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Triskelion San Francisco Featured in Architectural Record "Lighting within Limits" explains how tightening energy codes and standards, along with new technology, present design teams with opportunities and challenges. Commissioned by the nonprofit arts organization FOR-SITE, and required to be easily demountable and leave no trace, the Triskelion could not tie into nearby utilities. To meet the requirement, the project team devised an off-the-grid lighting scheme largely dependent on daylighting penetrating the central skylight, windows at the ends of each container, and side openings shaded by a security grate. But for those times when daylight is insufficient, the power generated by a rooftop 4,400-W photovoltaic array illuminates photosensor-controlled T5 lamps inserted within fabric-covered coves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Architecture . Energy . 2011 In collaboration with Professor Dana Buntrock, UC Berkeley and IBEC Japan, Loisos + Ubbelohde organized a workshop on energy efficient and high performance building that took place from June 23-26 in Tokyo.
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Gallery House Wins AIA San Francisco 2011 Design Honor Award: Excellence in Architecture On a site bordering South Park, this project combines a semi-public art gallery and a residence for two prominent collectors. Both home and gallery are daylighted through the roof plane and connected to the park through extensive glazed walls. This home, also featured in the AIA SF Home Tours program, impressed the jury with its serene and unified exterior and the reinterpretation of the San Francisco bay window. >See the Project Links:
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David Brower Center Featured in High Performing Buildings The David Brower Center in Berkeley, California, awarded LEED platinum certification by the US Green Building Council has recently been profiled in the spring issue of High Performing Buildings magazine. The Center is home to organizations working for environmental and social justice. The building environmental footprint has been designed to be as light as possible by using energy-saving technologies and recycled materials. The narrow floor plate, lightshelves skylights and exterior shades provide nearly 100% daylighting. >See the Project
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"The Smartest Design Firm You've Never Heard Of": George Loisos and Susan Ubbelohde, along with the work of Loisos + Ubbelohde, are featured in the article "Hidden Genius" in the most recent issue of Green Building and Design Magazine. "Hidden Genius" describes the firm's consulting work on the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, NASA Sustainability Base, and the Caltech Linde + Robinson Lab. The article's concluding sentence states one of the firm's great strengths, "We can solve the challenges we solve because we spend the time and resources to get really deep into a subject." View the Magazine: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Loisos + Ubbelohde on "Masters of Innovation" by PlumTV NASA Sustainability Base
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Sky Tran > See the full program on PlumTV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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NASA Sustainability Base Featured in USA Today and Architect Magazine Newswire This $20.6 million new office building at the NASA Ames Research Center is currently profiled in both USA Today and Architect Magazine Newswire. In pursuit of LEED platinum certification, the 50,000 sf project will use 75% less energy and 90% less potable water than a comparable building. It is expected to produce an annual surplus of power. >See the project Links: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Adam Joseph Lewis Center Featured in Eco-Structure Magazine The Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College was initially conceived as a demonstration project for an educational venue, but it has become a model for the field of sustainable design. Inspired by Le Corbusier's idea of a house as a "machine for living," the Adam Joseph Lewis Center has become a building for sustainable living and study. It was declared one of the 30 milestone buildings of the 20th century by the US Department of Energy. >See the project Links:
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Carnegie Institute Department of Global Ecology in GreenSource The Carnegie Institute Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, is one of the projects included as a case study in the January-February 2011 issue of GreenSource magazine. The Carnegie Institute Department of Global Ecology, previously featured in GreenSource, is revisited in order to examine energy use and efficiency post-occupancy, as well as explore conservation strategies. >See the Project Links:
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Adam Joseph Lewis Center Featured in High Performing Buildings The Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College, voted the top green building built since 1980 in an Architect magazine poll, has recently been profiled in the winter issue of High Performing Buildings magazine. After ten years of operation, the building has undergone extensive monitoring and analysis in partnership with NREL. The result of this analysis is now being published. >See the project Links:
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Branson School Receives LEED Platinum Certification The Branson School in Ross, California, received LEED platinum certification from the US Green Building Council in December. Loisos + Ubbelohde provided a suite of services for the project, including: green building consulting services, LEED administration, energy modeling and daylighting, and analysis of planned photovoltaics. The project received 6 out of 7 possible water efficiency points, 19 out of 20 possible environmental quality points, and 15 out of 17 possible energy points allowed by the USGBC. >See the Project
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David Brower Center LEED Platinum Certified and Wins Savings By Design Award The David Brower Center in Berkeley, California, was awarded LEED platinum certification by the US Green Building Council in December. The building also won a Savings By Design Award of Merit for Innovative Building Systems at the end of 2010. The David Brower Center's energy efficiency is 50% over Title 24 and 100% of all office spaces are daylighted. >See the Project
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Crissy Field Center Wins Best Green Building Award The 7,500 sf Crissy Field Center, occupied in 2010, recently won the California Construction's Best Green Building in Northern California Award. Working with Project Frog, Loisos + Ubbelohde provided energy modeling and daylight modeling for the project. LEED gold certification is expected. >See the Project
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NASA Sustainability Base Wins Two New Awards The NASA Sustainability Base, currently under construction at the entrance to the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, has recently won two new awards. The first award is the GSA Real Property Award for Green Innovation. The second award is the Silicon Valley Business Times' Best Green Project. The 40,000 sf collaborative support facility articulates NASA's commitment to sustainability while showcasing some of NASA's most advanced intelligent control technologies, originally developed to support space exploration. >See the Project
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Two Projects Win AIACC Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Adam Joseph Lewis Center #1 on G-List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Susan Ubbelohde Presents at AIA SF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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