ET123 – Stead Park: D.C.'s First Net-Zero Community Center
Additional fee, registration required.
A short walk from the heart of the Dupont Circle neighborhood stands Stead Park, the first net-zero community center in Washington, D.C.
This tour will examine how the project negotiates the renovation of an historic facility alongside a modern addition, all while preserving precious open space in its urban context.
Join us to see a combination of indoor and outdoor areas that provide multi-generational programming and flexible spaces for public use. You'll recognize the facility as an embodiment of the Clean Energy D.C. Plan and experience a vital example of how interventions at small sites can yield big results for healthier cities.
A short walk from the heart of the Dupont Circle neighborhood stands Stead Park, the first net-zero community center in Washington, D.C.
This tour will examine how the project negotiates the renovation of an historic facility alongside a modern addition, all while preserving precious open space in its urban context.
Join us to see a combination of indoor and outdoor areas that provide multi-generational programming and flexible spaces for public use. You'll recognize the facility as an embodiment of the Clean Energy D.C. Plan and experience a vital example of how interventions at small sites can yield big results for healthier cities.
Learning Objectives
- Learn the background story of a challenging community engagement process, and become equipped with tools to navigate various stakeholder interests to achieve responsive, yet elegant, design solutions.
- Review essential strategies for achieving net-zero design on a small, compact site and on a public client budget.
- Gain broader understanding of how to treat sensitive historic renovations through specific details, such as thermally broken structural steel.
- Connect the ways individual site interventions, like Stead Park, can contribute to city-wide goals and initiatives.
- Joe Celentano, AIA, LEED AP
Principal - VMDO Architects - Michael Spory, AIA
Associate - VMDO Architects