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The AIA recognizes 11 projects with the 2008 CAE Educational Facility Design Awards
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For Immediate Release |
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Washington, D.C., April 14,
2008 — The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on
Architecture for Education (CAE) honored 11 educational and
cultural facilities with this year’s CAE Educational Facility
Design Awards. Two received Awards of Excellence, four received
Awards of Merit, and five received Citations. The purpose of the
design awards program is to identify trends and emerging ideas,
honor excellence in planning and design, and disseminate knowledge
about best practices in educational and community facilities.
Serving as jurors for the 2008 awards were: Chair Jeanne Jackson,
AIA, VCBO Architecture; W. Bryan Bowles, PhD, Davis School District
Superintendent; Vasso Kampiti, Assoc. AIA, The City University of
New York Office of Facilities Planning, Construction, and
Management; Gerald I. Reifert Jr., AIA, Mahlum Architects; RK
Stewart, FAIA, Hon. FRAIC, Perkins + Will; and Amy M. Yurko, AIA,
BrainSpaces.
Awards of Excellence
The Nueva School Hillside Learning Complex, Hillsborough,
Calif.
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects
This LEED® Gold-certified project uses 65 percent less energy
than a typical new school facility in the U.S. Its buildings are
woven into the land, respecting the natural beauty of the site. The
project employs a 30-kW photovoltaic system, living roofs, natural
ventilation and daylighting throughout, and strategies to cut
typical water use in half. The new spaces foster creative
interaction by providing a wide variety of informal and formal
learning environments. Ultimately, the project stitches together an
existing campus, creating a stronger “front door” and a
more cohesive campus experience.
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA),
University Park, Pa.
Overland Partners Architects
The building brings together the two previously separate
departments in a flexible learning environment that fosters
collaboration and shared values through the design of open and
interconnected spaces. The SALA building is Penn State’s first
LEED®-Gold-certified building, employing natural ventilation,
abundant daylighting, automatic systems controls, and recycled
natural materials. At least 50 percent of the building’s
materials come from within a 500-mile radius of University Park to
help stimulate local economies and to reduce the environmental
impacts of transporting building materials.
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Awards of Merit
Bioscience High School, Phoenix
Orcutt | Winslow
The building, designed as a teaching tool, incorporates solar
orientation, exposed systems and fossil castings. The architect
used an interdisciplinary design team approach that included
teachers and the community for weekly virtual meetings to program
the project and gather all of the information in a virtual 3D
setting. The new high school responds to Phoenix Union High School
District’s unique program, which emphasizes collaboration,
team teaching, and independent learning. Student studio areas are
adjacent to teacher workrooms to encourage spontaneous
collaboration. The site contains an existing historic schoolhouse
building that will continue to function as administration space,
additional classrooms, a computer lab, and a library.
Hopkins-Nanjing Center Samuel Pollard Building, Nanjing,
China
Perkins Eastman
This building employs shared spaces to encourage interaction to
help the American and Chinese students break down cultural
barriers. The state-of-the-art conference center enables
professional high profile meeting settings to discuss international
relations issues. The faculty lives in the building, demonstrating
their dedication to the program at all times. As residents of the
program, like the students in adjacent dorms, they help create a
community focused on the goals of the center. Open 24 hours a day
and seven days a week, the building’s many programmatic
aspects work together to create a place that highlights
international and bilateral culture.
Santiago Canyon College Library, Orange, Calif.
LPA, Inc.
This design arranges its diverse program to deliver flexible,
open-plan, and collaborative spaces through simple building forms,
elegant details, and modest materials, all making the most of a
limited budget. The library environment is open, illuminating,
accessible, and energy efficient. Students, community members,
faculty, staff, and administrators combined to provide programmatic
needs and design inspiration for the new library. An inclusive
design process used by the architects created the opportunity for
input. Along with the student services building, the new library
creates a front door to the campus, connecting the college with its
surrounding residential community.
Averett University Student Center, Danville, Va.
VMDO Architects
As Averett transitioned in 2001 from a regional college to
a “campus community,” it needed to become a place that
would bolster enrollment and draw students with a welcoming place
that would encourage them to stay, gather together, and share
experiences. For instance, the dining hall and café can
transform into student lounges, a small ballroom, or a campus event
space. The activities level is designed with open workstations and
shared storage both to provide flexibility and build synergy among
student leaders. While using common, cost-effective building
systems, the student center employs sturdy and enduring natural
materials to minimize maintenance, but also give a sense of
permanence.
Citations
Rosa Parks School at New Columbia Community Campus,
Portland, Ore.
Dull Olson Weekes Architects
This mixed-use educational facility, certified LEED Gold, anchors a
large low-income housing revitalization project. The design process
engaged the entire community to create a true intergenerational
center supporting needs from early childhood to senior programs and
services. Technology is infused in all rooms on a variety of
levels; spaces employ traditional computers, smart boards, and
digital displays on wired and wireless platforms. The building is
configured to protect on-site heritage trees and create a small
pocket park for community use. Interior colors picked by students
represent the ethnic diversity of students.
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School/Colin Powell Youth L,
Minneapolis
Ryan Companies
The challenge for this project was uniting two very different
organizations in the same facility. Built on a former brownfield
site, this high school’s innovative education and corporate
internships achieve 99 percent graduation rates, where 23 percent
is typical. Standard double-loaded corridors are replaced with
“Small Learning Communities” and flexible common areas
that allow different learning modalities. The tough urban
neighborhood demands durable materials, and brick, precast concrete
and local limestone fit the bill. Green elements include
strategically placed, high-performance UV glass, daylighted
stairwells, highly reflective roofing, and outdoor classrooms.
Radiant heat efficiently warms the large atrium in conjunction with
passive solar heating strategies for the floor and wall
tiles.
Ferguson Center for Performing Arts, Newport News,
Va.
Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
This project incorporates an obsolete 1950s high school
into a complicated program that included 1,700-seat, 440-seat, and
blackbox theaters to serve both university and community needs,
plus theater labs, dance studios, practice spaces, classrooms, and
offices. A new colonnade hides the old high school while linking
the two new public theaters at either end. An amphitheater provides
separate entries for studio and 440-seat theaters and outdoor
performance space. The transformation of the high school into
contemporary academic and support spaces became an exercise in
sustainable concepts and adaptive use: the insertion of new
functions in an old shell within existing building limits.
Edison Regional Center of Excellence, Piqua, Ohio
The Collaborative Inc.
To create informal learning environments between classrooms, the
architects sought to intensify use of the learning center by
combining Internet, library, and food services in one space and
running a circulation corridor right through it. The center
supports the greater community's demand for a space in which they
could learn job skills in the allied health fields. In turn, it is
supported by the community. Two-thirds of funding came from private
donations. Three area hospitals, which combined to give $1 million
to the center, will benefit from a pool of local, qualified
employees. As a whole, the building also teaches the community the
importance of environmental stewardship, first on the grounds with
a series of bioswales that capture rainwater and purify it
naturally before it is returned to the watershed.
Mat Su Career and Technical High School, Walisa,
Alaska
McCool Carlson Green
Dissatisfied with the district’s traditional vocational
education, the school’s Career & Technical Education
Division wanted a fresh, relevant response to their evolving
community-based program. With less than two months to create a
concept design, the planning team adopted an integrated approach
combining design and visioning in a series of interactive,
user-driven workshops. Participants included a broad range of
school, student, community, and business partners providing diverse
and highly relevant input. Architectural features and advanced
engineering systems are on display, intriguing and challenging
students to learn more about the world around them.
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