 AIA
San Diego Recognizes the Year’s Most Impressive Projects
AIA San Diego announces the 2007 winners in the chapter’s design
awards and Young Architect of the Year (YAYA) programs. Serving as
jurors were: Angela Brooks, AIA, LEED-AP, Pugh + Scarpa; John Holmes,
AIA, Holst Architecture; and James Richärd, AIA, Richärd & Bauer
Architecture. The jurors evaluated more than 80 applications in this
year’s Design Awards Program and chose to present three honor
awards, five merit awards, four citations, a Divine Details award,
and an Energy Efficiency Integration Award. All winning projects are
in San Diego. 
 Sustainable Classroom Design Captures San Francisco Bay Breezes
and Sunlight
The Windrush School in El Cerrito, Calif., located on the eastern
shore of the San Francisco Bay, recently broke ground on a new 14,000-square-foot,
two-story classroom wing that will use sustainable design techniques
to take advantage of the region’s moderate climate. Emeryville,
Calif.-based Ratcliff created the K–8 school to capture and distribute
sunlight and bay breezes using clerestory windows, a combination
natural ventilation and radiant heating system, photovoltaics, and
a green roof with a water runoff system. The project makes up the
first phase of the Windrush School’s four-phase development
plan and will meet the 2010 requirements for 50 percent carbon neutrality.
In addition to significant energy cost savings, Windrush is expecting
to be the first LEED®-certified project in El Cerrito. The classroom
wing will be completed for the 2008 school year.
 Abandoned and Forgotten, Historic Site Starts Anew
Rocketts Landing wins APA Award for “Outstanding
Private Sector Plan”
Located just south of the Richmond, Va., central business district,
Rocketts Landing is steeped in the history of America. The 54-acre
site dates back to 1607, when English settlers traveled upriver only
days after founding the settlement of Jamestown. Captain Christopher
Newport traveled the James River as far inland as he could, stopped
only by the fall line near what would become Rocketts Landing. As
a British-occupied territory during the Revolutionary War, a booming
international seaport throughout the 19th century, and the principal
shipyard of the Confederate navy, this parcel of land occupied great
prominence in Richmond. Named for an Irish immigrant who operated
a rope ferry across the James, Rocketts Landing eventually became
an abandoned industrial brownfield after trains replaced ships as
the primary method of continental transport. Today, both site and
capital city are in the midst of a reawakening, thanks in good measure
to the efforts of CMSS Architects.
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