COTE Top Ten: Intelligent Design for a Restorative Future

COTE Top 10:Intelligent Design for a Restorative Future

Gulf Coast Green 2016Session 2 – Track 4

Course Description:The AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top 10 Award is the profession's best-known recognition for sustainable design excellence.

The 2016 award winners will be presented with an overview of the design and sustainability goals that drove their projects, stellar performance features of their respective projects, and lessons learned.

Jurors‘ comments will be shared on the advance of sustainability by this year's winners, and on how the projects are responsive to regional challenges and opportunities.

Learning Objectives:1. Observe and appraise 10 nationally recognized case studies'

achievements in various aspects of sustainable design.

2. List the COTE Measures of Sustainable Design, identify why both qualitative and quantitative measures are important, and recognize how these measures can be applied in projects.

3. Summarize proven methods of working to reduce energy use in regionally and place-specific ways.

4. Recognize the professional value of the COTE Top Ten Green Projects program and evaluate the feasibility of submitting attendees' own projects in the future.

What is COTE:

The Committee on the Environment (COTE) works to advance, disseminate, and advocate—to the profession, the building industry, the academy, and the public—design practices that integrate built and natural systems and enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment.

COTE Timeline:

• 10,000+ members

60+ local chapters

• 2016 Advisory Group– Paula McEvoy, FAIA, LEED Fellow 2016 Chair Perkins+Will

– Mary Ann Lazarus, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C 2017 Chair Elect MALeco

– Rand Ekman, AIA, LEED Fellow Past Chair HKS

– Andrea Love, AIA, LEED Fellow Payette

– Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED Fellow Perkins Eastman

– Z Smith, AIA, LEED Fellow Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

– Jonathan Penndorf, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Perkins+Will

– Tate Walker, AIA, LEED Fellow OPN Architects

– Angela Brooks, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C Brooks + Scarpa Architects

– Alison Kwok, PhD, AIA, LEED AP University of Oregon

– Stephanie Horowitz, AIA, CPHC ZeroEnergy Design

2016 Initiatives and Programs AIA/COTE Top Ten

AIA/COTE Top Ten Plus

AIA/COTE Top Ten for Students

AIAS/COTE Student Research Scholar(www.aia.org/cote)

Carbon Neutral Design Project

Ecological Literacy in Architecture Education

Sustainability Leadership Opportunity Scan

What is COTE Top Ten:This Awards program recognizes exemplary and innovative built projects that establish a standard of design excellence that creatively integrates sustainable design strategies, demonstrating their benefits while educating and inspiring the profession and the public.

What is COTE Top Ten:The COTE Top Ten Green Projects program celebrates structures that use a thoroughly integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology to provide architectural solutions which protect and enhance the environment.

What is COTE Top Ten:design and innovation

community integrationland use

site ecologybioclimatic design

energy and water uselight and air

materials and constructionlong-life considerations

feedback loops

COTE Measures of Sustainability:1. Sustainable Design Intent & Innovation

2. Regional Community Design/Connectivity

3. Land Use & Site Ecology

4. Bioclimatic Design

5. Light & Air

6. Water Cycle

7. Energy Flows & Energy Future

8. Materials & Construction

9. Long Life & Loose Fit

10. Collective Wisdom & Feedback Loops

COTE Top Ten 2016 Jury:Larry Strain, FAIA, LEED AP Siegel & Strain Architects Emeryville, CA

Luke Leung, PE, LEED ® Fellow SOM New York, NY

Judith Heerwagen, PHD US General Services Administration Seattle, WA

Margaret Montgomery, FAIA, LEED AP NBBJ Seattle, WA

Anne Fougeron, FAIA Fougeron Architecture San Francisco, CA

1997 – 2016 | 20 years of Design Excellence

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2016 Tope Ten Stats:Size: 5,400sf – 301,099sf

(2)<10Ksf / (4)<50Ksf / (3)<100Ksf / (1)<500Ksf

Type: 5 Education1 Residential1 Mixed-Use1 Library1 Laboratory1 Supermarket

Region: 5 California2 Texas1 Wyoming1 Pennsylvania1 IRELAND

Year: 2012 (2), 2013 (6), 2014 (1), 2015 (1)

Biosciences Research BuildingHigher-EdGalway, IrelandPayette

86,112 sfCompleted in 2013net EUI: 133kBtu/sf/yr

The jury was unanimous in its opinion that this building really knit design and performance. Great performance on a tight budget that focused on elegant, passive solutions. This is not an easy project type in which to incorporate passive strategies. Separating the lab portion from the non-lab allowed 45 percent of the building to be naturally ventilated. A simple building with a clever parti; labs are surrounded by daylit corridors that function as a thermal sweater for the interior spaces.

Center for Sustainable LandscapesEducation/OfficePittsburgh, PAThe Design Alliance Architects

24,350 sfCompleted in 2012net EUI: -3kBtu/sf/yr

This project incorporated a number of innovative sustainable standards: piloting the sustainable SITES, the WELL building standard, and the Living Building Challenge. The project reclaimed a brownfield site and created an ecological regeneration of a blighted site, all on one of the most difficult sites on the whole campus. The building connects the inside and outside, demonstrating how to live in harmony with nature.

Exploratorium at Pier 15Mixed-UseSan Francisco, CAEHDD


This project capitalized on its unique location by using the surrounding San Francisco Bay for heating and cooling. The existing pier building was completely remodeled: new exhibits were carefully integrated into the building and even spill out to the surrounding bay. Great use of natural light. This interactive science museum, oriented toward children and families, was relocated to a fabulous central location on the bay with great public access.

H-E-B at MuellerSupermarketAustin, TXLake | Flato Architectsand H-E-B Design and Construction


The jury was happy to see this type of program addressed. This prototype store rethought the energy and water use for a typical supermarket. The store replaced display ice with refrigerated cases, made extensive use of daylighting, and created a large entry vestibule that serves as a thermal buffer between the inside and the outdoors—important in a climate such as Texas.

J. Craig Venter InstituteLaboratoryLa Jolla, CAZGF Architects


The jury was impressed with how this project achieved net zero for a lab. The building was well crafted from materials well suited for the marine location. Interior spaces and the courtyard were well daylit. The program connected the labs and offices across an exterior courtyard.

Jacobs Institute for Design InnovationHigher-EdBerkeley, CALeddy Maytum Stacy Architects


A compact, elegant building with a clear point of view. Sustainable measures are well integrated into a holistic, high-quality design. Modest, beautifully detailed; the building really fits the context of the university.

Rene Cazenave ApartmentsMulti-Family ResidentialSan Francisco, CALeddy Maytum Stacy Architects


The jury recognized the complexity and difficulty in delivering high-density, transitional housing on a challenging site next to a freeway off-ramp and still making it comfortable, affordable, and well-designed. This project achieved high performance on a very small budget. Innovative, passive design strategies included bringing clean, filtered fresh air from the roof.

The Dixon Water Foundation Josey PavilionEducationDecatur, TXLake | Flato Architects


This is the perfect example of design excellence and sustainability working hand-in-hand. Elegant bioclimatic response to program and site. The vernacular forms fit the site and are appropriate to the Foundation’s mission of sustainable agriculture. We loved that the design allowed much of the program to function without conditioned interior space. Who needs walls? The architects thought outside of the box. The jury particularly appreciated the clarity of thought, the elegance of the parti, reinforced by a simple palette of locally sourced, low-carbon materials. Beautifully detailed.

University of Wyoming – Visual Arts FacilityHigher-EdLaramie, WYHacker


A contextually appropriate design that fits the landscape very well. The jury was impressed by the attention paid to the health and well-being of the building occupants, the way the design addressed air quality in the studios, and the way this was expressed by the ventilation stacks on the exterior. Art materials contain many toxic chemicals; this project is a model for how to do this type of facility.

West Branch of the Berkeley Public LibraryLibraryBerkeley, CAHarley Ellis Devereaux


This is a beautiful net-positive library on one of the main streets of Berkeley. The design refers back to the prototypical libraries of the 19th century: tall spaces, daylit reading rooms, and a sense of quiet and simplicity. The building skillfully incorporates passive strategies for daylighting and natural ventilation. At its core, a very simple building that creates a very successful and adaptable space.

The Edith Green – Wendell Wyatt Federal BuildingAdaptive ReusePortland, ORSERA Architectswith Cutler Anderson Architects


This project transforms a generic concrete office building into a high-performance, environmentally responsive, comfortable place to work. There are a lot of existing, low-performance buildings out there that don’t contribute much to the urban fabric. In terms of impact, these are the buildings we need to address. This sets a great precedent for re-use and upgrade, and demonstrates the potential for creative, green reuse projects.

General Jury Comments:

· The winning projects were completed between 2012 and 2015, which means that some of them were likely designed when the 2030 target was 50%. The good news is that all of the winners met (or nearly) the 60% reduction target in place when they opened.

· Four of the ten projects were either predicted to or actually achieving net zero or net positive energy. This is impressive!

· While not all projects reported actual energy and water performance, the jury would encourage this in the future. We particularly valued the projects whose actual performance may not have met expectations – but for which the team had identified or implemented improvements.

· The majority of the entries achieved a high level of daylight autonomy. This shows that passive design considerations are influencing form and massing early, which is a marker of well-integrated design.

· Encouraging to see multi-family and low-income housing projects in this mix –it’s a critically important project type where performance can make or break affordability for tenants.

· In a field of submittals where there are multiple net zero energy and/or water projects, Living Buildings and numerous LEED Platinum projects, it’s great to see the trend toward deeper integration of performance and design excellence –mastery of both is the holy grail!

Contact Info:

AIA COTEwww.aiatopten.orgwww.aia.org/[email protected]@AIA_COTE

Filo Castore, AIADLR [email protected]