事务所特色:Aedis建筑师

我和约翰·迪芬德尔坐了下来, 和阿夫沙·阿里, 了解更多他们在Aedis建筑事务所所做的工作, one of California’s leading educational design architects and an innovator in applying high-performance building technology in California public schools. 约翰是公司的总裁, 阿芙莎今年被任命为副校长, 自2008年以来一直领导着阿联酋的项目.   

约翰和阿夫沙分享了他们的愿景 TimberQuest®, a pre-engineered mass timber building solution to house all manners of educational programs for California schools, 以及为什么公司优先考虑木材作为可持续设计的解决方案. 

约翰开始采访时说: “大约是早上9点.m. 在一个阳光明媚的早晨, and the kids were set about on a lawn in front of their new kindergarten classroom building. 他们围成小圈, 每个人都围着自己的大人转, who was reading a sweet children’s story about a construction site at the end of the day. 读者来自Aedis建筑事务所, XL建设, and Daedalus Engineers—the folks who were responsible for the one-of-a-kind–and perhaps the first-of-many—圣心学校的Timberquest®幼儿园教学楼. 为了我们所有人, it was a celebration we got to share with the students and teachers who would benefit from the amazing place. I don’t think they even knew what it signified; they just knew they loved it!” 

切尔西: 约翰，谢谢你那迷人的画面! 当你谈到TimberQuest时，我能感觉到你的兴奋. 它是什么，是什么让它如此重要?    

约翰: The last few years have seen a great deal of press about how the design and construction industry is on the verge of disruptive change. 我们一直在考虑我们在其中扮演的角色, which ultimately led to a meeting of minds with the two other firms that would become our collaborators in this venture. We each brought a piece of the puzzle—engineering and construction experience with CLT; experience with the school design marketplace and the agencies involved. 同样重要的是, we each shared a drive to do the impossible: produce a system that was affordable, 快, 亲生, 对环境温和. 于是，TimberQuest诞生了.  

TimberQuest is a pre-engineered (and “pre-checked”) building solution to house all manners of educational programs for California schools, constructed from a patented system of cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels for walls and roofs, 这利用了日光照明的最佳实践, 通风, 能源效率. It makes a great learning environment and represents a 68% reduction in CO₂E来自相同大小和功能的基线钢框架建筑.

切尔西: 二氧化碳减少68%₂e? 这似乎好得令人难以置信. 这是如何实现的?? 

Afsha: 我们与STŌK合作, 一家著名的环境咨询公司, 来分析我们的规格, and means and methods to establish a calculated carbon impact of our first installation. We also asked them to benchmark more conventional construction techniques applied to the exact same building configuration, 同时使用木材和钢材. 混凝土地基和楼板都是一样的. 我们发现任何形式的木头都比钢强得多. The embodied carbon of a conventional wood-framed building is going to be more than 30% better than its all-steel cousins. 用大量的木材, embodied carbon can be further offset; we have a net 68% reduction compared to steel. 这都是由于木制品中的生物碳储存, and with mass timber there is more wood fiber than conventional wood framing. 我们理解它的方式, 树木基本上像海绵一样吸收碳, 在固碳方面, 木制品本质上是清洁大气, 从而对大气产生持久的积极影响. 木材越多, 更积极的影响, which acts to offset the negative impact of the embodied carbon in the rest of the structure.  

切尔西: 你在描述中用了"亲生物"这个词. 告诉我们为什么这很重要. 

约翰: Biophilia is defined as the innate human instinct to connect with nature and other living beings. 亲生物设计寻求利用自然来增加这种连通性, 自然的形式, 材料, 和条件. TimberQuest利用充足但可控的日光, 新鲜空气和通风, 访问视图, 当然还有墙上裸露的木头的温暖和质感, 光线, 和天花板. We can’t claim to have done the research that says that the patterns of 亲生 design improve emotional, 生理, 认知表现, 但我们确实吸取了教训! You feel it as soon as you set foot into the Sacred Heart School’s Kindergarten Building—you just feel happy there. 当然,有 一篇解释原因的学术论文.  

切尔西: 你还在忙什么呢? 你认为这是你唯一一次涉足CLT吗?  

Afsha: At any given time, Aedis is working on more than a hundred active projects of one sort or another. A lot of our work is the rehabilitation and modernization of existing schools. 到目前为止，我们只能在新的建筑工程中使用CLT. 新18,萨拉托加展望高中600平方英尺的教学楼, CA实际上是我们第一次使用CLT. 这也是一项设计投标建造的工作，所以投标日是一个紧张的日子. 获胜者, Calstate建设, 迎接挑战，经历了陡峭的学习曲线, 这是他们第一个使用这种材料的项目. 使用CLT的两个关键因素是 它的制造精度和交货时间. The shop drawings were coordinated with almost every trade on the project—electrical, 机械, 而管道——也要求所有的分包商加快步伐, committing to the locations of penetrations and anchors at a 16th of an inch tolerance, 而且是在浇筑楼板之前!

我们目前还有其他CLT项目在进行中. 在普莱森顿，一个更大的TimberQuest装置正在进行中. It’s about 8,000 square feet and will be available for Fall 2023 occupancy. We’re also developing additional typologies for TimberQuest®—high bay and long-span plans for gymnasiums, 装配和多用途建筑, 内部和外部流通的两层结构. You’ll see the first of those being constructed in the Spring of 2024 on a site in Palo Alto, CA.  

除了, CLT正在我们的多户住宅项目中寻找它的方式, 我们相信它很快就会成为我们的首选结构, especially when new carbon impact reduction directives start to come out of the Division of the State Architect next year. 

切尔西: 你们看起来对CLT很有热情. 这是更大的可持续发展议程的一部分吗? 

约翰: Aedis建筑师 has been fighting the battle for environmentally responsible design for years. We remember our first Net Zero Energy/Emissions building built back in 2010. 这在当时几乎是闻所未闻的, 就像大规模木材被认为是今天的新兴技术一样. 我们的一些客户现在节省了高达80%的能源费用, thanks to the energy saving strategies we’ve designed in our new and renovated buildings. 几乎在所有情况下, 节能设计的副产品是日光, 享有美景和新鲜空气, 加强与自然的联系. We believe in the positive lasting impact of design and preserving our planet for the next generation. 

切尔西: 谢谢阿夫沙和约翰今天和我一起分享 Aedis. I look forward to seeing more TimberQuest projects and other mass timber projects from your firm built in the near future.