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no BYSTANDERS Is it Art? Is a new or rehabbed building at the level of fine art? That’s like asking, can your child be drafted for the NBA? Can you find true love? Can all of Vermeer’s surviving paintings really be masterpieces? Can you solve some of life’s most significant issues, today? The answer to all of these questions is yes, absolutely. And almost never. Today, more than ever, it requires not one person, but many. “no BYSTANDERS” is a call to action. In the case of determining a building’s artistic value, cultural context matters. How it reflects leading thinking in office, hospital, or restaurant design (to name a few) can peg it to the “art” history timeline of importance. Beyond a banal building. Beyond a designed environment. Beyond the individual visions and abilities of the architect(s), the owner/developer(s), the available building materials, engineers, contractors, consultants, and occupants. The ability to achieve the highest levels of design are now, more than ever, the result of effective “collaboration.” It’s what happens when people work together, each applying their own strengths and talents, to create something better than can be accomplished as a solitary act. Collaboration has shifted us culturally from an “emphasis on individual accomplishment” to “the work.” This issue’s cover is a collaboration dialogue starter on water. You engage in the collaborations accessible to you now, and those requiring effort, to more than solve current design and construction issues. Oftentimes with speed to solution. With that same determination, we confront the scarcity and preciousness of water, and how it impacts, and is impacted by the activities to which we have all devoted our lives. The buildings you create today will positively impact the environment. They will resonate as the highest art of our time. They will be more significant than just in the context of culture, they will be significant to human survival. no BYSTANDERS create the greatest cultural works for today. commARCH is determined to be your companion during your exceptional, almost impossible, quest.
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A Place that Merits Pause
Art Exhibit Examines the Architecture and Meaning of Hotels Edward Hopper, considered one of the most significant American realist painters of the 20th century, was obsessed with hotels and the occupier’s experience within the space. The Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond is featuring his work in an exhibition called “Edward Hopper and the American Hotel.” it is both thoughtful and enlightening. The exhibit includes the opportunity for guests to stay overnight within a portion of the museum.
the American spaces. In the beauty and the genius of Hopper’s hotels, motels, and apartments… he reminds us, there are places for pause. These in-between moments called hotels and motels in a landscape full of motion and transients and rushing from one place to another.”
Dr. Leo Mazow, Curator of American Art, who curated the exhibit, shared his thoughts about how the exhibit introduces new dialogue to the built environment conversation.
“With his figures of individuals sitting on the edge of a bed not knowing quite what they’d done, the world they’ve created for themselves and here they are enclosed in an apartment or the resort room. A hotel. What exactly has transpired?”
“Hopper thinks about figure ground relationships. To be more specific, Hopper is very interested in how people at once engage and disengage from their architectural settings… Remember that in the most obvious sense, many of the spaces you’re looking at are commercial properties.”
“You see people in varying degrees of detachment from their place. You are not sure whether they’re in a drive-by space or they’re in the permanents. The place that merits pause.”
“A place and a space are two different things. A space is a physical entity to be sure, it’s often something you go through, but it’s something that one does not necessarily have intimate engagement with. Space is motion. Place is pause.” “We see the places that give us a breath allow us to come up for air as we go through commARCH // 7
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F E A T U R E S SPECIFY WITH CONFIDENCE Program and standards help architects select the right products Page 16 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS Poorly done roofing details can shorten the lifespan of your roof Page 22 WATER FACTS We’re facing a water crisis. Here are the facts Page 40 COLLABORATION AND CURIOSITY The Bioscience Innovation Building enhances the culture at Purdue University Northwest Page 46 DESIGNING WITH, RATHER THAN FOR Children have zero political power other than by proxy; Cherry Valley Elementary School changes this dynamic Page 56 SPECIAL Breathing new life into an iconic Danish windmill Page 76
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How the WDMA Hallmark Certification Program & Standards Help Architects Select the Right Products By Michael O’Brien
Core standards for selecting windows, doors and skylights include NAFS and the WDMA Architectural Door Standards – here’s what you need to know. When it comes to specifying critical building components, architects rely on products and materials certified to standards that establish the levels of performance, durability, quality and safety required of them – and certification programs ensure manufacturers are creating the products that architects need. The WDMA Hallmark Certification Program is a third-party, independent program that allows manufacturers and suppliers of windows, doors and skylights to demonstrate compliance with industry performance standards and building code requirements. Dating back to the 1930s, the WDMA Hallmark Certification Program was established through consensus of academia and industry, and is currently accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to the ISO/IEC 17065 Conformity Assessment Requirements for Bodies Certifying Products, Processes and Services.
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Better Products, Higher Performance The WDMA Hallmark Certification Program provides architects with the promise of “Total Product Performance.” This ensures manufacturers and suppliers of windows, exterior doors and skylights comply with referenced air, water, structural and impact performance standards, as well as the specified materials and components requirements. Many certification bodies ensure products comply with building code requirements, but not every certification entity goes beyond this. That means two different code-compliant products can vary widely in quality and performance. The WDMA Hallmark Certification Program indicates both compliance and high performance. Architects can rest assured they are installing or specifying a product of the highest quality with certified performance – not just a product that conforms to the minimum building code requirements. One of the most important standards for ensuring exterior window, door and skylight products, material and components conform to building code requirements and test protocols is the North American Fenestration Standard (NAFS). Setting a High Bar: NAFS Standards for Exterior Products The International Building Code requires all exterior windows, sliding doors and side-hinged doors to be tested and labeled as complying to the AAMA/WDMA/CSA 101/I.S.2/A440 North American Fenestration Standard (NAFS). The NAFS Standard specifies the testing requirements various products must meet to achieve a specific performance rating and performance class and commARCH // 18
is applicable to all fenestration products other than curtain wall and store front. Manufacturers whose products are in compliance with the NAFS standards are permitted to label their products to indicate a product has been tested and certified to meet the code requirements. There are five primary performance requirements that the NAFS standard applies to all windows, doors and skylights. Products certified to the NAFS standard must ensure the fenestration meets the applicable design loads of the building codes (wind, snow, dead load, etc.). Equally important is making sure the windows, doors and skylights meet the minimum water penetration resistance and air infiltration/exfiltration requirements, followed by forced entry resistance and maximum operating forces for the applicable products. The NAFS standard establishes the levels of performance a product must achieve, regardless of the material used in the design of the frame, sash or panel. The standard outlines various “performance grades” that a given product can achieve and signifies if the product has achieved a higher uniform structural load capability and passed higher water resistance testing. This is particularly important when the building is located in coastal areas or exposed to higher-than-average wind pressure. NAFS Leads to Quality Exterior Products As architects know, fenestration products have multifunctional purposes: protecting from the weather outside; providing daylight, ventilation and connection to the outdoors; boosting energy efficiency; ensuring easy entry into and exit from the building; and maintaining building security and occupant safety, among others.
To ensure they achieve these goals, windows, doors and skylights are subjected to a series of performance tests that determine their strength as well as their water and air resistance performance. The results of these tests determine the performance classification category under which the product will fall. The current version of NAFS has four basic “Performance Classes” under which a fenestration product (excluding unit skylights, roof windows and tubular daylighting devices) can be classified. These performance classes are designed to assist architects in selecting products within the appropriate class, based on the intended design of the building. R: commonly used in one-and two-family dwellings. LC: commonly used in low-rise and mid-rise multi-family dwellings and other buildings where larger sizes and higher loading requirements are expected. CW: commonly used in low-rise and mid-rise buildings where larger sizes, higher loading requirements, limits on deflection and heavy use are expected. AW: commonly used in high-rise and mid-rise buildings to meet increased loading requirements and limits on deflection, and in buildings where frequent and extreme use of the fenestration products is expected.
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To be classified in one of the above mentioned categories, the fenestration product must be tested at a certain size (known as Minimum Gateway Testing Size) and meet specific parameters for performance grade (PG), design pressure (DP) and structural test pressure (STP), along with certain air infiltration and water penetration resistance levels. While most consumers and designers may focus on the aesthetics of the fenestration product, architects know that the quality of the product is determined by its performance. Knowing the geographic wind speeds, building exposure and building height is key to specifying the appropriate product class and performance grade of the window, door or skylight from a structural performance perspective. Air infiltration and water resistance also determine how the fenestration products will perform. For example, while a window with a certain design pressure may perform well from a structural standpoint in a coastal area by meeting the structural load requirements, an architect may want to consider specifying a higher performance grade to increase the water and air infiltration resistance performances. More Than Just Exterior Products, WDMA’s ANSI-Accredited Standards for Interior Architectural Wood Doors By design, architectural doors are some of the most frequently used and abused building components in today’s commercial construction. Not only do they need to provide design and aesthetic qualities, but they also must be rugged enough to withstand daily wear and tear from closing, opening and the occasional slamming, so building owners and architects expect them to have durable, high-quality veneers and finishes that last the life of the building. Ask any architectural wood door manufacturer how they achieve this durability and performance, and most will tell you it’s the result of constructing the door in accordance with either the ANSI/WDMA I.S.1A Industry Specification for Architectural Wood Flush Doors or the ANSI/ WDMA I.S.6A Industry Specification for Architectural Wood Stile and Rail Doors. Both of these standards contain all the information necessary to identify the desired performance duty levels, wood face veneer and finish systems for architectural wood doors, as well as the requirements they must meet accordingly. The standards also provide critical guidance for the storage and handling of the doors at the jobsite. Selecting the Right Duty Level The first consideration in selecting an architectural wood door that will ensure high levels of performance and durability for the lifetime of the building is knowing how and where the door commARCH // 20
will be used, so the proper duty level can be determined. The standards set three duty levels and the requirements for each level: Extra Heavy Duty: This duty level is intended for doors that will be subject to the most frequent and extreme usage, such as doors to classrooms, hospital patient rooms, public bathrooms and trauma centers. These doors are constructed to the highest performance standards. Heavy Duty: This duty level is intended for doors that are not going to be used in high-traffic areas, but must still meet the standards for intermediate usage under moderate conditions. These would include doors leading to areas such as stairwells, mechanical rooms, hotel rooms, apartments and medical examination rooms. Standard Duty: This covers the remainder of door usages reserved for areas within a building where usage is the least frequent, such as low-usage office spaces, private bathrooms, closets and storage rooms. Proper Veneer Selection and Finish The final aesthetics of the door are completely dependent on the species of wood, the cut of the veneer, how the veneer is matched on the door (book, random, etc.), and the grade of the veneer, which can vary from custom to premium. Premium grade is the finest commercial-grade material and is intended for use in the most luxurious commercial, industrial and institutional buildings, where the quality of the finish must match perfectly with the door’s surroundings. Custom is intended for high-quality work, where minor imperfections of the wood veneer are within specified tolerances that are acceptable to the architect. Choosing the right grade and finish goes hand in hand with creating an aesthetically pleasing, well-designed door; it’s also recommended to add a protective coating to withstand frequent use of commercial cleaning agents. By using the guide specification checklist in the architectural wood door standards, architects can select the pertinent information needed to assure the desired finish and veneer quality of the door is properly conveyed to the manufacturer. Better Products, Higher Performance The WDMA Hallmark Certification Program provides architects with the promise of “Total Product Performance.” This ensures
manufacturers and suppliers of windows, exterior doors and skylights comply with referenced air, water, structural and impact performance standards, as well as the specified materials and components requirements. Many certification bodies ensure products comply with building code requirements, but not every certification entity goes beyond this. That means two different code-compliant products can vary widely in quality and performance. The WDMA Hallmark Certification Program indicates both compliance and high performance. Architects can rest assured they are installing or specifying a product of the highest quality with certified performance – not just a product that conforms to the minimum building code requirements. Michael O’Brien is president and chief executive officer of the Window & Door Manufacturers Association (WDMA), the national trade association for the window, door and skylight industry. Mike has over 30 years of experience in housing and building industry trade associations.
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Poorly done roofing details can shorten the lifespan of your roof By Jay Thomas, Building Technology Editor A roof construction detail is a smaller section of the overall roof shown at a larger scale in order to depict how the components fit together. Typical roof details include drains, penetrations and edges. Compared to the overall size of a roof, the details account for a small portion of the square footage but a large percentage of the problems. Roof details often include a large proportion of membrane seams which is where a majority of roofing problems occur. Avoiding problems is a matter of understanding best practices, providing clear detail drawings, setting expectations with the applicator and having clear lines of communication.
Lovato adds that proper flashing to the top of the scupper collector boxes is also critical. “I often see this left wide open,” he says. “This will lead to water intrusion. The water can get behind the collector box, make it to the scupper sleeve and then back inside the building.”
I spoke with roof expert Nick Lovato, senior vice president of Bluefin LLC in Denver, to learn the most common problem details and his recommendations for providing quality design and installation.
Drains Roof drains play an important role in quickly moving water off of a low-slope roof. Ponding water can accelerate the deterioration of the roofing membrane and exceed the weight limit of the building structure. The design of the drain detail is critical due to the frequency and volume of water that this part of the roof is subject to. “Leaving the roof drain detail to the discretion of the roofer can lead to poor installation,” says Lovato. “Often the roofing contractor will simply shave down the insulation eight inches from the drain and pull the membrane tight to the drain to act as the flashing.” Lovato said that is not a good drain detail, because it leaves the membrane bridging and susceptible to stress and hail damage. “When the membrane is under stress it is more susceptible to UV degradation,” he continues. “A better detail is to set the drains 2 inches below the finished elevation of the roof and use tapered insulation to make a nice gradual sump that will draw the water into the drain. You avoid bridging of the membrane and have very little if any ponding water.”
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“This is an area that I always pay close attention to at final inspection,” says Lovato. “There are a lot of 90-degree angles and flashing to different materials. You have one chance of getting it right.” Contractors frequently forget to flash to the outside wall weather barrier, according to Lovato. “I often see an attempt to seal to the exterior brick or siding wall cladding,” he says. “Eventually, the sealant used will fail and water will enter the building envelope.” It is important that the scupper sleeve be flashed and sealed at the plane of the weather barrier. This will require coordination between the building envelope trades.
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One of the most problematic details for any membrane roof is the low-profile gravel stop, (a.k.a. fascia or drip edge), where water cascades over the edge of the roof. The following problems often occur with this detail:
In the list of roofing do’s and don’ts, mounting of rooftop equipment looms large. “When mounting small heat pumps on top of metal cap curbs, don’t let the contractor run a lag bolt through the metal cap because that becomes an avenue for water,” says Lovato. “The water is going to go under the equipment foot and then hit the screw hole and come into the curb. A better approach is to mount the equipment to two parallel rails that are anchored to either side of the curb with an L-shaped bracket.”
i. Fissures often occur at lap joints shortly after their application, due to fatigue caused by expansion and contraction of the metal, particularly when the deck flange is not adequately restrained by nails. ii. The membrane flashing or stripping sometimes delaminates due to improper application, (e.g.: lack of primer or poor adhesion). iii. Pinholes will occur at lap joints along the deck flange due to bridging and lack of adhesion. iv. Water can seep through “dry” lap joints in the metal gravel stop when sealant or mastic is not bedded in the lap. Leaks are exacerbated when the gravel stop has a high profile that dams water. v. Corrosion of the exposed galvanized metal, resulting in pin-holes. vi. Proper closures are not provided at the naked end of the base flashing where the eave meets an adjacent wall (see figure below:)
Odd Shaped Roof Penetrations Any odd shaped penetration through the roof can be a challenge to detail and a potential for problems if not addressed correctly. Clusters of pipes and Unistrut are two typical examples.
These deficiencies will allow water to infiltrate into the roofing system and building. For this reason, Lovato says a gravel stop edge detail demands greater maintenance than other areas of the roof system. This perimeter detail should be inspected more thoroughly and repaired as needed to prevent water intrusion through the building envelope. A gravel stop or drip edge flashing at a gutter is a vulnerable detail that requires a specific design to avoid problems. First, the deck flange should be fastened to the perimeter blocking four-inch on-center with pan-head ring-shank nails. Next, the lap joints should be sealed with a non-skinning sealant. And finally, the vertical lip should be secured with a continuous hook strip that is nailed a maximum of six-inch on-center along the face to prevent wind damage. commARCH // 24
“Other trades will run these things through the roof and assume that the roofing contractor will figure out how to waterproof this,” says Lovato. “Often the go-to solution is the two-piece pitch pocket. This detail is prone to problems, is an ongoing maintenance issue and frequently not included under the manufacturer warranty. I try to avoid them wherever possible.” Pitch pockets rely on two-part epoxy resin. If not mixed correctly the resin never sets up properly and then can shrink away from the sides of the pan or penetration resulting in an avenue for water intrusion. “A better detail for pipe clusters is a hooded curb,” says Lovato. “This approach results in a much easier to waterproof box shape. It is definitely a best practice for these difficult roof penetrations and pipe clusters.”
Regardless of the quality of the roof details, problems will still occur without good communication and setting clear expectations with the roofing contractor. “Just designing the details correctly is half the battle,” says Lovato. “The rest has to do with making sure that communication is good and expectations are clearly explained.” Lovato says a lot of contractors are used to doing things a certain way. Their attitude is that as long as the manufacturer guarantees the roof, that’s good enough. “They need to understand that if the detail is not done per the drawing then they will have to tear it out and do it again,” he continues. “I think if the project managers and superintendents from the roofing contractor understand what is expected then they will carry through with it. But if the communication is poor you could end up with a mediocre job at best.” Lovato is very sensitive to the fact that during the submittal process things can change. The interpretation of the intent of the specification can change when the contractor gets a set of submittals back. An experienced reviewer such as a consultant or an architect will know when a contractor is trying to cheapen the job or do something that wasn’t part of the intent in the specification.
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Amba Heated Towel Racks Help Luxury Hotel Achieve Sustainable Comfort and Style Located in New York City at the corner of 77th Street and Madison Avenue, The Mark Hotel has old-world sophistication and New York flare in abundance. This beautiful 1927 landmark features interiors by French designer Jacques Grange, with furnishings by French painter Guy de Rougemont and American designer Vladimir Kagan. The Mark is adding sustainability to comfort through the use of Amba Heated Towel Racks in all of its guest bathrooms. Heated towel racks add a stylish and functional accent to any bathroom and are extremely practical as they use much less energy than a standard clothing dryer. “The Mark bathrooms are designed to create a truly relaxing experience to help the guest prepare for their day ahead and unwind in the evening,” said Karolina Swierk, director of housekeeping at The Mark. “After a long day in New York City, guests enjoy having a warm towel to dry off with. The addition of the heated towel racks adds a touch of opulence to our bathrooms which guests thoroughly enjoy.”
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Crystal Windows Crystal Windows Manage Energy and Noise at New High-Rise Development in Queens National manufacturer Crystal Window & Door Systems recently provided nearly 2,000 high-end energy efficient aluminum windows and doors for the newly constructed, award-winning Alvista Towers at 147-20 94th Avenue in Queens. Working with the architect and developer team, Crystal offered window and glass specification options to efficiently meet the complex design criteria. “Because of the location so close to the LIRR train station and train lines operating 24 hours a day, the Crystal window products had to meet noise reduction as well as energy efficiency requirements,” said Crystal project manager and sales executive James Yang. “While Crystal supplied its own IGUs for the upper part of the building, for the lower floors closest to the trains, we worked with a special glass supplier to provide custom laminated, dual-pane, insulated glass units (IGUs) that achieved the sound abatement design specs required.” Alvista Towers features 380 affordable mixed-income rental apartments in studio, 1-, and 2-bedroom sizes, with many resident amenities such as a lounge, business center, children’s playroom, fitness center, laundry facilities, and a rooftop deck.
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Landscape Forms Celebrating 50 Years Celebrating 50 years of designing site solutions for outdoor environments, Landscape Forms introduces Generation 50, a line of benches and litter receptacles that is a modern interpretation of several of the company’s classic designs. Getting at the essence of form is the landscape designer’s goal. Generation 50 reflects that thinking in its simplified design and straightforward construction.
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Designtex Healthcare Textiles Biophilia 2.0 is the newest collection of healthcare textiles from Designtex. Ten woven and coated textile designs feature large gestural motion, geometric shapes, and various construction techniques â&#x20AC;&#x201C; printing, yarn floats, embossing, and expansive box motions. The collection offers an extensive mix of various hues, while staying true to the inspiration source with deep, complex neutrals, rich, earthy tones and colors with a sense of diffused light. By applying materials that reconnect us with our natural world, healthcare spaces become more humanized and provide lasting therapeutic support for patientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psychological and physical well-being.
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LG Transparent Signage LG has unveiled their new Transparent OLED displays that illuminate the spaces that were once hidden behind signage, completely harmonizing with its surroundings. The razor-thin, see-through signage helps designers create unique visual experiences in hotels, restaurants, stores, and more. LG Transparent OLED signage overlays images and text in front of the space behind. Its unrivaled picture quality brings content to life through OLED technology and self-lighting pixels, maintaining accurate and vivid colors even when transparent.
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Allsteel Collaborative & Social Spaces Park by Norm Architects, a new collection from Allsteel Inc., creates a portfolio of products that approaches collaborative environments in a new and innovative way. After extensive evaluation of the traditional open plan, it was concluded that collaborative and social spaces are the first to be reduced or eliminated to make room for organizational growth. Social spaces disappear and products lose their place and ultimately become unused rather than repurposed. Norm Architects has designed a collection of soft seating, tables, storage and accessories that provides the ultimate solution to this ongoing challenge.
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Fritz Hansen Upcycled Chair With unique eco-friendly material and intriguing design inspiration, the N02 Recycle succeeds in redefining household waste as we know it. Made from upcycled plastic, N02 Recycle is a new, all-purpose chair. Designed in collaboration with Japanese studio nendo, the N02 Recycle is Fritz Hansenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first chair produced in colored, recycled polypropylene. Strong and stackable, its design was inspired by a simple crease in paper, one that is mirrored in the chairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shell. Available in 7 colors with multiple leg options.
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ACULTURE
urdue University Northwest Bioscience Innovation Building
OF COLLABORATION A ND CURIOSITY Purdue University Northwest Bioscience Innovation Building
At Purdue University Northwest, Cannon Design was tasked with the challenge of creating a building for nursing, biology, and general education classrooms. More importantly, the building needed to enhance the learning culture on campus.
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Project Background Purdue University Northwest is located in Hammond, Indiana. The campus was first established in 1951 and has continued to grow over the decades. Most of the instructional buildings on the campus are clustered together in the northwestern quadrant of the campus and are connected together by the “Peregrine Path.” A patchwork of green spaces weave around the buildings and culminate in a large open space north of the Student Union and Library Building. This open space serves as the campus ‘quad’and wraps around the SULB on the west and south, characterized by clusters of large mature trees, pathways, and sculptures. A future master plan will address the opportunities to grow the campus in this area, and make a more successful connection of the north and south ends of the campus. The siting of the Bioscience Innovation Building will be an important component of the master plan and will serve as a new gateway into the heart of the campus.
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Concept, Design, Vision To grow a culture of curiosity and collaboration, the building is organized around a three story lobby that serves as a central gathering hub connecting conference and classroom space on the west, with instructional space and labs on the east. The focal design element in the lobby is a grand stair that connects each floor and encourages movement of students and faculty up and down the building. Off the stair, at each floor are open spaces that encourage informal interaction with small seating clusters, worktables, writing surfaces on walls, and potential technology with interactive touch screens. Glass walls will separate the atrium from the adjacent labs and instructional spaces, showcasing activity and instruction occurring within the building.
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Chance Encounters
Jacob Lenson, Purdue University Northwest: “We put two components in this building, nursing and biology, which we thought had a strong connection. We thought it would create chance encounters amongst students that may not ever work together. So it was very important not to segregate them by floor or by area but to intermix them throughout the building.”
Growing a Culture
Robert Benson, Cannon Design: “It was really important to grow a real culture. And the sciences are emerging. There are lots of jobs and opportunities. So to increase the amount of students interested in the sciences we wanted to make sure that we were growing a culture.”
Circulation Creates Growth
Benson: “Bacteria is a good metaphor. You have to arrange the bacteria in a certain way in a growth medium to get the culture and to get it to grow. And we use this as an idea for circulation of the building. The efficient way to lay it out might be to just have all the classrooms on the first floor. So it’s easy to walk right into your classroom and walk out. “But in this case we mixed them up into the building, and then we made a really large stair with lots of openings and extra places for people to sit so that they would move through the building, move past the labs and see into the labs. See into the nursing programs and see students who look like them in science, and nursing, and realize that they can do it too. So the idea here was to really create a culture that was positive and got people excited about the sciences.”
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Campus Gateway
Benson: “It acts as a gateway, and you can literally move right through the building to the student center or other buildings on campus. And so even if you’re not going to be part of this program, or even if you’re not coming to a classroom, you’re going to move through this building. And I think that’s another way we’re going to have an opportunity to expose more students to the program.”
Space for Students
Lenson:“This campus has been around for over 50 years and it’s been historically a commuter campus. One of the things the university wanted to do was to create space for students to stay, and not just go in and leave.”
Architecture for the Future
Benson: “Just another institutional building that fits with the campus isn’t necessarily going to attract or relate to that student that’s in high school. (Purdue was) thinking ahead. We want architecture that relates to that future.” about the sciences.”
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The Powerhouse Ties a Community and a College Together Project: Powerhouse Location: Beloit, Wisconsin Architect: Studio Gang Client: Beloit College A decommissioned Blackhawk power generating station is being transformed into a 120,000-square-foot student center in every sense of the phrase. A glorious 21st century use for a quintessentially 20th century facility, the building will provide a spectacular space for the community to come together to work, train, eat, and play. Due to open in fall 2020, the building will be a showcase of sustainable design in a facility that will be the first of its kind in the country. A building that interlaces student life spaces with recreational facilities, further connects campus with the community, and preserves history while looking to the future.
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Majoring in Expansion Project: Danforth Campus Modernization Location: St. Louis Architects: KieranTimberlake, IWR North America Client: Washington University Known for its high academic standards and beautiful campus, Washington University in St. Louis decided to enhance and modernize the East-end of its Danforth campus in 2019. IWR North America delivered the exterior enclosures for Weil Hall, a parking garage elevator, Welcome Center, Hub multi-use Pavilion and Kemper Art Museum expansion. The exterior cladding of the Kemper Art Museum addition included approximately 4,000 sf of an open-joint rainscreen plate system that was fabricated from 12-gauge No. 8 polish stainless steel and mounted to an aluminum substructure. Weil Hall is a four-sided glass building with many unique details. The work on the hall included a 24,000 sf faรงade consisting of 425 unitized curtainwall panels with multiple glass types and backpans. Extruded aluminum fins were a major aesthetic feature integrated with the faรงade.
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DESIGNING WITH, RATHER THAN FOR Cherry Valley Elementary School, Rockford, Illinois
The Rockford Public Schools Elementary School Prototype serves as a replacement for three disparate, dilapidated schools that were limiting studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; learning. The new school seamlessly merges all three cultures into one. Recognizing that children are a segment of the population with zero political power other than by proxy, the team at Cannon Design sought to change this dynamic by empowering students and incorporating them into the design process. The resulting architecture creates unique spaces irresistible to children, collaborative learning and opportunity for true community. The Rockford prototype stands as an empowering example of a school designed with, not for, children.
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The Opposite of Child-proof In K-5 schools, the student experience is best when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not static. Designed for the empowerment of choice, the architecture at the Rockford Public Schools Elementary School Prototype engages children and embraces their perspective. Dynamic furniture allows activity-based learning of mass and void relationships at child-sized scale, while encouraging the spatial reasoning essential for their development. The school accommodates childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural need for movement is accommodated, allowing concentration on classroom lessons.
Learning Communities
To help the at-risk children in the student population, the Cannon team incorporated a town hall into the plan without increasing square footage. In this space, staff hold morning group sessions for students a safe space to discuss challenges at the school. The design team efficiently co-located the required spaces of the gymnasium, cafĂŠ, art room and library to create a new heart for the school, adding empowerment of voice to the student body. The town hall is surrounded by grade-level learning communities specifically designed to the needs of the age groupings. The spatial sequences of these learning communities serve to enable interaction and skill development. This movement is essential to activity-based learning and creates multiple hubs for connection throughout the building and further enhances the sense of community. In the learning communities, moveable furniture is designed to be repositioned by the students as they see fit. The student experience is never static.
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In addition to acting as a safe space for the Rockford community, the prototype school also has many distinct innovative features designed to maximize student performance in the building.
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Light - Natural light is one of the key materials in the architecture of the building. All collaborative spaces include large banks of fenestration or skylights. The town hall at the center of the building is activated by light. There are two long clerestories that run the length of the space. Movement - The furniture in the space allows and
encourages unique body positions for children. This enables them to â&#x20AC;&#x153;productively fidgetâ&#x20AC;? and aids in concentration. The architecture is designed to be touched and interacted with.
Flexibility - In addition to the town hall, the central library is
equipped with partitions that retract and open allowing the space to extend into the town hall or recede into acoustically separate focused space. There is also a tree growing in the center of the library as a symbol of the importance of nature and learning as a community.
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Safety - A portion of the building is designed to withstand the forces of an EF-5 tornado. The space is large enough to include everyone in the building, including 650 students, faculty, staff and administration. It is also fully equipped for its own power, ventilation and plumbing. Aside from some extra beams in the exposed ceiling, the shelter is completely invisible and blends into the surrounding architecture. Equitable Learning - In addition to its ambitious goal of understanding design’s role in advancing equitable learning opportunities, the Rockford Public School project also takes key steps to enhance learning experiences for different student populations. The classrooms for first and second grade are clustered around a large, private collaborative space. This space sits away from the corridor to help remove distractions and keep students focused on their studies in a nurturing setting. It is flexible enough to work for both large and small teaching groups and can be reconfigured quickly to accommodate multiple learning styles. The fourth and fifth grade learning communities are located at the exterior with an adjacent learning commons located just off the main circulation, allowing the older, more independent students to have a transition zone between circulation and classrooms. These spaces are also flexible and reconfigurable to support different learning styles.
Building Momentum
Carolyn Timm, principal, Cherry Valley Elementary School: “Rockford is a very large diverse community. Our schools are a reflection of our community. Rockford needs to build some positive PR, some build, some positive momentum. One way that the schools in the community have been able to do that is to be able to build a school structure like this. And it really created a lot of momentum and a lot of excitement around education in our schools and was bringing some people back from private education into public education.”
Core Team Effort
Robert Benson, design principal, Cannon Design: “We worked with the district to get a really good core team (of parents, teachers, administrators), and we even worked with the students. That was the most fun. A fourth grade girl drew a gym right next to a cafe and had a whole reason why these things needed to be next to each other and that it would be very easy to move between one and the other. And what you see today has a gym and a cafe right next to it and serve everything else spinning around that. There’s some real insight if you’re designing with instead of four people.”
We’re In It Together
Timm: “(The kids) walk in here and they are excited. They’re thrilled. They can hardly wait to come to school. They know we’re in this together and it’s also a culture that we as adults have had to build for our kids. But the space itself also lends to that because we all share in one area to start our day out every day. They all get the same message in the morning from myself or the assistant principal. They all know the expectations. Everybody hears it together. We’re in it together.”
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Enabling the Culture
Benson: “We can’t design the culture. We can enable it. And I have to say, I get a little choked up. I’ve been here for a couple of mornings when all the kids come in and it gets me every time, seeing 650 kids come in and it’s not chaos, it’s not calamity. And we worked really hard to deliver that sort of town hall commons area. (We are) very proud and very excited that it’s working.”
A Great Place to Learn
Timm: “The space has allowed us to have those collaboration points. There’s the ability to have little checkpoints with each other all day long if they need it to just check in. And then when we can work as a group, we can build our teaching strategies into whole school. What are we doing as a school to make our school a great place to learn and to achieve and to move forward.”
Building Hope
Benson: “Hope. That’s what we’re striving for. I think the sense of civility, that sense of culture and community is super important to architecture and to people. And we were trying to deliver that regardless of the topology.”
Teaching Kids to Collaborate
Timm: “If we can use the space that’s built here for our students to teach them how to collaborate, how to network with their peers and learn and have conversations and think deeply about things. They have to be able to communicate. They have to be able to think on their feet. They have to be ready so that they can function as adults and important people in our community.”
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One-on-One: George Vorsheim Water, Water, but Not Everywhere Many people believe that the next great war will be fought, not over oil or land, but over water. Whether that comes to pass or not, water is one of the most important issues facing civilization today. As cities grow and land gets developed, the strain on the water supply, and the need for wastewater treatment, increases. It’s a topic that city planners and engineers have wrestled with for years. And it’s something that architects and developers should educate themselves about, too. The laws, infrastructure requirements, and financing associated with water and wastewater can be challenging, and are constantly evolving. To help you with these issues, contributing editor Geroge Vorsheim will be sharing his expertise in future issues. We spoke with him to get a preview of the topics he’ll be addressing.
Water Attracts People, and Development “In 1783, George Washington (went to) Saratoga County New York High Rock Spring with governor Clinton of New York and Alexander Hamilton. And they enjoyed the Springwater there quite a bit. George Washington made a bid to buy Saratoga Springs back then. People still come to this area for commercial purposes because of the abundant waters… People migrate to certain places, whether it’s an oasis in the desert or the sea shore for recreation. Water is a major attractor in this world.”
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Wastewater Treatment is Critical to Development “This is not just a big city issue. I’m thinking of a community called Southside, Arkansas, and they were dealing with failing septic tanks for many years. That really contracted possibility of commercial development. When they converted from septic to sewer, that enabled economic growth for the town of Southside. And we’re seeing that replicated around the world.”
Architects Need to Know About Water “We’re seeing more architects now, whether they’re landscape architects or commercial architects, that have to figure out how to put a building and how to get the density that’s required by the developer. If you don’t have the correct water infrastructure to serve that density, then you’re going to be wasting lots. We’re seeing projects where if they have the right water infrastructure, they can include three or four more, lots or parcels that would not have been able to be otherwise because they couldn’t be sewered. So that becomes a massive economic driver for decision making.”
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New Office Design Favors Private Work Spaces Project: FedEx office buildout Location: Washington, D.C. Architect: GTM Architects Client: FedEx Corporation A new Washington, D.C. office for FedEx corporate attorneys and accountants had to accomplish two goals: Reflect the company’s reputation for excellence, and accommodate the confidential nature of the occupants’ work. All with a modern and sophisticated design. “We’re seeing a combination of both private and multi-user spaces with flexible work areas becoming more desirable by tenants,” says Sarah Brooks, Project Designer, GTM Architects. “There seems to be a slight retreat from tenants wanting open concept spaces. A homelike environment is more desirable for the modern day employee." The FedEx office’s mid-century modern design aesthetic incorporates clean lines, modern lighting and a neutral color palette with warm wood tones throughout the space. Glass walls with black mullions located throughout the suite flood the entire space with natural light and allow for maximum views.
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The reception area and break room boast custom drywall cloud ceilings, each incorporating a subtle FedEx arrow mimicking the company’s corporate logo. Floating wood slat ceilings in the conference rooms provide visual interest, texture and acoustics with a concealed black acoustical ceiling tile above. The space highlights the monumental views of Washington, DC while capturing as much natural light as possible.
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Standing Tall in Texas Project: Frost Tower Location: San Antonio Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli, Kendall/Heaton Associates Clients: Weston Urban, KDC, Frost Bank, city of San Antonio The first major building addition in San Antonio in the last 25 years has literally changed the nighttime skyline. The design is defined by glass and steel with sharp lines that stretch from the base to the rooftop. As dramatic as the building’s architecture is during the day, Frost Bank and the city wanted Frost Tower to highlight the city’s skyline at night. “Since this is a prominent tower on the San Antonio skyline, the owners wanted the building to have an iconic appearance at night,” said Hennes, associate principal at Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design. Using Flex Tube RGB from Acclaim Lighting, the final design makes the full tower read as a whole with the lines of light tracing the vertical side and angled top edges to delineate the unique form of the building. Frost Bank Tower has quickly become a symbol of downtown San Antonio’s vibrant future. Website
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An Old Growth Forest Gets a New Life Project: 1440 Multiversity Location: Scotts Valley, California Architect: Jerry Yates, South Bay Construction Client: Scott and Joanie Kriens Founded by former Silicon Valley executive Scott Kriens and his wife Joanie, 1440 Multiversity is a non-profit immersive learning center and corporate retreat created with a mission to help people build stronger connections in the world and grow in relationship, spirit and wellness. Instead of starting from scratch and building a new development on open land, the Kriens decided to revive an abandoned college campus â&#x20AC;&#x201C; what was once Bethany University. It was important that the old growth redwoods and tranquil streams were preserved, as maintaining natural environmental elements and native species was a key focus of the project.
Yates and the SBC team transformed the campus and buildings into a functional oasis, sourcing natural materials locally and internationally. This included cedar planks for columns and trusses, redwood for a wooden pedestrian bridge, more than 1,400 tons of stone, and slate for the roofs. The design also includes Feeney CableRail in both interior and exterior installations, providing a clean, streamlined look that complements the Craftsman aesthetic. The renovation and remodel successfully transformed the former university into a rejuvenating learning center that inspires individuals and communities through holistic activities and workshops.
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Microsoft’s Offices The Technology Giant’s Approach to Designing Workspaces.
As one of the world’s leading technology companies, Microsoft has a need for office space that’s continually growing and changing. But for the software giant, providing workspace for their employees is about more than Real Estate and square footage. Developing innovative, transformative products requires comfortable, collaborative spaces where creative people can work. When workspaces reflect a company’s culture, that culture permeates the workforce, and ultimately the value they bring to customers. To learn how Microsoft approaches its needs for workspace, we spoke with Dena Quinn, Senior Portfolio Manager for Microsoft.
It Starts with the Culture “The culture is one of collaboration. It’s one of inclusion. It’s One Microsoft. That’s our goal, to be One Microsoft where all of the different organizations within the company can come together, collaborate and draw excitement from the outside world, from their customers/partners and bring products to our customers that make us valuable to them. When we look at workspace, we look at how our employees are using it. We have done and continue to do a significant amount of research on what trends are happening in the workplace.”
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Making the Office an Extension of the Home “You want to walk into an office that feels warm and inviting. We want the office to be a place that can be considered an extension of your home. We achieve that at the intersection of residential and hospitality style design inspiration. We want our workspaces to be warm and inviting, with access to natural light, bringing the outside in. We look to an experience that is tactile, with greenery, fabrics and natural materials that you provide this experience in our interior spaces. We include spaces that are meant to be open for collaboration with others and, places to be heads down and focused.”
Facilitating Collaboration “We build team rooms with support spaces around them. So you have a team room and then you have smaller four-person or two-person rooms as well as places where employees can stand up within their team room and collaborate. If you’re going to build a team and build a product, then you need to be able to talk to and collaborate with the people around you.”
Amenities Critical to Evaluating New Spaces “When we look at a building to lease, we will look at all of the amenities included in that building. We’ll evaluate amenities like bike storage, showers, fitness, cafes and even their sustainability goals. We take all of that and more into consideration as we look to lease new spaces.”
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Warm, Inviting Workspaces “Some companies have workspaces where you walk in and everything was white with bright colors. And that’s just visually distracting. When you walk into a Microsoft office, it’s warm, there’s wood and there’s soft tones of color and there’s beautiful fabrics and the wall colors and artwork are all very inviting. And so you don’t feel stressed by going into a place that’s completely counter to where you’ve left, which is your home.”
Employees Help Design the Spaces “When we start a project, we have what we call a workplace input team, developed from employees that are going to be working/living in the space. We invite them to participate in the design of the space. How does your day go? What’s the flow of your day? Do you need any specialty spaces like labs, server rooms or secure facilities. We invite them to participate in the upfront design process so that we’re not just giving them team rooms and focus spaces, we’re giving them an entire package for them to be productive.”
Architects Bring Creativity and Regional Relevance “We look for regional architects, and then we look for how they can translate our design guidelines into a design that is regionally relevant, right? So, when you walk into a Microsoft office globally, you feel like you’re in a Microsoft office, but every office has some regional relevance… We look to our architects during the bid process to bring creativity, to look at our design guidelines and try and translate that. So that when we interview them, we can see that they actually can take that on.”
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One-on-One: Scott Levitan Less Expensive, Cool Spaces As freelancers, solopreneurs, and startups continue to transform the business landscape, the need for workspace is also evolving. Companies like WeWork are meeting this demand by providing flexible co-working spaces for individuals and small companies. But in North Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Research Triangle Park, an area populated by technological and bio-tech giants like Lenovo and BASF, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing things a little differently. The Frontier is a re-purposed space designed to meet the needs of small companies and entrepreneurs who want be part of a community. Located in the heart of Research Triangle Park, Frontier RTP has been a home for creative freelancers, startups, STEM professionals, and emerging companies since 2015. This multi-building, indoor/outdoor campus offers free co-working and meeting rooms that encourage collaboration, as well as half a million square feet of private offices and wet lab space where entrepreneurs and startups can grow. To learn more, we spoke with Scott Levitan, CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation.
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Designed for Emerging Companies “The product that The Frontier offers in the market is less expensive, cool space. For emerging companies, their investments should be made in getting their product to market, developing the IP into something that’s useful into a product in the people that they have to hire. One of the things we learned is they shouldn’t be investing in overhead. So the cost of space is probably the least important thing for the success of their company.”
Flexible, Recyclable Spaces “Because we are an economic development entity, we are able to provide favorable terms that a market rate developer probably couldn’t do. So that if companies don’t make it through the entire term of their lease, the space is recyclable to another company. So we want it to be really flexible, generic in a good way, in a positive way so that companies can have the flexibility to be able to move their business.”
Creating a Cultural Center “The Frontier is something that only a foundation can love because it’s not really to make money. It is really to create a sort of cultural center. The Boxyard (a new development at The Frontier) is a shipping container community. It’s about 15,000 square foot total. It’ll have somewhere around 20 total of companies in it. It’s experimental. Some companies are going to be successful, some companies might not, but we’re fitting them out in a way that they can be recycled and repurposed as companies come in and try.”
Experimental Retail “We’re doing for retail … what we also did for young I.T. companies and lab companies. So it really provides a lot of opportunity for entrepreneurial experiments. We’re also going to have a shed in the Boxyard RTP, which is going to allow us to really punch above our weight in terms of creating events and activities in RTP. People aren’t used to come into RTP for fun and this is actually going to give them an opportunity to do that.”
In Commercial Buildings, People Needs Come First “We’re told by office developers ... that when they sit down with companies that are thinking about relocation or consolidation, they sit down first with the HR team. (That is) quite different from a real estate perspective, than starting with the real estate people.”
How Architects & Developers can Accommodate Emerging Companies “If you build something that’s a little bit universal, another company can backfill that company. So, you know, worst case scenario, the company dissolves. Somebody can step in really quickly, take their space, and you don’t have to make a big investment in tenant improvements for them to be able to move in quickly and function. That’s great for the landlord because they don’t have to make a huge investment in tenant improvements. It’s great for the company because they can be nimble.”
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In 2016, the 1848 Danish Windmill in Elk Horn, Iowa, launched a major restoration and preservation project with Kentucky-based B.E. Hassett-Millwrights, Inc. The windmill, which was moved to Elk Horn, piece by piece, from the small village of Nørre Snede, Denmark, was in desperate need of a new roof, among other repairs. Along with her team, Lisa Riggs, manager the windmill, consulted with a leading Danish authority to find a roofing product that would align with Danish design and a team that could successfully execute the restoration. Their search brought them to Jared Wedemeyer and Modern Roofing of Iowa. For the windmill dome and the adjoining buildings, Wedemeyer suggested CertainTeed’s Carriage House shingles in Georgian Brick, a deep red color reminiscent of the windmill’s original profile. The scalloped design and heavyweight construction of the shingle gave the project a classic look with modern-day protection. According to Wedemeyer, the windmill restoration was the company’s most challenging project to date. “Every shingle had to be cut to a single scallop. Every tab was hand-sealed,” said Wedemeyer. “There’s not a piece up there that wasn’t custom-made.” Riggs said the restoration helped restore community pride in the facility. “We were worried that the windmill wasn’t going to stand proud as it did before. We owed it to the past to bring the windmill back to its old glory and make it picture-worthy,” she said. “This project really brought it back to life.”
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