Stephen's Resume and Portfolio

Stephen Moore, Associate AIA, LEED APJune 2011

photo of Guggenheim Museum by Stephen Moore

architectural portfoliovol.5 2011

stephen moore, - LEED AP

cover: bicentennial cannon esplanade boston (photo credit: stephen moore)

associations

about

resume

architecture

urban design & community planning

existing building services

references

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Many businesses are shifting to “green” or “sustainable”

measures whether to reduce energy or to be a part of

a surging market. What does it mean to be “green”? It

starts with setting up a clear set of goals. The goals are

always better when you can measure them.

As designers we see that buildings use 76% of the

electricity generated so we know that we can have an

impact here. There is an opportunity to work with clients

to find increased productivity and streamlined processes

while having a positive impact on energy resources

and the financial bottom line. It is a partnership. Good

design requires us to think holistically.

Ask yourself, what are we sustaining when asked...

are you sustainable?

u.s. co2 emissions by sector2020

stephen’s Carbon footprint(source: carbonfund.org & “Planting Burned Areas for Carbon Sequestration” study - Colorado State University 2007)

electricity (energy use) - 1548 kWh/yr =

paper product use (100% recycled) =

.89 tonnes of CO2d a i l y c o m m u t e = 1.21 tonnes of CO2

.05 tonnes of CO2

TOTAL CO2 PRODUCED = 2.15 tonnes of CO2

to offset 2.15 tonnes of CO2 stephen would have to plant

30 saplings

Stephen:

• reduces - reuses - recycles.

• rides his bike to work or at least takes public transportation when he doesn’t.

• shuts lights out in rooms and unplugs appliances he is done using.

• keeps thermostat at 60 degrees in the winter (and wears sweaters).

• grows his own vegetables.

• researches products he uses and specifies to ensure they are free of toxins.

• teaches these to all who want to learn.

Stephen has assisted firms to commit sustainably

and has tracked criteria for AIA 2030 Commitment

and Architecture 2030 in order to report that they will

be operating “carbon neutral” by 2030. He believes

these skills can translate to clients.

......what he doesstephen’s Carbon footprint(source: carbonfund.org & “Planting Burned Areas for Carbon Sequestration” study - Colorado State University 2007)

electricity (energy use) - 1548 kWh/yr =

paper product use (100% recycled) =

.89 tonnes of CO2d a i l y c o m m u t e = 1.21 tonnes of CO2

.05 tonnes of CO2

TOTAL CO2 PRODUCED = 2.15 tonnes of CO2

to offset 2.15 tonnes of CO2 stephen would have to plant

30 saplings

people. planet. prosperity.

......what he thinks

In the practices Stephen has been a part of, he has

worked to adhere to the “triple bottom line” principle

of people-planet-prosperity.

Global climate change IS happening and Stephen

believes that human activity is a major contributor

to this. But to recognize and to mobilze are two very

different things. Mapping out strategies to mobilze

are a key skill set he is prepared for.

He feels it starts with looking at ourselves. That it

is our charge as practitioners to integrate solutions

in our daily operations, professional practice, and

personal behavior to set a working baseline for

integration that clients can see works..people. planet. prosperity.

design strategy for Dept. of Fish & Wildlife in Westborough MA - 2008 (with Architerra)

profile:

In 15 years of award-winning practice in the field of architecture, Stephen has focused exclusively on environmentally and socially responsible design. His most recent work as the Director of Design + Sustainable Initiatives at the Boston-based firm map-lab reinforces his capabilities as a complex design issue strategist and has deepened his knowledge and experience with integrated building systems. This foundation of praxis and environmental knowledge helps Stephen to cultivate strong connections with clients and work effectively with diverse project teams.

Along with environmental alignments lies his interest in pushing mechanisms for technology including BIM (REVIT) & energy modeling as well as web media marketing into day-to-day firm culture meaningfully. His work with map-lab’s marketing goals through twitter and a daily-active website through informational blogging garnered an incredible rise in firm recognition and traffic to the website - helping to position them as a professional resource.

His previous experience includes acting as the Sustainable Design and Research-Office Green Team Leader at Elkus Manfredi Architects and as a project architect at Architerra where he collaborated on LEED-Gold and Platinum Buildings. As part of this work, Stephen laid groundwork for one of the first Zero Net Energy facilities in Massachusetts, and brought sustainable vision to the urban realm in the Miami World Center planning initiative. In addition, Stephen has practiced in Boston and in New York with Perkins & Will and the Liebman Melting Partnership (now a part of Perkins Eastman).

Stephen’s dedication to innovative design and practice that respects both the community and the environment was honored at the 2008 AIA National Convention. The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) awarded Stephen’s comprehensive and systems integrated proposal of Roxbury Gardens in Dudley Square with the prize of Best Green Design. He has also won previously in several other design competitions including the BSA’s 2003 Density: Myth/Reality Competition for his team’s Chinatown/Massachusetts Turnpike air-rights submission New Herald Square.

Supporting Stephen’s environmental interests, he studied ecology and geology while earning his professional degree in interior design from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. He continues to teach at the Boston Architectural College serving as an advanced studio instructor, guest critic, a mentor to junior instructors and a thesis advisor with a focus on sustainability and urban planning.

resume

stephen presenting “roxbury: gardens” at pech kucha 7 in 2009 (photo credit: jules ko)

education

highlighted experience

Master of Architecture - High Honors Boston Architectural College, 2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interior Design University of Massachusetts – Amherst, 1995

map-lab [5/2009 - 9/2011] 21 Drydock Avenue, 7th Floor - Boston MA 02210

director of design + sustainable initiativesAlong with guiding the design direction for a variety of project types - including higher-ed, labs, performance venues/theaters, master planning, Stephen also expanded service offerings – from sustainability audits to master planning (living building criteria) a new neighborhood of Boston. With Stephen’s range of experience, map-lab began to offer services beyond what traditional design practices were offering. In addition, he took initiative to enroll map-lab in the Architecture 2030 Challenge and the AIA 2030 Commitment and lead the effort to track the metrics, making certain they were on target to meet these goals.

Elkus Manfredi [6/2006 - 10/2008] 300 A Street - Boston, MA 02210

senior designer & planner, project managerStephen contributed to a variety of projects including Paramount Theater - Boston, Prudential Tower (Boston) lobby & plaza design visioning, and other large scale master plans. Stephen made his largest and most substantive contribution to the Miami World Center Master Plan/Miami21 Form-based Zoning effort, leading the project team’s efforts on research, design, sustainable integrations, and presentations not only to the client but also the city - to include the mayor himself. He was part of the “Green Team” that trained over 150 employees in LEED - including exam preparation and new requirement updates.

MDS/Miller Dyer Spears [01/2000 - 04/2002 & 2/2003 - 3/2005]99 Chauncey Street - Boston MA 02111

architectural designer & project managerStephen’s versatility helped steer the design and construction in a variety of capacities for institutional, academic, lab, & classroom clients such as Mount Holyoke College, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brandeis University, and Harvard University. That versatility along with his interests in building-integrated modeling (BIM) led MDS to ask him along with their IT Director to test-drive its eventual transition to a BIM platform in early 2001. This time was also key in the development of his sustainable design language and research as well as participation in the design community itself with organizations such as the BSA’s Committee on the Environment.

previous experience and interim consulting information available upon request

living cities design competition - 2011 (with map-lab)

It is said quite a bit that the “greenest” building is one already there. Yes, we can design a new building. But do we need to? These are questions we should ask first. A building is part of the eco-system. The more in balance with the eco-system - and its effects on it - the better.

Sometimes its as easy as asking whether just opening up a view can provide the solution to lighting or enhancing the understanding of place. Maybe that makes it a better place to work or learn or live. In thinking this way, simply, it is the most sustainable approach we know. Its important to know what NOT to design to satisify what a client needs.

Stephen infuses his versatility and experience in the work that includes research facilities, classrooms, cleantech facitlites, libraries, business incubators, adapative resuse, healthcare, and laboratories.

engineering classroom at MIT - 2010 (with map-lab)

library design for an independent school in Dedham MA - 2009 (with Architerra) architecture

new open lab connection corridor - 2004 (with mds/miller dyer spears)

The Jimmy Fund Building was the oldest of the collection being a state of the art lab building in the 1950s but was steadily evolving floor by floor. This 5th Floor project was to serve as an archetype for future renovations to the building.

Of its many design challenges, Stephen wanted to open the labs up to one another (open plan) as well as to the daylight. The existing conditions consisted of many smaller labs partitioned off from on another and a snarl of mechanical and gas lines that required a more consolidated rationale all within a low structural clearance height.

Window wall workbenches, ceiling-supported shelving systems - that opened the lab benches up to maximize benchtop as well as the cross lab connectivity, and minimized partitions (while maintaining existing chase dimensions) were part of this new lab culture harnessing interaction in a studio-like design. A new light and transparent office area was also part of the floor programming with removable partitions.

This project incorporated Dana-Farber’s first foray into modular laboratory casework as well as removable partitioning as a sustainable strategy, which Stephen led the effort for defining. Stephen was the lead lab designer and project coordinator. This project was one of dozens of lab and clinical spaces Stephen performed work on within the Dana-Farber campus.

client: Dana-Farber Cancer Instituteproject: Nakatani Lab - Jimmy Fund Building (5th Floor)project cost: undisclosedproject date: 2003 - 2004

open lab design photo credits: John Horner

completed adapative resue at Brandeis University - 2004 (with mds/miller dyer spears)

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This project was for Brandeis University, which was to adapt an existing Harrison & Abramovitz archival library into a consolidated multiple-department learning center and provides a fully multimedia-equipped distance-learning classroom, two seminar rooms, conference room and meeting space and a graduate-student study area.

This building had many design challenges, including opening daylight to the space that previously required limiting of light to the archival publications and doing so by cutting through the integral cast-in-place concrete formwork. Programming design centered around the large atrium space that occupies the core of the building

Another challenge was the sloping site that the addition had to negotiate in order for the building to properly provide, for the first time, handicap access to the entire building. It added a total of approximately 17,500 gross square feet of first-quality academic space for the university.

This was the firms first BIM project, which Stephen led the effort for as well as serving as the project coordinator and interior detailer.

client: Brandeis Universtiyproject: The Abraham Shipiro Academic Complexproject cost: $5.1 millionproject date: 2003 - 2004

interior atrium space photo credits: John Horner

mt holyoke college - blanchard campus center (with mds/miller dyer spears)

This historic former gymnasium, incredibly dark and uninviting, and existing campus center that was inadequate led to the renovation and addition to create an illuminated focus for campus activities centered around a new 3-storey skylit atrium as well as dining with a new multi-station marketplace-style servery and a glazed two-story “Great Room” addition, which also acts as a venue for performances, concerts, dances and speakers, radio station, workspaces, and offices. Terraces extend the activities outdoors, with cascading lawns to the lakefront, past a relocated campus roadway and building services.

The project was designed to achieve LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, a campus wide requirement for all new or renovated buildings. Energy usage (modeled) and finish materials were specified within the guidleines laid out by LEED. MDS set up an online log for students and faculty to provide comments on drawings that were used to transform the building

Stephen was part of the design and production teams as well as sustainable information and consultant coordinator.

client: Mount Holyoke Collegeproject: Blanchard Campus Centerproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2002 - 2003

3-storey atrium photo credits: John Horner

emerson college - the paramount center: restored marquis and led-enhanced arccade building facade (with elkus manfredi)

arcade rehersal space

The Paramount Center is a mixed-use development in Boston’s Theatre District comprised of historical renovation of the existing Paramount Theatre, the “Arcade” building on Washington Street, and a vacant lot adjacent to the property. The project added almost 180,000 sf of new construction.

Paramount Theatre will be converted from its original cinematic use with a capacity of 1,500 seats to a 590-seat live performance space. Other program elements include a scene/prop shop, rehearsal studios, practice rooms, classrooms, faculty offices, a sound stage, a 180-seat film screening room, and an experimental black box theater with an audience capacity of 125. The new building will provide the College with a variety of academic performance related spaces in addition to dormitory housing for 262 students. The program also provides a 150-seat restaurant.

Stephen was part of the theater design, dormitory envelope design and production teams as well as one of the sustainable & historical research coordinators.

client: Emerson Collegeproject: The Paramount Centerproject cost: $88 millionproject date: 2008

view from stage of the main theater seating photo credits: Peter Vanderwarker

plaza structure & transparent paversplaza enhancemant for hancock tower, boston ma (with elkus manfredi)

below plaza restaurant space

The building management for the iconic Hancock Tower in Boston by Henry Cobb, asked the firm to re-think a means of activating the Hancock Plaza and dormant concourse level for an after business hours program. The original plans for a winter garden glass enclosure was not advocated by Cobb which was the starting point for the new thoughts. The end result was a plaza design incorporating transparent glazed pavers to allow light to penetrate the concourse below which would include a new higher end restaurant.

Access to the restaurant would have to reside inside the main tower lobby through a new communicating stair accessing the existing mezzanine, and an addition to the existing mezzanine floor area. Major structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection changes were required for the new restaurant. Design included high end finishes, lighting, furniture and a unique art piece glass benches in the plaza created by a local artist - all complying with security metrics for post 9/11 design.

Stephen was lead designer and production coordinator as well as rendering coordinator for a variety of presentations to client and local groups as well as Henry Cobb (Pei, Cobb, Freed). Stephen also spoke directly with Cobb regarding his thoughts on the progress of ideas. Cobb was quoted in the Boston Globe about the process saying, “They have been very respectful of my views,”

client: Broadway Partnersproject: Hancock Tower Plaza & Concourse Renovationproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2008 (Phase 1) (further Phases on-going)

plaza structure & transparent pavers

new lobby & restaurant stair access rendering credits: Jessie Hadad & Stephen Moore

concept model for the prosposed super-graphic signage (with architerra)

upper level boarding area with super-graphic wall concept

Massport was looking to upgrade and enhance the facility for the cruise-shipping industry in South Boston with a re-branding, up-grading exercise. A REVIT (BIM) model was used to investigate andcreate design presentations as well as the eventual construction documentation. The presentations were well-received enough to be implemented over the course of several months within the cruise season of 2009.

Stephen was a project architect and helped synthesize the proposed concept that included a new marquis design as well as prosposed the super-graphic lettering on the south elevation of the building that was to be mounted to the old steel stanchions serving as destination “port-of-call” beacon that could be seen from the harbor.

Interiors were investigated to improve passenger flow and experience. Super-graphic panels of antique cruise ship posters and scenes of Boston were added, and ADA and code upgrades were proposed - including a new elevator and all new finishes and way finding signage.

Stephen performed this work while with Architerra.

client: Massportproject: Cruiseport Bostonproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2009

construction detail for entry marquis model credits: Stephen Moore & Nick Mira

early envelope design modelearly concept model for the prosposed impact of the structural criteria (with architerra)

The Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC). located in Charlestown under the shadow of the Tobin Bridge, was designed to offer a full suite of certification tests for turbine blades up to 90m in length as well as the latest wind turbine blade testing and prototype development methodologies in order to help the wind industry deploy the next generation of onshore and offshore wind turbine technologies.

Stephen worked in the early development stages of the project including the development of the massing, site, structural, and especially the building envelope design. Working in concert with the state and federal entities, Stephen and the team solidified the design performance criteria for the building and its program that would set the tone for its eventual construction development (and design documentation).

Extensive site studieswere also done to determine several advantages to the site, most importantly its shipping capacity and transportaional accessibility that this existing deep water port afforded.

Stephen performed this work while with Architerra.

client: Massport, MA Clean Energy Center, & DOE-NRELproject: Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC )project cost: undisclosedproject date: 2009

early envelope design sketch study model credits: Stephen Moore & Nick Mira, photo credits: MA Clean Energy Center

engineering lab view of MIT Dome (with map-lab)

collaboration columns

A 1,400sf laboratory renovation in a 1970’s SOM building on the campus of MIT. The space needed to be flexible and open, allowing for group study and projects - including robotics competitions. The existing space had private offices at all the windows, so our first move was to remove these offices and create an open floor plan with sufficient natural lighting, and dramatic views of the MIT Dome and Boston Skyline.

Group study and brainstorming areas were created by wrapping existing columns in chalkboard and forbo pin-up boards. An array of sustainable design measures were implemented including he specifiying of linoleum and water-base mastics, daylighting, high-efficiency lighting fixtures, cradle-to-cradle seating, and energy-efficient equipment. Some lighting fixtures were repurposed as design features in the network closet and the up-lighting at the soffits.

Stephen was the project manager and lab designer for map lab.

client: Massachusetts Institute of Technologyproject: Building 38 Electrical Engineering & CS Labproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2010

translucent network closet

photo credits: Daniel Connolly

reddien lab at whitehead insitute(with map-lab)

A 485 sf laboratory renovation of an annex space with cramped workflow was the subject of a rethinking of the design. The space needed to be flexible and open, allowing for integrated collaboration whether seated at the lower desik-height intern stations or at the taller bench tops. An existing worm room lab, that occupied one of the window bays, needed to be relocated and reconfigured within the same space.

Much like Stephen’s earlier lab work, the incorporation of details such as window wall workbenches, maximized daylighting alignments, ceiling-supported shelving systems - that opened the lab benches up to maximize benchtop as well as the cross lab connectivity, and minimized partitions (while maintaining existing chase dimensions) were part of Dr. Reddien’s desired lab culture - harnessing interaction in a studio-like design.

The worm room, now located along the corridor incorporated a space-saving sliding door as well as a super-graphic image of a specific organism study with its provocative irridecent color palllette, to bring a bit of their science into art. A large benchtop window overlooked that other part of the lab space - allowing the daylight to spill in, keeping the daylighting goals fully adhered to.

Stephen was the lead lab designer and project manager.

client: The Whitehead Instituteproject: Dr. Peter Reddien’s Labproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2011

layout plan rendering credits: Stephen Moore & Daniel Connolly

double-height assembly space for 12 cleantech incubator businesses (with map-lab)

1st level layout 2nd level layout

Greentown Labs is comprised of clean energy protyping start-ups out of MIT, outgrew its existing space in Cambridge MA - began the search for a new larger space in order to expand the vision into a full-blown incubator space. This new space is located in the heart of Ft. Point Channel in South Boston and inhabits 14,000 SF of versatile workspace in a former industrial age building. In addition to low-cost office space, member companies gain access to a machine shop, shared tools, and common electronics lab.

As stated in their own words, “clean technology ventures require places for entrepreneurs to get dirty, bend metal, and make noise. At Greentown Labs we provide budding entrepreneurs access to the facility, services, and research & development resources needed to take their clean technology ventures to the next level.”

Taking that enpreneurial spirit, Stephen suggested and led the charge in cataloguing their existing space that was to be demolished to make way for new developement. The inventory included glass partitions, building materials, wiring, equipment, and lighting - all of which was approved to be removed by the demolition contractor. These pieces were incorporated into a “manual for build-out” or design guidleines put together by map-lab for the group of start-ups to use as needed.

Stephen was the lead designer, cataloguer, and project manager.

client: Greentown Labsproject: Summer Street Design Guidelinesproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2011

new reception color-scheme rendering credits: Stephen Moore & Daniel Connolly

congress street - south boston vision

urban design + community planning

Scaling design to the city level takes a certain set of skills that blends the ability to convey large data-sets and needs assesments to a much wider and diverse community. Be it helping a community meet its goals as a “green community” or finding best uses for abandoned land, we start with asset mapping the community to integrate the collective efforts of a given community into the planning. So many of the best ideas for planning are efforts that are already underway.

downtown crossing study

overlooking the new urban plaza

section through the MassPike

competition development axonometric

The scheme covers the 5.9 acres above the Massachusetts Turnpike between Chinatown and the South End in downtown Boston by creating a new city boulevard above the highway that replaces Herald Street and Frontage Road, then uses these existing streets as land for development. It also connects the MBTA Orange and Silver lines in a new transit hub underneath the square that offers the possibility of a future Orange Line extension to South Boston.

It called for 1,800,000 square feet of office, and 340,000 of retail, in addition to 1,612 housing units, allowing the site development costs – inevitably high in an air-rights situation – to be spread out over a large amount of building area. The variety of densities and building forms within the site allows for incremental development of the project and acknowledges the range of scale, size and street orientation that exists in the adjacent urban areas.

The development and extension of the new urban park, New Herald Square, from the center of the site northward could knit the development with the adjoining urban neighborhood in a way that some of the more insular approaches reviewed by the jury were unable to achieve. This project, as spoken by the judges, “provides an ingenious and appropriate demonstration of the use of density not only to reconnect urban form, but to define and create new city spaces.”

client: AIA/BSA Density: Myth & Reality Competitionproject: New Herald Square (winning entry)project cost: n/aproject date: 2003

published media

competition entry board

rendering credits: FutureBrand & Stephen Moore

master site planmiami worldcenter development, miami fl (with elkus manfredi)

pedestrian “ramblas”

Miami WorldCenter was a redevelopment master plan of 25 acres just north of downtown Miami. As one of the largest private developments in the city’s history, this 13 million sf project was planned to span over nine city blocks and expand the central business district up to 15 percent.

The premise was to create a vibrant, walkable pedestrian environment - that emphasized human-scale, sustainable means and metrics and a modern ethos balancing it with its overall climate, and architectural heritage.

This project was also incorporated into the city’s goals of transforming its zoning to a form-based code, aptly named Miami21, as a pilot project which required concurrent efforts to synthesize the projects goals with those of the city itself. Stephen helped lead those efforts along with the research support for issues such as coordination of City of Miami’s Carbon & Climate goals outlined by the Conference of Mayors commitments in line with the project’s aspirations.

Stephen was a lead designer and planner as well as serving as the production and presentation coordinator for a variety of presentations to client and local groups as well as The City of Miami government including the mayor .

client: Miami WorldCenter Group LLCproject: Miami WorldCenter Master Planproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2008

master site plan the new signature boulevard and urban district

rendering credits: FutureBrand & Stephen Moore

the competition enftry board

The winner of the 2008 AIA Convention Dudley Square Design Competition for Best Green Design, Roxbury Gardens aspires to bring an understanding that neighborhood revitalization can occur through urban farming and community gardening as well as serve as a resource connecting health and economic sustainability.

Site research found that there were an overwhelming amount of vacant, under-used and under-performing lots in Roxbury, which consist of an upwards of 3000 abandoned parcels and 90 empty homes. Poor land use, high concentrations of acellerated chronic illness and a dearth of sustainable economic opportunity served as the baseline to the goals of the project, to create a model of urban rejuvenation that is self-generated and can be applied to other neighborhoods looking to empower communities to participate in their own revitalization by reconnecting with the earth and each other. The by-products of such efforts are the possibility of better nutrition, the creation of a local and self-sustaining micro-economy, fostering community pride and sense of ownership.

The project lives on in Stephen’s on-going efforts to serve as a resource and catalyst for the design and coordination of community revitalization strategies that could create locally-based jobs, encourage supportive mixed-use development, and forge working relationships between the entities that foster self-sustaining systems in neighborhoods The aspects of this project have been presented publically several times including BuildBoston 2010 and Pecha Kucha Boston.

client: AIA National Convention - Boston 2008project: Roxbury: Gardens (winning entry)project cost: n/aproject date: 2008

the master plan

rendering credits: Stephen Moore

rendering of concept design on adjacent parcel

site section & parti diagram

renderings of exterior & interior views

For this international design competition centered on Chicago’s Union Station, Stephen and his team shifted the focus from the present duality in opposition (trains vs. cars) back to a duality of historical compliments (trains + pedestrian street culture). The design is comprised of 3 parts, a reinvigorated Union Station with its new high-speed rail platforms below, a public park/public marketplace above and below an undulating structural skin, and a hotel/convention hall.

The marketplace, called Vantage Point, occupies the middle ground perspective between the Neo-Classical order of Union Station and the ever-evolving vernacular of downtown Chicago, a continuous structural/aesthetic landscape surface. The landscape surface itself circulates pedestrians vertically and horizontally across the site and encloses the lower levels of the hotel and conference center.

Once the surface departs from the pedestrian experience, it translates into a glass skin that wraps the upper levels of the hotel and with the sunken auditorium and occupied glass box, pedestrians can experience a seamless, all-season, programmatically animated portal that connects the water, the Metra concourse and the Clinton Street Transportation Center.

A series of sustainable infrastructure consists of parks, roof gardens, and living walls provide carbon & rainwater sequestration, clean the air & water, and reduce urban heat island effect.

client: Union Station 2020 - CAC/Burnham Competitionproject: Duality in Union (finalist entry)project cost: n/aproject date: 2008

programmatic axon rendering credits: Stephen Moore & Brian Pace

concept model for the prosposed new library & classroom building (with architerra)

A Vision Plan for The Noble and Greenough School, in Dedham MA, looked to resolve numerous programmatic needs -- including an expanded dining facility, renovated faculty apartments, a new library/classroom building, and a future science expansion. -- while recommending new high-performance buildings and a wide range of landscape and energy-related physical plant upgrades in order to advance the “greening of Nobles.”

The plan also included a campus-wide energy assessment, on the basis of which it proposed strategies for adding square footage while reducing overall campus energy consumption. Other sustainability goals include stormwater management improvements and the restoration of the Olmsted-designed landscape.

Stephen was asked to focus on the specifics related to the library component. This new Library & Classroom Building provides the School with over 22,000 sf of new teaching space. The new building has been designed to stitch together adjacent areas of the campus; strengthening the link with the Castle and providing a connection to the dormitories. Stephen provided a concept design and sustainable strategies as well as costing comparisons based on researched precedents.

He also was the lead researcher for the landscape history, visiting the Olmsted Archives and pouring over the original cloth drawing sheets.

client: The Noble and Greenough Schoolproject: The Noble and Greenough School Vision Planproject cost: n/aproject date: 2008

costing precedent comparison chart model credits: Stephen Moore & Nick Mira

concept section showing the sustainable strategies

arts district planning strategy - victory theater (with map-lab)

Planning services were provided to the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA), who are currently planning to restore the Victory Theatre, a 1,600 seat Vaudeville style theatre that has been closed since 1979. The project’s main goal was to identify opportunities that a restored Victory Theatre will provide to the City of Holyoke.

Comprehensive urban planning studies have researched physical and cultural assets with the goal of dovetailing the future restored theatre with the redevelopment plans for Holyoke. The primary focus was on an Arts and Innovation District which comprises a five block stretch through the middle of the urban center. In addition to the urban planning effort, an 3D animated model was created of the Victory Theatre for the use of the project team for fund raising efforts and to display the extent of restoration required for a project such as this.

Stephen was a lead designer, researcher, and planner as well as serving as the production and presentation coordinator for a variety of presentations to client and local non-profit groups, the City of Holyoke’s Business Development office and the City Manager and Planning offices.

client: Massachusetts International Festical of the Artsproject: Victory Theater & Arts District Master Planproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2010

Holyoke Health Care Center Pathways to Family Success Providence Behavioral Health Hospital - Providence Place at Ingleside Holyoke Medical Center Community Outreach Partnership Holyoke Unites Enlace de Familias City of Holyoke - Council on Aging - Holyoke Bound La Familia Hispana Fathers and Family Network

City of Holyoke Of�ce of Community Development Holyoke Redevelopment Authority Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Nueva Esperanza CDC Open Square Nuestras Raices

SOCIAL

Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts Enchanted Circle Theater Victory Theater Children's Museum at Holyoke Volleyball Hall of Fame Wistariahurst Museum Massachusetts Academy of Ballet Holyoke Civic Symphony Holyoke Creative Arts Center Holyoke League of Arts & Crafts Wire Monkey Dance Canal Gallery

ARTS

Blessed Sacrament Elementary Center for Excellence Dean Technical Donahue E.N. White First Lutheran School Community Charter School Holyoke High Holyoke Intensive Peck School River Valley Academy Kelly Mater Dolorosa Elementary McMahon Metcalf Pre-School Morgan St Paul's Nursery School Sullivan NE Adolescent Research Inst. Springdale Education Center Holyoke Community College JUNTOS: Adult Basic Education Girls Inc. Holyoke Head Start Holyoke Youth Build Holyoke Holyoke Boys and Girls Club Holyoke Public Library

EDUCATION

City of Holyoke - Of�ce of Planning and Development City of Holyoke - Department of Public Works Pioneer Valley Planning Council Tighe and Bond Cisco Systems – Smart + Connected Communities Initiative HG&E - Advanced Fiber Optic Network HG&E - Holyoke Dam and Canal System Coop Power District Steam System in Downtown Energia Gas Distribution System Chicopee Valley Aqueduct Ware Water Treatment Facility Tighe Carmody (Manhan) Reservoir Municipal Stormwater Rebate Program Solid Waste Transfer Station at 686 Main Street Yard Waste Facility on Berkshire Street Boston & Maine Railroad Bradley International Airport Barnes Airport Pioneer Valley Railroad Westover Air Base Westover Metropolitan Airport

BUILT ENVIRONMENT/INFRASTRUCTURE

City of Holyoke - Conservation Commission Environmental Health Coalition The Trustees of Reservations Massachusetts Audobon Society Nature Conservancy Connecticut River Watershed Council Beautifying Holyoke

Dinosaur Footprints Heritage Park Mt. Tom Park Pulaski Park Connecticut River Hadley Falls

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Holyoke Community

Systems Map (Abbr.)

City of Holyoke City Council Youth Task Force

GOVERNANCE

Brookings Institution Gateway Cities Alliance (Umass Dartmouth Urban Initiative) ICLEI - Local Governments for Pinsly Sustainability Mass Inc. VHB

OUTSIDE Avery Field City of Holyoke - Parks and Recreation Clover Cafe Feldman Park Francie's Tavern Fun Time Lanes Hampden Park Holyoke Heritage Park Holyoke Merry Go Round Ivory Billiard Room Lawrence Playground Mitchell Field Passport Holyoke Prospect Park R J Amusements Veterans Park Holyoke YMCA

RECREATION

Downtown Holyoke Business Association Holyoke Economic Development and Industrial Corporation City of Holyoke Economic Development Department Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce

China House Restaurant Downtown Delight Environmental Integrity Company Fernandez Family Restaurant and Catering First Wok Brennan's Place‎ Paper City Brewery Salsarengue Restaurant Sonido Musical Vega Yoga & Movement Arts

ECONOMIC – Business Development

Sealed Air Corporation Cisco Systems Holyoke Mall at Ingleside

CareerPoint Holyoke Employment Partnership Holyoke Works Workforce Innovations Network

ECONOMIC - Employment

programmatic growth plan - victory theater rendering credits: Stephen Moore, supportive research by Andrea Atkinson (SCOPA Group)

congress street & d street: infrastructural scale “rethinking”

congress street ramlas

new district model

residential “machine”

ResilienCity, the Living City International Design Competition Finalist, seeks to set the vision for the future of Boston’s Innovation District (1100 acres), a new neighborhood built on grey- & brown-field sites that will provide residences and workplaces for over 300,000 people as a capacity measure for an eventual climate-related migration back to cities. A variety of scales were explored to meet the demands.

The Living Building Challenge 2.0. set the baseline to the design strategy for the project, focused on resolving existing planning problems within the district, including shifting programs to more appropriate areas and rerouting tractor-trailer trucks thereby eliminating the wide streets required by their size and turning radii. Closing Congress Street to automobiles and replacing it with a Green Line Spur, bicycles, and pedestrians. An array of sustainable energy generation was proposed that can supply up to 4x the amount required while concurrently dealing directly with closing municipal waste loops (waste-to-energy & soil).

A series of new canals and new coastal wetland will return 100 acres to the sea as well as 15 million sf of integrated food production parks, roof gardens, and living walls help foster a better relationship between people and the natural habitats, address rising sea levels associated with global warming, provide carbon sequestration, clean the air and water, and reduce urban heat island effect. Conversion of the Silver Line tunnel to a cistern/desalination plant will provide an additional 20 million gallons of drinkable water.

client: Living Buildings Institute - Living City Competitionproject: ResilienCITY (finalist entry)project cost: n/aproject date: 2011

carbon costing - integrated personal device

rendering credits: Stephen Moore & Tony Nguyen

congress street ramlas

new district model

residential “machine”

the greenest building is the one already there. but can an existing b u i l d i n g operate............smarter?

existing building services

:what can I do?

Outside the box:

Revolving Door/Energy Generator

Light Shelves

Vegetated Facades

Related to Chapter V, Section D, the door gen-erates around 4600 kwh of energy each year, which may not sound like much - but every little bit helps. To enhance the designers decided to include a transparent ceiling to show how the system works, and LEDs display the amount of energy that it is generated each time someone walks in the door.

Also from ECM #8, - The use of a light shelf along the win-dows of the south side may allow for increased daylighting while also allowing the users to use the shades for glare control, as seen in this photo.

From Chapter V, Section F, Despite the notion that this is a “new technology”, vegetated facades have been around for hundreds of years. The reputation that ivy is an invasive plant (getting into brick mortar) is a misnomer, fueled by poor choices in plant spieces. Virginia Creeper, for example, is a non-invasive and beautiful vine (turning deep red in the au-tumn). Vegetation keeps the building shaded in the summer months and creates micro-climates reducing cooling needs. When trained properly around winindows it can also create shading for south facing of ce windows to reduce glare.

Credit:Generator Door designed by Fluxxlab. Fluxxlab’s work to date has been focused on sustainable energy harvesting, speci cally in the form of converting small amounts of hu-man energy into electricity.

A Sustainability Audit can provide a client with a list of achievable measures for implemetation and will consist of analysis and metrics in a variety of areas including:

• Air Quality• Building systems• Building Envelope• Daylighting Opportunities• Employee Engagement• Environmental Graphics• Equipment Use/Needs• Materials Re-purposing• Passive Energy Strategies• Plug-loading• Purchasing• Space Planning• Waste Streams• Water Use/Needs• WorkflowEfficencies

For clients such as AthenaHealth in Watertown MA, reviewed areas for workflow efficiencies, equipment selections, daylighting opportunites, plug loads, and more can be analyzed and submitted in our audit to be understood and implemented by the client in whatever ways are most effeictive.

For clients with campus-wide initiatives, for instance, we weigh opportunities for the integration of lower cost, energy saving options - espeically ones that can save in muliple areas. These light shelves bounce outside sunlight into the room while shading the exterior from heat gain.

main gathering space for AthenaHealth at the arsenal in watertown, ma (with map-lab)

employee engagement signage

Representatives from Chapman Construction, RDK Engineers, and map-lab completed an innovative Comprehensive Energy Audit completed for AthenaHealth, one of Massachusetts’ leading edge companies. The project goals were to identify opportunities to reduce utility costs, increase efficiency, and exhibit responsible environmental stewardship. Potential energy conservation measures were developed and analyzed based on a) their engineering merit, b) cost and constructability, and c) potential to improve overall occupant health and comfort. Unique to this audit, the team led by map-lab, interviewed company staff to understand organizational behavior to help realize the implementation of these findings into the company culture.

The project team identified a prioritized list of 15 Energy Conservation Measures (ECM). The estimated construction costs, energy savings and simple financial payback for each ECM was calculated and presented.

Stephen was the project manager for map-lab and lead researcher for all integrated health and productivity studies. He also designed and assembled the final report as well as the “environmental graphics” proposed within for the employee engagement measures. The results and process of the audit were the subject of a BuildBoston seminar chaired by Stephen and paneled with representatives of AthenaHealth, Chapman and RDK.

client: AthenaHealth - Watertown MAproject: Comprehensive Sustainability Auditproject cost: undisclosedproject date: 2011

potential “questionaire” for employees photo credits: Stephen Moore

melted vinyl siding on lead-coated copper clapboards in somerville (photo credit: stephen moore)

associations

presentations & publications

honors & awards

memberships & commitments

(2009) BAC Alumni Networking Session: What are we sustaining? (2009) Pecha Kucha 7 (Mantra) Roxbury Gardens: Urban Sustainablility (2008) Boston Society of Architects Chapter Letter (Roxbury Gardens/Dudley Competition) (2008) The Boston Globe - Vision for Dudley Square seen anew by architects John C. Drake [05/11] (2007) Practice (a Boston Architectural College publication) (2004) Metropolis Magazine: Density Competition (2003) Boston Herald - Winning Design Links Chinatown and South End, Scott Van Voorhis [10/12] (2003) The New Herald Square proposal was featured on the WCVB Boston television program Chronicle

(2010) Living Futures Institute Living City Conference resilienCITY - Finalist (2008) BuildBoston, Boston Society of Architects: Roxbury:Gardens (Exhibited) (2008) USGBC GreenBuild Conference Roxbury:Gardens - First Place (2008) We the BAC, a juried exhibition of work by Boston Architectural College International Alumni. (2007) BuildBoston, Boston Society of Architects: Unbuilt Architecture Awards (Exhibited) (2007) The Boston Society of Architects/ Boston Architectural College Scholarship Competition - Finalist (2007) Boston Architectural College - Masters Thesis Award Honoree (2003) The Boston Society of Architects: Density: Myth/Reality Competition New Herald Square- First Place

AIA 2030 Commitment American Planning Association American Solar Energy Association Architects for Social Responsibility Architecture 2030 Architecture for Humanity Community Design Resource Center of Boston LEED Accredited Professional (USGBC) Living Future Insititute (Living Building Criteria) National Trust for Historic Preservation New England Sustainable Energy Association

wright guggenhiem nyc (photo credit: stephen moore)

references

Andreas SavvidesAssistant Professor Department of ArchitectureUniversity of Cyprus75 Kallipoleos StreetP.O.Box 20537CY-1678 Nicosia, CyprusPhone: (+357) 22 892967Email: [email protected](Academic & Professional)

Ian TabernerThesis DirectorBoston Architectural College320 Newbury StreetBoston, MA 02115Phone: (617) 262-5000 mainEmail: [email protected](Academic)

Patrick S McCafferty, PE Associate & Structural EngineerOve Arup & Partners955 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 405Cambridge, MA 02139 USAPhone: (617) 864-2987Email: [email protected](Professional)

David Silverman, Principal Silverman Trykowski Associates andUrban Neighborhood Design Alliance21 Drydock Avenue, 7th floorBoston MA 02110Phone: 617-426-1501Email: [email protected](Professional)

Brandy Brooks,Director of Community ProgramsThe Food Project555 Dudley StreetBoston MA 02125 Phone: 617-442-1322x28Email: [email protected](Professional)

David Anderson,Senior Project ManagerMDS/Miller Dyer Spears, Inc.99 Chauncy StreetBoston, MA 02111Phone: (617) 338-5350Email: [email protected](Professional)

Stephen Moore, Associate AIA, LEED APJune 2011

photo of Guggenheim Museum by Stephen Moore

architectural portfoliovol.5 2011

contact

stephen moore, leed apblankslate design, llc113 josephine avenue, #1somerville, ma 02144

telephone: 617.512.8375email: [email protected]: @blankslatedeslinkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-moore-assoc-aia-leed-ap/6/997/271