INDIGO ARCHITECTS PRESENTED WITH 2018 Zero Energy LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE AWARD

Indigo | Hammond + Playle Architects have been awarded the 2018 Living Building Challenge Zero Energy Award at the Living Future 2018 “unConference” in Portland, Oregon. The Living Future unConference is the leading event in regenerative design. It is the forum for leading minds in the green building movement who are dedicated to creating design for a better future and a healthier planet. ILFI’s unConference is celebrating 12 years of innovation and new ideas in the Green building Movement.

Indigo Architects are the First to Receive this Award for the design of an office building in the world, and the 13th building total to ever achieve Zero-Energy Status.

ILFI
International Living Future Institute is an environmental NGO committed to catalyzing the transformation toward building communities that are ecologically restorative. Composed of leading green building experts and thought-leaders, the Institute creates and certifies the parameters for Living Buildings, Zero-Net Energy Buildings and Zero Energy Buildings, of which Zero Energy has the most stringent parameters- involving the examination of utility bills for one year and other green building techniques.

WHY THIS IS SIGNIFICANT
Our communities are long overdue for a redesign, as existing buildings are the single largest contributor to the problem of global warming. (Architecture 2030) The future of environmental protection depends on our ability to re-purpose, reuse and adapt old construction buildings into new Zero Energy buildings and Indigo Architects are leading the way on that front

Principal Jon Hammond Wins "Solar Pioneer" Award

The American Solar Energy Society announced its Passive Pioneer Awards at a ceremony at the San Francisco City club on July 12th, 2016. The award announcement text is as follows:

The Passive Pioneer Award honors those in the passive solar energy field who provided the theories, research, efforts, new concepts and opportunities for later researchers to follow and to improve upon. The award is presented to a deserving innovator who was involved in the early stages of passive theory, design, application  or technology. The 2016 Passive Pioneer Award was presented to Mr. Jonathan Hammond for his early application of passive solar design principles addressing the passive heating and cooling of modern buildings.

Jonathan Hammond played a pivotal role in the emergence of passive solar architecture during the 1970s in California. He built one of the first successful passive solar homes in northern California using a water all retrofit, and the first day lit, naturally heated and cooled office building using a water wall. He worked to improve Harold Hay's "skytherm" concept through the use of a highly insulated roof which served as a reflector of controllable angle. The work with roof ponds later developed into an effective radiant sky/evaporative cooling system.

In 1973 Mr. Hammond co-founded the environmental design firm, Living Systems, which developed impressive and innovative designs to passively heat and cool buildings. He later established Indigo | Hammond + Playle Architects, LLP which the specific purpose of introducing passive principles into the mainstream of civic and institutional architecture. He has continued work on sustainable design throughout his career.

Early in his career, Mr. Hammond explored the nexus between culture and climate by examining how four different cultures adapted to the rigorous New Mexico climate. This work helped inspire him to create an energy conservation building code based on the principles of solar orientation, passive solar heating and cooling, and design with climate. This was put into action as he wrote "A Strategy for Energy Conservation," for the City of Davis, CA. This document resulted in the first climatically adapted building code.

Below are some of Hammond's early passive projects and innovations.

Indigo Wins AIA Central Valley Design Award

AIA Central Valley has announced the award recipients for its 2015 Design Awards Program, including Indigo, Hammond & Playle Architects, LLP, which won citation award for its new office in downtown Davis. The winning projects were selected by a peer jury from the Board of Directors of AIA Charlotte, North Carolina. Jury Chair, John Paquin, AIA of ZAPATA, Inc., will travel to Sacramento to personally present the awards, and Craig Hodgetts, FAIA of Hodgetts+Fung will serve as Keynote speaker for the event. Winners will receive their awards at a presentation and reception scheduled Friday, October 23rd at 6:00 p.m. in the Friedman Court of the Crocker Art Museum.

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Indigo Wins USGBC Northern California Award for Innovation

Indigo is the recipient of the USGBC Norther California 2015 Award for Innovation for it's new adaptive reuse office building. According to USGBC:

"Existing buildings are by far the biggest polluters in our built world. Through the adoption of innovative green building products and practices in the adaptive reuse and repurposing of a dilapidated existing building near downtown Davis, Indigo Architects took an old Dairy Queen and turned it into an innovative new office and studio workspace." More >