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//AWARD WINNERS
DBIA Excellence in Design Award
University of California, Irvine Contemporary Arts Center
IRVINE, CALIF.
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climate. The terraces are used as outdoor studios
and workshops, impromptu exhibition spaces and
lounges, promoting creative collaboration among
students and faculty.
The center has become a lively work of functional
art, enhancing the campus and promising long-term
benefits for the entire university community.
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The design of the new Contemporary Arts Center
at the University of California, Irvine was a challenge in many ways. The center provides space for
a range of purposes: instruction, research, performance, production support and office space. It
also serves several art forms, each of which has
its own requirements, all in a tightly constrained
space. And during the request for proposal (RFP)
phase, the university requested that the building
be as sustainable as possible, sending the designbuilder back to the drawing board.
Reducing the center's carbon footprint required
the design-build team to consider which departments' needs could be met in innovative ways. Some
spaces-the theater, gallery and sound design lab
among them-do actually require climate and
noise controls. Others, such as offices, studios and
corridors, are less demanding in that respect. The
design-builder met the challenge by organizing these
spaces by their actual requirements. Those that did
require the energy-intensive controls are set in the
interior section of the building. Those that did not,
and might benefit from access to natural light and
ventilation, are around the exterior of the building.
Corridors serve as buffer zones, separating the two.
On the top floor, artists' studios and terraces
provide true indoor-outdoor spaces, taking advantage of both the views and the Southern California
Owner: University of California, Irvine
Design-Builder and General Contractor: Edge
Construction, LLC
Architects: Ehrlich Architects
LRM Landscape Architecture
Engineers: John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
KPFF Consulting Engineers, Inc.
M-E Engineers, Inc.
Smith Engineering
Specialty Consultants:
Menlo Scientific Acoustics, Inc.
Schaffer Acoustics, Inc.
Specialty Contractors:
Berg Electric Corporation
Best Interiors, Inc.
Couts Heating and Cooling, Inc.
EDGE - Concrete Division
Scrape Certified Welding, Inc.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of IQ Winter 2014
leadership reflections
legislative update
project of the year
DBIA survey
design-build best practices
design winners
nationalo design-build student competition
IQ Winter 2014
IQ Winter 2014 - (Page 1)
IQ Winter 2014 - (Page 2)
IQ Winter 2014 - (Page 3)
IQ Winter 2014 - (Page 4)
IQ Winter 2014 - leadership reflections (Page 5)
IQ Winter 2014 - leadership reflections (Page 6)
IQ Winter 2014 - legislative update (Page 7)
IQ Winter 2014 - project of the year (Page 8)
IQ Winter 2014 - project of the year (Page 9)
IQ Winter 2014 - DBIA survey (Page 10)
IQ Winter 2014 - DBIA survey (Page 11)
IQ Winter 2014 - DBIA survey (Page 12)
IQ Winter 2014 - DBIA survey (Page 13)
IQ Winter 2014 - design-build best practices (Page 14)
IQ Winter 2014 - design-build best practices (Page 15)
IQ Winter 2014 - design-build best practices (Page 16)
IQ Winter 2014 - design winners (Page 17)
IQ Winter 2014 - design winners (Page 18)
IQ Winter 2014 - design winners (Page 19)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 20)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 21)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 22)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 23)
IQ Winter 2014 - nationalo design-build student competition (Page 24)
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