AIACNY
February 2008
A Chapter of The American
Institute of Architects
AIA Central New York
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T.Lafferty
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This month in The Leading Edge
2007 Design Merit Award
Category: Residential
Designed by Holmes
King Kallquist
& Associates LLP
The fine brick residence on
a hill overlooking
As originally constructed,
the house was a simple, yet imposing Federal Style home, with a grand stair
and two eloquently detailed front rooms; a parlor, and dining room.
When the original builder died in 1870, the house passed to his
nephew, who enlarged it in a simple, compatible Victorian style.
The brick front gable and two-story rear wing were added at this
time.
In 1895, the house was sold
to Dr. Albert Leffingwell, a physician and one of the founders of the
American Humane Society. He
carefully restored the home, added an attic playroom (and dormers) and the
grand front porch. Following Dr.
Leffingwell’s death in 1932, the house remained vacant until the most
recent restoration began in 2002.
The 1826 stair hall, dining
room, parlor, and front bedrooms were scrupulously restored, and later
additions of closets built by Dr. Leffingwell were removed to reclaim the
rooms’ original proportions. All
original trim, doors, and hardware were restored.
The 1895 front porch, which was seriously deteriorated, was
dismantled and rebuilt to its original form using all sound original
components and matching with new where necessary.
Original windows and shutters were restored.
The patinaed Federal Yellow exterior paint was retained, and
carefully matched in areas where masonry repairs were needed.
The rear parlor of the
house, which had been heavily altered by Dr. Leffingwell, was again
modified, now to suit a twenty-first century lifestyle.
The original kitchen and 1895 dining room were combined into a single
kitchen/family room area with the original walnut dining room trim carefully
restored and extended. Original
French doors again open onto a garden terrace, a contemporary restatement of
a long vanished original. The
back servants’ stairs were rebuilt to modern standards, and an elevator
added.
At the second floor, a
nursery was utilized to create closet space and a bath for the front
bedroom. Closets and baths for
the second 1826 bedroom and a new third bedroom occupy areas of the house
Dr. Leffingwell used as his office and to care for patients.
To the rear of the house,
the 1830s “Tee” shaped barn was accurately restored.
A later barn was relocated further back on the property to restore
the original open space around the house.
Sensitive contemporary site design restores the terraces visible in
early photographs.
Leffingwell House as restored today, is reflective of each of its four owners, while being entirely suited to contemporary life for the generation to come.
Jury's Comments: A fine example of a project that keeps with the character defining elements of an historic structure. The floor plan has been arranged to meet the needs of modern life by reconfiguring open spaces. The interior design is respectful to the simplicity of the exterior. The project provides a rich contemporary design with historic qualities. This project has married an historic home seamlessly with today’s lifestyle.
The President's Message
Joseph Piraino, AIA
Wow January went by fast and February is upon us. We
have accomplished a lot this month and the State of the Chapter is good.
Many of the programs that I outlined in my last message have started to be
implemented. I wanted to highlight some of the things that have happened
this past month.
Louie Boisnier our Program Director has done a great
job on filling our schedule with great programs. We had over 90 members and
a few non-members participate in a day long seminar at the Renaissance Hotel
put on by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation which offered 6.5
continuing education credits.
The membership survey that Ron Bagliaere put together
was sent out to all our members. If you didn’t receive please let me or
Ron know. If you did receive it please make a copy or forward to everyone in
your office it will not take long to fill out and we need feed back from
everyone members and non-members.
The computer at the
Our new website should be up this month. We wanted the site to be up by the end of January but our schedule slipped a little. Please remember that the AIA is a volunteer organization. All of our board and committee members are involved because they want to promote the profession of Architecture. They do not get paid for the work and they do not receive any discounts on their AIA dues or program fees. So if anyone of our members has a problem with the state of the chapter please let me know how you can help.
Thank You,
Joseph Piraino,
President, AIACNY
A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS.....
by Dick Lafferty
Aligning
Regulation with Sustainability
(or I hear you talking big dog!)
This article is based
on one from the December, Building Safety Journal, by Yves Khawam. He uses
an analogy of the current code development likened to a patient on 20
different prescription drugs, none of which has been tested with the others
for interactions and side effects. He also stated, the rise in importance of
environmental issues has called into question how to accommodate current
regulations within the broader context of sustainability.
The author has a clear
understanding of where the Code Enforcement Officer’s position on
enforcement comes from. You may find because of the prescriptive nature of
regulations, officials defending the most innocuous requirement as if
without it the entire house of cards would collapse. Code Enforcement
Official feel, the only reliable methods are the prescriptive requirements.
This is true in
What stands in the way
of performance based regulations? The building code (the Family of Codes in
In the 1930’s, green
had a slightly different connotation. From “The Urban Pattern” by Arthur
B. Gallion (1950) Greenbelt Towns were, “As a component part of the
Federal Governments search for ways and means to cope with the modern city
and its’ living environment, the Resettlement Administration planned for
“
In the 50’s thru the
80’s
Do the above comments
bring any shopping centers or housing developments to your mind? If it does
not, you have been in your cave to long. One circle of your hometown shall
awaken your censes.
On with the Green (LEED)
possible solutions. Apply LEED rating system to shape a new
performance-based standard: (Khawam article)
- preferred
location,
- reduced
automobile dependence,
- provision
of a street network,
- support
for a bicycle network’
- housing
and jobs proximity,
- school
proximity,
- provision
of an open community,
- compact
development,
- reduce
parking footprint,
- walkable
streets,
- expansion
of transit facilities,
- transportation
demand management,
- access
to surrounding facilities,
- access
to public spaces,
- access
to active spaces,
- minimization
of site disturbance and
- heat
island reduction.
If
Or another approach,
leave current regulations in place and incentivize (a bureaucratic coined
word) performance-based sustainability criteria. Create sustainability
overlay zones and provide developers the choice of abiding by traditional
regulation or opting for sustainability criteria. Incentives of processing,
cost and marketability by expedited permitting, deferring payments of impact
fees, offering a sustainable community designation.
Sounds like NYSERTA
today, why would it catch on tomorrow?
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MEETING
MINUTES OF THE AIACNY CHAPTER BOARD MEETING:
December 13, 2007
Opening of the Meeting:
This meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Institute of
Architects Central
GLOBAL
WARMING AND THE ARCHITECT
By Dean A. Biancavilla, AIA, LEED AP Holmes King Kallquist & Associates, Architects, dab@hkkarchitects.com
We enter the New Year with a lot of work ahead of us all. What work is that you
ask ? The work of beginning the implementation of the Syracuse SDAT recommendations which were released in their final form in December. Also linking the design & construction work being planned for the first seven schools of the Syracuse Central School District to the sustainable community planning component which would begin with community charrettes in the neighborhoods surrounding those seven schools. Also we need to take stock of our individual commitments to taking what actions we can to help reverse the effects of global climate change.Those stories and more we will report on in the coming months.
Our series theme – “Architects can make a difference in the battle against Global Warming by the reduction of our buildings’ energy use and consumption.”
How do we reduce our building’s thirst for energy ? Click Here.
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