Dear Friends, 2015 saw the individuals that collectively form Inscape Publico make a positive impact in our communities by creating architecture that serves the missions of our nonprofit partners. As the only nonprofit architecture firm in the nation’s capital, we have a unique skillset that allows our imaginations to come to life as people inhabit the spaces we have designed. In 2015 HIPS moved into their new home on the H Street corridor, allowing them to fulfill their mission of promoting the health, rights, and dignity of individuals and communities impacted by sexual exchange and/or drug use due to choice, coercion, or circumstance. There has been a threefold increase on client visitations since HIPS moved into their new home and they can now provide group support and counselling to those they serve. HIPS is the first facility of their type in DC to have a medical exam room, teaming with NIH and Whitman-Walker to provide health care services to those who would otherwise be without. A Single Room Occupancy (SRO) opened in 2015 provides well-designed, affordable housing in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, DC. Designed by Inscape Publico, developed by Mi Casa, a nonprofit provider of affordable housing, and funded by the DC Department of Housing and Community Development, this project provides affordable housing to 14 individuals, including Tom Wilson, a long-time resident of DC who can now remain connected to family and friends, job opportunities, and the community in which his life is intertwined. On 22 January 2015 Stefan Schwarzkopf and I weaved between mountain tops, banked hard left and landed at ToncontĂn International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Greeted at the airport by our hosts for the week Jack Melvin and Bob Cantor, we traveled northwest on highway CA5 through the Honduran Central Mountain to the garden city of Siguatepeque. It is there that the master plan created by Inscape Publico will be realized as a school, pre-K through high school, for the students of the Episcopal Church of Honduras. I would like to thank our board and staff, partner organizations, and corporate and individual donors in supporting our efforts in 2015 to provide over 1,900 hours of professional architecture services to our nonprofit partners, an in-kind donation valued at $157,609. We believe that innovative contemporary design has the power to inspire positive change within communities. In 2016 we look forward to continuing our collaboration with you and supporting our nonprofit partners whose mission it is to foster this change. With appreciation,
Gregory A. Kearley, AIA, LEED AP Executive Director 4