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November 30, 2011
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1. RE:AAJ 2011 - Additional presentation added!
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Christopher Hirai, Assoc. AIA
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November 15, 2011
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2. AAJ 2011 - Additional presentation added!
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November 06, 2011
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3. AAJ 2011 - Opening Plenary
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4. RE:Sustainability in the justice field.
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November 05, 2011
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5. Sustainability in the justice field.
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November 04, 2011
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6. RE:AAJ 2011 Conference: Who are the next political...
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November 03, 2011
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7. AAJ Discussion Item
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Hi all! I have received and uploaded the final presentation from the Law Enforcement track. LE/OT-01 Forensic Science Facilities: "When a Laboratory is not a Laboratory". This was a great presentation and highly recommend you check it out! Thanks! ------------------------------------------- Christopher Hirai Assoc. AIA Project Coordinator Nacht & Lewis Architects Sacramento CA -------------------------------------------
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Sent: 11-15-2011 13:02
From: Christopher Hirai
Subject: AAJ 2011 - Additional presentation added!
Good Morning!
I have just uploaded the LEED-J: Developing a Sustainability Rating System for Justice presentation to the library. Please check it out. There is some great information on enhancing the way we think of justice facility design and the environment.
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Christopher Hirai Assoc. AIA
Project Coordinator
Nacht & Lewis Architects
Sacramento CA
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Good Morning!
I have just uploaded the LEED-J: Developing a Sustainability Rating System for Justice presentation to the library. Please check it out. There is some great information on enhancing the way we think of justice facility design and the environment.
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Christopher Hirai Assoc. AIA
Project Coordinator
Nacht & Lewis Architects
Sacramento CA
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After having a discussion with Ken Ricci, FAIA yesterday I felt compelled to add to this post. The intention of engaging the public and bringing them into the building was intended to apply primiarily to detention facilities and not correctional facilities (prisons). With a better understanding of the content, I feel that engaging the public and the context of the (typically) urban site. Community rooms and designing the detention facility as a public building, which it is in although highly programmed and secured, could be very succesful. Any thoughts? ------------------------------------------- Christopher Hirai Assoc. AIA Project Coordinator Nacht & Lewis Architects Sacramento CA -------------------------------------------
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Sent: 11-05-2011 03:50
From: Christopher Hirai
Subject: Sustainability in the justice field.
This morning I attended a panel, LEED-J: Developing a Sustainability Rating System for Justice. The panel discussed the idea of not only developing, but implementing a LEED rating system specific to Justice projects that took into account their special programatic requirments. The panel discussed three groups of criteria, one for law enforcement, one for courts, and one for detention facilities. One of the more interesting points was the desire to involve the community more in detention facilities. From past experiences with correctional facility design I am very curious as to how this could work. Any thoughts? Is this a realistic goal for the modern detention facility? From the viewpoint of the custody officers as well as the general public is this truly a sustainable/desirable pracitice?
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Christopher Hirai Assoc. AIA
Project Coordinator
Nacht & Lewis Architects
Sacramento CA
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This morning I attended a panel, LEED-J: Developing a Sustainability Rating System for Justice. The panel discussed the idea of not only developing, but implementing a LEED rating system specific to Justice projects that took into account their special programatic requirments. The panel discussed three groups of criteria, one for law enforcement, one for courts, and one for detention facilities. One of the more interesting points was the desire to involve the community more in detention facilities. From past experiences with correctional facility design I am very curious as to how this could work. Any thoughts? Is this a realistic goal for the modern detention facility? From the viewpoint of the custody officers as well as the general public is this truly a sustainable/desirable pracitice?
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Christopher Hirai Assoc. AIA
Project Coordinator
Nacht & Lewis Architects
Sacramento CA
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The interesting thing to me is that Senator Moynihan's movement towards the establishment of guidelines really begain with a single sheet of paper. A one page report outlining how Architecture should reflect the spirit and character of the government. Granted that single sheet of paper was delivered to the President of the United States but still a siginificant first step in such a concise medium. In regards to your question however I am not so sure it has to be a political champion. As we are a government for the people and by the people perhaps this is a movement that has to be made championed by the users of these buildings, that then carries up to the higher levels of government? I feel like Senator Moynihan really got things going and really put the ball in play, but its up to the rest of us designers and agencies (the clients and the facility users) to keep pushing. ------------------------------------------- Christopher Hirai Assoc. AIA Project Coordinator Nacht & Lewis Architects Sacramento CA -------------------------------------------
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Sent: 11-03-2011 21:36
From: Suzi Smith
Subject: AAJ 2011 Conference: Who are the next political champions of good architecture?
Leslie Shepard's plenary session on the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a tribute to the Democratic senator's enduring contribution to federal architecture through his authorship of the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture. Mr. Shepard then posed the question: Who are the next political champions of good architecture? Moynihan penned his Principles some 14 years before he was first elected to the Senate. Perhaps architecture's next political champions are not yet political figureheads. Maybe the next political champions aren't people at all. Perhaps the institutions such as GSA and AOC have adopted the role of that political figurehead. What do you think? Do you observe political leaders in your community who are championing architecture beyond their communities? Or has architecture established a significant enough presence in government to advocate for itself?
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Suzi Smith Assoc. AIA
HMC + Beverly Prior Architects
San Francisco CA
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Leslie Shepherd made the point that we shouldn't be asking ourselves how are we going to replace older, less efficient federal buildings, rather what can we do to make them better? Recladding? occupancy and utilization studies? What can we do?
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Christopher Hirai Assoc. AIA
Project Coordinator
Nacht & Lewis Architects
Sacramento CA
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