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courtesy of Architectural Nexus THERE’S ALWAYS A SOLUTION IN STEEL. courtesy of Architectural Nexus Ethan Bedingfield Architectural Nexus The AISC Steel Solutions Center is a free service for people who need technical assistance, innovative ideas or tools to make structural steel design easier. Just ask Ethan Bedingfield, AIA, NCARB who works at Architectural Nexus in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ethan was designing University Place Building One in Orem, Utah, part of the University Mall being developed by Woodbury Corporation, one of the West’s largest and most experienced full-service real estate development firms. “Building One includes about 26,000 square feet on the ground level, and then approximately 139,000 square feet on levels two to five,” he says, “and sits in the parking lot of the existing mall, which meant we had to replace and add parking by going below ground. The changing axis of the building as it rises (the parking level below a level of retail with 4 levels of office space that have a separate axis) is what made the steel design so complicated.” His inspiration came from the site constraint itself. The project used all steel moment framing, affording him extraordinary flexibility. Costs also played a role, and was one of the reasons he reached out to the AISC Solutions Center. “The base is a rectangle that fills the whole site we had available to us,” Ethan explains. “We are within a foot of hitting utilities. We twisted the top of the building rather than following the grid of the immediate context, relating it to the major additions that will happen behind the mall and also facing it to the extremely busy intersection on which the project sits. That’s where we landed in our initial studies. Once we had it to that point, I remembered meeting Tabitha Stine, S.E., P.E., LEED AP from the AISC Steel Solutions Center at a conference. I called, and we sent over Revit files and the narrative we had describing our intent. University Place was the first time I used the Solutions Center. I’ve used it a few times since, but this was the most impactful experience. I will definitely use them again.” Ethan explains that some of the options they received were unexpected, but they all stimulated his thinking, including the one that grabbed their attention the most. “It was the use of SidePlate for our moment frame for the lateral system,” he says. “We ended up saving around $70,000 because of it and the aesthetic design was unimpacted.” Ethan says the AISC Solutions Center does two things: adds to creative thinking and validates your own design. “I don’t know why you wouldn’t call them on every project for the second set of eyes,” he adds. From typical framing studies to total structural systems, including project costs and schedules, the AISC Steel Solutions Center can provide you with up-to-date information and innovative solutions for your project. The AISC regional staff covers eight different geographic regions across the U.S. They give more than 50 presentations a year on various steel topics. Learn how our regional staff can work with your company. Call 866.ASK.AISC (866.275.2472) or email us at solutions@aisc.org www.aisc.org/solutionscenter
January 2016 AIAFeature 50 AIAPractice 54 AIAKnowledge 57 AIAPerspective 58 AIA Architect AIAVoices PHOTOGRAPHY: PORTER GIFFORD People Person The humanity of design thinking. Michael Murphy is the executive director of Boston-based MASS Design Group, where he leads design and research programs in several countries. Murphy advocates for “lofab” design, which combines local labor and economical prefabrication—“not to fetishize ‘the local,’ but to exhume the commodity of labor,” he says. “We need to be asking about the human handprints in the built environment, which is a thing made by people that includes materials extracted by people, and is ultimately used by people.” As told to William Richards It’s important that we, as architects, care about words like “context,” “dignity,” “social outcomes,” and “evaluation.” We also have to have the capability of investing in those concepts—through how you spend your time, how you treat your staff, and the projects you take on. The question for our firm is, “How are architects making progress in a measurable way?” We have six full-time researchers and we are making a significant financial investment in measurability, which has forced us to recalibrate our firm. We’ve forged three great partnerships lately: with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on the history and future of hospitals; with Atlantic Philanthropies and the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, to build a tool set to evaluate the impact of architecture on communities, organizations, and place; and with Atul Gawande’s Ariadne Labs, to look at a research protocol that asks how the design of operating rooms affects the rate of Caesareans. I believe in public interest design, but my question about it is, “What architecture isn’t socially minded?” I don’t think we have a choice here—it’s a false dichotomy to say we can do capital-A Architecture or we can do architecture that is socially minded. That dichotomy implies that it’s possible to work in a vacuum and not think about political and social issues. It implies that it’s possible to ignore ethics—and that’s a pernicious claim. The problem with advocates of, say, the autonomous project in design is that they believe there’s a debate here. There is no debate. There is only the choice we have to acknowledge the social implications of our work. What makes today’s social project of architecture different from the social project of Modernism is that we now have data to assess the impacts that buildings have on our lives. I think architects possess an underleveraged value proposition. By contract, we have a fiduciary responsibility to the public good. We are accountable during the lifetime of a building. If architects can start to leverage their actual value, they can change our perceived value. MASS Design’s goal is not to corner a market and exploit it; it’s to create a bigger pie for more architects to work for more communities. AIA 49
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