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- Valley-Hi North Laguna Library \ Noll & Tam Architects
- La Fontaine Apartment \ Esrawe Studio
- Glacier \ Brodie Neill
| Valley-Hi North Laguna Library \ Noll & Tam Architects Posted: 18 Oct 2011 09:31 AM PDT
The innovative features in this new library include a daylight-filled floor plan, a natural ventilation tower, and the use of insulated concrete panels to keep the interior cool in the warm summer months.  Valley-Hi North Laguna Library, image courtesy Noll & Tam Architects | Photo by David Wakely The library sets a new standard for sustainability in a civic building, and meets Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification requirements. Three major sustainability objectives, set by the architects and the library, shaped the design: 1) maximize daylighting; 2) increase the building's thermal mass, and 3) exceed California Energy Code Title 24 by over 25 percent.  Valley-Hi North Laguna Library, image courtesy Noll & Tam Architects | Photo by David Wakely The design began as diagram that was all about light. While walking around the site, the designer sketched a V-shaped roof that rose up to bring in natural light on both the north and south sides of a structure. From that initial diagram, the design team created a vibrant, welcoming building that mimics the shape of an open book and lets in as much natural light as possible, reducing the need for artificial lighting and fostering an environment conducive to learning.  Valley-Hi North Laguna Library, image courtesy Noll & Tam Architects | Photo by David Wakely  Valley-Hi North Laguna Library, image courtesy Noll & Tam Architects | Photo by David Wakely The design team collaborated with the library building committee to maximize square footage and provide daylit spaces for patrons and staff. Working from a program that outlined distinct service areas, the design team organized the interior spaces along a steel "spine," continuing the imagery of an open book. The spine orients the patrons to the facility, and allows them to view into distinct spaces for children and teens, three group study areas, a learning center, and a computer lab with internet and word processing. Generous spaces, now common in libraries, include a community meeting room that can accommodate as many as 100 people, and a food court for refreshments and socializing.  Valley-Hi North Laguna Library, diagram courtesy Noll & Tam Architects  Valley-Hi North Laguna Library, image courtesy Noll & Tam Architects | Photo by David Wakely By strategically orienting the building on the site, with the long facades facing due north and due south, the architects were able to capture the ideal amount of daylight while shielding the glazing from direct sunlight. The tilted roof also provides an ideal roof angle for photovoltaics. The design team selected a building-integrated photovoltaics system, which consists of attaching solar laminates directly onto the standing seam roof. This cost-effective approach is visually unobtrusive and, when fully installed, will provide an estimated 12 percent of the building's energy.  Valley-Hi North Laguna Library, image courtesy Noll & Tam Architects | Photo by David Wakely Energy consumption was further reduced by incorporating insulation into the building's concrete tilt-up slabs. Concrete tilt-up construction has traditionally been an efficient and rapid method of building warehouses and other commercial buildings in the area. The design team wished to explore this method on a civic building and to insert insulation into the large concrete slabs to preserve interior heat. This application is without precedent. No traditional computer simulation existed to calculate the thermal benefits of insulated tilt-up concrete walls. The architects won a design team incentive grant from the local Sacramento utility company's "Savings by Design" program to commission additional modeling analyses, proving this method's high thermal capabilities. The thermal mass feature is enhanced by the addition of a mixed-mode displacement ventilation system that allows natural air to cool the building at night.  Valley-Hi North Laguna Library, image courtesy Noll & Tam Architects | Photo by David Wakely As a result of these sustainable design elements, the Valley Hi Library will exceed California Energy Code Title 24 by 34 percent, nine percent more than the original target. Its light-filled design, punctuated by a cheerful red tower that marks the children's reading room, provides a welcoming landmark in the community. + Project credits / dataArchitects: Noll + Tam Architects Gross square footage: 20,500 Contractor: Sundt Construction Project Team: Structural Engineer: Ingraham DeJesse Associates + All images and drawings courtesy Noll & Tam Architects                              |
| La Fontaine Apartment \ Esrawe Studio Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:10 AM PDT
Client of Esrawe Studio‘s requests were precise, he asked for personal and introspective space which allowed the possibility of constant experiences inside the apartment, in the common and private areas, as well as on the terraces and hallways.  La Fontaine Apartment, image courtesy Esrawe Studio | Photo by Paul Rivera The Project is being developed in a mixed-use zone with visual and sound saturation, additionally, our client's professional activities, which generate a great amount of stress on a daily basis, required the integration of special characteristics into the apartment.  La Fontaine Apartment, image courtesy Esrawe Studio | Photo by Paul Rivera The interior decorating and furnishing proposal consisted in generating points of continuity and recreation, one of the main concepts involved setting off a relationship with nature while preserving privacy, through contact with terraces and inner gardens, through reading, recreation and working areas, and spaces in which to get together with friends and family, all of this within a 200m2 apartment. The color palette and textures of the materials are sober and neutral, allowing the full expression of the art, decoration, and vegetation. The main space is divided by a central block intersected by a hallway which sections off the common and private areas, on one side of the block there is a green wall that is the heart or core of the entire space, as it is visible from almost every point in the apartment, on the other a continuous structure that integrates and serves different purposes.  La Fontaine Apartment, image courtesy Esrawe Studio | Photo by Paul Rivera This structure on the lower level acts as a monolith, and contains the pantry, service bedroom, guest bathroom, linen closet and the second bedroom's bathroom. The upper level of the structure serves as the back of the library, the main bathroom, and doubles as a headboard for the main bedroom. The open kitchen integrates into a two-story high ceiling and a bridge leading to the upper terrace.  La Fontaine Apartment, image courtesy Esrawe Studio | Photo by Paul Rivera The main bedroom blends into a private terrace, where the continuity of wood flooring through the screen doors lends a sense of unity to the space. The abundant vegetation surrounding the terrace creates a sense of intimacy.  La Fontaine Apartment, image courtesy Esrawe Studio | Photo by Paul Rivera The main bathroom is a black box, with ebony crystal marble on the floor, walls and paneling. It opens up on one side towards the hallway that connects the library and the main bedroom, and also to the front, facing the green wall, the heart of the project. The main materials used are: Hardwood, which covers most of the apartment's surface, the doors and structure's walls have an anthracite gray lacquer finish, marble in the main bathroom, and cantera (quarry) stone in the secondary bathrooms. The furniture has a mix of walnut wood tones with color lacquer. Most of the built-in furniture was custom-designed, as well as a few special pieces for the main area.  La Fontaine Apartment - Floor plans, drawing courtesy Esrawe Studio  La Fontaine Apartment - Sections, drawing courtesy Esrawe Studio + Project credits / dataProject: La Fontaine. + All images and drawings courtesy Esrawe Studio                 |
| Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:29 AM PDT
Brodie Neill recently has created Glacier, Glacier debuted at SuperDesign on 13 October. It's a glass chaise longue and its name comes from its resemblance to a solid piece of ice suspended in motion. It's made of 300kg of glass in a workshop in the Czech Republic. Click here to read more other projects by Brodie Neill. + Designer: Brodie Neill | http://www.brodieneill.com/  Glacier, image courtesy Brodie Neill  Glacier, image courtesy Brodie Neill  Glacier, image courtesy Brodie Neill             |
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