ABSTRACT

This chapter identifies and highlights energy modeling aspects of different projects. The geometric comparisons of these projects describe the built project and, when possible, how the design teams approached it. The daylit third-floor addition houses meeting rooms, an art gallery, and administrative offices, as well as a reading room and terrace that can be rented for private events. The Bullitt Center is the first urban building of its kind and commonly regarded as "the greenest office building in the world." The Bullitt Center takes cues from nature and has been compared to a living organism incorporating simplicity and efficiency in its interconnected systems. The city wanted to redefine a homeless care paradigm that typically produces antiseptic institutional facilities. The architects were fortunate in having a municipal client that required design quality that would "meet and/or exceed" that of adjacent market-rate condominium buildings.