LAIGW December Meeting

707 7th Street, NW,Washington DC 20001

17 December, 2021

Description

DC Water Headquarters Presentation The DC Water headquarters is a 150,000 gross square foot office building built above and encapsulating an operating sewage/storm pump station sited on the bank of the Anacostia River. Together, the building and site incorporate state-of-the-art sustainable and resilient design strategies that results in a dynamic workplace. The bold, innovative statement reflects the agency’s environmental stewardship. The building’s sinuous form and layered skin are carefully shaped by the opportunities and constraints of the site and also informed by computational analytics. The building’s north side features punched windows in green cladding recalling the historic use of copper in water transmission. The south façade glass curtainwall accommodates views and daylighting. Stepped in areas create shading and a second layer of tinted glass in specific areas reduce heat loads and glare as determined by computational modeling. An innovative sewage heat recovery system heats and cools the building by utilizing waste pumped through the facility below, making it one of the most energy efficient office buildings in the region. The campus landscape and site design express the flow of water that is captured by a cistern to be used for toilet flushing and irrigation. https://www.smithgroup.com/projects/dc-water-headquarters