The Santa Clara Valley chapter of the AIA presented one Honor Award and seven Merit Awards for its biennial design award program. Stanley Saitowitz, principal, Stanley Saitowitz Office/Natoma Architects, San Francisco; Laura Hartman, AIA, founder and principal, Fernau & Hartman Architects Inc., Berkeley; and John King, urban design and architecture critic, San Francisco Chronicle, served on the jury.

Honor Award

Leslie Shao-Ming Sun Field Station, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Stanford University,
Stanford, Calif.,
by Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA
Jasper Ridge is a pristine biological preserve located in the foothills adjacent to Stanford’s campus. This 9,800-square-foot field station provides centralized facilities for research, education, and conference activities. Multiuse spaces, designed for flexibility and changing user needs, include research labs, multi-purpose meeting rooms, classrooms, offices, and a kitchen. In 2003, the field station was awarded the first Sustainable San Mateo County Green Building Award. Photo © Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA.

Merit Awards

Downtown Superior Court Security Lobby,
San Jose, Calif.,
by HMC Architects
The Downtown Superior Court is a five-story brick and concrete building originally constructed in the 1960s. To accommodate current security standards, the architects enclosed an existing courtyard to create a new security lobby and a covered exterior queuing area. The main components of the entry canopy are of Modern design, consistent with the Superior Court building, but materials for the canopy, particularly the honey limestone, were chosen to harmonize with an adjacent historic courthouse. The design successfully ties together the disparate elements of the existing architectural context. Photo © Marco Zecchin.

West Valley Branch Library,
San Jose, Calif.,
by Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA
West Valley Branch Library is the first new library built in San Jose under the guidelines of the Branch Facilities Master Plan. The 20,000-square-foot facility, replacing an outdated, smaller library, was sited to allow the existing library to remain in operation during construction. The new library includes foreign language collections, a large area for children, a computer center, group study rooms, and a community meeting room. The library is the City of San Jose’s first LEED™-certified building and also the first LEED-certified library anywhere. Photo © Richard Barnes.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Research Center,
Stanford, Calif.,
by Seidel/Holzman
The Carnegie Foundation required a new facility to house its expanding research programs and staff. The new research center consolidates space from several buildings into a single modern facility on a wooded hillside above Stanford University with spectacular views extending from San Francisco to San Jose. The foundation’s programs are both scholarly and collaborative, which the building supports with a variety of workspaces from enclosed offices to large, open, and reconfigurable areas. Photo © Tim Griffith.

100 Forest Avenue,
Palo Alto, Calif.,
by Hayes Group
The architects transformed and expanded a 1927 auto body shop into a design studio for IDEO, the industry-leading product design company. Because many of Silicon Valley’s greatest innovations have been discovered in garages and other humble structures, the design concept was to respect the building’s historic façade and character while showcasing the innovation of the users within. Photo © Tom Percival.

Vasudevan Residence,
Los Altos, Calif.,
by Carrasco & Associates
The architect designed this house so that its residents could experience changes in the time of the day and seasons of the year. A central space with a circular skylight in the middle of the house creates a connection to the sun and admits a circle of sunlight that travels through the house as the sun changes positions in the sky throughout the year. Simple, direct, and visual expressions of the building’s use were guiding principles of the design. Photo © Tom Percival.

Volvo Auto Stand,
Setubal, Portugal,
by PPA Arquitectos
Located at Setubal’s waterfront, approximately 20 miles south of Lisbon, this new building replaced a maintenance facility half its size and incorporated a new car showroom. The building is the first sited in the new industrial development named EcoParque located on the outskirts of the city. Photo © Paulo Almeida.

Allene G. Vaden Health Center, Stanford University,
Stanford, Calif.,
by Hawley, Peterson & Snyder Architects
The client challenged the architects to fit in with the traditional arches, columns, and arcades of Stanford’s Romanesque central campus while striving for a contemporary feel. The design uses traditional elements such as Spanish roof tiles, sandstone walls, and sandy colors, but is defined by the layering and intersection of crisp, linear architectural components. A large skylight brings light deep into the building, echoing the courtyard design of the quad’s older buildings. Photo © David Wakely.

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