05/14/2008, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Learning Units: 2.00-Bus and Walking Tour
Training Units: 0.50-Training Area 17 Energy Conservation
Come and explore two important projects in South Boston, only blocks from the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Our first stop is the Macallen Apartment Building, a pivotal building in the urban revitalization of South Boston. Members of the design team will share how Office dA considered various typologies in order to articulate a striking design within a developer's financially competitive budget.
Then we walk a few blocks to the Artists for Humanity's (AFH) EpiCenter, Boston's first platinum LEED-certified building and a recipient of a 2007 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects award. A nonprofit organization that has served urban youth since 1991, the AFH applied its ingenuity and tenacity to this building project. The result is the EpiCenter , its new headquarters. Members of Arrowstreet's design team will guide us through this extraordinary facility with its fine and commercial art studios along with a 5,000-foot gallery space that is used to show student art and special events, including Late Nite Movies, an AIA-related event on Thursday, May 15th (see E33).
Both of these projects demonstrate how design and ingenuity can achieve green buildings even within limited budgets.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize the credits used to gain LEED certification at the platinum level
- Identify key steps in the planning process that contributed to the platinum level LEED rating
- Examine the operation of this LEED platinum building, including its mechanical systems, from the point of view of its staff and other users
TP23a Wednesday, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., $60
Core Disciplines: Design
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