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 Savings By Design Award Winners Integrate Energy Efficiency with Outstanding Design |
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Savings By Design Energy Efficiency Integration Awards
Award of Honor Ocean
Beach People’s Organic Food Market
Award of Honor Hidden
Villa Hostel and Summer Camp
Award of Merit Premier
Automotive Group North American Headquarters
Award of Merit Georgina
Blach Intermediate School
Special Citation Polytechnic
School Middle School Ecology/Science Classroom
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For their integration of energy efficiency with outstanding architectural design, five nonresidential projects have received awards as the culmination of the 2003 Savings By Design Energy Efficiency Integration Awards Competition. The winning design teams received their awards at the National AIA Convention in San Diego on May 8. The announcement was made jointly by the competition’s co-sponsors: The American Institute of Architects, California Council, Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, and Southern California Gas Company. “The winning projects in this year’s competition struck a common chord with the jurors,” commented Charles Angyal, FAIA, manager of commercial new construction energy efficiency programs at San Diego Gas & Electric. “Each project demonstrated a masterful integration of energy efficiency strategies and techniques into a simple, elegant design that was respectful of its surroundings. This year’s winners exemplify the momentum for energy efficient design fostered through the Savings By Design program.” The jurors chose two projects for Awards of Honor, citing their seamless integration of energy efficiency into elegant building design. They bestowed Awards of Merit to two more projects for expertly incorporating energy efficiency into challenging situations (school retrofit/infill and large-scale office complex). Finally, they awarded one Special Citation to a classroom that served as an outstanding pedagogical expression of energy efficient and sustainable design. Ocean
Beach People’s Organic Food Market 
This project created an environmentally responsible grocery story by using an integrated design approach, incorporating the building envelope design with the mechanical and electrical systems optimization. In addition, it produced a well day-lit, naturally ventilated, comfortable space with open interiors to further express the market’s commitment to its customers, employees, and the environment.
The jurors were unanimous in their assessment of this project’s architecturally inspiring design. They deemed it elegant and understated, and remarked that it celebrates its space and highlights the structure. It integrated a number of energy efficiency strategies that are particularly impressive for retail space, which is typically very energy intensive. Its use of daylighting enhances the appearance of the organic food products. At the same time, the design creates a friendly shopping environment that fits in well with its surrounding community.  return to top 
Award of Honor Hidden
Villa Hostel and Summer Camp 
This combination of new and renovated structures harmonizes the educational, community-oriented spirit of Hidden Villa with the site’s agrarian precedent. The new hostel nurtures environmental awareness by demonstrating passive solar design, energy efficiency, and sustainability first hand. The jurors praised the project’s simple yet elegant cross sections, its respect for the site and the trees, and its architectural integration of the energy efficiency measures. The project is timeless in its use of features such as friendly louvered porches that provide shading and a layering effect and volunteer-constructed rammed earth walls that supply thermal mass. The site plan is like a great solar clock: It reaches out and gathers the sun at the right places during the year.
Premier
Automotive Group North American Headquarters 
This project consolidated the headquarters for all five of Ford Motor Company’s “premier” automobile brands. The facility consists of a five-story, 250,000 square foot office tower, a 30,000 square foot design center, and a four-story parking structure and has earned a LEED™ 2.0 certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. This Fortune 500 headquarters demonstrates that energy efficiency and good design are great partners.
According to the jurors, this is an excellent example of a large-scale project that elegantly integrates innovative energy strategies such as daylighting and spectrally selective glazing while fulfilling its strategy of branding high-end automobiles throughout the building design. This project pushed the envelope of energy efficient design—It successfully incorporated its LEED certification goal into the design from the outset, not just as an afterthought.
Georgina
Blach Intermediate School 
This state-of-the-art, energy-efficient school project modernized all the existing school buildings and added 35,000 square feet of new construction, including a 10,000-square-foot gym. Energy efficiency was integrated into every system at this school, a participant in California's Collaborative for High Performance Schools program, resulting in no extra energy use despite the addition of 35,000 new square feet of building space, air conditioning, and a new local area network.
These school buildings offer an incredible opportunity to teach students about the environment, energy use, and the seasonal movement of the sun, according to the jurors. They praised the design for taking advantage of the old “finger school” concept for lighting and ventilation instead of covering it up. In addition, the gym is nicely articulated and responds to the sun elevation by elevation. The jurors felt that the design does an excellent job of infill, skillfully weaving together the old and the new—and that the integration of energy strategies is evident throughout the project. Polytechnic
School Middle School Ecology/Science Classroom 
This classroom incorporated design elements that can be used to teach concepts of ecology, astronomy, energy efficiency, and sustainability. The project demonstrates alternative energy resources and renewable materials resources and includes photovoltaic electrical generation, hydronic radiant floor heating, passive solar cooling design, and daylighting.
The
judges admired this project as an outstanding pedagogical expression
of sustainability and energy efficiency. It explains systems and materials
with such features as “truth windows” that make the invisible
visible. The jurors appreciated its spirit of sustainability, as evidenced
by its highlighting of all the energy efficiency elements.
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