Tracings November 2012

Tracings November 2012

Monthly Newsletter of the AIA Santa Clara Valley Chapter AIASCV

2012 DESIGN AWARD WINNERS

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PARTNERS

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AIA Santa Clara Valley Corporate Partners play an important role in our Chapter. All of these local companies are proven leaders in their fields and provide continuing support to our local Chapter and our architects.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER Community College, Huntington Beach, CA Steinberg Architects

LANDMARKS CALIFORNIA

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PRESIDENT’S LETTER

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2012 AIA SCV BIRGE CLARK AWARD

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2012 AIA SCV FIRM AWARD

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2012 AIA SCV CHAPTER AWARD

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2012 AIA SCV DESIGN AWARDS

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2012 AIA SCV CITATION AWARDS

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2012 AIA SCV MERIT AWARDS

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2012 AIA SCV HONOR AWARDS

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AIA SCV PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATES

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AIA SCV SILENT AUCTION

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AIA SCV HOLIDAY PARTY

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THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS SANTA CLARA VALLEY

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Jeff Current, AIA President

Steve Sowa, AIA

Vice President/President Elect

Walter Rask, AIA Secretary

Samuel Sanderson, AIA Treasurer

Chuck Campanella, Associate AIA Associates Director

Passion for Construction We love what we do. The buildings we choose to build can change lives. From research centers that eliminate diseases to institutions that educate tomorrow’s leaders, our work

Kay Mascoli

Executive Director Directors

Ed Janke, AIA Hari Sripadanna, AIA Thang Do, AIA Brian Mah, AIA Britt Lindberg, AIA Baraka Al Ramah (Keko) AIAS Student Liaison

Linder Jones, AIA

makes a difference. There is pride in all that we do, continually strengthening our commitment.

1600 Seaport Boulevard, Suite 350 2EDWOOD #ITY #! s 4EL www.rsconstruction.com

Rudolph and Sletten’s work ethics are one of the highest in the industry.�

Jerry D. Jordan

$IRECTOR OF 2EGIONAL 3ALES $IRECTOR OF Estimating and Engineering SASCO

Past President

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I hope everyone had a great time at the 2012 Design Awards celebration, Oct. 17! This issue features all of the fourteen Design Award winners, along with images of their award winning projects, that exemplified the evening’s theme of design excellence and sustaining innovation. Additional awards were given to Kenneth Rodrigues & Partners, the Firm Award winner, and to Jerome King, the Birge Clark award winner. We also gave out a special Chapter Award to Scott Knies, Executive Director of the San Jose Downtown Association, for his contributions to design excellence. Make sure you visit our web site to view photos from the event, which are downloadable and of print quality, at no charge.

Kay Mascoli AIA SCV Executive Director

December 6th Holiday Party! Don’t miss our upcoming Holiday Party and Membership Appreciation, plus Silent Auction on December 6, at the newly opened Porcelanosa showroom in San Jose.

The event will start at 6:00 pm. Join us for a networking, food and fun!

Please consider donating to our Silent Auction – there is more information and a donation form in this issue, on page 55. We will also have Toys for Tots bins available, as part of our annual giving campaign.

And welcome to our new Membership and Communications Associate, Kelly Kane. She joined the staff on November 1, taking over for Ana Bonifacio-Cruz, who decided to spend more time being a mom. Make sure you introduce yourself to her when you call the office or at our next Chapter meeting.

Ana Bonifacio-Cruz & Kelly Kane AIA SCV Membership & Communications Associate

Welcome to our new Board of Directors for 2013!

President: Vice President / President Elect: Secretary: Treasurer: Director: Director: Director: Director: Director: Associates Director: Past President: Student Liaison:

Steve Sowa, IBIGroup Britt Lindberg, Gensler Architecture & Design Ed Janke, Janke and Associates Sam Sanderson, Niles Bolton Associates Brian Mah, TDS Architects Inc. Thang Do, AEDIS Architecture + Planning David Regester, Hawley Peterson Snyder Brigitte Williams, Steinberg Architects Eugene Ely, Architect Chuck Campanella, Niles Bolton Associates Jeff Current, Barry Swenson Builder Keko Al Ramah

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2012 AIA SCV Design Awards This issue of Tracings is showcasing the 2012 AIASCV Design Award winners!

First, I want to thank all of the architects and firms who submitted entries into this year’s Awards Celebration. The 75 entries exceeded our expectations and the quality of the work was exceptional! The Event held on October 17th at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View gave our chapter a chance to get dressed up and join our colleagues, clients and friends in honoring the best in design.

Along with the fifteen awards given at the Merit, Honor and Citation levels for various categories of design, there were two Special Awards given to a couple of very deserving architects from AIA Santa Clara Valley.

Ken Rodrigues and Partners were awarded “The Firm Award” recognizing their achievements over a 20-year period in design, leadership and mentoring. Ken’s firm has consistently excelled at creating amazing places for our valley to live, work and play.

Scott Knies, long time Executive Director of the Downtown Association was presented a Special “Chapter Award” for his contributions to building downtown San Jose and continuing to challenge the businesses, residents and public officials to reach higher and dream bigger.

Our Design Awards committee deserves huge recognition for their tireless effort and enthusiasm in organizing the 2012 Event. Thank you for making the evening enjoyable and for providing a wonderful backdrop for all of us to gather and celebrate! I wasn’t sure that the 2010 Awards could be matched, but this year’s event matched it and more.

Design in the Santa Clara Valley is alive and well because of the great work of AIASCV Architects!

Enjoy this issue of Tracings! And finally, thanks to Scott Smithwick, our editor, who goes above and beyond to organize all the material for us! Thank you Scott!

Jerry King was “The Birge Clark” Award recipient.

This award honors an individual architect who raises the bar on design through their ongoing body of work. Jerry’s designs have become landmarks in the Santa Clara Valley that allow all of us to see how creative and sustainable architecture can be.

Jeff Current, AIA AIA SCV Chapter President

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Birge Clark Award This award recognizes outstanding achievement in architectural design as expressed in a body of work produced by an individual architect over a period of at least 10 years. The award is intended to honor the individual rather than the firm. The emphasis of the award is the quality of the body of architectural work, consistently designed, over the career of the architect.

Birge M. Clark: It seldom happens that a single architect is so influential that his work actually provides a major component of the image of a city.

There are, however, at least three California towns where this has happened: in San Diego with the work of Irving Gill; in Watsonville with the work of W. H. Weeks; and in Palo Alto with the work of Birge Clark.

While Clark designed some structures in the Tudor or Medieval Revival styles, his work is primarily in the Spanish Colonial Revival mode, or, as he prefers to call it, the Early California Style. There is in his work a fondness for large expanses of wall, carefully irregular fenestration, and embellishments of colored tiles and wrought iron.

Clark's father, A. B. Clark, was an early Stanford faculty member and although his primary field was art rather than architecture, he was the designer of many fine early Palo Alto residences. Thus his son, Birge Clark, was exposed to architectural concerns at an early age and together they designed the Lou Henry Hoover House.

Clark's long practice has been almost solely conducted in Palo Alto, and was varied enough to include single

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Jeff Current, AIA & Jerry King, FAIA AIA SCV President & Birge Clark Award Recipient

and multiple family residences, commercial structures and prominent institutional buildings. Thus, his hand is to be traced in every range of building in the community, and is responsible for the remarkable visual coherence of post-1920's Palo Alto.

Jerome King, FAIA Nomination by Jeff Oberdorfer, FAIA I am privileged to have known and worked with Jerry King FAIA for over twenty years. Jerry is a consummate architect known for his commitment to impeccable architectural work and his love of architecture. Most importantly, I believe, Jerry has produced a consistently rigorous body of work in both contemporary design and historic restoration primarily focused in the Silicon Valley.

For the past twelve years, since I became Executive Director of First Community Housing, Jerry has been the architect on a number of our affordable multifamily developments that have received local and nationalAlA recognition, as well as recognition from the USGBC. As our Owner/Client relationship has evolved, the work Jerry has completed for FCH has run the gamut of single room occupancies, special needs/universal design, senior housing and multifamily housing-all urban infill with a focus on a contemporary, yet sustainable, architecture - sensitive to its' context.

Saint Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral, 1990

World Savings Branch & Office, 1981 The Fairways at San Antonio, 2009

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Birge Clark Award

Craig Gardens, 2002

The Courtyard at Bay Road, 2005

Our Gish Family Apartments which Jerry designed has been awarded both LEED for Homes Gold and LEED NC Gold as wellas the AIA COTE Award. ln 2010, Gish Apartments was awarded the AIA Housing Award. ln my opinion, the architectural portfolio of Jerome King FAIA will be looked upon by future generations as one of the most significant bodies of contemporary design in the San Jose/Silicon Valley-particularly as it defines a Silicon Valley residential aesthetic. His work speaks directly to the Silicon Valley as its context and evolves from the buildings'program and "host" neighborhood context.

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Itherefore join with Michael Lorimer, AIAE;Jerry's former business partner at KCZL in supporting the nomination of Jerome King, FAIA for the 2012 AIASCV Birge Clark award.

Jerome King, FAIA

Gish Apartments, 2007

El Paseo Studios, 2003

El Paseo Studios, 2003

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Firm Award This award recognizes a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for a period of at least 20 years and contributed to the advancement of the profession in at least three of the following areas: design, research, planning technology, practice, preservation, and innovation. In addition, the award honors a firm that promotes continual collaboration among individuals, produces work which transcends a specific area of expertise, and develops a culture which educates and mentors the next generation of architects.

For over 25 years Kenneth Rodrigues & Partners has worked collaboratively to design extraordinary buildings and spaces that enhance the experience of urban life.

KRP designs buildings and streets, we plan corporate campuses, downtowns, and neighborhoods, and each of our projects strengthens the community. Insight and respect are the foundation of our work. The firm has achieved high architectural and environmental value while responding to and enlivening the public realm. Sustainability and smart growth are integral to the design of every KRP project. For over 25 years we have believed the wise use of materials and resources and smart urban design provide long-term benefits to our clients and the community.

Kenneth Rodrigues, FAIA, Sandy Tanaka, AIA and Kevin Jones, AIA AIA SCV Firm Award Recipients Sustainable and Smart Growth Strategies KRP has been committed to creating green architecture since 1992. Green design is a part of

Core Values Design Excellence KRP is one of the leading design firms in Silicon Valley. For over 25 years the firm has completed some of the most awarded and recognized architecture in the region. The partners push each other to provide a high level of client service along with a commitment to design and the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core values. These core values were established at the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inception. The partners have worked collaboratively during the last 25 years to promote design as the key component of the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core values. With more than 50 design and planning awards from the American Institute of Architects state and component chapters, International Conference of Shopping Centers and the Pacific Coast Builders Gold Nugget Awards, these prestigious professional groups have acknowledged this commitment.

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4001 Miranda, 1989 (Whittaker Photography)

Kenneth Rodrigues and Partners everything we do: our work, our firm, and our professionals. Smart site design, energy efficient systems and recycled or reclaimed materials are found in all of the firm’s work beginning in the early 90’s.

The principles guide and inform those we serve about sustainability, planning, design and the construction process: • • • •

Communication, collaboration and cooperation Minimize the environmental footprint Create value through green design for the client and the community Design and build smart

A Work Environment that Fosters Professional Growth and Advancement

UA Theaters, 1998 (Whittaker Photography)

Skyport Plaza, 2004

KRP is made up of creative problem solvers, and everyone contributes to the overall product the firm creates. There is consistency in the way the staff delivers projects and services to our clients because of the long-term collaboration between the partners. The firm has trained over 100 student interns since 1985,

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Firm Award Firm Highlights 1985-Present • • • • • • Santa Clara Valley Water District, 2000

and each of these interns learns all aspects of the profession. Since the company’s founding we have compensated each and every intern to explore architecture and planning at KRP. Many of these interns have returned to KRP after their education, to continue the collaboration, with many others going on to open their own firms and continuing the foundation of learning they experienced at KRP. Collaborative, Creative and Open Exchange of Ideas and Design Solutions Good design and planning begins with the partners of the firm. All the partners have worked together in a collaborative and creative way for the last 25 years. We test ideas and solutions together as a team. This work culture begins with the partners and is practiced with the same commitment by the staff. An integrated, all inclusive design approach between architects, planners, landscape architects and engineers support the complex and design-driven work of the firm. This philosophy or understanding of all aspects of a project through a collaborative relationship builds strong bonds between clients, community, builders and consultants.

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Many of the firm’s partners and architects give back to the community and the profession. American Institute of Architects commitments include multiple chairpersons of many state and local committees.

Kenneth Rodrigues has served the Santa Clara Valley Chapter and the California Council as an officer and president of both organizations. Other community involvement by the partners includes design review boards, non-profit organizations and other civic committees. We build community through our design of buildings and our participation within them.

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KRP has trained and employed over 100 architects and 100 student interns.

The firm has won over 50 design and planning awards.

The firm partners have worked collaboratively for over 25 years.

One of the first architecture firms to practice design-build beginning in 1985.

One of the first architecture firms to practice green architecture and sustainable design beginning in 1992.

The firm has designed over 3 billion dollars worth of projects.

The firm has designed virtually every type of project from custom residential, commercial office/retail, corporate campuses, interior design and urban planning.

The firm principals and employees are active professionals giving back to the profession and the community in which they live and work.

Client driven services and practice with over 80 percent of the firm’s projects done for repeat clients.

Xerox Corporation, 1992 (Whittaker Photography)

Kenneth Rodrigues and Partners

Lott Residence, 1991 (Jane Lidz/KRP) Sierra Ventures, 2001 (Whittaker Photography)

Hotel DeAnza, 1990 (Jane Lidz/KRP) Rector Motors, 2002 (Whittaker Photography)

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Chapter Award Scott Knies was one of the founding members of the San Jose Downtown Association (SJDA) in 1986. He has been its first and only Executive Director since 1988, and responsible for the organization’s key leadership in the revitalization of downtown San Jose from the rubble of a three year transit mall construction mess to today’s solid infrastructure base ready for the next phase of growth. Examples of his vision and passion for the value of good design are contained in the following excerpts from his statement of SJDA goals for 2012: 5) Architecture matters. The aesthetics and humanity of our city can be better reflected in the built environment downtown.

We will collaborate with the city, 1stACT and SPUR to provide feedback on building proposals such as the convention center expansion, emphasizing quality and functional public places while working to enhance the city’s architectural review process. We will also give out Golden Nail Awards to honor examples of good design downtown.

10) The Downtown Association will be the lead on place management in the core. This means a successful renewal campaign for the PBID and Groundwerx. We will place a premium on experience and aesthetics. A property owner the other day, who was balking at the cost of maintaining our flowering baskets, asked if he could use plastic plants.

Nope! That isn’t the authentic experience we are creating downtown. Plastic has its place, but not in the flower boxes of the center city.

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Kent Mather, FAIA & Scott Knies

Scott Knies

Executive Director, San Jose Downtown Association

And in closing he said: “Please join us.. ……... and get involved in the making of a city. It is an effort that is always evolving, just like each of us.”

Collaboration is an important part of Scott’s strategy and AIA Santa Clara Valley has enjoyed involvement with SJDA as a way to help carry forward AIA goals and interests. Thanks to Scott, two Chapter members are on the SJDA Board of Directors and one chairs the SJDA Downtown Design Committee. Through this relationship we have an additional forum to promote not only good design but also policies such as Hire Local and efficient permit processing and inspection.

It is for these reasons that I nominate Scott Knies to receive a Special Award.

Nomination

by Kent Mather, FAIA

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Shedding light (sunshine) on San Jose review process to promote good design: o California High Speed Rail (Advocating underground over elevated) o VTA Bus Rapid Transit project o Light Rail in San Jose o BART (Station, routing and construction decisions) Creating PBID and Groundwerx Small Wonder Program to make the spaces connecting Downtown nodes of activity more interesting and attractive: o Graffiti cleanup o Sidewalk cleaning o Flower and plant installation Elevating SJDA Award program to the Jim Fox Golden Nail Award program

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Elevating SJDA Downtown Design Committee involvement with city, AIA & SPUR

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Protecting building height limits against arbitrary FAA and SJ Airport flight path requirements

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Saving city Park Avenue entryway palm trees from removal for Grand Prix Road Race

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Changing city plan for two parallel Light Rail lines through downtown to one

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Advocating for improving use and building permitting processes

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Advocating development alternatives to fill the RDA void

Scott Knies

Executive Director, San Jose Downtown Association

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About the Design Awards:

Can Architecture encourage collaboration, foster cooperation and contribute to sustaining innovation? The legacy of Architecture in Santa Clara Valley has been its support of innovative companies, organizations, and individuals. Looking ahead, SUSTAINING INNOVATION may be a key to addressing regional and global challenges.

This award program acknowledges design excellence and creativity in projects which sustain innovation, make positive impacts, and serve communities, companies and individuals.

Eligibility:

Entrant shall be a licensed architect & a member of AIASCV & may submit for projects located anywhere in the world completed after December 31, 2001 OR Entrant shall be a non-AIASCV licensed architect & may submit for projects located in Santa Clara County completed after December 31, 2001.

Design Categories:

Architecture - Broad range of project types, but not limited to adaptive, commercial, corporate, institutional, mixed-use, health-care, educational & residential.

Small Project / Big Impact - Small projects which leverage design opportunities resulting in positive impacts: includes but not limited to projects which improve access & remove barriers to allow more individuals to enjoy a wider range of options; projects which improve appreciation of & access to the natural world; may include ADA â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;upgradesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, transportation oriented structures, millwork, furniture, devices & objects. Total budget not to exceed $250,000.

Interior Architecture - Interiors of various, scale, and budgets.

Entries may include renovation, adaptive reuse, or new construction across the entire range of project types, including retail, educational, hospitality, etc; may include but are not limited to workspaces which enhance collaboration & teamwork or healthcare spaces which encourage healing.

Urban Design - Illustrate the expanding role of architects in urban design, city planning, & community development including but not limited to: urban planning, civic improvements, environmental & redevelopment projects, with an emphasis on public participation & contributions to the quality of the urban environment.

Unbuilt Project - Unbuilt commissioned (defined program requirements) projects & competition entries. All types of projects are eligible.

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Joshua Aidlin, AIA Aidlin Darling Design

Student volunteers West Valley College Anne Fougeron, FAIA Principal, Fougeron Architecture

Alan Hess Architect, Critic, Author & Historian Â

Mark Cavagnero, FAIA Principal, Mark Cavagnero Associates

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Citation Award - Architecture Modulus - David Fenster, AIA Created as a getaway into a wooded site, the home strives for a functional, monetary, material, and poetic ‘essentialism’ - so as to create nothing extraneous and make opportunity of every element, both natural and manmade. With recycled shipping containers as a key component of the sustainable approach, the design and concept interweave mass and light, exposure and privacy, technological advancements and rustic craftsmanship, into a modern and simple home that speaks to the raw nature of the site and its history as an old railroad travel way.

To be within the home is equally as intriguing as to be outside of it. Every aspect of the 1,200 square foot home, including the bedroom, kitchen, stairwell, bridge, and outdoor enclosure areas double as livable and intertwined spaces, filtered and crafted from the trees, light, and intimate surroundings so as to become opportunities to learn, play, live, and dream within.

Entry Number

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SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE

Citation Award - Architecture Hayes Group Architects The project’s goal was to create a new, contemporary identity for the existing 1979 three story, wood framed building. The intention was to enhance the building’s street presence and create a new downtown identity that would enable the owners to attract higher quality tenants while still relating to its residential neighborhood. The new building entrance with solar shading features enlivens the façade of the building by introducing strong vertical shading elements made of stainless steel fabric, zinc clad panels, and frameless glass that not only provide a screening effect towards the residential neighborhood but also creates connectivity to the downtown.

The new windows along the existing public driveway create interest and relief in what was previously a blank façade. The pattern and scale of the wood siding were designed to recall the original shingle façade as well as to relate to the building’s residential context.

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Citation Award - Architecture PPA Arquitectos - Paul Almeida, International Associate AIA The underground parking, with approximately 40,000 square feet and a cost of $1,476,00, is located in an industrial area in Talha, near Lisbon, Portugal. The parking sits on a Volvo campus dedicated to maintenance operations for trucks, generators, marine engines and construction equipment. The construction of the parking comes in sequence to the remodeling of the campus buildings and reflects the need to consolidate parking as well as to create a platform to act as an outdoor showroom for trucks. The parking was conceived as an underground structure to minimize its impact on the site as well as to maintain the visibility of the main building from the road. A moat was created on three sides to allow complete cross ventilation, thus eliminating the need for mechanical ventilation. Three elevations are sheathed with a perforated metal skin that allows for shading yet provides good day lighting, making artificial lighting unnecessary during the day.

Access stair - West

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DA12-094 Southeast view

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Citation Award - Architecture Steinberg Architects Located in Yucaipa, California, the 58,500 SF project combines the Library, Learning Center, Campus Data Center and other supporting functions into a Learning Resource Center (LRC), providing integrated formal learning environments while fostering informal interaction. The $25,400,000 facility was built on a prominent undeveloped plot of land, extending the campus outward and creating a new visible identity. As the first major building on campus since the College opened in 1973, the LRC developed a modern interpretation of the existing Brutalist style and provided an architectural vocabulary of concrete, glass and steel to be followed by future projects. Wanting to serve the College and community, the three-story structure was carefully designed in plan and section to allow various levels of circulation and secure access. Exterior plazas, courtyards and campus greens provide gathering spaces and transitions from the campus core to the new building, connecting the interior to the exterior wherever possible.

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Citation Award - Architecture Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA This joint-use project blends library and community center programs while establishing a focal point for the community. The new facility for this low-income, multi-ethnic community not only centralizes educational, fitness, recreation and social programs, it creates a special place where all important community activities and celebrations can take place.

The most unique feature of the new Seven Trees community center and library is clearly the "Town Square". Architects and planners can draw from many traditions and precedents when designing urban civic spaces but more suburban communities, with their big boned auto-dominated commercial streets, offer no clues or guides. Other than parks, the closest thing these communities have to a public social space is usually the regional shopping center.

COMMUNITY CENTER AND BRANCH LIBRARY

This project attempts to provide a "suburban civic space" for the community by taking the small lobby in the city program and creating a large, flexible multipurpose space that mediates between all of the various uses and amenities. Like a village town square, this public space was designed to choreograph and encourage public interaction and to become the symbolic heart of the community.

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Citation Award - Un-Built Architecture Srusti Architecture - Hari Sripadanna, AIA â&#x20AC;&#x153;Outdoor Education Centerâ&#x20AC;? began with an idea that design professionals should directly engage our communities to effect positive change. It was initiated in the belief that design advocacy and leadership can help a community envision an idea that it can rally around and that vision can also help build momentum and enable a project even with very limited resources.

Parent volunteers (including the architect), teachers & the school district, initiated this project in the belief that children learn more about science and the outdoors when they are immersed in such an environment.

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OEC, located in an existing elementary school site in Saratoga, California, with a total budget of $225,000, will enable up to 50 students to participate in a variety of outdoor art and science projects, small outdoor performances and guest lectures that enable children to discover the connection between the natural world and their communities.

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Citation Award - Interior Architecture HMC Architects The new McAfee Headquarters Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Santa Clara, California is a key component for reinforcing the company’s corporate brand and driving its sales and marketing efforts.

Supporting its bold progressive reputation and visual identity, the 13,000 square-foot McAfee EBC offers visitors a real-time, real-world experience of the company’s online safety software. Here visitors have the opportunity to meet with company executives and product experts, engage in open discussions, and learn how the latest award-winning solutions can solve their unique business challenges. This highly choreographed experience enables customers to make more informed decisions through interactive dialogues about the company’s product and strategy roadmap.

The design intent was to merge elegant, streamlined architectural design with innovative technology to create a visually rich environment where the visitor can truly experience McAfee’s real-time, connected approach to security in an ever-changing world.

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Citation Award - Interior Architecture DGA Planning & Architecture This creative reuse of a two-level, 36,000 square foot, former manufacturing building as the Menlo Park headquarters for our client, a construction company, integrated a basketball court amid workstations and conference rooms. This provided a valuable amenity that, on one level, could be used to bring together the Company’s employees – many of whom work in the field – thereby promoting team spirit and collaboration. On another level, the building serves as a venue for events at which the company, their clients and the wider design and construction community can meet, thus fostering and sustaining business within Silicon Valley by bringing businesses together with the companies that serve them. The design of the $2M adaptive reuse importantly reflects a sense of quality and organization through color, form and layout while capturing the vitality and dynamism of this young company.

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FACULTY OFFICE BUILDING - STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Architecture

The William H. Neukom Building fulfills the space AIA Santa Clara Valley needs of a growing faculty, reinforces the Stanford Law School community in Stanford University by fostering the collaboration essential to a rich educational experience, and strengthens the visual identity of the Law School campus. This 65,000square-foot, $40 million building, is prominently sited directly south of the existing Law School complex and creates a new focal point along the principal circulation route linking the campus’s residential and academic precincts. Bold axial connections to adjacent plazas, walkways, malls and building entries further define the school’s open spaces.

Reinforcing the principles of Olmsted’s original master plan for the campus, the building is organized around a central courtyard: four three-story wings, connected by glass-walled bridges, pinwheel around the elevated Faculty Garden. A ground-floor plinth forms the base of the building and houses the Law Clinic, which contains faculty offices, open work areas and conference rooms and Law School seminar rooms. A monumental rotunda, which references the historic entry gates on the main quad, serves as the main entrance to the building. Marking the convergence of the two principal campus grids and rationalizing them, the rotunda establishes the Neukom Building as the central hub of the Law School.

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The rotunda’s open-air staircase leads to the Terrace and upper levels, which house offices for tenured and visiting faculty, the Dean’s Suite and open and closed

meeting and lounge areas.

The Faculty Garden is envisioned as the heart of the new building and expands the Law School’s sequence of outdoor spaces, which includes the reinvigorated Crocker Garden and Canfield Court.

The garden facades of each of the four wings are articulated by subtly textured planar limestone walls, which extend from the garden to the outer edges of the complex, thereby reinforcing the pinwheel plan and drawing people into the space.

While open and accessible to all, the Terrace is intended primarily as the Law 2012 Design Awards Program School’s “living room,” a serene and engaging space designed to accommodate social events as well as intimate conversations, individual study and serendipitous encounters. The composition of materials and plantings creates a variety of “conversation rooms”. Sculptural fountains at both ends reinforce the garden’s contemplative ambience. A suspended, vine-covered, wood and steel trellis with a central oculus knits the four wings of the building together to create a dynamic interplay of shade and shadow.

In the faculty wings, intimate suites promote “open door” scholarship and establish a welcoming atmosphere for tenured faculty, students and visiting faculty. Interconnected, communal spaces offer a variety of possibilities for faculty and students to meet and interact informally. Oriented outward to the campus, double-height meeting spaces at the corners of the building achieve vertical interpenetration of interior spaces, further unifying the academic community. These corner spaces coupled with the connecting bridges, which offer views to the campus and the garden, blur the distinction between exterior and interior. Stone and corrugated concrete – exterior building materials that are extended to the interior – reinforce the Law School’s strategic connection with other academic disciplines within the University.

Reflecting the University’s sustainability initiative, many measures have been employed to reduce the building’s

ENNEAD Architects carbon footprint, maximize energy effectiveness, reduce water consumption and create a healthy working environment. The calibrated solar orientation, well-positioned shading devices and advanced mechanical controls are among the active and passive strategies that have been exploited. The expected overall building energy use is one third that of a comparable building in California. A key contributor to this efficiency is the daylighting scheme, which results in a predicted lighting energy consumption that is 32% less than that which is allowed

by Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already stringent energy code.

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Merit Award - Architecture HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS

V I E W O F M A I N S TA I R , C O U R T YA R D & M U LT I P U R P O S E B U I L D I N G

A peninsula school district approached the architects with an urgent need to build a new 400-student high school quickly to serve their growing population. East Palo Alto had not had a public high school within its community borders for over thirty years, since the Ravenswood High School was closed in 1976. Students from this underserved community are bused to other high schools in other communities, so this was a thrilling opportunity to give this community something that had been missing for a long time.

The immediate need also presented the architects with a further challenge to design a 26,000 square foot, $7 million dollar project that could be built quickly. Using modular construction techniques, this remarkable project was achieved in eighteen months from design to occupancy. Time did not allow for the LEED process to play out, but the design achieves LEED Silver equivalency.

The program was broken into three wings surrounding a central courtyard. Amphitheater seating inside the courtyard makes this a key feature of the school, allows for school wide gatherings and forms the social V I E W O F E N T R Y & M A I N S TA I R

With land being scarce, a small two-acre property was selected near an adjoining grade school and the Boys and Girls Club of East Palo Alto. Through creative community partnering and intensive collaboration, a deal was reached for the school to share the adjacent play fields, gymnasium and theater, effectively turning this two-acre site into a fifteen-acre campus.

The program broke itself into three components: classrooms, administrative functions and public-private spaces that included the library and social hall. The social hall and library were placed to the front of the site so the facility could serve as a community amenity in the hours when the school was not in operation.

The design allowed these uses to function separately while still being able to secure the campus proper during off hours. The social hall was placed to front the central courtyard that serves as the heart of the campus, and large glass garage doors allow the building to fully open to the outside, dissolving the line between inside and out.

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heart of the campus. Open circulation between the two-story classroom wings also front the courtyard helping to animate the space with student life. The large two-sided stair that faces the courtyard and the main entry helps draw students up, in and through the campus. As the stair wraps the corner, it becomes a large outdoor amphitheater where students can gather, eat lunch and socialize.

The main entrance to the school is pulled back away from the street to minimize impacts to the surrounding neighborhood. The administrative offices are located next to the entrance, allowing teachers and administrators to monitor the coming and going of VIEW OF MAIN ENTRANCE

people to and from the campus. This helps create a safe and secure atmosphere for students.

Using a hybrid, modular building design, CAW was able to achieve design, permitting and construction within an astonishing eighteen-month window. The building integrates several high-performance strategies directly into the architecture, including permeable paving surfaces, exterior circulation, sunscreens to block the west sun along the classroom wing and ample day lighting to help create an efficient environment where sustainability is featured as an educational tool rather than just a metric of building performance.

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Merit Award - Urban Design SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET fabric of these structures.

Design sensitivity was used to introduce new elements, including a modern market structure in the vernacular of the Santa Clara Valley farming heritage, metal awnings, wood storefronts, and new openings to enliven the street scape while preserving the historical character and transforming the structures into a new publicly accessible market hall.

The project retained fantastic brick oven structures, wood roof trusses and large skylights as a framework for modern market uses. Spoils from deconstructing old The San Pedro Square Market is designed as a dynamic focal point and public center for the San Pedro neighborhood and downtown San Jose as a whole.

Conceived as a catalyst for urban revitalization, it creates a vital 7 day-a-week active urban â&#x20AC;&#x153;heartâ&#x20AC;? to this important emerging higher density residential neighborhood. SPS Market is also seen as an important historical amenity for the larger San Jose downtown stitching together two of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical treasures the Peralta Adobe and Fallon House. This publicprivate partnership has already restored, reactivated and rebranded this area of downtown.

The $6 million project is a composite of elements: knitting together a complex assemblage of existing and new buildings and public spaces into a coherent and holistically conceived urban whole. It is designed as a working public market hall, event venue and urban place that celebrates the historic Peralta Adobe and plaza. It therefore functions as both building and place.

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Adaptive Re-Use of Historic Structures: The project faced many challenges, including renovating and restoring two historic structures and adaptively re-using older industrial buildings for a new public market. The design challenge was to re-use an historic bakery complex that had been significantly and inappropriately altered, turning it into a modern and hip urban market hall consistent with the historic

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buildings are re-commissioned as furniture and bar tops in the new marketplace. Attached to the Bakery building is added a more contemporary, but also appropriately utilitarian market structure. This assemblage of new and old, historical and innovative is what gives the market its dynamic presence and sustainable character. It connects the project to San Jose’s past and future - from “Valley of Hearts Delight” to “Silicon Valley”... it provides an authentic soul to the neighborhood and to San Jose’s downtown.

Creating an Authentic Quality of Civil Place: As San Jose’s first public market in recent times, the design of the complex is heavily influenced by the architectural vocabulary of traditional historic market

hall structures common in many early American urban centers. It is designed to reflect a more contemporary feel of a newer and more innovative urban culture that is essential to establishing this as an important part of the new San Jose. In a world of ersatz design and prepackaged urban experiences, the urban design of the market is intended to be an antidote to this approach.

Urban Design - Reviving an Urban Neighborhood: The larger master plan creates a network of connected indoor and outdoor public spaces that is unique to San Jose. This plan encourages the widest range of activities - shopping and dining, concerts and other public events. The market is designed to activate street edges with market retail, cafes and restaurants.

Public-Private Collaboration: Cities throughout California struggle to bring back their urban centers and find creative ways to finance these transformations.

The San Pedro Market is a model for how public agencies can collaborate with private developers to create powerful urban catalyst projects that are authentically part of their communities. The market was planned and financed jointly by the City of San Jose and private developers who shared a vision for a transformative project.

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Merit Award - Small Project/Big Impact quickly, without sacrificing design. The program was simple: develop a housing solution for everyone. The design goals included a small footprint, lightweight construction, and a simple modularity to facilitate expansion and/or alternate finish materials, plus an overall emphasis on sustainability.

Atypical to most of the firm’s work, this project was not site specific. What presented as somewhat of a challenge enabled one of the An innovative, modular, and virtually off-the-grid housing system, this modular, curvaceous 150 squarefoot structure represents a new model for compact and sustainable living. The project was conceived as a modest, easy-to-construct system that could act as both a gracious shelter for communities in need, and as an attractive solution for individuals interested in expansion.

The simple yet sophisticated design features a small and light 8’ x 12’ footprint that offers total user efficiency, while its curvilinear shape engages with the site. Raised on concrete footings, the recycled steel structure allows air to flow underneath for passive cooling; operable windows allow for natural ventilation; and a shading trellis limits heat gain.

The first prototype was assembled in Kona, Hawaii; however locations can vary within the Tropic of Cancer. Cost for the base structure is approximately $50,000, not including plumbing, insulation, delivery, and installation (pending location), with the potential to apply different finishes and be outfitted with custom features for additional costs.

Born from a modular system of bent steel tubes, the project was created as an environmentally sensitive and affordable method of housing people in a beautiful, functional, and adaptive way.

Catastrophic natural disasters over the last ten years inspired the firm to design a shelter that could be transported easily, built affordably, and assembled

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Joseph Bellomo Architects project’s greatest assets: flexibility.

The project functions like a kit-of-parts that can be flat-packed and shipped to its destination (the shipping dimensions are 4’ x 10’ x 3’ and the package weighs approximately 3,500 pounds), then assembled on site by a team in just a few days, similar to prefab furniture.

The structure is made of recycled steel tubes, and is raised on concrete footings to allow air to flow underneath for passive cooling. It can withstand tropical winds and inclement weather. The panelized siding can be clad with different materials depending on the climate, budget, and availability.

Insulation can also be added for colder climates.

The first two models provided the opportunity to explore siding and roofing materials such a cedar, polycarbonate, and polymer. Floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors on both sides of the structure deliver natural light and ventilation. The shading trellis limits heat gain and allows support for photovoltaic panels that can be added. Plumbing and electrical systems can be routed adjacent to and through the steel tubes, and custom cabinetry can be integrated into the curvilinear forms.

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Honor Award - Architecture LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER

Located in Huntington Beach, California, this 55,000 SF state-of-the-art facility combines 21st century technology with current trends in library design to provide and innovative Learning Resource Center for a local college. Designed in close partnership with college leadership, faculty, staff and students, this new building brings together 10 distinct student and faculty resources to support a vision of collaborative multimedia learning. The carefully designed floor plans and section combine function, technology and materiality to define a variety of spatial experiences.

Prominently situated at the main campus entry, the $32,000,000 project connects the institution with the community and serves as both a gateway to the college as well as a destination. Inspired by the architecture of the existing William Pereira campus, the Learning Resource Center blends an architectural language of concrete, glass and stainless steel surrounded by a variety of landscaped gathering spaces to create a welcoming identity for the college.

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Intentionally outwardly focused, the Learning Resource Center provides an inviting campus gateway along the edge of the existing campus. The main entry, located off the bustling Campus Promenade, is further emphasized by the suspended glass Community Room,

Steinberg Architects creating a welcoming threshold to the campus.

Landscaped gathering spaces surround the building, including a pedestrian-scaled plaza to serve a secondary entrance to the south.

The challenge of bringing together the variety of programmatic functions with different levels of access and security requirements became the inspiration for the organization of the building. The three-story project was designed to have all of the technology intensive spaces (computer labs, new media labs, tutoring, production/editing rooms, etc) on the first floor in a open floor plan layout with the 65,000 volume library on the upper two floors, thereby able to maintain security.

The plan, layered into ribbons of quiet, active-social, and collaborative zones, allows a wide variety of study and instructional activities to coexist within an open framework. The active-social zone is at the center of

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the building with the quiet (staff) zone on the south side and the collaborative (student) zone to the north along the glass. Also layered vertically in section, the most active (and technologically advanced) space is on the first floor with a progression to quieter more contemplative spaces on the upper levels. The intersection of the central active-social zone in plan and contemplative section culminates at the large communal Grand Staircase in the library, highlighted with four artistic skylights.

Although not a requirement of the campus or the district, the firm looked to provide the highest level of sustainable design using Title 24 and LEED design guidelines as metrics for the project. Orientation, material selection and daylighting of the interior environment were the key sustainable design components of the project.

The established architectural language of Pereiraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus is concrete with glass infill, and buildings that are intentionally inwardly focused. The new Learning Resource Center also uses concrete as its main structure but increases the use of glass to create a more outwardly focused building. Stainless steel panels were introduced to the architectural language as an infill material and, like the glass, respond to changes in the sky, giving the building an ephemeral presence. The large amounts of glass to the north create comfortable

learning environments and a strong connection to the exterior, enticing students and visitors into the building. The simple and durable exterior palette of concrete and glass is brought into the interior, which helps with overall life-cycle costs for the building. This cost-saving measure allowed bamboo and vibrant accent colors to be incorporated to showcase key architectural elements, such as the Grand Staircase.

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Honor Award - Architecture ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY

This project is a model of how a small public school library challenged convention to unite a campus and inspire academic success. Numerous studies have shown that elementary and middle school students who have access to and regularly use libraries achieve higher test scores than those students who don’t.

An elementary and middle school in northeastern San Jose sought a sustainable facility to improve its outdated and overcrowded campus library, with the goals of housing their growing book collection, improving student access to technology, creating a central focus for the school, and educating students on green buildings and a sustainable future.

The completed project resulted in an eye-catching library that enlivens the campus, creating a destination that attracts both students and teachers. Additionally, it is the first LEED Gold certified K-12 public school building in the City of San Jose and Santa Clara County.

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Campus Context: Dating back to the 1850s, the school is one of the oldest operating schools in Northern California. Its library, located at the heart of the campus, connects the elementary and middle school areas. Because of that ideal central location, a renovation and expansion of the 3,000 sq.ft. space made more sense than new construction elsewhere.

Using the centralized location to advantage, the design team planned for dedicated elementary and middle school entries to the library, thus defining a spatial organization that acknowledges the distinct identity of each group.

Integrated Planning: This project succeeded because of rigorous planning and collaboration from key members of the school community with oversight from a strong design and construction team. The district challenged the design team to create a facility that embodies academic excellence,

HMC Architects promotes technological literacy, builds community, and to do so with environmental sensitivity. The design team kept the district informed of the latest innovations in green design while assisting them in making decisions that were prudent and appropriate. The project team listened to the school’s needs,

incorporated its input, and kept the project on schedule and on track for LEED Gold standing. Upon completion, the district was praised for a facility that was stunning in design while still warm and inviting for the school children. The district is proud of its library and feels that it reflects the values of a 21st century school that cultivates leadership, scholarship, and equity.

Design Solutions: The library creates a focal point for this campus of disconnected single-story buildings, providing new instructional opportunities and attracting student, staff, and community users. As a bonus, its natural light and spatial quality have made it the most popular spot on

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campus for after-school faculty meetings and training sessions.

With its location tucked between stucco-clad, flat roofed 1990s-era buildings, designers and school officials knew they needed to distinguish the library from its surroundings. The expanded and renovated library responds to this challenge through the use of a metallic composite-panel façade with zinc plate accents and abundant glass, giving the library a striking aesthetic reflective of its position in the heart of Silicon Valley. The angular, sloping windows emphasize the building entries and focus interior vistas obliquely toward view corridors.

They taper the building’s scale in response to its smaller users, and effectively block the unattractive view of an adjacent building’s blank rear wall and mechanical equipment, yet maintain a continuous sense of connection with the landscaped plaza outside.

center of the space, librarians are now able to survey students while greeting anyone coming and going.

Dark existing instructional spaces for elementary and middle school classes were relocated to corners filled with natural north light; the renovated existing space, with no access to windows, now houses stacks for the 18,000-volume collection, along with a new technology lab for up to 36 students. White walls throughout create a canvas for student art pieces that can be

Inside, the dramatic full-height glass brings natural light deep into the expanded 6,000 sq.ft. space, a drastic departure from the obstructed views of its predecessor. A natural wood screen, locally crafted from FSC-certified wood, helps to define space and provide boundaries without compromising supervision. With the circulation desk installed in the

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Sustainable Strategies: The library has received LEED Gold certification from the USGBC. It achieves this level of sustainable design through the use of a high-performance exterior building envelope, interior daylighting, natural ventilation, photovoltaic panels, upgraded mechanical systems, green certified interior furnishings and finishes, water-saving plumbing fixtures, and careful siting and orientation to reduce solar heat gain.

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Windows & Doors Associated Building Supply Scott Thurber (916)874-2997 sthurber@absnorcal.com Murray Window & Door, Inc. Carole Murray (408) 871-6990 carole@murraywindow.com Viking Door & Window Chris Beaumont (408)294-5546 www.vikingdoor.com

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Tracings Committee Kay Mascoli

Executive Director EMAIL

Kelly Kane

Membership & Communications Associate EMAIL

ADDRESS: 325 South First St., Suite 100 San Jose, CA 95113

Scott Smithwick, AIA Editor EMAIL

Joelle Cruz

Creative Director + Co-Publisher EMAIL

Judith Wasserman, AIA Copy Editor

Margaret Seltenreich Phone: (408) 298-0611 Fas: (408) 298-0619 OFFICE HOURS: Monday through Friday 9am to 4pm

Tracings Tracings

Arnold Breit Bernie Grijalva Jeff Current, AIA

sustainable design.

wwwStudioCurrent.com Architectural Furniture Interior Design

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS SANTA CLARA VALLEY SILENT AUCTION The American Institute of Architects Santa Clara Valley is holding a Silent Auction at their Annual Holiday Party and Membership Appreciation event on December 6, 2012.

The event is being hosted by Porcelanosa, at their new showroom at 391 Brokaw Road in San Jose.

The AIA is a professional trade association for architects that is also open to architects, designers, building professionals and related industries. We provide architectural referrals, educational seminars and workshops, sell contract documents and provide information to related fields, public, and government about architecture and design and the role of architects in developing the built environment.

The purpose of the Silent Auction is to provide resources for our educational and training programs; a portion of the proceeds will also support our four AIASCV scholarships for architectural students.

The benefits of donating to the Silent Auction include: â&#x20AC;˘

Donor recognition on our website, announcement at the Silent Auction, display board at the event and as a window display in office window

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Recognition in our newsletter Tracings and on a display board at our office in Downtown San Jose

Please submit your donated products, events, and services by November 30, 2012. A list of Silent Auction items available for bidding will be posted on our website by December 3rd. A donation form is enclosed. For additional information, please contact the AIASCV office at 408.298.0611 or info@aiascv.org.

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS SANTA CLARA VALLEY

Silent Auction Donation Form

1. Description of the donated item/product(s)/professional services (75 words or less)

2. Value of the Donation:

3. Donor Contact information: Name: Address:

Email: Phone: Please submit your donated products, events, and services by November 30, 2012 to our office: at 325 S. First Street, Suite 100, San Jose, CA 95113. You may submit this form to AIASCV via email to info@aiascv.org.

Thank you for your donation. The AIA Santa Clara Valley tax ID is 94-1500093

You Are Invited to Our Annual Holiday Party & Membership Appreciation Plus SILENT AUCTION

Hosted by

Porcelanosa 391 East Brokaw Road San Jose Thursday, December 6, 2012 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6pm to 9pm RSVP by Friday, November 30 408.298.0611 or info@aiascv.org

Join us in the Toys for Tots Campaign Sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps of San Jose Bring a gift to share (in their original package & please do not wrap them)

AIA Santa Clara Valley

A Chapter of The American Institute of Architects

CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM-2012 November 2012

“Measurement and Verification Solutions” Presented by: Ron France, Technical Sales Specialist, Leviton This highly informative program focuses on the principles of Measurement and Verification through sub-metering and proper energy management. Utilizing M&V principles allows a facility to conserve energy and track the effectiveness of sustainable initiatives. LEED Certification, code compliance and EEM (Enterprise Energy Management) will be discussed.

In this 1-hour CES approved program, participants will: • • • •

Gain an understanding of Measurement and Verification (M&V) energy management principles for a wide variety of commercial facility applications.

Gain an understanding of M&V in relation to LEED certification.

Have the ability to select EEM software appropriate for a given application.

Have the ability to read EEM reports and identify opportunities for energy reduction and conservation.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Noon-1:00 pm HMC GROUP 1570 The Alameda, Suite 330 San Jose

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 Noon-1:00 pm Hawley Peterson & Snyder 444 Castro Street, Suite 1000 Mountain View

Program qualifies for 1 HSW and SD credit.

Bring your AIA number and your credits will be registered automatically.

Programs are free. Please RSVP RFrance@leviton.com Lunch is not provided, so please plan accordingly.

SPONSORED

BY:

SANTA CLARA VALLEY CHAPTER OF

THE CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS INSTITUTE presents an educational seminar on

Designing with, and Specifying, Natural Stone, Tile and Glass to the New Industry Standards A unique opportunity to get education and interact with Industry experts on new tile standards, products and installation material and method. If you specify and select stone, glass or ceramic tile, you will be interested.

Date: Location: Continuing Education: COST:

Friday, November 9, 2012 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

XL Construction 851 Buckeye Court Milpitas, CA 95035 This program meets AIA/CES criteria.

Participants will receive: 4 AIA Learning Units

$95.00

Session I: Success With Tile: The TCNA Handbook and New Glass Tile Standards Instructor: Greg Mowat, FCSI, CDT, CTC, CMRS, CFC. Changes and expansion of the 2012 TCNA Handbook have increased the size fourfold from the 2009 TCNA Handbook. Special emphasis in materials has separated stone tile from glass tile and ceramic tile methods and assemblies. In this session Greg will educate attendees on using the current TCNA Handbook for Ceramic. Glass, and Stone Tile Installation. The many changes to the handbook will be reviewed. Tile types, substrates, patterns, joint width, warpage and specifications will be covered. New tolerances for flatness depending on tile size, lippage tolerances, new ISO specifications, membranes, and wet areas will be discussed. Green Building Standards with respect to tile will be reviewed. Also, Greg will focus on the new glass tile ANSI Standards, and particulars with specifying and working with glass tile.

Session 2: What You Are Not Being Told About Natural Stone Instructor: David Bonasera: CTC, CSI In this session David will educate attendees on the current state of the stone market and new products that are all being sold as â&#x20AC;&#x153;natural stoneâ&#x20AC;?. Discuss the current TCNA Handbook for Ceramic, Glass and Stone Tile Installation related to stone and the intricacies of working with stone materials. A variety of stone enhancements are appearing in the U.S. Discussion will also cover resin enhanced products, which are becoming a majority of the products seen on the market. David will educate on stone alteration, dyes, resin enhancement and other qualities of stone that are critical to avoid stone failure, fade and problems. There will be discussions on how to specify and select stone for a variety of environments, including outdoor, indoor and wet environments, also substrate conditions and traffic conditions.

Stone sealing, care and maintenance will be discussed, also different types of stone, and matching natural stone types and qualities to their appropriate uses. The appropriate use of water-based and solvent-based sealers will be reviewed. Agglomerates, composites, porosity and iron content of stone will be reviewed. Stone failure and how to avoid them and correct them, including subjects such as color fade, staining and rusting, and delamination. UV damage and proper stone selection for UV exposed environments

Demonstration: Shower Pan Installation Dan Curtis of Schluter Systems will demonstrate installation of one of the most troublesome areas of tile installation: a waterproof shower pan. The waterproofing installation will be exhibited step by step, and the interface between the waterproof area and surroundings.

GO TO www.csiscv.org/calendar to download a complete registration form.

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