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Form // by Mindi Zissman The Stephen A. Levin Building at the University of Pennsylvania features an exterior of what goes on inside—the study of biology.

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A FOUNDATION OF TIMELESS MATERIALS Marble, metals, wood and glass. Classic materials not only add a touch of elegance, but can provide a foundation to complement and highlight key architectural details.

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From Wrigley Field to Fenway Park and beyond, sports franchises and developers are reinvigorating their urban neighborhoods.

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The Marriage of Old and New This issue’s main feature examines the impact of modernization efforts at ballparks, and how these improvements are changing the faces of their neighborhoods. Since I live in Chicagoland, I have to start with Wrigley Field and its surrounding “ville.” A couple of years back, I had the fortune to get an insider’s tour of the first, of many, changes to the park, most notably the Cubs’ new locker room. From that trip, not having been to the park in a while, I forgot just how hard, from a concrete and asphalt perspective, was the state of the city’s north side. One of the newest changes at Wrigley involves the addition of a green space in front of the stadium. For this reason, alone, I have to praise the work.

As we adopt adaptive reuse in re-envisioning the built environment, we have to look forward, so long as we don’t destroy the spirit of the past.

In fact, as you can tell from the myriad of cityrelated stories we’ve run over the past year, I’ve become rather obsessed with urban revitalization as part of the 2030 process, and particularly the idea of recapturing real estate close to city cores as a means to cut down carbon emissions from long suburban commutes. As part of this exploration, I’ve been having ongoing conversations with Pepper Construction, the contractor at the heart of Wrigley’s renovation and reconstruction, which has been an epic tale, to say the least. For example, to support the park’s new bleacher area concourse, which debuted this spring, the contractor had to remove the historic bleachers, then drive 240 micropiles to support the equivalent weight of the Statue of Liberty. But tackling a historic venue in a dense urban area meant massive coordination and logistics to pull the process off—and that’s not even delving into the labyrinth that was the city permitting process. “An orchestrated dance,” Pepper’s Shannan Ghera describes it. Look to our Product Developments’ section, in the near future, for a series of such tales.

Work also involves masonry restoration on the park’s western wall. Masonry, clearly, is a material found in, and on, most historic buildings. Along these lines, this issue, we’ll also take a look at how architects are re-thinking their use of masonry as a classic material in academic settings, including for permeable plazas—a huge issue in hard environments.

In exploring this marriage of old and new, I feel compelled to address a couple of things pointed out this issue. First, is the admirable work tvsdesign is

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doing in Atlanta with their Spacelab program (Product Developments, p. 16). Beyond product exploration, and pro-bono help for the various places they temporarily populate in creating mini-work environments, the thing I find admirable, is that in their desire for the “experiential,” they’re getting to know the city neighborhoods they may be building in. This greater sensitivity to the people in places that may change significantly, is critical, and something, many times, left out of the equation.

Item No. 2: the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. In the time since the last issue went to press, and the design community reacted to the fire, and possible paths to restoration and reconstruction, Lord Norman Foster, among others, chimed in with alternative ideas, including a new glass spire.

An interpretive rendering, created by the British newspaper, The Guardian, knocked my socks off.

In an interview with the publication, Foster noted, historically, in the wake of devastating church fires, replacement involved “the most advanced building technology of the age”—original designs were never replicating. At Chartres, for example, he pointed out 12th-century timbers were replaced in the 19th century by a new structure of cast iron and copper.

I absolutely agree that more natural light, and the incorporation of more modern materials, may better serve the cathedral, especially in regard to structural stability. The big issue here, in dealing with old buildings, be they a cathedral or a ballpark, is whether pure restoration or some kind of adaptation is more suitable. Its clear adaptive reuse is a force in re-envisioning the built environment. Historic structures amid this urban fabric, can play suit, so long as the spirit of the past is not destroyed.

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Guardian Glass has launched a new website to deliver an improved experience for users. The revised site contains more imagery in its expanded project gallery, as well as content delivered in updated paths to deliver fresher and more personalized educational and resource updates. www.guardianglass.com Formica has also created a new website. Its redesign features a cleaner and more contemporary design, including means to search and sort products with options to filter by color, material, style or product line. There is also an improved process for ordering samples. www.formica.com TOOLS

Lighting fixture manufacturer Focal Point has partnered with BIMsmith, to expand its suite of free digital BIM resources. The partnership involves the addition of more than 150 Focal Point lighting product models to BIMsmith Market, a free platform for the AEC community to find and download building product data. www.bimsmith.com

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According to Cicero’s Development, one of the country’s leading renovation contractors for the hospitality industry, here are six hotel trends emerging on the scene that will change guest experiences in 2019:

Goodbye to the Cookie-Cutter Gone are the days where every room looked exactly the same, with identical furnishings and boring neutral colors. To create a unique hotel stay for guests, designers are giving each room its own individual personality through the use of diverse color palettes, furniture configurations, wallpaper, flooring, art, lamps and mix-and-match décor combining eclectic elements. Incorporating touches like local handmade decor, unexpected texture combinations, and even vintage fabrics in different rooms give travelers the aesthetic appeal they are chasing—both when they view photos of the room online and when they see it in person. Differentiating each CUSTOM TOUCH

This year will see more aggressive initiatives by hotels in their bid to reduce energy consumption. and every room can become the signature calling card for a hotel, the primary way to set itself apart from big-box, no-frills standard hotels.

Keep it Simple and Smaller Driven by the millennial demographic, hotel rooms are getting more basic, functional, and surprisingly, smaller. This trend is well suited for dense, urban markets where the boutique micro-hotel concept is popular. Millennials do not expect chests of drawers, sprawling sofas or even traditional closets in their rooms. Multi-purpose and collapsible furniture, built-in lighting, and smart design materials make small hotel rooms appear and feel larger. In exchange for smaller digs, guests receive a fun, affordable and energetic space to stay without sacrificing style or comfort.

Designers are giving each room its own individual personality through the use of diverse color palettes and furniture configurations. Unexpected texture combinations give travelers the aesthetic appeal they are chasing when they search online.

competition. Interestingly, some of the most active users of modern hotel lobbies are not guests at all, but those who come in to frequent the coffee shop, collaborative workspaces or other revenue-generating services. Besides décor, technology is transforming lobbies and bringing them to life with digital signage, DJ booths, vibrant sound systems, LED lights and, of course, a lot of places to plug in.

The Power of Energy Efficiency This year will see more aggressive initiatives by hotels in their bid to reduce energy consumption. On average, hotels in the U.S. spend $2,196 per available room annually on energy. To offset utility expenses hotels will focus in 2019 on the expanded use of LED and natural lighting, motion sensors, automated temperature control systems, more efficient HVAC, and the use of alternative energy sources.

The Lobby as Living Room While hotel rooms are being pared down, lobbies are going big. This emerging trend calls for the lobby area to be reimagined as an oversized, sleek living room loaded with semi-enclosed spaces where guests can find privacy without feeling isolated.

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Reclaim, Reuse, Recycle Sustainable construction practices mean installing recycled building materials. Boutique hotels have been at the forefront of using reclaimed woods, metals, brickwork and stonework in their aesthetic appeal. Not only does the practice reduce dependence on natural resources, it also raises the ante in terms of novelty and visual power.

Going Green(er) Ironically, after years of removing oversized planters from their lobbies, hotels are finding guests miss greenery as a backdrop for daily life. A new trend coined “biophilic design” calls for hotels to bring plants back into the fold to establish an enhanced connection for guests with nature. Biophilic design involves design elements as diverse as waterfalls, real stone and wood, exposure to natural lighting, vertical gardens and clustered vegetation that together blur the boundaries between indoor and outdoor areas. According to its proponents, biophilic design acts as an “atmospheric stress-reliever” for urban over-stimulation, nerve-racking interactions, and travel complications. Through the integration of biophilic design, a hotel sets itself apart from conventional hotel brands and cultivates an immersive guest experience.

No matter how large or small the impact of a trend, the hotels that will benefit from them the most are those that adapt their guest experience the fastest. This is something independent hotels, being agile and free of the inflexible standards characteristic of large chains, are in the best position to accomplish.

However, forward-thinking large chains can also leverage emerging trends to find creative direction for their branding standards.

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Featuring glass donated by Guardian Glass for Oscar Tuazon: Water School, the “water window” is framed by sunlight coming through the windows of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Guardian Glass supplied the museum’s exterior glass, as well.

Open Policy As an editor, it’s affirming when, out in the field, stories and topics we’ve been covering, are confirmed, as truly reflecting the pulse of the community. I was granted such an affirmation, recently, at an acoustics discussion sponsored by door manufacturer Masonite. Brought up at during a panel discussion were the topics acoustics, sliding doors—the first question asked out of the box during the +; outthere tech coming to an office soon; and establishing company cultures as a critical means to advancing any kind of technology splash.

According to Perkins+Will’s Michelle Osburn, one of the panel participants, noise and acoustical measures can only be determined based on the spaces to be created—frankly mandating that clients and their companies must spell out what they need and want. This process literally forces an owner’s hands to think about process—something that’s not historically been done—with pre-defined details along the line of who’s going to sit where; who should sit together; areas where will it be noisy; people who might be good in noisy areas, as well as those who will not; areas where quiet spaces will be appropriate; and establishing if people will have the means to simply get up and move elsewhere. Further, cultural issues must be defined: how will you overcome improprieties of non-ownership of spaces? What about “tribalism” and territorial violations? Where are places people can put their stuff to have some sense of permanency or belonging? It’s more complicated than it seems on the surface.

To the question about sliding doors, which we covered in April, it regarded the “soundness” of product certifications. In other words, when not addressed in context of a full assembly, the designer in the audience stated these ratings often have very little credibility. It was kind of funny in the context that Masonite had a very impressive testing chamber— I heard it—but it did factor in seals, drywall and the like—more food for thought.

Personally, I don’t think sliding doors, which the assemblage questioned as to its sound suppression capabilities, are going to fade away any time soon—I’ll bet we see them in spades at NeoCon—but noise factors must be addressed. As Osburn indicated, it may come down to where doors and offices are placed. It is yet another indicator that designers and manufacturers need to consult each other with greater zest.

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SOLAR ENERGY

This concept utilizes passive solar energy to store heat in water that is then released over time to heat the enclosed environment.

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Glass Inside and Out Art installation addresses environmental issues.

Zaha Hadid’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University already featured Guardian Glass on the façade, but now it’s also on the inside as part of a new exhibition. “Water School” is an exhibition by LA-based artist Oscar Tuazon. As part of this initiative, three modules of his major sculpture-asarchitectural form are erected in the galleries and create a space for both formal and informal learning opportunities to specifically address water and other environmental concerns. Aspects of Tuazon’s works are inspired by inventor Steve Baer—his “Water Window,” for example, which until this point had only been a dream of the artist. Tuazon’s reinterpretation utilizes passive solar energy to store heat in water that is then released over time to heat the enclosed environment. Updating Baer’s original design, Tuazon continues to explore filling the space between the two panes of glass with water, thereby allowing the window to remain a window, as such, yet adding the possibility for the window to store and release

“This new prototype is a major advancement for the artist, specifically made possible by Guardian Glass and the amazing team there.” heat. “Water Window” uses more than 200 sq. ft. of monolithic, tempered lites provided by Guardian. The four trapezoidal shapes are installed in a steel frame connected to a post and bearing, which allows the water window to rotate. A digitally printed image—a reference to the original by Baer—was placed on the third surface and fired into the glass.

“Architects and designers look everywhere for inspiration, so this application helps Guardian Glass come full circle in giving the community a fresh way to see the possibilities of creating with glass,” says Cory Richardson, senior applications engineer, Guardian Glass Science & Technology Center. www.guardian.com — Circle

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THERMAL & MOISTURE CONTROL

Lofts Meet Passive Standard The first reinforced-concrete condominium to meet Passive House standards in the N.Y./N.J. Metro area, Candela Lofts insulate heated interior slabs from exterior balconies, slab edges and awning using structural thermal breaks. Built on the site of a former candelabra factory, the project is the first multi-family building in the New York metropolitan area built to international Passive House standards.

Its envelope is actually part of its reinforced concrete structure. Façade clips, made of fiberglass to minimize thermal bridging, secure the exterior cladding and, in turn, 9.5-in.-thick mineral wool insulation. The sealed concrete exterior wall, insulation layer and exterior cladding form a cementitious barrier to rainwater/moisture penetration.

Structural thermal breaks played a key role in the Passive House strategy, preventing thermal bridging at the balconies, the awning roof and a slab edge that abuts a neighboring building. Candela Lofts installed 350 linear ft. of two structural thermal break types: Schöck Isokorb Type  for the balconies and roof awning structure, and Isokorb Type  along the slab edge opposite the neighboring building. The thermal breaks consist of a graphite-enhanced expanded polystyrene module.

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According to Schöck, structural thermal breaks reduce heat loss at balcony penetrations by up to 90% at the penetration and up to 14% for a building overall. According to John Nastasi, project architect and principal at Hoboken-based Nastasi Architects, the only way they could meet Passive House standards in these areas was by designing in structural thermal breaks.

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 recently unveiled its newly renovated lobby at 701B in San Diego, Calif., which includes indoor/ outdoor features, greets tenants and guests with a spectacular cascading water wall, as well as spaces to gather formally and informally within the completely reimagined interior lobby, new cafe or in the outdoor “Urban Oasis.” There is a straight vertical glass wall that nearly doubles the size of the outdoor amenity plaza along 7th Avenue. In addition to the 65-ft. tall, clear glass wall, the lobby includes a new water wall feature spanning over 50-ft. long and nearly 20-ft. tall, making it the largest vertical water feature in downtown San Diego. A white sculptural trellis floats above the plaza providing shade and inviting tenants and visitors to experience its transformative qualities as viewed from different angles. A dynamic, luminous textile light wall sets the mood within the lobby as it changes colors and themes throughout the day, providing visitors with a serene feeling the minute they open the door.

ABI Inches Back Up Following a sizable decrease in demand for design services in March, the April AIA Architecture Billings Index climbed back into positive territory. April’s score showed a small increase to 50.5 in April—up from 47.8 in March. Any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings. Additionally, business conditions remained strong at firms located in the South. Despite this and the positive overall billings score, most regional and sector indictors continue to display decreasing demand for design services. AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker noted things may not be at a critical inflection point, but “the next several months of data will be indicative of the health of the industry going into 2020.”

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Spacelab Launched Workplace design lab allows designers to test furniture/products in a real-world setting.

Atlanta-based architecture and interior design firm tvsdesign successfully launched Spacelab, a pop-up workplace experiment where designers tested products to better understand the intricacies and nuances of a neighborhood and get inspired by working in a place meant for innovation and trial.

Version 1.0 of Spacelab—V will be opening imminently—is open in Constellations, a co-working space in Atlanta’s Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District, birthplace of King, and Sweet Auburn, the his-

toric center of business for the city’s AfricanAmerican community.

Constellations is Gene Kansas Commercial Real Estate’s adaptive reuse of the historic Neel Reid building, just steps from Georgia State.

Spacelab served as a creative testing grounds for tvsdesign architects and designers who tried different products and configurations while gaining firsthand experience of life in the Old Fourth Ward. Spacelab not only functions as a satellite office environment, but is a flex space

that can also hold design charettes, afterhours events and client meetings.

Spacelab partnered with vendors to test the latest in workplace furniture, lighting, finishes and technology.

Initially, furniture and lighting from Corporate Environments/Knoll, Illuminations Lighting and Interface carpeting are rotating through Spacelab.

“We’re deeply familiar with tvsdesign’s talent and quality projects, so we were excited to bring our decorative lighting to Spacelab,” says Elaine Elder of

Illuminations Lighting.

“In their line of work, sometimes designers specify products they haven’t had a chance to see and touch in person. Spacelab is a great remedy for that and we look forward to being involved in future Spacelab locations.”

According to Kelli Burns of Corporate Environments, the project was consistent with their core values. “We know this bold initiative will help tvsdesign’s designers get better at their craft, and we’re glad to be a part of that as it will benefit all of our clients.”

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COMMUNITY UP CLOSE

TVS, in choosing each experiential “lab,” selects a charitable cause for pro-bono work. In its initial offering, the firm selected Constellations, a coworking movement on the historic Auburn Avenue downtown. Detached from the firm’s corporate offices, it’s a creative space where designers can focus on understanding the neighborhoods they build in, the furniture they work with, and an authentic way to interact with the local communities they are trying to serve.

TEST PRODUCTS

Spacelab is partnering with leading product vendors to test the latest in workplace furniture, lighting, finishes and technology. Initially, furniture and lighting from Corporate Environments/Knoll, Illuminations Lighting and Interface- carpeting are rotating through Spacelab.

Luceplan Mesh-Elevator Shaft Overhead Lighting

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INQUISITIVE NATURE

As a general practice, tvsdesign, asks a lot of questions: “Are standing desks actually useful?” “Is that lamp practical or just decorative?” “Is that neighborhood as convenient as it is trendy?” To answer these questions, the firm has created Spacelab, a way to test products, solutions, working styles and locations, so they can make client recommendations with confidence. The first “experiential” lab was in Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn business district. Spacelab will move to a different location in the city every six months.

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Barcelona Hotel Study Finds Social Pressure Can Lead to Greater Water Efficiency

WATER USAGE IN HOTELS

35% Guest rooms 25% Food and beverage preparation 16% Laundry services and air conditioning

The 2015 study reveals some interesting nuggets regarding water usage, and the impact of drought conditions, in the Barcelona hotel industry.

A 2015 study examined the impact of drought conditions endured between 2007 and 2008, in the hotel industry in Barcelona, Spain. Spanish researchers selected Barcelona because it is a major European tourist hub that regularly experiences droughts. According to Klaus Reichardt,  and founder of Waterless, manufacturers of no-water urinals, what the study uncovered has “implications for hotels around the world.”

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“It is often higher-end hotels taking the most steps to reduce consumption, such as installing no-water urinals. They are also very media-savvy and tend to be very socially and environmentally-conscious.”

The researchers examined 262 hotels in Barcelona to identify, among other things:  Where water is most commonly used in hotels.  Impact of hotel “category” (1-star, 2-star, 3-star, etc.) on water consumption.  Factors motivating some hotels to take steps to reduce water consumption. This was the key goal of the study.

THE STUDENT HOTEL, BARCELONA

CREATIVE FUNCTIONALITY

The Dutch hotel group, The Student Hotel, which provides a unique co-living and coworking hybrid, opened two student-only properties in the Marina and Poble Sec districts of Barcelona. It collaborated with Masquespacio, the Valencia-based creative consultancy, for the refurbishment and design of both properties.

The researchers also found that 5-star hotels consume significantly more water per guest than any other hotel category. The likely reasons for this, they surmised, are that 5-star hotels offer the following:  More water-related services such as pools, spas, sports and fitness centers.  Full meal service: breakfast, lunch and dinner, available daily for guests and the general public.  Greater use of in-house laundry services.  Five-star hotels tend to be larger with more restaurants, bars and kitchens.

After the drought, many hotels did take steps to reduce water consumption. Researchers reported these primary motivators: “Social pressures and possibly marketing objectives appear to be [most] important.” This was the result of greater “awareness” fueled by drought emergency calls by government authorities.

Additionally, the researchers found that higher category hotels were the most active in seeking to reduce consumption. “This is similar to what we see in North America,” says Reichardt. “It is often the higher-end hotels taking the most steps to reduce consumption, such as installing no-water urinals.

They are also very media savvy and tend to be very socially and environmentally conscious.”

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ENCOURAGING CONNECTIVITY

The Marina Campus is housed in a four-towered building that includes 500 rooms. The property features communal spaces, such as swimming pools, gaming zones, open and closed seating areas, as well as quiet study rooms to encourage connectivity and exchange while providing enough space for learning and development.

BOLD STATEMENT

Color was an important driver. According to Ana Hernández, creative director from Masquespacio, “It not only influences one’s mood, it can also be used to create a bold design statement in the environment.”

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OFFICE

LA Arts District Star Soylent’s core values: flexibility and collaboration, inspired Ware Malcomb’s design.

Ware Malcomb recently completed the new Soylent corporate headquarters located within the At Mateo campus in the Los Angeles Arts District. Ware Malcomb provided interior architectural and design services for the project.

Soylent, a pioneer in food technology, relocated from its previous LA location to accommodate the company’s rapid growth.

Located on the third floor of Building 2 in the At Mateo campus, Soylent’s new corporate headquarters design is focused on collaboration. The space features open offices, breakout rooms, a sample room, a game area and a variety of lounge spaces with tiered seating for meetings. A circulation path runs around the entire office area, connecting the five “neighborhoods” or departments within the company. Private offices are located around the perimeter of the space, with 10-ft. high glass walls allowing daylight to reach the interior.

The black and white color palette reflects the foundation of the company’s product branding, and allows for the brand to advance as the company grows.

Operable windows and roll-up doors let in fresh air and provide access to the exterior areas, including a rooftop patio for employees to enjoy.

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The new headquarters is also home to the Soylent Innovation Lab, a coworking space designed to attract like-minded, innovative technology companies to the Arts District.

“This new headquarters provides an engaging atmosphere for Soylent employees that truly embodies the company’s innovative and collaborative corporate culture,” said Radwan Madani, Principal of Ware Malcomb’s Los Angeles office. “It has been gratifying for our firm to have the opportunity to work on so many exciting projects—like this one for Soylent—in the burgeoning Arts District of downtown Los Angeles.”

“Ware Malcomb was a phenomenal partner in designing an incredible space that allows both our Soylent team and our Soylent Innovation Lab members to build culture and synergy that are so important for growing our businesses,” said Bryan Crowley, Soylent .

“We started with two of our Soylent core values, flexibility and collaboration, as inspiration and Ware Malcomb delivered a space that inspires our teams each and every day.”

PRIVATE OFFICES

Private offices are located around the perimeter of the space, with 10-ft. high glass walls allowing daylight to reach the interior.

DIFFERENT SPACES

Open offices, breakout rooms, a sample room, a game area and a variety of lounge spaces with tiered seating for meetings are available.

CIRCULATION PATH

A circulation path runs around the entire office area, connecting the “neighborhoods” or departments within the company.

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Traditional Materials | Made Fresh Few materials are as iconic in American academic settings as classic red brick.

Durable enough to last for decades and virtually maintenance-free, brick has long been a first choice for university planners, who often give brick a place of honor on their lists of design guidelines. That popularity remains today, but architects also are exploring new ways to keep this traditional material fresh.

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The Brick Industry Assn.’s Brick in Architecture awards have highlighted several projects over the last few years that illustrate the creative approaches architects have taken to make this ancient building material new again at a number of American universities. These designs all have the dual effect of relating the new facilities to surrounding campuses that might be a century or more old, while also making design statements intended to stay relevant for the decades—and students—yet to come.

Suspended Animation Project: Center for Architecture & Environmental Design, Kent State University Kent, Ohio Design Team: Weiss/Manfredi

Kent State University sited its new Center for Architecture & Environmental Design as a bridge between town and gown, on the edge of its campus, adjacent to downtown Kent, Ohio.

On the campus side, light-colored brick, along with concrete, predominates, drawing on the limestone shades of the school’s oldest structures. The town side, however, features brick in deep red tones.

For this building, New York City-based Weiss/ Manfredi brought those downtown hues onto campus, combining millennia-old masonry technology with cutting-edge architecture to create a high-performance structure that’s also become a teaching tool.

Aiming for LEED Platinum certification, Weiss/ Manfredi’s architects selected brick that was produced locally. And they got their own lessons in how brick is fired and in how its color can shift based on how it’s produced from supplier Belden Brick.

“We focused our studies on a bee-hive firing process, where the location of bricks within the hive and heat source effect the amount of heat that the brick absorbs and, in turn, the brick’s color,” says David Maple, Weiss/Manfredi’s project architect on the job.

For the horizontal runs, designers chose a narrow, Norman-style brick that’s iron-spotted. A custom bullnose brick also was developed to create vertical “fins” for added depth and shadowing across the façade. “The orientation of the fin and the depth of the fin were all studied and designed to optimize the site conditions.”

The fins, which project a maximum of 4 in. from the building plane, are spaced to coordinate with control joints and required weeps in the brick façade.

Each succeeding floor’s fins are offset slightly to give a sense of scale and movement, drawing eyes upward to the 650-seat “design loft” that tops the structure.

The custom die Belden created to manufacture the fins now is on display in the building.

One of the more striking aspects of the building is the way the brick appears to be suspended over the lower-level curtainwall. Maple says this suspension is, effectively, a rainscreen construction, with brick as the outside cladding. The illusion of suspension is created by a backup wall attached to posts hanging from the slab above. Ensuring successful installation required significant attention to design details, Maple says.

“All the window frames, control joints and weep locations were considered with the brick pattern to conceal these items within the layout,” he says. “Due to the angles on the project, every mortar joint and brick was drawn for layout coordination.”

The architects see this unique façade treatment as a case study for the center’s students in ways this ancient building material remains relevant in even the most modern-day settings. Maple says it has also become a tool to help students visualize the way building materials come together—and the importance of clear visual plans to ensure that effort is successful.

“With this project being a school for architectural design, and with the university’s desire to make the project a tool for learning, we thought utilizing the brick in an atypical way and suspending it—though the bricks still rest on a shelf angle—could allow the students to understand the detailing of the system.”

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BRICK FINS

Bullnose brick also was developed to create vertical “fins” for added depth and shadowing across the façade. “The orientation of the fin and the depth of the fin were all studied and designed to optimize the site conditions.”

RAINSCREEN

Architects created the illusion of an overhanging brick “curtain” by attaching a backup wall to posts hanging from the slab above.

DEPTH PERCEPTION

The bullnose-brick “fins” are offset, floor-by-floor, to add to the sense of upward movement created by the climbing curtainwall.

Their spacing coordinates with control joints and required weeps.

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Kent State Center for Architecture and Environmental Design “Design Loft,” which was selected as the winner of an international competition, is a site for new connections. A continuous gallery anchors the building’s main public level and opens up to a new esplanade. The ascending sequence of ground floor spaces support a broad range of activities including a cafe, gallery, 200-seat multi-purpose lecture room, library, classrooms and reading areas.

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Driven by Data Project: Goergen Institute for Data Sciences University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. Design Team: Kennedy & Violich Architecture

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The University of Rochester, in Rochester, N.Y., began accepting students to its new Goergen Institute of Data Science program in fall 2015, and two years later the school opened the doors to an ambitious new facility to house the effort.

The building features a creative façade design

by Kennedy& Violich Architects () that plays with the theme of a data-centric mission, offering a “coded” indicator of the work going on within its walls. At the same time, it also ties this very modern building to the larger campus, with its roots back to the 1930s.

The campus is the university’s third home and was originally built as its College for Men in 1930.

Its oldest buildings feature Greek Revival themes popular in higher education at the time, and the school’s design guidelines still favor what  Vice Principal J. Frano Violich, , calls “the classic

base-middle-top” approach to massing. Brick as a façade material is another design guideline requirement—and not just any brick. Glen-Gery’s 55-DD brick is specifically called out, and that is not an unusual choice, says Violich.

“This is a brick that’s been used as a standard for so many universities across the Northeast, and maybe beyond.”

But, while ’s palette might have been traditional, the final project is anything but, as the designers chose to turn their required material on its end, in a very literal way. Protruding header bricks now create a pattern meant to symbolize streaming data, against an arrangement of punched windows of various rectangular sizes that create their own visual metaphor of an old-school data punch card.

TELLING TIME

The building uses classic masonry in a new way, tying the façade to other campus structures, while also pointing a new way forward.

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The foreman of the project’s skilled masonry team opted to install all the brick except the protruding units first, with spacers holding their place. Masons then added those units, once the wall was complete. The approach proved efficient.

BYTE BY BYTE

Violich uses the metaphor of a pixel to describe the role each individual brick plays against the larger façade. With shifting shadows, it can seem as though the pixilated brick is actually moving in and out throughout the day.

CODED MESSAGE?

Violich says there is a rumor around his office that the patterning of the punch card-style windows actually spells out a George Eastman quote in binary code. “It could be in there,” he says, “but even if it is, I wouldn’t tell you.”

Protruding header bricks now create a pattern meant to symbolize streaming data, against an arrangement of punched window of various rectangular sizes that create their own visual metaphor of an old-school punch card.

“In the masonry, itself, we posed the challenge of how we could use masonry as a pixel,” says Violich.

Violich and his team worked with Glen-Gery to develop a 12-in. version of their classic 55-DD brick for use as the protruding headers, which were installed, cantilever fashion, to extend 8 in. out from the 4-in. thick brick exterior wall. While Violich says the patterning was easy to adjust, thanks to today’s design software, the installation involved a team of masons with decades of experience.

“We had all these studies for the sequence of installation,” Violich says, describing his first discussions with the brick foreman about how this complicated plan could be realized in a course-by-course

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fashion. The foreman, however, had a different idea: installing all the brick except the protruding units, with spacers to hold their place, and then going back to add those units in, once the wall was complete.

The approach proved efficient, Violich says, observing how that back-and-forth with the foreman illustrated the continuing importance of hands-on construction experience, even as software takes over more of design.

“The efficiency of the digital layout and the efficacy of the human labor,” he says, describing this interaction between technology and tradesmanship.

“From the digital to the tactile—there is a kind of craft in it.”

BRINGING OUTSIDE IN

The image of pixilated, streaming data continues into the building’s interior, including a wall lining this staircase/gathering space. Violich says such informal meeting spaces are important for this structure, which is now home to a range of data-related fields of study.

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A Sense of Place Project: University of the District of Columbia Student Center Entrance Design Team: CannonDesign Marshall Moya Design, Lee and Assocs.

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The new student center at the University of the District of Columbia was designed to create a sense of welcome to an urban campus that has long been seen as something of an afterthought. The four-year college has undertaken a major redesign to reposition itself in the dense, Van Ness neighborhood, and the student center’s entrance plaza certainly sets a stage for the upgrades that have taken place.

Landscape architects with D.C.-based Lee and Assocs. took the lead on the plaza design—the student center was the work of CannonDesign, in collaboration with Marshall Moya Design.

The entire project is one of only two student unions in the U.S. to earn  Platinum.

The university has taken to calling the plaza its “front porch,” and it’s easy to see why.

It leads to a grand staircase, with steps sized for seating, that heads up to a new quadrangle and the rest of the campus, beyond. Its highlight is the undulating pattern of red and cream Boardwalk Pavers from Whitacre Greer. The dynamic patterning provides easy wayfinding to the student union’s entrance, which could be helpful for those emerging from the Metro station nearby.

WELCOME IN

The student center is meant as a new front door to what some had seen as a tired urban campus. The variegated pattern of brick pavers creates a sense of movement that is very appropriate to this downtown location.

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Sports Venues Drive From Wrigley Field to Fenway Park and beyond, sports franchises and developers are reinvigorating their neighborhoods.

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Transcending game day, new development is spurring urban rebirth and an entirely new experience for sports fans, venues and their neighbors. Not only are new dining establishments, entertainment venues, shopping and outdoor spaces encouraging fans to come early to the game and stay late, but a number of districts surrounding stadiums, ballparks and arenas are benefitting from a revitalized urban fabric.

“The biggest trends we are seeing in sportsrelated districts is leveraging future private development opportunities to create a mixeduse environment that is activated 365 days a year with entertainment uses, retail, office and residential,” states Nate Doolittle, .., partner and civil engineer, LandDesign, Charlotte, N.C. “It is about creating an environment that can be used year round, supporting parks and green space, allowing all ages and demographics to enjoy the spaces and energy of the stadium while not necessarily attending every game.”

WATCH OUTSIDE

Fans, tourists and neighbors can catch the Cubs’ game and other cultural events on a large flat-screen TV overlooking Gallagher Way.

Wrigley Field, Chicago Perhaps one of the most vibrant examples of this phenomena is the transformation of Wrigleyville’s “fraternity row” reputation into a family-oriented, year-round urban destination.

Spearheaded by the Ricketts family—owner of the Chicago Cubs’ real estate company Hickory Street Capital— Gallagher Way is a mixed-used entertainment district adjacent to Wrigley Field and Hotel Zachary is a trendy new hospitality establishment with retail and restaurant tenants along with Chicago Cubs’ memorabilia. The hotel itself

is named after Wrigley Field’s original architect Zachary Taylor Davis.

Replacing two asphalt parking lots and a former McDonald’s, Gallagher Way features a 30,000-sq.-ft. open air plaza with 8000 sq. ft. of green space and a sixfloor commercial building housing the Cubs’ front office.

Anchored by a large 47-ft. × 26-ft. flatscreen TV, lawn goers can view the action during the game, or stop by for movie night, an outdoor fitness class, listen to live music or stroll through an open-air market at other times.

“There is a vitality to the neighborhood that was unimaginable 10 years ago,” observes Eric Nordness,  and , Hickory Street Capital, Chicago. “Wrigley Field has been transformed from a beloved, yet outof-date relic into a world class destination.”

surrounding context, while responding to the city grid and pedestrian circulation; and creating a building that would reinforce the uniqueness of the site, while being neither subordinate or overshadowing; creating a vibrant civic

Overall, Rebel Roberts, , , , , practice leader for design, Stantec, Chicago, explains that the projects goals as “reinvigorating a historic cultural icon with modern technology, while being respectful of the past. Designing an iconic urban office building of a scale that did not overshadow its

PREMIER DESTINATION

A vibrant mixed-use development next to Wrigley Field is transforming the neighborhood into an active, sought-after destination.

NEW OFFICES/ RESTAURANTS/SHOPS

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As for Major League Baseball’s second oldest park itself, Wrigley Field already offers a new American Airlines’ 1914 Club, plus new dugouts, upgraded WiFi and overhauled concourses.

A NEW GREEN SPACE

As part of year-round activities, transforming Wrigleyville from a bar district to a family-oriented neighborhood are outdoor activities.

Currently, the Cubs are extending the upper deck to add concessions and restrooms, upgrading the visitor’s clubhouse, adding three new clubs, debuting a new bar near Addison and Sheffield, and extending the bleachers.

Sports memorabilia and Chicago Cubs’ nostalgia decorate the new boutique hotel across the street from Wrigley Field.

A NEW HOTEL

Named after original Wrigley Field architect, Zachary Taylor Davis, Hotel Zachary sports a timeless design to provide guests with an authentic, neighborhood experience.

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Next to Fenway Park, the new 1.3-million-sq.-ft. mixed-use Fenway Center will incorporate new apartments, retail and office buildings next to a renovated train station and a deck over the Massachusetts Turnpike.

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FENWAY CENTER WILL COMBINE:

Fully-funded, energy-neutral  Yawkey Commuter Rail Station, 1,290 parking spaces including 750 shared-use spaces, 500 residential apartments including 10% on-site affordable units and 5% offsite affordable housing contribution, 170,000 sq. ft. of office space, more than 90,000 sq. ft. of retail space, over 30,000 sq. ft. of parks and green spaces, bicycle storage and a bicycle share station, community space and a daycare center.

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Fenway Park, Boston Similar to Wrigley, development surrounding Fenway Park in Boston has also been designed to blend into the surrounding buildings.

For the 1.3 million-sq.ft. mixed-use Fenway Center—incorporating new apartments, retail and office buildings around a renovated train station and a deck over the Massachusetts Turnpike—The Architectural Team’s design is respectful of the local context and neighborhood fabric.

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For example, James J. Szymanski,    , associate with The Architectural Team, Chelsea, Mass., explains that the massing was designed to step up from Building 1, which is the furthest west and closest to the lower scale neighborhood, step up for the taller Buildings 2 and 3, which are in the center of the development, and then down to Building 4 along Brookline Ave.

a Red Sox or sports theme into the Fenway Center’s architecture and interiors.

Unlike Hotel Zachary, which celebrates Major League memorabilia, a conscious decision was made not to incorporate

But like development in Wrigleyville, Fenway Center seeks to introduce a “mix of uses” to attract visitors and

“While it is important to recognize the positive impact that Fenway Park and its visitors will have on Fenway Center, it was equally important that the development stand on its own and create its own unique identity within the neighborhood,” explains Szymanski.

residents before and after sporting events.

“As a transit-oriented development with an emphasis on public amenities and a vital mix of uses, the project aims to reconnect the city fabric and integrate new uses into the existing Fenway, Kenmore and Longwood Medical Area neighborhoods,” he states. “Combined with hundreds of units of new housing, these attractions create a true / community, which is the kind of environment that improves atmosphere for fans and leads to a more memorable experience.”

Sports franchises across the country are investing in reinvigorating their surrounding neighborhoods, but has this proven to be a successful strategy? Judging from a survey of residents and visitors coming to Gallagher Way, the new mixed-use development next to Chicago’s Wrigley Field, the answer is yes.

According to Eric Nordness,  and  of Hickory Street Capital, Chicago, more than 80% of survey participants agree that Gallagher Way has had a positive impact on their neighborhood experience and that the newly added dining options have made the neighborhood more appealing.

Furthermore, 72% agree the additional security Gallagher Way provided during non-gameday events has had a positive impact on neighborhood safety.

“More than just an exciting development, the project continues to delight fans, tourists and neighborhood residents while also being an economic engine creating commerce, delivering jobs and pouring millions of dollars into the local economy,” states Nordness.

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At the New England Patriot’s Gillette Stadium, southwest of Boston, Patriot Place is an ever-expanding development for shopping, restaurants, office space, hotels and a movie theater.

And at the TD Garden, currently under construction, is the Hub on Causeway, an

enormous development that will include office space, retail, restaurants, residential, hotel and entertainment venues. The approximately 2-million-sq.-ft. campus will occupy the site of the original Boston Garden.

waterfront complex called Lovejoy Wharf.

Key elements of the work included the reconstruction of a 30,000-sq.-ft. wharf structure into a new waterfront plaza, along with a 7,000-sq.-ft. pavilion.”

“The [BB&T Ballpark] Knights’ s tadium in Uptown Charlotte, .., is seeing that same effect and will eventually be a 360-degree experience, which is quite unique for a sports venue,” he observes.

“We’ve seen the catalytic impact of sports venue-related investment play out across Boston,” observes Szymanski. “Just a few blocks from TD Garden, thanks in large part to renewed interest in that area, TAT created a master plan for the redevelopment of a major mixed-use

Also of note is San Diego’s Petco Park, which according to LandDesign’s Doolittle, does an exceptional job at leveraging an emerging food and beverage district with historic character and creating views to the ballpark.

Meanwhile in Summerhill, just south of downtown Atlanta, Carter  is developing a mixed-use project enveloping the former Atlanta Braves’ Turner Field Baseball Stadium, now home to the Georgia State Panthers’ Football team.

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While Wrigley and Fenway are perhaps the more higher profile projects among this sports-driven urban revitalization phenomena, a number of other initiatives are also in the works.

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Uniquely Poised As to why sports franchises are uniquely-positioned to drive urban renewal, John Kirk, partner, Cooper Robertson, New York, outlines the domino effect of sports bringing crowds, crowds bringing disposable income and disposable income “spreading the economic butter more broadly.” “Like anchor stores in malls and museums in cities, sports venues are a draw—and therefore an opportunity to vitalize or revitalize a neighborhood,” he says.

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Always accessible by public transit, Roberts points out that urban stadium districts are intrinsically interwoven into a city’s fabric. “One might assume these projects are about sports,” he adds, “but they are more about creating an urban lifestyle, and making great places to experience our cities.”

For example, describing the Wrigley project as a story of urban place-making, Nordness outlines the goal as creating a “new” and energetic year-round destination for a great urban neighborhood.

These initial investments may focus on drawing more people to the venue itself, but this then drives the ripple effect of investment in new housing, commercial and retail uses, more effective transit and a better public realm. “This is an important trend, and it will continue as people look for compact, walkable development that provide opportunities to live, work and play,” concludes Szymanski.

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SOFTENED SURFACE A 4.2-acre public park and green space adjacent to U.S. Bank Stadium, the “Commons” includes seven areas of Porous Pave XL permeable pavement totaling 19,000 sq. ft. and 120 permeable tree surrounds created using 3,000 sq. ft. of Porous Pave XLS. The XL formulation is made from 50% recycled rubber chips and 50% chipped granite aggregate with a moisture-cured, liquid binder.

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Travel broadens the mind it is said. My latest sojourn to the City of Brotherly Love has restored, for me, a love for stone.

Amid the rush that a show involves, taking time to enjoy a place, I find, is good for one’s soul and mind. That said, in Philly, where I was at for Lightfair, I stopped to smell the roses—actually, alliums—outside the city’s Rodin Museum. The sculptor, of course, was renown for his works in bronze and marble—materials that lend themselves not only to the test of time, but a sense of tactile sensuality. I was also able to take in the city’s wonderful art museum, and was simply delighted by the architectural antiquities I discovered on its second floor, be it the ancient Chinese temple, the Indian arcade, the Sasanian

Budgets may not always allow it, but stone might bring a touch of the classic to a modern world in need of some history.

Gate, or the recreated medieval French chapel.

Three of the four vignettes included incredible authentic stone work; the latter featured another magnificent material—stained glass, of which I’m reminded of in taking in the decorative glass at the Indianapolis Airport on the opposite page.

This, of course, begs the question, are these materials still relevant—or affordable—today?

Clearly, the folks at Bendheim believe so. Tile and marble are also alive and well, Kohn Pedersen Fox Assocs., in the lobby of 579 5th Avenue in New York, for example, were on the same page as Rodin in cladding columns and a reception area in Polycor’s Pearl Grey marble slabs and tiles. Indeed, the most striking element of the installation is that the marble walls were scored and chiseled for a tactile experience. Perhaps the use of such materials is a bit indulgent purely for adding a touch of elegance, but for long-lasting impression—at least in strategic locations—it is hard to argue against these materials’ sustainability. Perhaps “repurposed” is another route.

Lithos (right) is one manufacturer re-purposing stone and marble to create some incredible textured wall cladding that looks—and feels—great.

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MARBLE RE-ENVISIONED The name Rilievo, which is the Italian word for relief, reveals the collection’s inspiration from the art of sculpture. Rilievo is the second collection of modular marble claddings by Lithos Design Domino, the company’s brand that targets a medium-high end market by revolutionizing the customary production methods associated with marble to offer a smart and unprecedented product. Six textures are available, including Polis (shown here), which offers a strong textured chiaroscuro effect in modular marble cladding. Dimensions: 45.7 × 45.7 × 1.4 cm. Materials: bianco cotone, carrara ghiaccio, bianco narciso, dhalia cream, botticino vaniglia, beige de marell, grigio cenere. Circle 279

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Back-painted glass is a growing decorative glass materials in airport design, cladding feature walls, hallways, bathrooms and retail spaces.

Another in-demand Bendheim glass is handmade Lamberts glass, used to create monumental art glass installations in North America.

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At Indianapolis Int’l. Airport, several expansive art windows, designed by Martin Donlin with Lamberts’ mouth-blown glass, create alternative views, obscuring the untidy tarmac landscape. The windows feature poems by local writers, entertaining travelers with thoughts about adventure and excitement.

SUPER ADAPTIVE REUSE An institutional honorable mention in Ceramics of Italy’s 2019 tile competition Wake Forest University’s 60-year-old gymnasium was transformed by RDG Planning & Design into a new building with expanded and renovated facilities for Student Recreation and Wellness, Student Health Services, and Women’s Volleyball.

Ceramiche Caesar’s Verse tiles (local distributor Virginia Tile) were a major design element, offering several color, size and décor options for a dynamic design, as well as incredible durability in high-traffic areas. Circle 387 Ceramiche Caesar

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MIXED MESSAGES MIX is a line of customizable mobile and wall-mounted markerboards. Developed in partnership with Q Design, the product-design-and-development branch of Chicagobased Whitney Architects, MIX was created as a multipurpose visual display furniture line that also can be used for mobile space dividers, biophilic walls or acoustic solutions.

MIX enables designers to customize virtually every boardsystem component—from colors, finishes and writing surfaces, to metal trays, bases and accent strips. Circle 383

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ACOUSTIC ABILITIES Kirei offers a series of systems that enable uniform mounting of acoustic panels with a variety of reveals between panels. The kit allows for easy and attractive installation of Kirei’s EchoPanel product line. EchoPanel is a decorative, acoustically absorbent panel with a felt-like finish, made from 100%  plastic containing up to 60% post-consumer content. The product’s range of options in terms of thickness, color, pattern and form allow for a high level of customization. Systems from  hardware keep all panels on the same plane without shimming; each style is outfitted with interlocking clips and extrusions, guiding the panels into position. Hardware options include the Shadowline, Universal Architectural, Open Reveal, and Recessed Reveal systems from . Trim finish options available include Clear Satin Anodized, Bronze Anodized, Black Anodized and Powder Coated. Circle 378

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REVEALING OPTIONS Cincinnati-based CR Architecture + Design opted for Omega-Lite aluminum composite material () panels as a contemporary counterpoint to classic red brick for a new fire headquarters and station in Plainfield, Ind. The panels’ one-Piece, Tight-Fit system offers easy installation using durable one-piece moldings in both “” and “Reveal ” options.

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THRESHOLD OF INNOVATION Lualdi’s Edge by Marco Piva, is a door and wall system born from the desire to shape an object that is usually considered “flat,” such as the door, creating a volumetric effect and providing a new visual importance with functionality.

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Stephan A. Levin Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building Integrating psychology, biology and behavioral sciences under a single roof, the new six-story Stephen A. Levin Building at the University of Pennsylvania features research laboratories, teaching facilities and more. The crown jewel of the Levin Building, located at the west end of Benjamin Franklin’s old stomping grounds, is its exterior envelope scrim resembling the organic movement of what happens inside—the study of biology.

“In all different scales of biology, man is studying a microscopic form that is being split or branched off from one form to another and a close-up view of the metal panels reveals similarly shaped branching forms,” said architect Sven Shockey, ,  , +, SmithGroup. “This transformed the scrim into a calling card for the building, an iconic symbol that gave a sense of the science going on within the structure and to resonate with psychological, linguistic and cognitive models.”

During the day the scrim looks like a white, lacy shell. At night, it creates a silhouette and the warm glow of light and activity in the building are visible to passersby. The sunscreen also offers a 50% reduction of solar heat gain during summer months, helping the building achieve a  Silver certification and a Gold/Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects–Potomac Valley.

“It’s an inviting academic building,” adds Shockey.

“Most buildings on campus are heavy masonry—the idea of this was to become a much lighter insertion to that context.”

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Sven Shockey, ,   +, Vice President and Corporate Design Director, SmithGroup, has led the planning and design of large-scale mixeduse developments across the U.S.

PROJECT SPECS

Project: Stephan A. Levin Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Owner: University of Pennsylvania Architecture: SmithGroup MEP: SmithGroup Structural Engineer: SmithGroup Lighting Design: SmithGroup Lab Planning: SmithGroup Civil Engineering: Pennoni Assocs.

Landscape Architecture: Christopher Allen AV & Acoustical: Shen Milsom & Wilkie Construction Manager: P. Agnes Photography: Alan Karchmer, courtesy of SmithGroup

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Exterior Panels Aluminum composite panels in Copper Patina are composed of a pair of aluminum cover sheets sandwiching a homogenous core material for surface flatness.

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“In order to encourage students and faculty to use the stairs instead of the elevator, we created an inviting stair with white glass walls to reflect light from the ground floor into the lower level. The connection is strengthened by continuing the same ceiling system,” Shockey said.

The intensity of the lighting is amplified at circulation areas, thus utilizing the ceiling as a wayfinding tool and mapping the flow of people as they move throughout the building.

Back painted white glass was inserted both here and other places in the building so that students can write on it with dry erase markers to collaborate together.

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“Part of this project was to connect the interior of the building to the exterior,” explains Shockey. “To visually make the building porous.” From the interior, a person can see friends/faculty walking outside and then also take a walk themselves right into the decades-old botanical garden. The idea was to bring the interior environment outside and the beautiful outside garden environment inside.

Ceiling Systems The metal and wood veneer panels, in a custom pattern, are hung with a concealed suspension system. They offer an NRC rating of 0.75 to 0.95, and are available in a variety of colors and finishes, including digital prints.

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Back-painted Glass is VivaStrata, which features precisely etched designs. In a single glass lite. Layer patterns have graphics interlayers laminated between the etched glass.

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This auditorium—used by the entire university— extends the biological references on the outside of the building inward with a cellular motif via bumpy panels. On the outside, the building gets natural light and shadow patterns, but in the basement that wasn’t possible, so the bumpy panels are edge-lit, adding light to both the ceilings and walls.

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Capitol Federal Hall School of Business The entrepreneurial spirit of University of Kansas’ School of Business inspired the design to promote multiple manifestations of “connectivity” through building shape, programmatic relationships and spatial weaving.

by John Mesenbrink, contributing writer

A collaborative effort between Gensler, the design architect, and GastingerWalker&, the architect of record, the building’s design turns the typical model for a new loop, “Programmatically, the typical academic model is turned on its side,” says Kevin Harden, , , managing partner, GastingerWalker&.

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Counter to traditional vertical stacking of faculty offices over student classrooms, the design places all users on the same level, creating opportunities for serendipitous innovation.

At the time, then Business School Dean Neeli Bendapudi, brought together key leaders to envision a place that

would launch the  School of Business into the next era and drive a new paradigm for the campus and other business schools globally.

“Serving as a catalyst for shaping connections between students, faculty and staff, and visitors, the building visually creates a crossroads for the campus

community and a destination designed for serendipitous interactions between the various groups at the school and the university,” says David Broz, principal, ,  , Global Education, Civic & Culture Leader, Gensler, Chicago.

Referencing the idea that serendipity is a key

ingredient in spurring innovation, the atrium serves as a connector between the major program elements of the building—including student labs, classrooms, faculty offices and conference areas, and even an unfinished “shell” meant to provide space for long-term growth.

Additionally, the atrium provides a variety of

informal spaces where students can gather, socialize, work or meet with faculty. “The architecture and design express open environments that support successful business professionals within a collaborative and business community—mirroring the corporate environments around the world,” says Broz.

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The Outer Skin The envelope of the building was a focus at the earliest stages of design, says Harden. The university has many limestone buildings, but it was understood, early on, that the project budget would not be able to afford a limestone clad building. “Therefore, we looked at precast architectural concrete with a finish and appearance of limestone,” says Harden. “Narrowing to this material, early on, allowed us to take advantage of the ability of panels to be insulated for a very efficient skin material.

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The building was enclosed with a combination of insulated architectural precast concrete and a highperformance Schuco curtainwall. “When coupled with the project’s myriad of other sustainability features, it surpassed  . performance requirements by more than 30%,” says Broz.

Working with erector Enterprise Precast Concrete, the precast architectural panel was specified as an insulated sandwich panel with 4 in. of extruded polystyrene insulation.

The building also has a significant amount of glass; however, the design created punched openings on the south-facing wall with large curtainwall expanses of glass on the north elevation. “Although, we selected clear glass for its transparency, we specified Vitro Solarban  with Argon gas for its performance,” says Harden.

The building has a significant amount of glass and the design created punched openings of the south-facing wall with large curtainwall expanses of glass on the north elevation. Vitro Solarban  was specified for its performance.

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Overcoming Challenges The design team was given a program, preliminary design and cost estimate for the project. A schematic design was developed that met the needs of this program and direction of design. When the design was presented to the cost estimating team, it was revealed that the design was 25% over budget. “We recommended to the university that a classroom utilization study be completed to determine if the number of classrooms proposed in the program were truly needed,” says Harden.

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From this study, it was discovered that the total classrooms could be cut by five, and the number of offices decreased by 20. The numbers were inflated to meet more than the current and five-year projected needs. Once the programming information was corrected, the building was redesigned to meet the actual program needs. “This real-life example shows how we have been able to address a situation, think quickly on our feet, and find a solution to a challenge all while staying on time and on budget,” says Harden.

Images: Gensler Description: The building features 166,500 sq. ft. of cutting-edge technology, 21 classrooms, a 350-seat auditorium, and more than 25 different collaborative spaces.

Flexible rooms, moveable furniture and a four-story central atrium allow for teachers and students to interact in a new manner.

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Gensler designed alongside its contractor partner, JE Dunn, and, at one point during schematic design, they sat with a prefab concrete company to understand efficiencies of construction and how they could achieve the design vision for the being cost effective. “The exterior wall system, with exposed concrete panels on the inside, was a slam dunk from a durability and cost savings perspective. We saved thousands of square feet of insulation, metal studs, drywall and painting throughout the entire building,” says Broz.

According to Vermilions, the pricing engineer, this project is one of the five least expensive business schools built in the last 20 years across the country. “This is a testament to a clear vision from our client, and a truly creative partnership between Gensler, GW&, JEDunn and our engineering partners,” says Broz.

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Effective Daylighting A pair of narrow floorplates abutting a light-filled atrium afford abundant access to natural daylight and views from anywhere in the building. Efficient window systems and glazing that allow good use of natural light and views to campus. Since the building is located towards the bottom of the hill that the main campus is located, the design team reviewed views and orientation of the building to afford the best use of natural light and views toward the main campus.

The north side of the building was designed with large curtainwalls allowing those views and letting in the ambient north lighting. For the punched openings in the south elevation, the precast concrete panels had sloped carve outs to recess the glass to soften the southern sunlight.

LIGHTING

When artificial lighting is needed, the task is handled by Philips  lighting, which is all powered and adjusted by occupancy and daylight sensors located throughout offices and classrooms to assist in energy savings while rooms are not in use.

COLLABORATIVE EFFORT

Officially, Gensler was the design architect and GastingerWalker& was the architect-of-record. Gensler, initially began working 90% of the job, and GastingerWalker& working the other 10%; but flow of the project inverted as the it moved along through construction documents and construction administration. “This allowed for a continual back-and-forth relationship where design ideas were immediately vetted for constructability, and design was continually reviewed through shop drawings and construction,” says Harden.

The collaboration of Gensler and GastingerWalker& was significant because it provided the expertise of the latter’s knowledge of the local market, and past experience working with the university, with the national education practice of Gensler. With both firms having higher education experience, says Harden, both continually challenged each other for better results and a design, ultimately, implemented and finished early, and on budget. GastingerWalker& facilitated this collaborative effort with all consultants pushing each other for better design solutions.

“Kevin and I have been working together for decades on various boards at KU, so our commitment and love of our alma mater was palpable to Business School Dean Neeli.

At some point she told us she knew we wouldn’t mess up because it was our school and we’d have to see it every time we came on campus,” says Broz.

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Onsite power was used through a central plant system used by the university. A separate chiller building with multiple chillers was designed as part of the project to function and support this area of the campus chilled water district for gained efficiencies. Additionally, recycling centers next to trash areas were created to allow users the best opportunity to participate in KU’s recycling programs.

Water usage was reviewed with specification of lowflow fixtures in restrooms and throughout the building.

“A green roof was designed outside of the Dean’s suite using LiveRoof tray systems; we integrated a composition of 65% red sedum and 35% green sedum for an aesthetically pleasing view from the building, as well as reducing stormwater runoff,” says Harden.

Efficient mechanical systems with energy modeling showing energy use approximately 32% better than  90.1 2007.

Mechanical design included a  unit and  building controls. The building was fully commissioned to ensure and improve energy efficiency and verify that the systems are operating as intended.

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Metal Fabrications

Univ. of Delaware Reimagined College of Electrical and Computer Engineering set out to create one of the most dynamic cyber ranges in the country.

CHALLENGE

By using non-traditional materials, like undulating coiled wire fabric walls and ceiling treatments, the new iSuite boasts an impeccable, award-winning design. Designed by Page, the former metal foundry turned iSuite includes a cyber range, collaborative hub and a maker space. Working with the college directly, the facility was designed using Page’s 3D printers and a student-created virtual reality model, developing a half-scale mockup to demonstrate that inverting the metal fabric would, in fact, be successful.

SEEING IS BELIEVING

University officials actually credit the innovative space with an immediate and noticeable increase in enrollment, projecting a certain image the speaks to students.

“We’ve seen metal fabric draped as a catenary before, but this is the first time someone has used Fabricoil in the ‘wrong direction,’” says Lou Krupnick, , associate principal at Page. “We reversed the fabric and used its tensile properties to produce a curve that way.”

The space features 750 sq. ft. of 5∕16-in. 15-gauge aluminum Fabricoil with a powder-coated satin copper finish. The resulting ceiling treatment produces “true curves,” with the coiled wire fabric wall constructed in a similar fashion. University officials credit the innovative space with an “immediate and noticeable increase in enrollment,” helping the school project a particular image that truly speaks to the students.

CRITERIA

“Coiled wire fabric really fit into the electrical genre of the collaborative space,” adds Krupnick. “The aesthetic capability and design opportunities with Fabricoil are boundless, and we are very pleased to have utilized the material in an all-new way.”

Hovering over the collaborative hub, the coiled wire fabric weaves through room-wide lights providing a well-lit atmosphere and effective light diffusion throughout the space. In addition, the coiled wire fabric walls add dimension to the space without obstructing views for students and faculty.

SOLUTION

Cascade Architectural’s Fabricoil is a woven metal fabric with material strength, ideal for interior or exterior applications. As demonstrated in the iSuite, Fabricoil allows architects to meet project criteria without sacrificing their design vision. Fabricoil products also carry Declare labels with the International Living Future Institute. The facility was recognized with a Construction Excellence Award by the Delaware Contractors Assn. for being the most technologically innovative project of 2017.

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Lighting + Controls

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The system can be monitored and adjusted in each room from a tablet or smart phone. The system also makes state compliance reporting easier and more reliable, and is virtually maintenance-free, using technology that achieves a 25-year battery life.

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UCLA Scores Big with Smart Lighting Retrofit The university’s athletics department featured a lighting control retrofit, which helped the football team’s operations and assisted in meeting California’s stringent energy codes.

CHALLENGE

Implement a lighting controls retrofit that would serve  Athletics, as well as help meet California’s tough energy codes.

INFLUENCE

Given Title 24’s stringent requirements, the most efficient light is one that is off. In fact, the quest to retrofit began when someone said, “Hey, turn the lights off.”

CRITERIA

An ability to control the football program’s film rooms, as the existing lighting was too bright, and dimming control in the auditorium.

in the auditorium, or other places where a speaking engagement may be occurring, dimming—even just a portion of the room—can be done via a physical or virtual switch. According to Bello, the system allows for scenes to be set; vacancy or occupancy to be tracked—even remotely, via Audacy’s mobile app or the audacycontrols.com web interface. Bello adds the system has the scalability to control a single fixture in a room all the way up to an entire campus.

Beyond its operational simplicity, the system is also simple to install and configure. In fact,  Athletics staff noted it takes less than 20 minutes to retrofit fixtures. Bello added IDEAL’s push-in wire termination technology was used, which allows any fixture to be turned into a smart fixture to be controlled anywhere an Internet connection is available.

SOLUTION

According to the Lighting Controls Assn., lighting can consume up to 40% of a building’s energy. With the company’s wireless control system, notes Nolan Bello, business unit manager, Audacy, the right amount of light can be delivered at the right place at the right time. “For the  Athletics lighting program, we were able to deliver advanced lighting controls into their auditorium, and turned their film study rooms into computer classrooms,” said Bello.

In fact, now everything is set up to automatically program lights to turn off when a room isn’t being used.

By default, the film study rooms only go to 50% on;

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One thing the university loves is scene setting.

For example, in a scenario where someone does not want overhead lights on above their head—such as for a presentation—but wants all of the other lights in the room on, the Audacy Scene Switch can trigger that scenario as a scene with the press of a button.

With another press of a button, the lights can go back to the default scenario.

SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS

As a result of the retrofit, and over a 12-month test period, the  facilities team consistently delivered at least a 35% reduction in total energy usage. University staff believe they’ve only just scratched the surface of what the system can do, and believe it’s going to revolutionize how energy is harvested and saved in California.

Bello is confident about the potential of the system.

“Changing building codes in states like California and New York are mandating large-scale energy management systems.”

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Green Walls

Living Wall Graces Atrium at University Science and Tech Center The Jack and Mary De Witt Center for Science and Technology at Cornerstone University puts creation and science on display.

CHALLENGE

The $15.5 million Center for Science and Technology is a three-story, 29,500-sq.-ft. academic building that provides a new home for the university’s science, technology, engineering and math () programs.

The center features a 374-sq.-ft. green wall.

CRITERIA

The living wall aids in providing passive biofiltration within the building. The LiveWall structural components were installed on steel studs anchored with standard fill plates 2 ft. in front of a metal screen that covers the building’s main cold air return. Four holes were drilled into the back of the system’s modular planters.

As indoor air returns to the HVAC system, the living material of the plants and growing medium filters the air and biologically degrades air pollutants.

SOLUTION

LiveWall indoor living wall system is one of the industry’s most sustainable, durable and low-maintenance living wall system. The center’s living wall was installed with two separate LiveWall structures (each 14 ft. 6-in. × 4 ft. × 10-ft.) with shared infrastructure.

“The wall was also wrapped around the corner,” said Jamie Benvenuto, design architect, ProgressiveAE. “Wrapping the wall around the side adds dimensionality and makes it more visible and prominent within the interior and from the exterior of the building.”

“The engineering and flexibility of LiveWall made it the right choice for the project,” said John Haadsma, commercial landscape manager, Katerberg VerHage, the landscape design/build contractor that installed the green wall. “Simple, minimal modifications to standard parts and installation techniques turned it into a passive biofiltration system without the expense of more complex and costly systems specially designed for this purpose.”

The Jack and Mary De Witt Center for Science and Technology, Cornerstone University Spring Lake Park, Mich.

Design Team: ProgressiveAE

“Horticultural expertise is a critical success factor for any living-wall project,” said Pat Zawacki, senior project manager, The Christman Co. “Given the aesthetic and functional purposes of the center’s living wall, it was important for us to have the experts from LiveWall working with us.”

A LIVING EXPERIENCE

Designed by ProgressiveAE and constructed by the Christman Co., the center opened in December 2018, and it includes seven labs, group study and faculty areas.

CONTINUOUS GREEN

The living wall systems were assembled so that from most vantage points in the atrium the living wall appears to be one continuous wall that spans the second and third floors.

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hen talking about design, the term healthcare refers to an incredible array of facility types. There are acute care hospitals, emergency departments, out-patient centers, cancer treatment centers, children’s hospitals, facilities for behavioral health, senior living communities that offer independent living, assisted living, memory care and more. However, as it relates to design, there seems to be unanimous agreement on the goal, regardless of the specific focus of the facility, and that is to make it feel residential and regional.

In its most basic form, healthcare spaces that feel like a home is challenging and far more complex than just capturing a residential flair. Every healthcare facility, regardless of its specific function, must prioritize the safety and wellbeing of the people seeking treatment within its walls. This tasks designers to create spaces that feel like a home, but are equipped to protect patients, residents, visitors and staff from the pitfalls and accidents that can occur around the

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house. It requires designers to have an awareness of the typical medical conditions of the people residing in the space they are creating and the insight to keep these people safe, even from themselves.

An example of a high-functioning facility that has been designed to feel familiar and resemble a home in scale, color, finishes and furnishings, while keeping its aging population safe is the Mooring on Foreside in Cumberland Foreside, Maine. It is a specialized assisted-living solution for individuals living with progressive memory loss. Situated on a wooded setting, this facility has been designed to replace even the hint of institutional care with the feeling of the traditional New England cape.

“The overall challenge for The Mooring project was to create a functional, residential scale, small house community with a New England cottage style aesthetic,” explained Deirdre Pio, director of interior design at Gawron Turgeon Architects. “We also had to offer the safety and durability necessary for the continuous 24/7 care the residents of this home need.”

As described on its website (www.themooring onforeside.com), “The Mooring’s layout, flow, and aesthetic is designed to minimize the challenges and anxieties associated with each housemate’s transition from home to assisted living.” As proof of their success, the Mooring was recognized by the International Interior Design Assn. (IIDA) in 2017 with a Global Excellence Award.

The design throughout the project is extraordinary. To demonstrate the care and consideration that went into the selecting the colors, finishes, and

The design of The Mooring on Foreside created a New England cottage style aesthetic that offered the safety and durability necessary for the residents’ 24/7 care.

furnishings, Pio noted succinct aspects about the flooring selection. “Safety, durability and cleanability were the key factors in selecting our floor for the Mooring project. We were also tasked with finding products that would blend nicely with the client’s vision of creating a residential cottage interior with tranquil finishes and an overall soft palette.”

Ultimately, they selected vinyl planks in a modern “greige” (gray and beige). The faux-wood finish added warmth to the interior aesthetic in the dining room, corridors, activity room and sunroom. The flooring selected for the private resident bathrooms, pictured above, provided the necessary slip resistance in a color that complemented the original design concept.

The following explores some of the design considerations unique to specific areas within different facility types that project teams should be aware of as they attempt to select solutions that achieve a homelike aesthetic, while delivering an institutional level of understanding, performance and protection.

PREVENTING SLIPS AND FALLS

In healthcare areas where contaminants such as soap scum, soaps and water are commonly present, preventing slips and falls is an important consideration. Slips and falls are a serious issue for both care givers and residents, especially when those patients or residents are seniors. Consider these statistics:

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• Falls account for 25% of all injuries among seniors 65 years and over. In some regions, that number is as high as 50%.

• One-third of seniors living in a senior living community experience one fall each year and half of those who fall will fall more than once.

• Among seniors, 20% of deaths related to injury can be traced back to a fall.

• One in every three serious bone injuries in seniors result in death within one year of the incident.

Technically speaking, slips occur when there is too little friction between the foot or footwear and the walking surface. The slip causes the body to shift off the center of balance and it results in a fall, if the movement and momentum cannot be corrected. This often happens on wet surfaces, or when a person is wearing wet shoes. The best tool designers have to protect people from slips and falls in areas where water is a regular presence, like restrooms and shower areas, is slip-resistant flooring.

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Flooring with a PTV of 36+ indicates a 1:1 million probability of a slip, if straight walking on a horizontal surface.

Floors with the slip-resistant aggregate found throughout the thickness of the floor will ensure an unchanged slip resistance quality throughout the life of the flooring product. When the aggregate is only applied on the top layer of the flooring, it can be worn away over time.

surface. “Antimicrobial-impregnated soft and solid surfaces are increasingly being offered by a variety of companies as a tool to reduce the burden of pathogens in a patient’s environment and the associated risk of transmission and the development of healthcare associated infections,” writes Sue Barnes, RN, CIC, FAPIC, in an article titled, Antimicrobial Surfaces as a Tool to Support HAI Prevention, published in Infection Control Today, (Feb. 13, 2017). “Microbes are known to contaminate and re-contaminate an environment immediately after cleaning, or even persist despite cleaning.” Manual cleaning, notes Barnes, though effective if performed per protocol, will never be perfect due to human factors. “Consequently, given the virulent pathogens transmitted via environmental surfaces, there has been increasing attention over the past decade on the development of technologies that are adjunctive to manual cleaning. These products are designed to reduce the number of microbes on surfaces that can be transferred by hands and inanimate objects among patients and healthcare workers.”

SLIP-RESISTANT FLOORING PROTECT AGAINST THE SPREAD OF INFECTION

Infection and the spread of disease are common, dangerous, and well documented, aspects of the healthcare environment threatening the health and wellbeing of patients, residents, staff and visitors.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately one in 25 patients contract a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) on any given day in the United States. HAIs are infections people get while receiving healthcare for another condition and they can happen in any type of health care facility. It is estimated that these infections lead to the loss of tens of thousands of lives, and costs the U.S. health care system billions of dollars each year. It is important to consider that people who visit patients, healthcare providers and anyone working in a healthcare environment can also be exposed to the same contaminants as patients.

Bacteria, mold and yeasts responsible for hospital acquired diseases, like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), grow exponentially in a favorable environment. According to the CDC website “MRSA can survive on some surfaces, like towels, razors, furniture, and athletic equipment for hours, days, or even weeks. It can spread to people who touch a contaminated surface and MRSA can cause infections if it gets into a cut, scrape or open wound.”

Luckily, the design of the healthcare environment can improve the safety of patients, visitors, and staff by equipping the facility with surfaces that help to protect against the spread of infection. In the article, “2019 Top Healthcare Interior Design Trends Modern Facilities Should Embrace,” the team at HMC Architects wrote, “Today, hospital designers focus not only on creating beautiful spaces, but also on using materials in those areas that protect against the spread of infection.

Healthcare facility designers often use antimicrobial coatings on finishes of hard surfaces and lighting that fights the spread of disease.”

SPECIFY ANTIMICROBIAL SURFACES AND PRODUCTS

Antimicrobial coatings contain biologically active agents that impart antimicrobial properties to the

Grab bars impregnated with an antimicrobial agent help to prevent the spread of infection in the healthcare environment.

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Designed to protect against slips, even when the flooring surface is wet, floors can earn an anti-slip rating, which comes in the form of an R-value. The “R” is derived from the Ramp Test (DIN 51130). This standard uses test subjects who walk on an angled ramp in a controlled manner over a flooring sample contaminated with water, oil, shower gel and other liquids. Results are achieved when the test subject loses balance and falls. The surface is then classified on an R-value scale: R9�R13.

Another test often referenced in the determination of a surface’s slip resistance is the TRRL Pendulum Test (BS7976 and also ASTM 303). The Pendulum Test is conducted by sweeping a rubber shoe heel over the flooring to produce a pendulum value measuring the potential to slip. The test is designed to replicate a pedestrian heel strike, the point at which most slips occur. Flooring will receive a Pendulum Test Value (PTV). According to the Health and Safety Authority (HAS), the national body in Ireland with responsibility for occupational health and safety, flooring with a PTV value of 0�24 is considered to have a high slip potential.

Flooring with a PTV of 25�35 is considered moderate slip potential and flooring with a PTV of 36+ is deemed low slip potential. In fact, a flooring with a PTV of 36 indicates a 1 in one million probability of a slip if straight walking on a horizontal surface.

It is important to select the right level of slip resistance for a space. When chosen correctly, the flooring can reduce the likelihood of slips and falls, regardless of the soapy, greasy or slick substance sitting upon it.

If a flooring is selected with too little slip resistance, it may be ineffective when it matters, but too much resistance can also be problematic as it makes it difficult for people with reduced ambulatory ability to shuffle upon the surface.

Another feature of slip-resistant flooring to consider is the way the slip-resistant aggregate is applied.

ANTIMICROBIAL GRAB BARS

There are a number of antimicrobial solid and soft surfaces emerging into the market: sinks, doorknobs, bed rails, paint, furniture, patient gowns, employee scrubs, privacy curtains and grab bars. Let’s take a closer look at how an antimicrobial grab bar helps to prevent the spread of infection in the healthcare environment.

Made of stainless or galvanized steel, the grab bars are finished with an antimicrobial powder coating that is custom formulated to incorporate slow release antimicrobial agents, such as silver ions (AG+). The agents are not topical. Instead, they are impregnated into the powder before it is fused with the metal and this increases the effective lifetime of the antimicrobial surface. When the coating on the grab bar comes into contact with moisture, silver ions are released to the surface. Silver ions penetrate the cell membrane of microbes present on the surface and create a reaction within the organism, which renders it inactive.

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ne of the great aspects of sustainable design, and there are many, is that so often the sustainable way of doing something is also the more strategic way. As the industry dives further into the definition of sustainable design and the best ways to achieve it, the quest is uncovering a way of doing things that often is better for everyone involved. The desire to reduce the total quantity of material used on a job is resulting in designers exploring new solutions and revamping conventional approaches that were unnecessarily wasteful.

An emphasis on energy efficiency has encouraged the market to create products that continue to push the boundary of how efficiently a building can operate.

New, more efficient products are creating alternative solutions to traditional design and construction practices that were problematic or unreliable anyway.

Beyond reducing waste and improving the efficiency of the built environment, sustainable design is creating

value in new ways, because new products and new approaches are replacing inconvenient or wasteful aspects of building. The market of sustainable design goods has also advanced to now offer solutions that are at least as aesthetically pleasing, or more so, than their less green predecessors, enabling designers to create beautiful and sustainable buildings.

This article will take a closer look at four conventional products, materials, and methods that can now be replaced with a more sustainable alternative that also positively impacts the overall aesthetic or value of the built environment. For example, conventional data and power wiring practices that leave most buildings over-wired and yet unable to easily accommodate tweaks in the layout of the floor plan can be improved by using raised access flooring and running the cables underneath it. The traditional built-up process used to construct the building envelope can now be streamlined with a modular panel product or improved with new rigid insulation board technology that packs more thermal performance into a smaller profile, allowing designers to return interior space to the usable floor plan. Product advancements enable designers to achieve new levels of sustainable design by redistributing the plenum, rethinking the built-up envelope, reducing wall thickness and rediscovering the versatility of the exterior.

New products, and the more sustainable design and construction processes emerging to apply them, create sustainable buildings with aesthetic appeal.

and HVAC ductwork through the overhead plenum of the building, raised access flooring features an elevated structural floor that creates an open space between the surface of the finished floor and the structural concrete slab beneath it. The size of the underfloor cavity can range in height to accommodate the intended use of the underfloor area. The raised access flooring surface is comprised of panels that are arranged upon a supporting understructure.

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4 Match architectural cladding with insulation, or alternately select factory-insulated panels, to satisfy code-mandated thermal requirements in any climate while still allowing the aesthetic flexibility necessary to create attractive exterior designs.

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3 Gain usable enclosed space, without increasing the overall designed footprint of a building, by eliminating bulky wall insulation, while maintaining R-value targets.

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Take raised access floors, for example. Instead of installing the flooring materials directly onto the solid substrate, and running all of the electrical, mechanical

Raised access floors are an elevated structural floor that creates an open space beneath the surface of the finished floor and the structural concrete slab beneath it.

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Distributing plenum overhead and underfloor can result in less total plenum area, which can enable a building to provide higher ceilings, without changing the height of the building.

with space both overhead, for lighting and fire suppression, and underfloor for power, data cabling and air distribution. The slab-to-slab height still measures 13 ft., but now the overhead plenum area has shrunk to just 6-in. tall and the raised access flooring has created an underfloor cavity that is between 12-in. and 18-in. tall.

Changing the distribution of the plenum to both overhead and underfloor has resulted in less total plenum area. The interior can now accommodate 10-ft. ceilings without changing the height of the building, and feature windows that are a full foot taller, inviting that valuable daylight exposure deeper into the building.

Raised access flooring can also improve the versatility of the ever-popular open office space. One of the greatest challenges designers face when trying to create truly versatile open office space is finding ways to distribute power and data to each functional area of the office, without the walls or rigid structural elements often used to house, and hide, the cables. Now, designers can run these services underfloor, providing all the necessary access points, while keeping the office floorplan wide open.

High churn rates are another issue with which the design of a commercial space must contend. In this sense, the churn rate refers to the annual rate at which employees leave a job. The rate of personnel turnover causes owners and tenants to regularly reconfigure the interior space, which means that facilities personnel need easy access to the data and power cables to be able to modify the wiring structure to match the latest layout. Raised access flooring offers facilities personnel a convenient solution for both accessing the network of cables, no ladder required, and the ability to reorganize the power and data access points quickly.

At this point, the benefits of running much of the power and data cable under the flooring, instead of overhead, are not often disputed. However, in the past, the limited finishes offered by raised access flooring manufacturers left designers forced to decide between accessibility and aesthetics. If they wanted accessibility, then the flooring surface would be carpet. Luckily, that is no longer the case. Now, raised access flooring is available in porcelain, wood, resilient, concrete, stone, Terrazzo, and, yes, carpet. Designers can now provide clients with the underfloor space they need for their extensive data and power cabling and the easy access to reconfigure that data and power network whenever necessary, without sacrificing the aesthetic appeal of the interior space.

Beyond accessibility, there are basic green benefits that can be realized when the items usually placed in overhead plenum space are repositioned underfoot.

Reducing the amount of materials used on a project is one such benefit. Conventional data and power distribution practices run these services through the ceiling and then down the walls or columns, where they are accessed approximately 18 in. above the finished floor. Running these items on the slab, under the raised flooring, allows each physical run to be dramatically shorter, which reduces the total amount of cable and wiring material that must be pulled throughout the building.

Raised flooring systems are also improving the quality and comfort of the interior environment as they are clearing a space for underfloor air distribution

(UFAD) systems to be used in lieu of the conventional ceiling-based air distribution systems. UFAD systems use the underfloor plenum space to deliver fresh conditioned air directly into the occupied zone of the building and then return the air at ceiling level. There is evidence to suggest the floor-to-ceiling airflow pattern removes heat loads and contaminants from the interior more effectively than the in-at-ceiling-level/ out-at-ceiling-level pattern typical to most overhead air distribution systems. UFAD systems have also been associated with improved interior comfort, as they are often configured with a larger number of smaller outlets that can be individually controlled, instead of the regularly spaced diffusers pushing conditioned air into a room from overhead.

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The Kellogg School of Management’s Global Hub at Northwestern University earned a LEED Platinum certification, making it the largest LEED-certified building for the institution at 415,000 sq. ft. The striking, fivestory, lakefront project contains classrooms, flexible learning environments, food service areas and offices that are connected by a massive multi-story atrium and clad with an expansive glass exterior.

Raised access flooring was incorporated to support accessibility and reconfigurability, increase daylighting opportunities, and effectively manage the changing educational and social needs of the students and faculty. Power and data cables were run below the floor with prefabricated modular plug-and-play hubs, which reduced installation cost and construction time, and the Global Hub also features an UFAD system to maximize energy efficiency and increase the indoor air quality and comfort for the over 1,800 students, faculty and staff in the Kellogg School of Management.

Toronto-based architectural firm KPMB designed the raised access flooring surface to have a beautiful and engaged multi-piece porcelain aesthetic inspired by the nearby Lake Michigan and the “action of water and waves, and how they round off materials and forms to make them smooth,” explained Bruce Kuwabara, a partner at KPMB. The installed design effectively captures the designer’s vision, while minimizing grid visibility and maintaining the access, flexibility and reconfigurability needed by Northwestern.

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the area underneath.

It is becoming increasingly common to run power, data, and voice cables in the underfloor plenum, instead of in the ceiling, in commercial buildings. Owners and design teams have two distinct motives for making this tweak in their designs. First, the extensive use of information technology and the power distribution to support it requires thousands of feet of power and data cable to be pulled throughout the structure and the more strategic placement of that tremendous quantity of cable can deliver benefits in both reduced materials use and improved flexibility. Second, current design trends, such as versatile open office spaces, commercial interiors with exposed overhead structural elements, and improved levels of daylighting, are more easily achieved when the overhead plenum can be reduced or removed.

Relocating the ceiling plenum services to underneath the raised access floor enables designers to kick the drop ceiling to the curb and achieve better daylight penetration in the interior space, an important metric for many projects attempting to satisfy the latest green building criteria. The depth that daylight is able to travel into an interior is directly related to the height of the window through which it enters the space. The taller the window, the deeper the daylight is able to travel into the floorplate, if unobstructed.

Raised access floors are able to increase the height of the windows that will fit onto a project by shrinking the amount of plenum space that must be reserved to provide the necessary services between the slabs.

Here’s an example that explains how less overhead plenum can equal greater levels of daylight. A conventional commercial building with a slab-to-slab height of 13 ft. will typically net interior ceiling heights of 9 ft.

Assuming that 12 in. to 24 in. are required for the structural support, that leaves an overhead plenum area that is 24-in. to 36-in. tall. Raised access floors can add interior ceiling height by using the space between the slab and the raised floor as a supply plenum for clean air. Consider the same commercial building, this time

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RETHINK THE BUILT-UP ENVELOPE

Another traditional design and construction practice, being challenged by the demand to achieve increasingly stringent sustainability criteria within a beautiful building structure, is the traditionally built-up building envelope. The envelope is designed to keep hazardous outdoor environmental elements, like water, out of the structure and effectively insulate the interior space, so that building systems can maintain a comfortable temperature set-point throughout the year with greater levels of efficiency. In order to accomplish these many tasks, the building envelope has become a complex domain that contains several different systems and components interwoven, sometimes haphazardly, between the exterior and interior walls.

The typical built-up construction process begins once the basic structure of the building has been erected. Then the building envelope is literally built up around those established structural components.

The various layers are commonly added to the project by unique subcontractors who fasten their respective barriers to the one installed before it. Over time, as new best practices and building requirements have added more and more elements into the building envelope, this largely unchanged built-up process has become full of opportunities for mistakes to be made that will compromise the performance of the building envelope. Barriers can be ripped or installed incorrectly, so they do not provide the optimal level of protection against moisture or water vapor penetration. Thermal bridging can occur, if there is a break or penetration of the building envelope that allows heat to move more easily across it, which can result in significant energy losses.

“Wall assembly deficiencies and weak points, like thermal bridges, may have a more detrimental effect on buildings that are airtight and have high insulation values,” explains Brent Trenga, building technology director at Kingspan Insulated Panels North America.

“In fact, thermal bridges can account for heat loss of up to 30% in buildings designed to achieve aggressive thermal performance targets.”

An alternative solution to constructing the building envelope layer by layer is to take all of the disparate parts and pieces of the envelope—the exterior wall, the moisture barrier, the vapor barrier and the insulation— and collapse everything into a self-contained panel solution that can be easily installed onto the structural elements of the building. That is the idea behind the development of insulated metal panels.

Insulated metal panels are lightweight exterior wall or roof assemblies that combine a high-quality metal cladding with a high-performance foam core.

The exterior metal skin creates an all-weather barrier.

The foam core provides an uncompromised layer of continuous insulation that can meet target R-values for even some of the coldest climates. In fact, the foam core found in some insulated metal panels can achieve R-values as high as R-8.0 per in., making them

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Moisture Resistant Single component, accelerated build speed can reduce on-site by time up to 50%.

Insulated metal panels are lightweight assemblies that combine a high-quality metal cladding with a high-performance foam core.

the most thermally efficient closed-cell insulation product available on the market. The interior metal skin provides an effective vapor barrier and the joints in the assembly are engineered to be airtight. With all these components working together, insulated metal panels prevent moisture intrusion and deliver the heightened thermal performance demanded by green building systems and energy-conscious owners alike.

These high-performance envelope solutions are also verified to be healthy. Over the past decade, there has been increasing scrutiny on the impact that a product or material can make in the interior environment and a growing awareness of the types of chemicals and ingredients that could be toxic and should be avoided. This has been especially relevant in the discussion of insulation, and products that contain insulation, as asbestos and even fiberglass have been shown to have damaging effects on the health and wellbeing of the people who occupy buildings that contain these substances.

A key tenet of sustainable design is that the indoor air quality must not be compromised by the building materials that make up the structure. In an attempt to help designers identify the products that contribute to a healthy indoor environment, and those that do not, many third-party certifications have been developed to verify the ingredients and performance of a product placed in the built environment. They include GREENGUARD certification, the Cradle to Cradle Material Health certification, and the Declare Red List classification.

GREENGUARD certification helps designers identify products that meet strict chemical and particle emissions limits. GREENGUARD Gold certification (formerly known as GREENGUARD Children & Schools certification) is earned by products that meet stricter emissions criteria and signifies that these products are acceptable for use in environments occupied by more sensitive individuals, such as schools and healthcare facilities. According to the GREENGUARD website (www.greenguard.org), “The GREENGUARD Gold certification requirements comply with the State of California’s Department of Public Health Services Standard Practice for Specification Section 01350 (California Section 01350) for testing chemical emissions from building products.

As such, products that have earned a GREENGUARD

Gold certification can be used to earn credits in the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS), LEED green building rating system, the Green Guide for Healthcare, the NAHB Green Building Guidelines, Green Globes, Regreen, and many other building codes, standards and specifications.”

The Cradle to Cradle Material Health certificate reviews the chemicals contained within a product and gives visibility to any Banned List chemicals present above the relevant thresholds as well as the presence of any chemicals that are known or suspected to cause cancer, birth defects, genetic damage or reproductive harm.

The Declare Red List identifies substances that the International Living Futures Institute (ILFI) believes should be phased out of production due to health and toxicity concerns. The Red List aligns with other authoritative hazard lists including the U.S. EPA Action Plan Published Lists, the REACH Substances of Very High Concern, and Cradle to Cradle Banned Lists. Products can earn a declaration status of Red List Free, Compliant, or Declared. Products identified as Red List Free indicate that the product ingredients have been at least 99% disclosed to 100 ppm, and do not contain any Red List chemicals.

Designers can find high-performance insulated metal panels that have earned GREENGUARD Gold certification, Cradle to Cradle Material Health Silver certification, and the Red List Free designation. Using these panels to create the building envelope can also help the project to satisfy various green building criteria related to the creation of healthy interiors, the efficiency of the building’s performance, the selection of products that have disclosed and optimized their contents, the selection of products that contain recycled content, and more.

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SFO AIRPORT CONSOLIDATED ADMINISTRATION CAMPUS

The new Consolidated Administration Campus at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is the new central office space for the organization’s administrative and technical departments, which had been located throughout the airport, making collaboration difficult. Co-designed by Perkins+Will and Mark Cavagnero Associates, in an airport industrial aesthetic, this 135,000-sq.-ft. structure had ambitious sustainability targets as SFO has plans to become a net zero energy campus by 2021. If successful, it will be the world’s first net zero energy airport.

The building envelope features more than 55,000 sq. ft. of insulated metal panels, provided in custom widths and lengths. “Insulated metal panels provide an ideal exterior cladding to meet a very high energy conservation target for this project,” explains Kang Kiang, partner at Mark Cavagnero Associates. “Additionally, the panels provide exceptional acoustic insulation properties, ideal for a site with close adjacency to traffic and plane noise.”

The use of these panels contributed toward earning LEED points for energy modeling and reducing energy use, using materials with recycled content, and safeguarding indoor air quality by selecting products with verified low-VOC emissions. Ultimately, the

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There is another reason that the typical structure of the built-up building envelope is being reconsidered.

Advancements in modern rigid insulation boards are delivering better thermal performance (increasing R-values) in smaller footprints. While mineral wool and expanded polystyrene (EPS) generally provide an R-value of 4 per in., new technologies are offering R-values of 8 and 28 per in., which is a significant improvement.

For context, the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), which defines minimum R-value requirements for the opaque thermal envelope, requires metal-framed buildings in Chicago—a climate with its fair share of cold weather—to be designed with enough insulation to deliver a thermal performance of “R-13 + R-7.5ci.” When using an insulation product with an R-value of 4 per in., this can require 3.25 in. of insulation in the wall assembly. The cavity size of the wall assembly can shrink dramatically when using an insulation product that offers two times, or even seven times, the insulating power in the same inch.

The ability to get the necessary level of thermal performance from thinner walls returns usable space to the floor plan, without increasing the overall footprint of the building. This can create real value for the owners. In an effort to determine how much value can result from reclaiming this interior space in commercial real estate, consultants Currie & Brown were commissioned to investigate. The team analyzed a database of over 70,416 commercial buildings.

The sample contained buildings with several wall construction types—masonry, metal framed, wood framed—and compared the valuation of the property

using conventional insulation in the walls and the valuation of the property if the new types of insulation boards had been used and the walls had been built up with a slimmer profile. 91.5% of the buildings studied showed a higher return on investment (ROI) with the thinner walls.

For example, consider a 5-story wood frame building with a specified R-value of 20. This would require walls to accommodate a thickness of 5 in. of mineral wool insulation or 2.56 in. of an insulation board product with an R-value of 8 per in. The walls containing the insulation board with the higher R-value can be 2.44 in. thinner than the walls containing the mineral wool insulation. In a building with a rentable area of 80,000 sq. ft., the thinner wall configuration would add approximately 500 sq. ft. of rentable space to the floorplan. At the market rate of $40 per sq. ft., the thinner walls would result in an additional $20,000 rent income per year.

There are various types of rigid insulation board technologies that offer higher R-values than the conventional insulation types and now enable designers to rethink the dimensions of a built-up building envelope. They are extruded polystyrene (XPS), polyisocyanurate, often referred to as polyiso, PIR or ISO, rigid thermoset phenolic and vacuum insulation panels.

Closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam insulation panels deliver an R-value of 5 per in. and offer a high resistance to water penetration. XPS can be used in continuous insulation (CI) applications, which creates an uninterrupted blanket of insulation around the building to prevent thermal bridges and improve air tightness. Dependent on the product, these technologies can be used under slab, in belowgrade foundation exteriors, inside basement walls, on exterior walls over sheathing, in green roofs, traditional warm roofs and plaza decks as part of the protected membrane roofing (PMR) system, or in the

interior walls with a code-approved fire barrier.

Polyisocyanurate is a rigid thermoset insulation that offers an R-value of 6 per in. Often used in walls, attics, and roofing, this rigid insulation board technology resists air, moisture, and water vapor penetration and is lightweight and fiber-free. This product uses a low-Global Warming Potential (GWP) blowing agent, which enables the insulation product to be installed with a lower greenhouse gas footprint.

Rigid thermoset phenolic insulation offers an R-value of up to 17 per 2 in., making it the thinnest, commonly used insulation product available. This technology resists both moisture and water vapor ingress and creates a layer of continuous insulation, making it a great solution for walls, floors, soffits, structural ceilings and concrete sandwich wall system applications. It also uses a low-GWP blowing agent, minimizing its environmental impact.

While the XPS and phenolic insulation foam cores have a closed-cell structure, which is a dense foam form reinforced with a gas that has a low thermal conductivity, rigid vacuum-insulation panels feature a microporous core that has been sealed in a thin, gas-tight envelope. This innovative design delivers a thermal efficiency that is up to seven times better than traditional insulation materials, offering an R-value of 28 per in., in a much slimmer profile. First used in refrigerators, freezers and cold storage applications, these vacuum insulation panels are now selected to improve the thermal performance in roofing, balconies, terraces and historic renovations.

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Installing spray foam in January in Chicago can be problematic. Unfortunately, that is exactly what construction teams were going to be forced to do during the build-up of a 48,000-sq.-ft. organic specialty supermarket in a northern Chicago suburb. Luckily, a new insulation technology was available that enabled the building envelope to achieve its target R-value, within the thin 3-in. profile of the specified wall construction, and without any weather-related issues.

The metal-framed, brick veneer, retail structure called for an R-value of R-20 and the wall construction detail originally incorporated spray foam. When it was learned that the installation of the insulation would occur in January, an alternative solution was sought because installing spray foam when

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Rigid thermoset phenolic insulation boards (R-value of 16 on 2 in.) replaced the originally specified spray foam, exceeding the R-20 target and keeping the project on schedule, despite cold Chicago conditions.

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temperatures are very low can be challenging. The suggested substrate temperature for the application of spray foam is generally 40°F or above. Freezing temperatures and the presence of ice or moisture on the substrate can cause poor adhesion and shrinkage of the spray foam, compromising the thermal performance of the assembly.

In order to avoid the common issues that can arise during a cold-weather installation, the specified spray foam was replaced with rigid thermoset phenolic insulation boards that have an R-value of 16 on 2 in.

The solution selected for this project measured 70-mm (2.76-in.) thick and fit into the limited air space in the cavity. It also created an exterior wall with a thermal performance of R-22, exceeding the R-20 target.

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ROOF RETROFIT ON 5TH AVENUE HIGH-RISE

The 34-story, high rise building on Fifth Avenue in New York was built in 1931 as an Art Deco style office building. In 2017, when a roofing renovation began, the building owner learned that the building would need to be retrofitted to achieve the stringent new energy standards in the New York City Energy Conservation Code (NYCECC). Layers of insulation would need to be added to the building envelope to achieve a thermal performance of R-30 now required and this posed considerable challenges and costs to the building owner.

The main issue was that increasing the thickness of the insulation on the roof would require that adjustments be made to several different elements in

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the building. The height of the railing system would need to be corrected to bring it back into compliance with current regulations and all of the door thresholds on the roof’s terrace would need to be raised to accommodate the rise in the roof’s paver system. In addition to the extra renovations, nearby rental space would need to be vacated for six to nine months, which represented a huge loss of income for the property.

Seeking a solution that would require fewer structural adjustments and less downtime, the design team began looking for thinner roof insulation solutions.

The rigid vacuum insulation panels offered outstanding R-values and an ultra-thin profile perfect for a project where a lack of construction space and depth was an issue. Using the vacuum insulation panels, the roof renovation was able to be completed with only the addition of the higher-performance insulation. Neither the railing nor the door thresholds required adjustment and renters were not asked to relocate while the insulation was installed.

In the end, the renovation increased the thermal performance of the building to R-38, surpassing the R-30 requirement, and the owners realized a total construction cost savings of over $1 million and saved over three months in construction time.

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The roof renovation of this high-rise building on Fifth Avenue in NYC was simplified and completed faster than anticipated with the use of the rigid vacuum insulation panels.

While the insulation in the building envelope achieves the code-mandated thermal performance and helps protect the health and wellness of the interior environment, architects can use the cladding of a building to create the distinct face of the structure. Architectural single-component metal panels are versatile materials that enable architects to create bold patterns and striking profiles in a wide array of colors.

The single-component metal panels are available in several types of natural and painted metal,

including aluminum, copper, painted steel, stainless steel and zinc. While most of the metals mentioned here are usual suspects in design and construction, zinc is emerging as an architectural metal of choice in the United States due, in part, to its comparatively low level of embodied energy and its widespread and long-term use in other parts of the world. Fresh-rolled zinc is shiny like mill-bright aluminum. As the material is exposed to air, humidity and pollution, it weathers and develops a natural gray patina, similarly to the way mill-bright copper transitions into a darker brown or greenish-blue appearance.

Whichever material is selected, these single-component metal panels can be used as flat wall panels or rainscreen panels to form the exterior skin of the project and many unique aesthetics can be achieved.

The flat wall panels can be used to create a standing seam appearance or integrated with roofing systems for roof-to-wall visual continuity. Architects can mix and match the unique profiles on the panels to develop visual interest through the combination of recesses, deep stripes and shadows that run across the façade.

Available textures, like a standard smooth surface or stucco, add further character to the building’s envelope.

When the wall panels are used as a rainscreen, the panel remains the same, it is just attached to the building in a slightly different way. In a rainscreen scenario, an air barrier or a cavity exists between the cladding material and the moisture-resistant water barrier layer of the wall assembly. While the panels deflect most of the rainwater, the cavity between the panel and the water barrier allows for airflow to speed evaporation, while also providing a means of drainage for the water that does manage to pass through the exterior skin.

Although physical panels are referred to as flat wall panels, the versatility of the metal panel material enables architects to use it as a canvas to create new and attention-grabbing architectural elements. Wall

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panels can be curved and bent, a feat that is nearly impossible with a non-metal, creating dynamic angles and ornamental features across the façade. The panels can also be perforated and used for privacy, daylighting, security, or as an aesthetic element.

It is important to note that creating a completed, finished exterior requires more than just beautiful, metal panels. There are several finishing accessories that pull the final look of the façade together. Trims, extrusions, mitered corners and custom fabricated pieces conceal the abutment of two panels or panel terminations and deliver a single-component metal panel system with a truly seamless, smooth and continuous appearance.

One of the reasons that this cladding can deliver such a breadth of architectural design solutions is that it is not constrained by being part of a larger system.

The single-component metal panel is a non-insulated single element, not part of a sandwiched metal panel solution that must encapsulate dense foam insulation.

Its role is concentrated on providing the finishing touch of the façade or the rainscreen, if installed in that way. The complete building envelope is a combination of the single-component metal panel façade attached upon a traditional built-up solution or a wall of insulated metal panels. Architects can choose the type of building envelope that best matches the needs and timeline of the project and still create a stunning building façade.

As a reminder, the traditional built-up exterior wall assembly begins with a substrate laid over the structural elements of the building. Then the air and water barrier is applied and a metal carrier track of steel or aluminum is fastened through the gypsum substrate to the structure. Fasteners use bonded neoprene washers to ensure the track remains thermally broken.

The selected insulation product is laid between the track in the thickness necessary to achieve the target R-value for the building envelope. Using a closed-cell foam ensures the insulation does not absorb moisture.

Then the single-component metal panels are attached to the tracks in either a vertical or horizontal position.

Joints in the panels can be sealed to provide maximum weather protection with minimal venting or unsealed

The exterior of the Fishtech Group headquarters, Winner of the 2017 Kansas City Business Journal’s Coolest Office competition, features corrugated zinc panels that wrap around the building.

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for a rainscreen-type construction with maximum venting through the panel joints and base.

The exterior of the Lycée Francais de Chicago (The French International School) paired a perforated aluminum cladding over an energy efficient wall of insulated metal panels.

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The Fishtech Group headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. provides a beautiful example of the impact that 18-gauge zinc panels can make on a façade when applied over a traditional built-up envelope. Fishtech Group is a data-driven cyber-security solutions provider whose new headquarters was recognized as the winner of the 2017 Kansas City Business Journal’s Coolest Office Competition. The 20,000-sq.-ft. building was designed for business and entertaining and features an Executive Briefing Center with a formal dining room and a wine wall, active glass for privacy at the touch of a button, two outdoor work/entertainment spaces so employees can get a change of scenery and inspiration, and Pepper, the humanoid robot, who helps with office tours.

According to BRR Architecture, the architects on the project, “The exterior form was developed around the concept of contrast—light vs. dark, warm vs. cool.

A white metal panel box was carved out to reveal the interior office environment and sits over a glass structure. Stone blade walls anchor the vertical circulation and serve as a base for the metal box. To drastically contrast the pristine white box, a corrugated zinc panel wraps the back portion of the building.”

Another approach that is becoming more common is the use of the insulated metal panels to quickly enclose the building in an energy-efficient structure.

In this scenario, the insulated metal panels are applied exterior to the structure of the building. Once the backup wall of insulated metal panel is in place, the single-component metal panels can be easily installed to the rail on the exterior surface of the insulated metal panel as a rainscreen.

There are many advantages to installing the dramatic cladding on top of the insulated metal panel wall. This approach provides true continuous insulation and unmatched R-values due to the system design. The speed with which the insulated metal panels can be installed enable the interior trades, like electrical contractors, to begin much sooner. The rail

on the insulated metal panel system can accommodate several different cladding types (ACM, brick, terracotta, etc.) so the design team only needs to worry about aesthetic concerns at material transitions and not the continuity of the air/water/vapor/thermal barriers. In fact, the insulated metal panels are ASTM 283/331 certified for air and water performance, unlike conventional built-up solutions. And, in this system structure, the cladding can be replaced at any time without disturbing the occupancy.

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Beyond the many performance advantages, placing a cladding over an insulated metal panel can create an interesting aesthetic. The Lycée Francais de Chicago, also referred to as The French International School, was designed by architects Krueck + Sexton and STL Architects (both of Chicago). The exterior of this project paired a perforated aluminum cladding over an energy-efficient wall of insulated metal panels.

Looking at the exterior, the cladding solution provides an intriguing level of transparency and uses the structural outline of the supporting insulated panels as an element of visual interest.

New products now available for flooring, building envelope and exterior cladding are enabling designers to revamp many of the traditional methodologies used to design and construct a building and create a more sustainable and beautiful project.

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Bringing Healthcare Full Circle Seven Generations Architecture and Engineering calls to improve quality of life for Native Americans.

Steven VandenBussche, +’s Director of Architecture at Seven Generations explains that preserving Native American health is a matter of appreciative inquiry into tribal culture.

A NATURAL CONNECTION

Architect Steven VandenBussche is leading the charge to revitalize the built environments to keep the next generation of community members with improved health. He also stresses the need for nature elements in interstitial spaces such as outdoor courtyards, in honor of the connection to the earth that tribe elders have.

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“Native American healthcare is in a state of crisis because many tribal citizens hesitate to engage providers as a result of generations of discrimination and abuse by the medical community,” explains Seven Generations’ + Director of Architecture Steven VandenBussche.

“By combining the power of purposeful design with collaboration among other key groups, we can facilitate better outcomes for tribal citizens.”

Seven Generations Architecture and Engineering, a Kalamazoobased firm owned by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, has aligned its vision for the preservation of Native American heritage with improving the quality of life of Native citizens through the built environment; specifically, healthcare environments.

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“Native American health services and medical practices are blighted and forgotten— they were forgotten years ago,” laments VandenBussche. It is only recently that— using their leverage in the gaming industry—these tribes have gained some financial footing. With that, typically, the first priority is to establish access to all forms of healthcare services, including dental, medical and pharmacies, reports VandenBussche. The Native population struggles with diabetes, obesity and mental illness.

“The largest portion of minority veterans are Native American,” he notes.

The ability to conduct culturally sensitive appreciative inquiries allows Seven Generations to hold space for environmental design elements familiar to Native American

citizens; for instance, specific colors, patterns and symbols may vary from tribe to tribe and region to region. “[Native tribal] culture is not something you can read in a book; it is all oral, so most of the research process is inperson and listening,” says VandenBussche.

Then that allows the firm to apply what it already knows as architects.

Another obstacle to Native American healthcare is low mobility; many residents of rural reservations must rely on friends, neighbors or public transportation to bring them into town. Those coming from quite a distance often bring the extended family and spend all day at a facility that houses dental, general practitioners, vision services and X-ray technicians.

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According to VandenBussche, “Those environments are where elders and young ones can intersect.”

Connecting people to natural features—a land, water feature or even a monumental tree—opens conversations about making the outside public spaces.

The most critical step to information gathering is developing a level of trust. Rather than coming in as the “expert,” the firm hosts Circles.

“Each tribe has a different take on the power of the circle within their tribe.” The firm’s deep tribal culture literacy creates architecture that encircles important elements of healthcare design with the Native American perspective of holistic healing, forming a newfound relationship between Native citizens and healthcare providers.

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