Breakfast of Champions
AIA Gainesville has Breakfast of Champions for Keith Perry, candidate for State House District 22. Presenting check to Keith is Robert Hanselman AIA Architect, State Director. On left is Joe Garcia AIA, State Director. Ricardo Cavallino AIA, chapter President is on right.
Joe Garcia AIA stands next to the banner for this years Scholarship Golf Tournament held on April 17th at the Haile Plantation Golf and Country Club in Gainesville. This year celebrates the 25th anniversary of AIA Gainesville chapter raising money for a scholarship to the University of Florida College of Architecture. Over $25,000 dollars has been donated into an endowment that provides a perpetual scholarship to architecture graduate students. AIA national matches our donation to double the amount received by the college each year. Joe is one of the chapter's founding members of the scholarship tournament, and has continued to provide outstanding leadership in his "labor of love" for the tournament (and for golf, of course). Without his tireless efforts, this tournament would not be the success it is year after year.
Joe Garcia AIA (on right) chats with several players awaiting tee off of the 25th annual AIA Gainesville's Scholarship Golf Tournament held on April 17th at the Haile Plantation Golf and Country Club in Gainesville. Over 75 players participated this year making it one of the largest turnouts ever.
William Warinner AIA (standing), Robert Hanselman AIA, Linda Rickman Associate AIA, and Philip Rickman AIA (not pictured as he is taking the picture) assist at the registration table for the 2009 Scholarship Golf Tournament.
On any given day over 50 parentless youths are living ‘out-of-doors’ in Gainesville, sleeping in cars, bushes or in tent cities. Many more are in abusive and fearful environments. Juvenile Development engages the Reichert House project, an intervention agency dedicated to providing a path to productive citizenship. The design team developed a neighborhood housing strategy to provide at risk juveniles family oriented living, nurturing, amenity and the civic connectivity required to succeed in life.
Civic culture germinates in the family, suggesting Family Units rather than institutional living. Ten youths and two ‘parents’ will be provided with a residential scaled home with semi-private exterior courts, family living, dining and social areas on the ground level. The second level organizes ‘bedroom suites’ each with a full bath, storage, study desk and balcony and a group study loft. Family Units are strategically organized on the site to optimize both semi-public program requirements and community shared spaces. Daylight, view and natural air-flow considerations suggested passive environmental control elements such as high insulation semi-transparent polycarbonate panel clerestory windows, balcony doors as operable ventilation elements, ventilation transoms in the core, two-story spatial connectivity for stack and venturi effects, and strategically located fixed glazing and single light doors. Semi-private lawns, gardens and gathering spaces are linked closely with residential buildings folding up into green walls and penetrating the spaces exploiting Alvar Aalto’s humanist architectural strategies.
Designed for a brand new site, this new worship facility will be 38,842 gsf. The design for the Church needed to be very efficient so many shapes and arrangements were designed for the heart of the facility which is the main Sanctuary. After many attempts the hexagon shape became the most efficient to the most seats, largest stage, and good acoustics required by the Church. Each wing came off each side of the hexagon and has a unique function. Each wing is designed at 60 foot width to match the 60 foot sides of the hexagon. The two front wings are designed for expansion in the future.
The Sanctuary is designed for a 100 person choir and 500 fixed seats on a sloped floor. The design incorporates the possibility of expanding the Sanctuary utilizing theater-style seating to add an additional 200 seats.
The budget was extremely tight so maximizing the square footage was essential using creative details and finishes to keep the cost down yet still represent excellence in design.