Friday5 - April 25, 2025 - MillerClapperton

IN THIS WEEK’S FRIDAY5

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Building energy codes and standards have historically focused on prescriptive efficiency requirements for HVAC and lighting, as well as insulation R-Values and fenestration U-values. Over time, compliance through projected performance design modeling was introduced, along with performance verification of HVAC and lighting building systems through post-construction commissioning. In this article in Metal Architecture, Alan Scott and David Jaffe of Intertek Building Solutions discuss how building enclosure compliance is changing, and codes and standards now recognize that leaky building enclosures undermine the benefits of insulation and significantly impact building energy performance, comfort and air quality.

Location: Grovetown, GA

Products: Reynobond (MCM)

General Contractor: RW Allen Construction

Architect: Azar + Walsh Architects

St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church added a new activity center addition to its Life Center. The approximately 38,000-square-foot facility was designed with youth in mind, and features a basketball/volleyball court, elevated walking track, classrooms, yoga multipurpose room, and dedicated spaces for the senior high group and middle school students. There are also meeting rooms for small group gatherings, as well as a nursery with inside and outside play areas. The addition is connected via covered walkways to the existing Life Center, which is used for social events and administrative offices. For this project, MillerClapperton fabricated and installed 1,700 square feet of Metal Composite Material (MCM).

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This article in ArchDaily looks at what it means to design while considering the rhythms and cycles of nature, and what social relationships and connections with the natural environment cities can foster today and in the future. By using nature-based urban planning, Fundación Cosmos’ intervention in urban wetlands presents an opportunity to enhance, learn from, and conserve natural and cultural heritage in pursuit of a sustainable and resilient future.

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Coachella wrapped up its 2025 music and arts festival last weekend and featured three artistic works described by the festival as “works that ripple in the wind, bloom with light, and dissolve into shifting color—sculptures that seem to hover between presence and disappearance.” Check out this article in Archinect to learn more about the three art installations: Take Flight by Isabel + Helen Studio, Le Grand Bouquet by Uchronia and Taffy by Stephanie Lin.

Recommendation: “Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior,” by Olga Touloumi
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

Olga Touloumi’s new book, “Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior,” takes a deeper look at the history surrounding the construction of the United Nations. The core of the book looks at the UN’s fixation on carefully managing its physical debut to the world, presenting as carefully curated a public image as possible. To do so, the organization focused on how its interiors would look through a camera’s lens, the only view into the building most of the world would ever have, even consulting with major television networks long before a single pier was ever poured.

Friday5 – April 25, 2025

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