Gelfand Partners Appendix

Appendix
Photo: Edwin Lee
1035 Market Street, San Francisco
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2006 Honor Award: Santa Rita School
Savings By Design Energy Efficiency Integration Awards
Presented by Savings By Design and The American Institute
of Architects, California Council
Owner: Los Altos School District
Architect: Gelfand Partners Architects
“Santa Rita Elementary School, an existing public school project
on 14 acres, modernized permanent buildings, added classrooms,
and converted an existing classroom to new school offices. The
21,000-square-foot project qualified for a Savings By Design incentive as well as state energy efficiency grants by beating Title 24
by 35 percent through a combination of envelope improvements,
increased daylight, daylight compensation lighting controls, and innovative HVAC.
“New interventions include the addition of patios adjacent to each
classroom, skylights in the existing walkways and new rooms added
to an existing classroom block. These interventions completely
change the operation, look and feel of the campus, creating a hierarchy of outdoor circulation and social spaces and expanding teaching space into previously underutilized outdoor areas.
“The jurors called this beautifully executed adaptive reuse project a
good model for other schools to emulate. They praised the project
for its keen attention to essential details and strong daylighting and
ventilation solutions, calling it ‘honest — that is, straightforward and
highly effective, not exotic or overly costly.’
“The jurors appreciated the project’s messages: You can start later
on with an older project and still accomplish an enormous amount
through a carefully integrated design; you can achieve high efficiency on a modest budget and simultaneously create a better learning
environment for children. ‘This project hit a home run with one
pitch,’ the jurors concluded.”
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City of Piedmont • Civic Center Master Plan
Awards
2006 AIA California Council and Savings By Design,
Energy Efficiency Integration Honor Award, Santa
Rita Elementary School
2005 Environmental Design Research Association/Places
Journal - Place Design Award, Los Altos School District Master Plan Update & Build-Out
School Construction News/DesignShare, Citation
Award, Santa Rita Elementary School, Los Altos
2004 Sustainable Buildings Industry Council - Exemplary
Sustainable Building Award, Blach and Egan Schools
Joint-Use Gymnasiums, Los Altos
AIASF Green Design Award, Los Altos School
District Master Plan Update & Build-Out
School Construction News/DesignShare, Recognized
Value Award, Almond Elementary School, Los Altos
2003 AIACC “Savings by Design” Energy Efficiency
Integration Award, Georgina Blach Intermediate
School, Los Altos
Friends of the Highline, “Designing the Highline” Jury
Citation, New York, NY
Preservation Design Award, California Preservation
Foundation, Tanforan Cottage, San Francisco
Oak Avenue School, Los Altos
2002 School Construction News/DesignShare, Recognized Value Award, Georgina Blach Intermediate School/Gym, Los Altos
2001 School Construction News/DesignShare, Citation Award, Claire Lilienthal School (K-2), San Francisco
1999 AIA Exemplary Learning Environment Award, Claire Lilienthal School (K-2), San Francisco
1998 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Commendation, Re:public Park Competition, Sydney, Australia
Selected Publications
2005 Julie Kim, “2005 EDRA /Places Awards, Los Altos School District Master Plan Update­—Los Altos, California,”
Places Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall 2005, pp. 10-13.
Liz Fink, “Women Owners Elbow Way into Industries,” San Francisco Business Times supplement, September 1622, 2005, profile of Lisa Gelfand, AIA, pp. 10-11
Christina Koch, “Small Steps toward a Brighter Future,” Eco-Structure, September/October 2005, Georgina Blach
Intermediate School in article on the California Collaborative for High Performance Schools, pp. 66-69
2004 Joann Gonchar, “More Than A Makeover,” California Schools: A Special Publication of Engineering News-Record,
December 2004, pp. 16-21
2004 Zahid Sardar, “The Best of the Bay: 2004’s American Institute of Architects’ San Francisco Design Awards,” SF
Chronicle Magazine, April 11, 2004
2003 Ron Nyren, “An Eye to the Future: A Profile of Gelfand Partners,” LINE, the online journal of AIA SF, May, 2003.
Michael J. Crosbie, “Oasis for Children,” Architecture Week (online), No 164, Sept. 24, 2003, Artifice, Inc.
“20th Anniversary Preservation Design Awards,” California Preservation, California Preservation Found­­­­ation, Vol.
28, No. 1, Spring 2003, p.9.
Kenneth Caldwell, “Project Portfolio: Public and Private, the Bay Area Is Abuzz with School Construction,” LINE,
the online journal of AIA SF, Jan. 2003
2001 Educational Facilities: The American Institute of Architects Exemplary Learning Environment Program, 2001, Images
Publishing Group, Australia, Claire Lilienthal School (K-2), S.F.
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Sustainability: Natural Ventilation
High / Low Air/Light Optimizer (HALO), Patent Pending
Architect of Record
Gelfand Partners Architects
Principal-in-Charge
Lisa Gelfand, AIA
Principal
Chris Duncan, AIA, LEED AP
TM
Principal
James Fagler, AIA
Associate
Lawrence Schadt, AIA
Gelfand Partners’ HALO natural ventilation system is shown here in modernized
classrooms at Oak Elementary School in Los Altos. Louvers with gravity dampers
placed low on the walls provide a source of fresh air. Light monitors with northfacing clerestories were added to the existing classroom buildings. Air flow is
provided by automated sensors that open the clerestory windows when indoor
temperatures exceed established parameters, and outdoor air temperatures are
appropriate. As hot air in the classroom rises and exits through the clerestories,
cool air is drawn in through the louvers, creating “stack effect” flow-through ventilation. This system substitutes for the “economizer cycle” in mechanical ventilation,
saving the energy of running fans.
Operable clerestory
windows allow hot air
to exit when opened.
An automated sensor
in classroom opens
clerestory windows.
Gravity dampered acoustic louvers placed low on
walls admit fresh air.
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