LNPCDC Net Positive Officefrom Design 9 and 10 Architecture Studio with Prof. Max Zahniser
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The Lower North Philadelphia Community Development Corporation office building will serve as a precedent for sustainable urban office architecture. LNPCDC provides a comfortable, accessible, and efficient working environment that provides the residents and community with opportunities for development, collaboration, and engagement. As a Community Development Corporation, it’s important for the LNPCDC to set an example for how residents can create and live in an urban net-zero environment. The new 3-story, 10,000 sqft project will be a holistic, high-performance design approach that will address optimal energy performance, water use, environmental impact, and community benefits. The building will include a community space, commercial space, LNPCDC office area, rentable office area, conference rooms, computer lab, printing, and supply spaces, two apartment units, circulation, restrooms, and additional utility spaces. The Office Building is being designed for the LNPCDC and the surrounding Sharswood-Brewerytown Community. LNPCDC is a community development corporation that aims to build a neighborhood that is safe and welcoming to all, has a healthy mix of incomes, family types, and ages that live in quality affordable housing, as well as assist in the revitalizing of an under-developed business corridor, rather than the extractive and harmful role developers usually play.
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Our project creates sustainable, regenerative change for the Sharswood community, serving as a precedent for sustainable urban interaction. Using smart orientation and form, a high performance envelope, high efficiency systems, and PV solar production. We were able to create a building that generates more electricity that it uses annually. Building off of this, we used low carbon materials and methods to reduce the project's footprint. Water systems were completely internally managed with rainwater harvesting and grey/black water treatment and reuse. Occupants will not only enjoy no energy bill and high thermal comfort, but clean air with the use of healthy materials, plants, and natural ventilation. - Wyatt Zimmerman
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Why is creating change important to you?
Sustainable architecture is needed for the future, not as a luxury, but a standard. Buildings are highly responsible for carbon emissions and climate change, and use a lot of energy. We can design buildings like this, that provide for themselves with clean, renewable energy. That handle their own water, clean their own air, all internally and integrated. Imagine a city where every building was designed like this. - Wyatt Zimmerman |
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Our design team began with collaborative stakeholder meetings that produced initial concepts, project statements, and defined goals. Form and orientation charrettes were conducted next to produce multiple iterations that were driven by energy, daylighting and passive strategies, while also taking into consideration context, water, and air. Program was developed alongside the form through multiple client meetings to ensure their desires were possible and functional. Energy simulations and client interactions allowed us to move forward with a form that was both efficient and met their programmatic needs. This form will be fitted with a highly insulated, high-performing envelope which integrates glazing and façade elements that provide passive heating and cooling, lessening load on mechanical systems. Water collection systems will provide supply to the building, with excess being used to irrigate plants, cleanse the air, and clean and cool the photovoltaic array that provides net-zero energy. This process will produce a high-performing and culturally functional space that provides both educational and professional opportunities while fostering community engagement and gathering.
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Wyatt Zimmerman
B. Architecture '22 Sustainable Design Minor Listeninging to Anything by Luke Combs |
Derek Sherony
B. Architecture '22 Sustainable Design and Historic Preservation Minor Listening to KSweet as coco-cola by PEABOD |
Franklin Rodriguez
B. Architecture '22 Sustainable Design Minor Lisening to Phoenix by Burnout Syndromes |
