A full day seminar - Energy-Efficient Building Envelope Design and Construction - will be held July 14, 2010 in Wheaton, IL.
Dave will cover the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) as a design tool, show examples from Europe, North America, and one of Hampton Avery’s own projects.
In Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, an urban residential retrofit shall rise from a former taqueria and demonstrate that a Passive House is possible on a tight city lot… and a tight budget.
The Coleman garage is complete with the installation of the rooftop garden this weekend.
Now it’s up to Mother Nature to fill in the blanks and help this garden grow.
Youth Jobs Center, Evanston, IL.
On the boards these days, we have:
Restaurants - one for Chef Graham Elliot Bowles, one to feature regional Mexican cuisine.
Residential additions - working magic in tight spaces to make two urban homes more contemporary, functional, and livable.
Youth Jobs Center of Evanston, Inc. - an urban Passive House retrofit of an existing building (and a fairly groundbreaking concept at that) for this great nonprofit organization.
San Jose Obrero Mission - space planning consultation for another exemplary nonprofit.
The ever-popular 2-hour walking tour that helps folks experience great Chicago buildings is back!
You’ll use your amazing powers of intellect to learn what makes buildings great, discern what green meant 100 years ago, and see how older buildings - or new ones - can be made better.
On a recent trip to PHIUS, we were asked, along with Wii Design-Build, to head up the Chicagoland PassivHaus Alliance. Stay tuned for more information.
We also got to see University of Illinois’ second-place winner in the 2009 Solar Decathlon (pictured above) - a great example of the PassivHaus standard in action.
For the first half of 2010, Hampton Avery Architects will be working with a talented team to propose realistic and compelling design solutions for urban challenges at three interlocking scales: block / building, neighborhood, and region.
The work of Hampton Avery Studio 309 will culminate in a public exhibition in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood.
Stay tuned!
Trellises, repurposed from galvanized aluminum security grilles from the ReBuilding Exchange, slip from the rooftop garden, over the coping, and down over the wood rainscreen cladding to make it easier for Santa to get to the chimney (not in contract).
The trellises will later form what we like to call around here the ‘green combover’ of trailing plants from the rooftop garden.
See construction photos.
From left to right: guest jurors John "Jack" Munson, Dave Hampton, Richard Avery, John Isch.
Richard and Dave were pleased to serve as guest jurors for Prof. Dan Woodfin’s Architecture 201 semester review at Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning - Richard’s alma mater.
The project was a townhouse in Santa Fe, which was to employ sitecast concrete with CMU infill and stucco finish. The second-year students acquitted themselves nicely for the most part in their presentations, many offering a compelling handling of space and beginning grasp of how to employ sustainable techniques and strategies such as thermal mass to moderate temperature swings and passive cooling through stack effects.
Opting for Jimmy John’s over the falafel sandwich option for lunch in downtown Muncie, had a nice dinner after the review with Prof. Woodfin, his wife, and our fellow jurors: Jack Munson of Richardson Munson and Wier, Indianapolis; and John Isch of RWA Architects, Cincinnati.
Our lecture was presented on Tuesday, Dec. 8 from 12:15-1:00pm at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Download the presentation (PDF format, 2.2 MB)
Contact us for more on the Red Line Green Roofs Initiative or green roofs along any other public transportation corridor!
It’s much more than just an attractive near-alliterative term, but you heard it here first.
Learn more about the concept of ‘entrepreneurial infrastructure‘ from The Genetically Modified Strip. We collaborated with giffin’termeer on this award-winning solution to the 2008 Flip a Strip competiton in Phoenix, AZ.
No, we haven’t designed a man-made lake, but listening to this song by Calexico struck a chord with me following discussions Richard and I have been having about some missed opportunities in designing our built environment.
Dave’s guest blog entry for eco-intel.com makes the case for integrated-design and -project delivery using the Coleman garage as an easy-to-grasp example.
“As I have traveled the this nation this year, I have discovered that despite the sense of hopelessness and helpless frustration that too often dominates the energy debate in Washington, there is a revolution of Yankee ingenuity changing the energy future of local communities.”
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy
September 1980
From the Introduction to “Passive Solar Energy: The Homeowners Guide to Natural Heating and Cooling” (1981) by Bruce Anderson and Malcolm Wells, Publisher: Brick House (click the link for a free download).
The Senator then goes on to cite examples of some of that ingenuity: increased gasohol production, solar water heaters installed in the Tennessee Valley, citizens turning to wood stoves to heat their homes, an MIT house that would employ meltable salts to store and release heat with only small changes in temperature.
Read about our work on bringing 50,000 square feet of underused Chicago real estate with unbeatable sky-views along commuter rail lines to life with rooftop gardens.
The roof membrane is on and siding (big shingles!) is going up. See the latest progress photos.
… sometimes means disconnecting your downspouts.
This photo taken at the Coleman garage jobsite after the rear stairs were demolished (not part of our contract, otherwise we’d have insisted on deconstruction!).
It’s manipulative, I know, but would you really click this link like we want you to do if I had titled it “Even More Garage Progress?” Thought not.
From a jobsite fence: the contractor thinks it’s a cute puppy holding a teddy bear. I think it’s a menacing primate battling a skeleton-bear. Say what you will about how my mind works, but it’s my blog entry.
While you’re deciding for yourself… see even more garage progress photos.
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