics the natural Kelvin changes of the sun throughout the day in a typical 2-ft. × 2-ft. troffer. It can be set to run automatically or manually adjusted to presets such as sunrise/sunset or best lighting for reading. Circle 400

Tarkett introduces its newly updated Safe-T-First System (STF), with photoluminescent technology to provide a complete escape path marking system through emergency egress stairwells and hallways in the event of a fire or power outage.

The speed of evacuation in a dark stairwell with photoluminescent markings was statistically equal to the speed of evacuation in a standard lighted stairwell. During a fire or power outage, the stored energy from absorbing a light source is released in the form of a yellow-green light. Particularly at a low location, where smoke is less dense, STF outlines continuous pathway elements to facilitate orientation and minimize panic. Circle 399

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NEXT GEN The ArcticFront Series 45X Storefront delivers optimal thermal performance with the installerfriendly features of a traditional storefront. A key component of the product is its dual polyurethane thermal break points that act as a superior thermal barrier. The storefront can produce U-factors ranging from 0.37 using 1-in. low-E insulating glass, to as low as 0.19 using specially configured insulated glass units. Circle 398

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NATURALLY MINIMAL Industrial design and manufacturing company Cerno and design studio ICRAVE have teamed up to create the new Ignis pendant light as part of their joint collection. Ignis pairs natural wood with a striped-down design to reveal the simple beauty of the fixture’s materials and form. It is fully dimmable with either LED or incandescent light sources and available in two sizes: 24-in. and 17in. shades. Circle 396

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A CONCETTO CONCERT Featuring a new and improved dual spray pull-out with toggle function, the redesigned Concetto faucet from Grohe leverages geometric forms to create a vibrant, clean and contemporary design.

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MONUMENTAL HARDWARE Bridging contemporary and transitional styles, Amerock Hardware introduces three new decorative cabinet knobs and pulls with two new finishes. Pictured here is the Monument collection with its modern, square design, available in satin nickel, polished nickel and oilrubbed bronze. Circle 394

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WINTER BLUES Forget the winter blues and dive into the dreamy hues of the world’s most alluring bodies of water. Revisit the spa experience of an exotic island vacation upon entering the bathroom with Fireclay Tile’s latest collection of Coastal Colors. Circle 393

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BETTER COLOR, MORE LIGHT The v2 Lighting Group has added Xicato’s XTM LED modules to its CORE and QUBE lines to improve their color accuracy and consistency, while delivering more lumens per watt. Every CORE and QUBE fixture is now available in higher lumen configurations up to 5000 lm.

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MIX AND MATCH Architects with the Toronto office of Perkins+Will paired vertical standing-seam zinc panels against a more traditional stone base in their plans for the Western Center for Public Health and Family Medicine on the London, Ontario campus of Western University. The stone, along with similarly neo-Gothic style narrow windows, ties the building to others on the campus, while the zinc helps create a signature statement for the structure, which serves as an entryway to a new masterplanned quadrant of the campus. Circle 387

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Form

Inspired Product + Material Choices

The Lovejoy Wharf Boston For years the privately-owned Lovejoy Wharf was a missing link in the HarborWalk that extends 46 miles around Boston’s waterfront. Revived in 2015, Lovejoy Wharf is now home to a new pedestrian walkway and a reinvented 200,000-sq.-ft., circa 1904 office building—the new global headquarters for iconic footwear company Converse. A unique mix of retail, entertainment and commercial office space, Lovejoy Wharf hosts 600 corporate employees; Converse’s non-profit sound studio, RubberTracks, that helps non-mainstream artists record an album; a yoga studio; fitness center; café/ commons and materials library. Embracing multiple old and new exposed hard surfaces, building materials were chosen to create the desired industrial feel that represents the retailer’s “grungy” image, including charred Western Red cedar, a two-story glass curtainwall; refurbished exposed steel columns; burlap walls; reclaimed wood from the Wharf; polished concrete floors and even a lacquered Converse canvas-wrapped reception desk and tables made with hardened shoelaces.

Built in 1904, the Lovejoy Wharf building has been reinvented many times before—from a submarine manufacturing facility to a chocolate warehouse, a multi-tenant offi ce building and now into Converse’s world HQ.

Jennifer Carpenter, LEED AP, earned a Masters from Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture. Since opening her firm in 2009, she has built a roster of clients in the corporate, retail and education markets.

Tom Schultz, AIA, NCARB, Sr. Proj. Manager at The Architectural Team, is responsible for more than 1.5M sq. ft. of projects in the Boston-area alone. He is an adjunct professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology Photography: Gustav Hoiland, courtesy The Architectural Team

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Signage

Poyant Sign The Converse Sign was designed by Jennifer Carpenter Architect & Materials & Methods.

Fabricated by Poyant Sign of New Bedford.

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1600 System 2, Kawneer The Building’s new “windows” Schultz specified Kawneer’s non-operable aluminum curtainwall glass 1600 System 5 instead of operable windows for the facility’s window openings to create a uniform look across the facility. The glass was interior sealed (instead of exterior sealed) to save time.

Wood

Metal Panels

Western Red cedar clads the Rubber Tracks music studio. The tongue and groove wood was put into a charring chamber to char the exterior as a way to preserve it and further the “Converse look.”

Exterior metal paneling on retail store was chosen

by Schultz and Carpenter for its “interesting lines” that match the building’s horizontal lines helps further the industrial look Converse was looking for.

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CONVERSE RETAIL STORE

Located on the other side of the music studio (below the bridge level in the image), the retail store is clad in metal to complement the building’s lines.

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Wood Cladding Wood on the wall is reclaimed from the demolition of the original wharf.

Ceiling, Wall Panels Using what Carpenter calls a “back of house” product at the front desk helped further the industrial look.

She specified Cem Clad for both the ceiling panel above the reception desk in the lobby, as well as on the wall behind the desk, which has a brick look.

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Sneaker Chandelier

Staircase

Similar to their commitment to budding musicians, Converse wanted to use their HQ to showcase the work of young artists trying to make a name for themselves. Beginning with the entryway, and running throughout the facility, Converse specified a number of master-pieces for each space. The building’s entryway features the “Sneaker Chandelier” made of modified Chuck Taylor sneakers in collaboration with Lukas Lighting and the Converse internal team. Each sneaker is illuminated with LEDs.

The custom blackened steel staircase in the background was Carpenter’s way to bring each floor together. Capitalizing on the fact that the interior of the building had to be completely rebuilt allowed for the creation “the communicating stair” to connect all of Converse’s departments up the full 10 flights—a way to create a more collaborative working environment.

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Framed artwork runs across the first floor features acts that have played at RubberTracks shows.

The kitchen features Cooper Pendant by Merchant No. 4 in Copper.

Exposed steel beams: Because of the building’s age—111 years—the building’s original, thick concrete columns ran up all 10 floors. Schultz and Carpenter envisioned the vintage steel columns beneath would perfectly match the interior’s industrial look—and that’s what they found. The thick concrete, however, which acted as a fire barrier, was a great expense to remove.

As a result, they only exposed the original steel columns in a few common areas. Where they did, the beams were fireproofed with intumescent paint, CAFCO SprayFilm WB 3 Intumescent Fire Resistive Material.

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Next to the stairs on each floor are small pods for spontaneous and planned collaboration.

Lighting In the pods are the Fin recessed linear fixtures by Mark Architectural Lighting.

In the foreground is the Sonar II Pendant by Delray.

Avenue A wall washers by Focal Point provide strip lighting on the ceiling.

Table Made from laminated, white Converse shoelaces, the table in the pod is a custom artisan piece designed by Benjamin Kicic. www.benjaminkicic.com

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Red Chairs Custom artisan chairs

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Acoustics Above the wood paneling is Sona Spray’s “FC” Acoustic Treatment from the International Cellulose Corp. www.sonaspray.com

Project: Lovejoy Wharf Core and Shell Architect: The Architectural Team, Boston Interiors Architect: Jennifer Carpenter Architect, New York Executive Architect: Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype Structural Engineer: McNamara Salvia Wharf Engineer: Childs Engineering Landscape Architect: Copley Wolff Civil Engineer: Parsons Brinkerhoff, New York MEP: AHA Geotechnical + Environmental: Haley & Aldrich Acoustical: Acentech General Contractor: Suffolk Construction (core and shell); Shawmut (tenant fit out)

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Converging Architectural + Performance Goals

Overland Partners Offices Hughes Plumbing Warehouse, San Antonio, Texas With the goal of creating a space that inspires collaboration while supporting the efforts to revitalize downtown San Antonio, Overland Partners transformed the 1917 Hughes Plumbing Warehouse into an innovative, yet functional offi ce and studio space. The renovation preserves the openness and industrial character of the original building, while meeting modern performance requirements, such as high levels of natural light and greater use of natural ventilation.

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team has a knack for divining daylighting.

A short distance from its prior location, the firm’s proverbial divining rods twitched at the site of the vacant warehouse bordering the edge of town called the River North District. “We wanted to support the revitalization of the downtown,” say Ana Calhoun, the firm’s communications director.

Intrigued by the prospect of large spans of open floor space, Overland Partners approached the building’s owner, who

happened to be a developer. The companies decided to work side-by-side, and their symbiosis made for an efficient and economical renovation.

The keystone to renovating an old brick warehouse in San Antonio into a daylight-filled office space, required the demolition of the center of the building in favor of a courtyard.

As a result, everything from careful curtainwall choices, to 18-ft. clerestory windows, help admit healthy doses of daylight from core

to periphery. With the new courtyard, nearly 100% of the office’s floorplate offers views to the outdoors.

The retrofit now has its tenants swimming in sunshine. “The original building was designed in the time of daylighting, so we took advantage of that, and improved on it,” says Helena Zambrano, architectural designer at Overland Partners.

The Committee on the Environment (COTE) recognized the retrofit as one of the greenest projects of 2015.

“The true client is the building owner, but in a sense we are the client. Knowing that we are an architecture firm, of course there was a big focus on daylighting and views.”

—Ana Calhoun, Client Development Manager

Helena Zambrano, architectural and environmental designer and sustainability coordinator, focuses on water systems, daylighting and computational fluid dynamics for energy efficiency and occupant comfort.

Ana Calhoun, communications director, completed her master’s degree in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also studied sociotechnical systems as they relate to the built environment.

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ROOFING

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ENERGY STARS OF TEXAS The fi rm employed an energy modeling process, as well as a number of passive strategies, to meet the highperformance standards it aims for in all its South Texas projects—all while remaining in harmony with the historical nature of the project. Other than clerestory windows, which had been painted over, and loading docks, the entire building was encased in double-wythe brick walls, so the removal of 1500-sq.-ft. from the center of the masonry building became the keystone of the daylighting design. The resulting courtyard is surrounded by a large glass window wall, which provides comfortable daylighting and views from nearly every vantage point. Thanks to the original 18-ft.-high walls, the courtyard maintains comfortable temperatures in a primarily hot climate, as they help avoid direct sunlight to the courtyard spaces. “The original façade that’s left standing provides a considerable amount of shade into the courtyard,” says Calhoun.

Four courtyard doors are the popular choice for employees who prop them open for a fairly good cross-breeze.

Photos: Dror Baldinger, Scott Adams

Native Plants The front of building is revitalized with a sense of arrival, the 1917 Hughes Plumbing Warehouse now serves as a destination and connection between Broadway St. and the San Antonio River Walk.

A neglected alley (below) became a garden featuring drought-tolerant native plants resulting in 34% water savings; garden beds were added to grow local food— no irrigation or chemicals required.

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Courtyard The newly inserted 1500-sq.-ft. courtyard unfolds beyond the existing brick façade, creating an unexpected public gathering spot that opens the building to the street and provides access to adjacent tenant spaces.

Though it decreased leasable square footage, the courtyard became integral to the design, providing a setting for civic life and improved daylighting, while decreasing the amount of conditioned space required in the office. In fact, the incorporation of integrated strategies (daylighting, solar generation, passive ventilation) led to a 73% reduction in energy use compared to the national average for buildings of this type.

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LIGHTING 100 years ago, the building had little use for electrical lighting and not much has changed as of today. The infrequently used overhead fixtures feature integrated photo-sensors. In most cases, electric lights are off, as sunlight provides adequate light levels to 77% of the building area for 90% of daylight hours.

Occupancy sensors in hallways and restrooms keep lighting usage in unoccupied spaces to an absolute minimum. Lighting sensors, ballasts and shades were provided by Lutron. Light fixtures were provided by Peerless.

CONFERENCE ROOMS DIRTT modular conference pods are set at the perimeter of the space where electric lighting dims down below 20%. Reclaimed teak is used as a finish that reoccurs throughout the entire office.

Natural Ventilation and Views According to the climate analysis, the facility is able to use crossventilation and passive strategies to reduce active cooling for 34.6% of operating hours. The original clerestory windows were restored and may be operated by a pulley to create a cross-breeze. In addition to fresh air fl ow, and transoms, employees are treated to great views through the punched windows. A sight-lines study showed where views and daylight would be frequented; as a result, 98.7% of the building’s fl oor area has direct views to the outside.

Temperature The gray band indicates comfortable temperature ranges in summer and winter. Record high and low temps are outliers to typical seasonal fluctuations.

“One thing we wanted to do was design a space that is flexible and make it sustainable to create as little waste as possible when things need to be changed for new clients.”

—Ana Calhoun, Communications Dir., Overland Partners

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Function

Daylight Autonomy Study Daylighting Punched windows provide modulated daylight and views on east and west facades.

The punched windows’ steel box frames vary in depth according to shading studies, which showed that deeper window boxes on the west side would modulate the sunlight and provide a comfortable amount of shade, says Zambrano. “They provide views to the outside and to some extent, integrated daylight.” The building’s original clerestories that had been painted over were made operable once again. They provide wells of daylight and swaths of sky in core spaces, and when passive ventilation is an option, the original popup clerestories are easily operable with a pulley and a chain system.

“We can open them,” says Calhoun. Absent of a self-appointed clerestory-window-operator, she admits they might get forgotten. “They’re not at eye level.” Four courtyard doors are the popular choice for employees who prop them open for a fairly good cross-breeze.

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Key The shaded areas (darker to lighter) represent the percentage of hours occupied in the offi ce.

Punched Ribbon Windows Custom steel systems designed by the structural engineer.

DAYLIGHT AUTONOMY Daylight autonomy invites glare and heat gain, but its affects are mitigated by integrated shades on the east and west facades; in fact, one of the first postoccupancy studies showed 80% of occupants satisfied with building comfort.

Metrics Daylighting at levels that allow lights to be off during daylight hours: 90% Views to outside: 98% Within 15 ft. of an operable window: 60% Lighting Power Density: 0.85

Cloud Cover Averaging between 45% and 65%, cloud cover proved acceptable; when conditions are not cloudy, automatic shades deploy to reduce glare and cooling loads.

Manual Windows

Automated Shades

The original pop-up clerestories are easily operable with a pulley and a chain system. But without a designated operator they are sometimes forgotten.

Overland Partners did not leave visual comfort and freedom from glare subject to human nature. In this case, automated roller shades deploy according to an astronomical clock to provide comfortable, diffuse daylight.

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PONYING UP Panasphere’s Arusha Wenge to frame pony walls and doubled the product’s use to make storage elements. The textured laminate of Omaha Cherry created an elegant surround/media center for the presentation room.

Design Firm Goes for ‘Tactical Aesthetic’ Surface materials rich in texture and color helped Appel Design Group create a visually interesting and textural rich space while being ritualistic in form and fashion.

CHALLENGE: When the award-winning firm, Appel Design Group, outgrew their office, their new space was not only an opportunity to showcase their creative problem solving skills, it was a must to convey the innovation and creativity that had become the hallmark of the firm. Appel decided on a new space located in an office campus environment. With that, they were presented with a tight budget, short timeline, limited allowance for interior construction, and a space surrounded by “pony walls.” Appel’s desire to create a visually interesting and textural rich space while being realistic in form and fashion was going to be a challenge.

INFLUENCE: The practice specializes in construc-

tion and interior design of high-end residential and retail properties. It was important that their new offi ce convey a sense of rich textures and sensibility while demonstrating how a space can be repurposed. To tackle this, Appel Design Group needed to leverage the current layout. They chose to focus on materials and color for maximum impact so they can limit the downtime of relocating their fi rm.

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CRITERIA: A key driver was to maximize the aesthetic and practical value of the space by using materials and design without hard wall construction.

The space needed to be quickly converted to minimize the loss of billable hours. To accomplish this, Appel decided it was crucial to utilize materials that could be easily specified, designed and applied.

SOLUTION: To maximize design impact Appel looked for surface materials to add a richness of textures and color to painted surfaces. The practice chose Panasphere Premium Surfaces due to the product’s flexibility and pricing. The material allowed for creative customization while being crafted offsite. This dramatically limited the disruption to the new space as well as kept costs down. The firm chose Panasphere’s Arusha Wenge to frame the present pony walls and doubled the product’s use to make storage elements. This provided a beautiful and easy solution. Panasphere’s textured laminate, Omaha Cherry, provided flexibility to create an elegant surround/media center for the presentation room.

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Medical Center Picks Lane The seven-story Kaiser Permanente in Anaheim, Calif. was challenged with siting a fire lane that could support the weight of emergency vehicles—without looking like a fire lane.

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CHALLENGE: Kaiser Permanente is all about promoting healthy living on and off campus from every one of its medical facilities across the country. The Anaheim, Calif. medical center built in 2012 is no different.

“Since this was a medical facility, we wanted to create a healing garden for patients and guests to enjoy,” says Michael Wilkes a project manager and construction administrator at WHITIN DESIGN WORKS, landscape architect.

“But in the 125 ft. × 600 ft. space we had to work with, we now had to also incorporate a fire lane. Our first challenge was how to site a fire lane that could work with our overall design. We also had to coordinate with local fire authorities and Kaiser Permanente leadership.

“In addition, we had to ensure that whatever we used, it had to be able to support a fire truck. We didn’t want it to look like a fire lane and we certainly didn’t want to use solid concrete,” says Wilkes.

INFLUENCE: When city officials mandated that a fire lane be included in the overall landscape design of the seven-story building, WHITIN DESIGN WORKS went to work to create something functional and purposeful without losing the aesthetic of the green space.

SITE PLAN The design team wanted to create a fire lane without losing the aesthetic of a green space.

CRITERIA: The design team needed to be aware of how plants grow, the importance of soil mix, and the preparation of the earth before anything is planted.

For this application, the base layer was compacted to 95%. A filter fabric layer was then placed and approximately 1.5 in. of growing medium was placed over the base. The growing medium was a 50% mix of organic matter and 50% sand. The earth was then rolled and leveled before the pavers were installed.

ARCHITECTURAL ‘COOL’ According to Michael Wilkes, once the pavers were backfilled with soil and flush with other pavers, it looked pretty “cool” architecturally. Then an additional inch of soil was put over the pavers and raked and watered before being hydro seeded.

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SOLUTION: “We remembered that we had used Drivable Grass for a project a few years earlier and were extremely pleased with how the grass had grown over it and made it look like a solid lawn. The flexibility, durability and strength of Drivable Grass pavers were exactly what we were looking for in this project,” says Wilkes.

The key to success with properly installing pavers like these is to prepare the soil, use a higher quality soil for back fill, and avoid the use of too much sand.

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Lighting Controls

Ambience Met LED lighting and controls provide architectural intuition at Marriott Hotel.

CHALLENGE: The nFuse restaurant and bar in the Anaheim Marriott were recently re-modeled with new LED lighting and an updated ambience. Management was looking for an interface for staff to easily control the various scenes required throughout the day—for example: clean, daytime, nighttime and all off.

INFLUENCE: Management wanted a simple and intuitive way to integrate timers with scene programming, managing the restaurant ambience.

Management was looking for an interface for staff to easily control the various scenes throughout the day.

CRITERIA: The design team needed a system to provide an easy-to-learn solution for all restaurant employees.

SOLUTION: The WattStopper InFusion system provided the architectural dimming capabilities to create the ambiance for the restaurant and WattStopper Equinox 40 (EQ40) keypads provide the simple and intuitive interface for which management and staff were looking. The InFusion system provides precise dimming for a variety of LED and incandescent lighting loads and the EQ40s control separate sections of the restaurant.

Project: Anaheim Marriott Location: Anaheim, Calif.

Architect: Houston Tyner Architects, Torrance, Calif.

PRECISE DIMMING The InFusion system provided precise dimming for a variety of LED and incandescent lighting loads while the EQ40s control separate sections of the restaurant.

INTUITIVE CONTROLS The InFusion system provided architectural dimming capabilities for the restaurant.

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Metal Panels + Coatings

Raise the Roof The recently commissioned Pavilion at Ole Miss selects roofing clad in metal panels, coated with earth-tone hues.

CHALLENGE: The University of Mississippi, founded in 1848 and known for its athletic programs, recently commissioned a $96.5 million basketball arena—The Pavilion at Ole Miss. The multi-purpose facility is home to the men and women’s basketball program and also hosts graduation ceremonies, concerts and other university-wide events.

INFLUENCE: At 225,000 sq.-ft., the state-of-the-art arena seats 9500 fans, the facility consists of a three-story structural steel frame supporting steel trusses. From the exterior, it wields an elegant footprint in spite of its scale, one that is enhanced by a curved and colonnaded entrance façade that echoes The Pavilion’s signature curved roof.

The finishing touches included a roof clad in metal paneling and coated with a rich earth-tone hue. Also, a coating was needed for dirt and stain resistance, and durability in all weather conditions.

SOLUTION: The roof is clad in metal paneling manufactured by ACI Building Systems and coated with Valspar’s Fluropon in Terra Cotta. With Fluropon’s exceptional dirt and stain-resistant properties, and its durability in all sorts of weather conditions.

Project: The Pavilion at Ole Miss.

Location: Oxford, Miss.

Architect: AECOM Technology

PRODUCT SPECS: Product: Valspar Material: Fluropon Product: ACI Building Systems Material: UltraLok Roof System

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Baggage Claim Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport greets visitors with a new baggage claim area.

CHALLENGE: Passengers flying at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee are now greeted by a new baggage claim area. The high-traffic area needed a durable interior and exterior material that also improved the aesthetics to enhance passengers’ experiences.

SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT The baggage claim building is designed to be LEED certified, and the Dri-Design products added points for recycled content, recyclable material, regional fabrication and no VOCs.

INFLUENCE: “There are various infi ll, wall and column cover conditions where metal panels could achieve that level of durability, provide a longlasting color and fi nish, and be easy to maintain,” says Debra Sider, principal with Engberg Anderson Architects, Milwaukee. “In addition, the panels were installed in both existing and new construction locations. From an aesthetic perspective, the metal panels provided continuity across the overall building.”

CRITERIA: The white panels were used outside, and the silver panels were used for an interior feature wall, which runs the length of the building and through to the exterior. This feature wall adds a mosaic quality to the interior space, consistent with other design features in the project.

Skylights that run the length of the building illuminate the panels, bringing a reflective and colorchanging quality to the multi-dimensional wall. The smooth-finish white panels blend with the other white clad buildings adjacent to the baggage claim.

“The flat panels used on the column covers and other exterior walls are stunning.”

INSIDE AND OUT The high-traffic area needed a durable interior and exterior material that also improved aesthetics to improve passengers’ experiences.

“The dimensional feature wall is very dynamic, both elegant and playful at the same time,” Sider says. “The flat panels used on the column covers and other exterior walls are stunning. Metal panels were installed using a rainscreen system that meets our constructability standards. The details work well with the other exterior glass and precast materials.”

Project: General Mitchell International Airport Location: Milwaukee, Wisc.

Architect: Engberg Anderson Architects

SOLUTION: Single-source supplier Dri-Design manufactured Shadow Series wall panels, standard flat wall panels, and column covers for the renovation and expansion project.

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The 0.08-in. aluminum standard and Shadow Series wall panels were finished in Bone White and Bright Silver. They were installed by Architectural Products of Wausau, Wausau, Wisc. Shadow Series panels can be manufactured with varying depths. This freedom to design each panel gives you an unlimited capacity to create a dynamic, one-of-a-kind surface on nearly any façade. The substrate or weather barrier do not need to be modified.

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LED Rail System Brings Murals to Life Colorful murals at the Georgia Aquarium are getting noticed with bright track lighting. Precision aiming capability and high color rendering restore the expansive gallery.

CHALLENGE: The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, largest in the Western Hemisphere, attracts millions of visitors each year with exhibits showcasing ivory Beluga whales, bottlenose dolphins, 12-ft. manta rays and the only collection of giant whale sharks outside of Asia.

Lighting was needed to illuminate the main entry hall with hand-painted murals of sea life overhead and the Aquanaut Discovery Zone, an interactive hallway for young visitors.

INFLUENCE: The entry enthralls marine enthusiasts with its lifelike depictions of smiling Belugas, dolphins and turtles cavorting overhead in a swirling blue sea. The murals were painted by Salvio, an Italian muralist.

CRITERIA: The ceiling in the entry hall is multileveled, so the system had to be totally adjustable to compensate for the various heights. Rail placement had to be fine tuned during the installation so the fixtures appear level throughout and present bright, consistent illumination onto the murals.

SOLUTION: The murals were dimly lit for several years—until a Noral Rail System was designed by Tony Hodge of Mahalo Inc. in Marietta, Ga. Partnering with the aquarium’s facilities staff, Nora Lighting was recently selected to illuminate two visitor areas.

Mahalo selected Nora Lighting’s Belgium fixtures with E-31 PAR 30 LED lamps. Each Belgium produces just nine watts at 3000K with 750 lumens and a

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20-degree beam spread. The heads are fully adjustable with 345-degree rotation and 90-degree pivoting. “We specified PAR lamps because they deliver better directional lighting,” says Hodge.

“The Belgium fixtures have a short neck and narrow beam spread, ideal for directing them toward the artwork. And their higher 90+ CRI rating displays optimal color rendition,” he reported.

The second installation, the Aquanaut Discovery Zone, also presented unique site challenges. The long hallway has a series of interactive displays that leads visitors to several habitats, including Coldwater Quest, Ocean Voyager and Tropical Diver.

Capped with a blue dome and support arches, the hall was dark and uninviting and called for a sitespecific solution.

Mahalo designed a Nora system with nearly 150 ft. of rail and 60 double-mounted fixtures—all off one junction box. The ceiling connectors were situated four feet apart with four-foot extenders. The heads were placed opposite each other and close to the connectors to keep the rail balanced. Hodge again specified Nora Belgium fixtures with PAR 30 lamps (750 lm) and stream-lined 20-degree beam angle.

“The entire hallway run has 720 W of LED lamping and no forward heat, keeping the atmosphere very comfortable in this relatively tight space,” he said.

“The Nora system was totally adaptable; the rails balanced perfectly and the lighting spot-on.”

LIGHT FROM ALL ANGLES Light floods through the exterior windows of the stairwell, then continues inward through glass windows and doors.

Project: Georgia Aquarium Location: Atlanta Designer: Mahalo Lighting Solutions

PRODUCT SPECS: Product: Belgium fixtures with E-31 PAR 30 LED lamps Material: LEDs

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2 FOR THE ARTS The ArtsQuest Center in Bethlehem, Penn., is a transformative and transparent space, made possible, in part, by Tubelite’s 400 Series curtainwall and entrance systems. The curtainwall’s framework provides structural performance, reducing the need for steel reinforcing. The project features 2.5-in. sightlines with a 6-in. system depth on the interior and an 8-in. depth on the exterior.

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The selected windows met Brighton Towers’ performance requirements for energy, for air, water and structural, and offered an additional improvement for sound transmission. Wind also was a key issue for the project.

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last detail: architectural leader

Inclusiveness, modesty + collaboration provoke projects that embody the community Architect Barry Svigals takes an unorthodox approach to the business of architecture: Love.

“We are galvanized by what we love,” says Svigals. Speaking from the heart and listening with reverence results in architecture cherished by its community.

Barry Svigals, Svigals + Partners

© Robert Benson Photography

When I tell Barry Svigals he’s part of the Architectural Leader series, he radically reframes our discussion, “The notion of this singular leader undermines the responsibility which everyone has— I would say I’m not a leader, I’m a serial collaborator.”

A firm believer that we are inextricably connected and our fates entwined, community is the foundation of Svigals + Partners, and it places value on the richness of every stakeholder’s contribution. “That realization opens up the ability for us to collaborate like never before; under circumstances that yield

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such rich territory for what a building can become.”

“It’s about people speaking, but it’s mostly about others listening,” says Svigals. It’s a tool that requires cultivation, “The hard work is listening, and continuing to play back what you heard gives people the opportunity to restate and clarify.”

It’s not a pill you can take, listening is a practice and we have to do it over and over again, says Svigals, who shares simple ground rules for creating a context for listening: • Quiet your inner dialog. “We have our inner dialog and all the things we think are most important for ourselves that occupy our brains such that we can’t really hear what other people are saying; it’s especially true when something is at stake.”

• Establish commonality through questions that connect how people feel about things that everyone cares about. To prepare for conversations that may be more contentious, you can also begin in that place, he adds.

In Newton, Conn., a project where the community was traumatized, the firm asked what they love about community and education. “You could have heard a pin drop,” says Svigals. In the new Sandy Hook Elementary, the building manifested itself out of the love the community expresses for its landscapes: an undulating roofline and its peaks represent the rolling banks of trees perforated by the town’s historical rooflines.

The fi rm listens to its clients as a community—which it loosely defi nes as “people who have gathered together for singular purpose.” Svigals embraces the root of the word, communion, saying it should be applied to architecture’s process.

“It sounds religious, but it can be true in secular circumstances, because there are always forces larger than ourselves.”

“We are always distracted by the building and the manifestation of all these ideas.

Our mantra is, ‘How we are is what it becomes.’ The architecture is just a result of a process and how people were along the way.”

© Svigals + Partners

by Megan Mazzocco, Senior Editor

LOVE OF COMMUNITY Several compelling themes surfaced amid discussions of the qualities of Newtown and Sandy Hook. One was the view of the town from a distance, buildings and spires appearing above an undulating horizon of trees.

t GATHER ’ROUND Art has become an integral expression of every project simply through the art of listening. The actual art, the program and the layout are all expressions of those discussions, says Svigals.

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