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Year: 2005

Award Type: Citation Award

Territory: SCE Territory

Location: Lone Pine, CA

Owner: USDA Forest Service

Developer: USDA Forest Service

Architect: Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects

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Submitted By: Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Architects

Square Footage: 6,000

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Eastern Sierra Inter-Agency Visitors Center

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Eastern Sierra Inter-Agency Visitors Center

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Eastern Sierra Inter-Agency Visitors Center

Sited on 12 acres in a picturesque valley near Mount Whitney, this 6,000 square foot facility combines exhibit space, a bookstore, inventory preparation and storage areas, pubic restrooms, office area and foyer with information and permit counters. In designing this energy efficient project, The design team integrated lightshelves and sun shades, a ground source heat pump, high-albedo roofing, and fenestration that minimizes heat gain and loss and maximizes views of Mt Whitney.

The jurors appreciated the project’s inventive geothermal HVAC system, and felt that the white roof was effective and provided an aesthetic appropriate to the site and the mountains. They believed that the building was a contextually appropriate, simple shed solution that integrates a variety of energy efficiency and sustainability choices.

Notable Accomplishments

Inventive geothermal HVAC system used.
integrates a variety of energy efficiency and sustainability choices.

Jurors

Nancy Clanton, PE, LC, IALD

Title: President
Company: Clanton & Associates
Location: Boulder, CO

Nancy Clanton is founder and president of Clanton & Associates, a lighting design firm specializing in sustainable design. Nancy speaks throughout the nation on topics relating to sustainable and energy-efficient design and light pollution and has been an instructor at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is past chairperson of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) Outdoor Environmental Lighting Committee and a past director of the International Association of Lighting Designers, and is currently on the board of the International Dark Sky Association. In addition, she serves on the Advisory Committee of Environmental Building News, is a member of the Professional Advisory Board for the Engineering Department at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and is a member of the United States Green Building Council.

She was group leader for the “Greening of the White House” initiative and received the 1999 “Contribution to the Built Environment Award” from the Colorado North Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Katherine Diamond, FAIA

Title: Design Principal
Company: RNL Design
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Katherine (Kate) Diamond, FAIA is the Design Principal for RNL’s Los Angeles office. Prior to joining RNL, Kate built a strong design reputation as principal and lead designer of her own practice, Siegel Diamond Architecture. Kate brings a lifetime of personal commitment to sustainable design of design excellence to build RNL’s leadership in energy efficient design dating back to the 70s energy crisis.

Kate continues to design multiple LEED-rated projects. In addition to her architectural experience, Kate has played a role in developing sustainable design guidelines for the cities of Santa Monica and San Gabriel and in organizing a variety of urban design charettes that focused on the integration of green principles.

Robert Noble, AIA

Title: CEO, Design Principal
Company: Tucker Sadler Group
Location: San Diego, CA

Robert Noble, AIA, is CEO and Design Principal of Tucker Sadler, a 40-member, 50-year-old diversified design practice based in San Diego, with offices in Arkansas and projects nationwide. Robert has been an architect, industrial designer, and technology entrepreneur for 25 years and has been responsible for a number of environmentally advanced building and material technologies, and sustainable design projects. He and his work have been published internationally and have been the recipient of prestigious design and environmental awards including: The Edison Award for Environmental Achievement, “E-Town” Environmental Achievement Award (awarded on National Public Radio); California Integrated Waste Management Award and Popular Science “100 Best New Technologies” (1993).

He is LEED accredited, is past Chair and one of the founding board members of the US Green Building Council of San Diego and is currently president-elect of the San Diego Chapter of the AIA.