June 2020
Inside this issue President’s Message..... 1-2 Highlighting the 2020 AIAENY Design Award Recipients.................. 3-7 AIAENY Committees.............. 8-10 2020 Event Successes.................... 11 COVID-19 Resources..... 12 Urban Green NYS Code Webinars....... 13
President’s Message We are at the halfway point of the calendar year and as part of the June newsletter, I want to give everyone a quick update as to our progress on a few items. Unfortunately, we have had to cancel or postpone all of our in-person social or continuing education events planned for 2020. A lot of planning took place at the beginning of the year to set these events up; we are incredibly disappointed to have to take this course of action during these challenging times. The good news is that we are in the process of pivoting our approach to provide on-line opportunities for our members. One of the big pushes for the second half of this year is to develop a new strategic plan for the chapter for the next three years and beyond—the committee kicked this effort off this month. In order to create a meaningful strategic plan that responds to the needs of its members, we will need feedback from you! continued on page 2
Emerging Professionals Committee Update & ARE Materials....... 14-15 Event & Program Schedule......... 16
Architext is a publication of the Eastern New York Chapter of the AIA. Please send photo, article, announcement, or presentation information for consideration for publication to the Eastern New York Chapter - aiaeny@aiaeny.org. CORRECTIONS: Please contact AIAENY at aiaeny@aiaeny.org if you find any areas that need correction in the Architext. AIA Eastern New York appreciates all comments and feedback.
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President’s Message
Officers
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President Paul Conant, AIA
In the near future, you will receive a survey asking for your input—your wants, needs, and what we can do to improve and/or enhance your AIA experience.
President-Elect Stephen Kervin, AIA
Some of the things we have accomplished this year are:
Past President Casey Crossley, AIA, LEED AP
• Initiated new support committees with volunteer opportunities for chapter members
Treasurer Susan Lomonaco, AIA
• Researched then purchased on- line A.R.E study material resources and content for Emerging Professionals that will be made available via our website.
VP of Programs Andrew Petruzelli, AIA
• Surveyed the Emerging Professionals to get their feedback on their wants and needs from AIA as Associate members.
Secretary Caitlin Daly, AIA
• Continued to grow the Emerging Professional Committee group size and participation opportunities
Past-President Tina Mesiti-Ceas, AIA
• Hosted on-line continuing education opportunities focusing on building codes and building technology
Directors Melissa Clarke, AIA (2018-2020) David Pacheco, AIA (2019-2021)
• AIAENY Website content updated and added Please keep an eye out for more on-line opportunities over the next few months. I hope everyone has a great summer and stays healthy. Regards,
John Savona, AIA (2020-2022) NYS Director Baani Singh, AIA
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Paul Conant, AIA 2020 AIAENY President pconant2512@gmail.com
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Highlighting Our 2020 AIAENY Design Award Recipients AIA Eastern New York
Design Awards
2020
Special Thanks to Our Design Award Sponsors! Platinum Sponsor
Co-Chairs: Katrina Pacheco, AIA and Melissa Clarke, AIA
Every day, AIAENY members are working passionately, using the power of architecture to make the world a more extraordinary place. The Design Awards celebrate the design accomplishments of our members, highlight the excellence of their creations, and bestow upon them the much deserved recognition for their remarkable contributions to the built environment. This year we celebrate a total of eight award winners, consisting of four Honor Award projects (the highest award we bestow) and four Merit Award projects.
Silver Sponsors
The Design Awards program is one of the most popular AIAENY programs. We are in the process of planning a virtual event later this summer to celebrate our award recipients, and will keep you informed as we finalize the details. Each year, a small but dedicated volunteer team works behind the scenes to make the design awards program and celebration possible. Much effort goes into the many components of the process – everything from setting the schedule, selecting the jury, to receiving the results and producing the celebration event. It is important for the membership to know that every effort is made to create an experience worthy of the talent it is intended to celebrate. We want to thank the AIA Long Island Chapter for acting as this year’s jury: Graciela Carrillo, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Jury Chair AIA Long Island Chapter President Gary Hansen, AIA, LEED AP BD+C AIA Long Island Chapter President-Elect Renee Marcus, AIA, CID, LEED AP AIA Long Island Chapter Secretary Thomas Scotto Jr., AIA, NCARB AIA Long Island Chapter Director Jacob Rivalsi, AIA AIA Long Island Chapter Past President
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2020 Design Award Recipients Honor Award | Residential - Single Family
Private Residence “Great blend of materials & attention to detail as they relate to the site.”
Phinney Design Group On approach and without altering the character of the beloved community, the camp appears as a charming, single-story cottage in tune with its surroundings. Its staggered façade provides strategic shrouding, allowing light to enter while hiding the neighboring cottages and directing views toward the lake beyond. The exterior features sustainably preserved cedar siding, motor-operable windows enabling passive cooling, and traditional rain chains to direct runoff into rain gardens that buffer the lake edge.
Honor Award | Adaptive Reuse
@Hudson Park “Creative way of making light wells while also preserving the building façades.”
3t architects, PLLC Situated on 1.3 acres in Albany, NY, three interconnected historic buildings originally utilized as a brewery’s carriage house, bottling plant, and warehouse with no windows were transformed into 75 market rate, micro residential studios and lofted 1-bedroom units. Roofs were removed in three locations allowing light into the apartments and creating courtyards and gathering spaces. PAGE | 4
Honor Award | Commercial/Industrial
Adirondack Trust
“Good use of local materials while utilizing a sustainable design that speaks with the site.”
Phinney Design Group After a fire destroyed the prominent bank, the owners chose to use the accident as a catalyst for change; to modern, forward-thinking and ecologically responsible development. The new prototype includes a palette of natural materials that celebrate the company’s eco-conscious agenda. Featuring regional materials that speak to the Adirondack style, this building is anchored to its local roots.
Honor Award | Residential - Single Family
State Street Residence
“Love the modern feel of the interior and the well organized plan.”
Balzer & Tuck Architecture Embracing the owner’s vision to respect the traditional fabric of the existing downtown Saratoga Springs, NY neighborhood while incorporating a contemporary aesthetic, the “gable and bar” massing bridges the gap between the traditional architecture of the neighboring structures and the new home’s modern aesthetic. Large windows and doors on the first floor bring in natural light and two wood and steel stairs on the second floor lead to finished space under the main gable with exposed rafters and skylights.
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Award of Merit | Institutional
Queensbury High School Legacy 2020 Capital Project “Created an inviting space for students/ educators filled with light and openness all while maintaining an environment for learning.”
CSArch Queensbury Union Free School District underwent an extensive planning process to transform its rigid, mid-century high school into a modern learning institution. The $39.7 million high school redesign completely modernized existing space resulting in the formation of three interdisciplinary instructional communities: Humanities, STEM, and Fine and Performing Arts. Each community includes extended learning spaces and Tier 3 classrooms dispersed throughout, designed to foster collaboration and creativity with soft, flexible seating and integrated technology.
Award of Merit | Commercial/Industrial
Silver Bay “Very inviting space programmatically as well as spiritually.”
Phinney Design Group The first major capital improvement at Silver Bay since the late 1970’s and completed in 2018, a new 22 room lodge and conference facility was designed to operate as an independent, year-round facility within the Silver Bay campus. The dining hall has been modernized to increase the quality and experience of dining on campus and resulted in the a single comprehensive facility with rooms, a conference facility, and general dining capabilities. PAGE | 6
Award of Merit | Unbuilt
Flyleaf Portable Reading Room
“Unique building form that relates to the product it was designed for.”
SMRT Architects and Engineers Flyleaf is a space for readers of all types to pause and celebrate not only the intangible enrichment of reading but the tactile experience of physical, paper books. The form abstracts a paper book placed on its spine and falling open. Like the act of reading a paper book itself, Flyleaf physically engages its occupants. An operable pulley system allows users to open and close the nested frames with a hand crank. In its closed position, Flyleaf provides sheltered and accessible book storage and seating through winter and inclement weather.
Award of Merit | Institutional
Peekskill Fire Headquarters
“Successful consolidation and an inviting Gateway to the City. “
Mitchell Associates Architects Henry Hudson anchored at Peekskill in 1608, the Continental Army established its Headquarters there in 1776 and President Lincoln’s inaugural train and funeral train stopped there during his presidency. The Peekskill Volunteer Fire Department, founded in 1813, originally consisted of six companies occupying five different stations, all with glaring operational and firefighter health and safety issues. The new consolidated headquarters forms a timeless street scape for the centrally located building that serves as a new Gateway to the City.
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AIAENY Committees
Jump in and Volunteer! Are you a problem solver? Do you like to be part of a collaborative team that moves discussions forward relating to the field of architecture and sees results? This is your chance to get involved in one of our 2020 AIA Eastern New York Chapter’s committees. Benefits of volunteering: • Individual and firm name recognition • Recognition as a leader • Develops new skills • Forges new relationships within the architectural community • Opportunity to give back
Duration
The time commitment for committee involvement varies but is expected to be within a 4 to 8 hours per month time frame. This is also dependent on the committee’s goals and projects taken on.
PRIMARY COMMITTEES The Emerging Professionals Committee The mission of AIAENY Emerging Professionals Committee is to help architects in their quest to become a licensed professional. The goal is to create networking opportunities where emerging professionals can meet others in a similar situation as well as more experienced professionals. Hard copy and electronic study materials are being made available to help candidates prepare for the ARE. Volunteers can help host or support networking events and/or study sessions. Co-Chair: Andrew Petruzzelli, AIA (apetruzzelli@ltrw-arch.com) PAGE | 8
Co-Chair: Christopher Wisdom (cwisdom@csarchpc.com)
The K-12 Committee The K-12 committee was re-launched in 2019 and looking to expand its reach in 2020 and beyond. The mission of AIAENY K-12 committee is to promote awareness of architecture, design, and sustainability within the local K-12 school communities. Co-Chair: Elizabeth Brutsch, AIA (ebrutsch@csarchpc.com) Co-Chair: Musa Kanneh, Assoc. AIA (m.kanneh92@gmail.com)
COTE Committee – The Committee on The Environment The committee’s mission is to advance, disseminate, and advocate design practices that integrate built and natural systems and enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment. To achieve this mission, the AIAENY COTE committee has teamed with USGBC to bring a diverse level of content to the chapter. The committee actively organizes workshops, lectures, round table discussions with other design professionals, and tours of sustainable building projects to help expand the chapter’s knowledge and promote projects locally that fit into this mindset. Other chapters with COTE committees within the state are looking to team with ENY to promote events, share content, and create synergies in order to build this initiative further. Chair: Baani Singh, AIA (bonnied2d@gmail.com)
SUPPORT COMMITTEES Editorial Committee The committee is to plan and implement the quarterly ENY Architext newsletter. Help is needed in help manage the process, organize the newsletter content, coordinate graphics, and provide general support. Providing content to the newsletter is always a plus and welcome but not required. Chair: Casey Crossley, AIA (caseycrossleyaia@gmail.com)
Website Committee The committee is to review and continue the ongoing development of the AIAENY website. The goal is to help maintain the website and coordinate updates based on scheduling of social events, continuing education, updating images, and posting images of recent events. Chair: Casey Crossley, AIA (caseycrossleyaia@gmail.com)
By-Laws Committee The mission is to review AIAENY By-Laws and Policies and help facilitate any necessary changes, updates, or amendments. Frequency of review and implementation is to be determined on yearly basis. Chair: Steve Kervin, AIA (kervins@aplususa.com)
Chapter Outreach Committee The mission is to increase member and outside stakeholder involvement. This committee would work on creating and implementing these strategies throughout the year. Chair: (Seeking Chair – Leadership Opportunity) PAGE | 9
EVENT COMMITTEES Design Awards Committee The mission is to plan and implement the yearly design awards program for the ENY chapter. This event is one of the best attended events where colleagues come together to celebrate some of our members best work. The design awards event is an extremely successful event with over 80 attendees typically. The committee member assist in the overall planning, scheduling, and execution of the awards ceremony. Co-Chair: Katrina Pacheco, AIA (KPacheco@H2M.com) Co-Chair: Melissa Clarke, AIA (MClarkeAIAENY@outlook.com) Regards,
Paul Conant, AIA 2020 AIAENY President
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2020 Event Successes
The Home Building Crossroads Webinar with Peter Yost Held on May 15th, the Home Building Crossroads webinar with lecturer Peter Yost was a highly anticipated and successful event. A big thank you goes out to AdvanTech/ Zip brands for graciously developing and sponsoring this event. Peter artfully discussed three topics providing 3 HSW learning units. These included "Building Science Foundation: Keeping our Buildings Safe" where we explored the 2020 codes, air sealing requirements and the basics of blower door testing. Secondly, the "Building Science Puzzles" portion investigated vapor and moisture infiltration through the building envelope and reviewed the best practices to negate these forces. Finally, within the "Architectural Details of the Control Layer" section, we investigated concepts and details to provide the best energy efficiencies in the building envelope and the areas most susceptible to thermal bridging. The online event was a huge
Is Sustainable Design the Answer to the Post-COVID-19 Built Environment? On Thursday June 18th, panelists from d2d Green Design PLANNING and Setty & Associates gave a great presentation discussing the effects of COVID-19 on the built environment and strategies to provide a healthy and comfortable workspace as offices begin to safely reopen. First, we explored the need to conduct building conditions assessment for indoor air, potable water, space layout, and promotion of hygiene etiquette to ensure health, and safety of occupants for safe re-occupancy of buildings. Additionally, we looked into ensuring resilient and adaptive environments that promote sustainable design, reducing contact on surfaces, occupant health, flexible design and self-sustaining design practices. We also reviewed health-oriented design approaches with toxin free or reduced toxin environment focusing on healthy materials and indoor air quality. This included exploring HVAC design strategies for healthy and sustainable indoor environment and through ASHRAE guidelines, commissioning, testing and other tools. A big thank you goes out to Baani Singh, Seema Pandya, Alec Strongin and Sara Arias for all their hard work in preparing this webinar. We had a great turn out and look forward to you joining in on our next event. Plan for physical distancing
The intent is to ensure that while the building is operating your ventilation schedule should assist in removing bioburden during, pre-, and postoccupancy of the building.
Provide isolation rooms
One-way traffic flow (ingress-egress)
Flush the building for a duration sufficient to reduce concentration of airborne infectious particles by 95% . For a wellmixed space, this would require 3 air changes of outside air.
Back to back desks or with clear barriers when facing each other
VENTILATION CONTROL
Limit number of people/ seating and furniture mobility
In lieu of calculating the air change rate, pre- and post-occupancy flushing periods of 2 hours (for a total of 4 hours) may be used since this should be sufficient for most systems meeting minimum ventilation standards.
Temporary/movable partitions
Staggered occupancy
SOURCE: STEELCASE AND AIA
MENTAL WELLBEING • CREATING SENSE OF COMMUNITY • ENHANCED DAYLIGHT AND LIGHTING FOR CIRCADIAN RHYTHM • SUPPORT BEAUTY AND EQUITY • COMMUNITY ACCESS AND ENGAGEMENT • PROMOTE
OCCUPANT SAFETY
SOURCE: AIA, WELL, FITWEL, ILFI, LEED
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AIANYS Website Provides COVID-19 Resources AIA New York State developed a web page on their website in response to COVID-19 that provides valuable resources to our members. Resources include information from AIA National, infographics, pre-recorded and live webinars hosted by AIANYS and New York State’s 13 regional components, including AIAENY, along with links to national, federal, state, economic, financial and business resources. A screenshot of a portion of the page is included to the left. You may view the live page here.
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Live Webinar on Significant Changes to 2020 NYS Codes Crushing the Code New York State: Commercial is an online course that prepares building and design professionals in New York State to comply with the many requirements in the 2020 ECCCNYS and design more energy-efficient buildings in the process. In an era of more stringent code enforcement, the course provides critical knowledge about significant changes, new provisions and best practices to avoid objections and stalled projects.
By the end of this full-day course, participants will: • Understand the structure and rationale behind the energy code, including the new provisions of the 2020 ECCCNYS; • Differentiate between the various compliance pathways, including required testing and documentation; • Recognize the interdependence of the building envelope, mechanical and lighting systems and their impacts on energy code compliance; • Identify areas for improved project communication and coordination to support compliance. Note: This course is not intended for those who want to learn energy modeling or how to use COMcheck or REScheck but will teach you the prescriptive requirements that underlie those programs. Four sessions are still open: Crushing the Code NYC: Commercial | June 24 Crushing the Code NYS: Commercial | June 25 Crushing the Code NYS: Commercial | July 8
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Special Thanks to Our Allied Members!
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Emerging Professionals Committee Update
• An EP Basecamp site was created to communicate with current members • An Instagram site was developed for current, new and potential EP members to share events and webinars - https://www.instagram.com/e.a.e.n.y/ • A zoom webinar was held on May 12th to review all of the above and to begin planning for more online EP events for the remainder of the year. • An EP survey was conducted to correctly align programs and services with the memberships needs. Outcomes included the following: - 85% of members plan to achieve licensure - 85% of members would use study material made available by AIAENY - 71% said they would participate in a mentorship program - 71% said they were unaware of the 18 month complementary AIA membership following graduation - 71% say they would attend at least 3 AIAENY events annually - The top 3 beneficial ARE study sessions would be online tests/trivia, physical book lending library and in-person study groups - Best time for EP meetings - 71% weekday daytime; 57% weekday evenings - Primary reason for joining EPs - 85% access to resources; 71% Career Enrichment; 42% networking - 57% said they would be personally responsible to pay the full AIA dues, if they were to become an associate member Action Items: - Begin to set up a mentoring program - Continue to hold regular meetings and communicate through Basecamp and Instagram - Share ARE study material access with members - Hold at least two virtual EP social events for the remainder of the year • Purchased/obtaining additional up-to-date ARE study materials for membership use - see information on page 15.
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New ARE Exam Prep Resources
Attention Associates!
Special Thanks to Our Allied Members!
As a member benefit, we’ve added a new way to study for the ARE. We will soon be offering licenses for Architect Exam Prep. A license gives you access to study materials for one exam of your choice and includes pdf guides and flash cards, an mp3 audio companion and an online exam simulator. Study materials never expire and are nontransferable. We will be releasing more information on how to access these materials soon, so stay tuned! To launch, we will be offering a free ARE Coaching workshop with the founders of Architecture Exam Prep.
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Event & Program Schedule
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Online Tour of New York Landmark Sites
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2020 Design Awards Celebration The Design Awards program is one of the most popular AIAENY programs. We are in the process of planning a virtual event later this summer to celebrate our award recipients, and will keep you informed as we finalize the details.
Art-Omi Tour 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, NY 11am Cost $30 per person 2 LUs Tour the 200 acre outdoor architecture park and indoor galleries with works by Levenbetts, Yolanda Daniels, Aleksander Mergold, Caroline O’Donnell among others and three new architectural pavilions by Wendy Edwards Joseph, Steven Holl, and Cameron Wu.
Town Hall Meeting with Virtual Project Walk-Thru Look for an announcement about an upcoming Town Hall Meeting with Paul Conant, AIA, 2020 AIAENY President and ENY Chapter Leadership to learn about upcoming events and other items of interest to you as an AIA member. A virtual tour of a 2020 Design Award winning project is being considered.
Architext is a publication of the Eastern New York Chapter of the AIA. Please send photo, article, announcement, or presentation information for consideration for publication to the Eastern New York Chapter - aiaeny@aiaeny.org. CORRECTIONS: Please contact AIAENY at aiaeny@aiaeny.org if you find any areas that need correction in the Architext. AIA Eastern New York appreciates all comments and feedback.
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