United States Institute of PeacePublic Institution

2007. Moshe Safdie and Associates.

employer: Moshe Safdie and Assoc.

project title: United States Institute of Peace

site: Washington, D.C.

program: convention and offices

project manager: Paul Gross

my role: The project had just commenced construction documents when I joined the

firm, and I worked on them from start to finish. The majority of my responsibility was

in coordinating the drawings from all consultants with the architectural intent. The

different systems usually met at the ceiling, and therefore, the RCPs became the most

important drawings for this effort. All work was done in Revit.

competition posters were posted throughout GSAPP and on online venues

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view from main atrium facing Kennedy Memorial varrying ceiling conditionsview from Lincoln Memorial

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reflected programEvery type of space has a design intent which must be expressed with every detail. In Safdie’s office, the ceiling is treated as an interior elevation and is therefore studied case by case. While Revit models shared with the engineers assisted in catching coor-dination problems, I was ultimately inclined to redraw every con-sultant’s drawings and learn their constraints in order to produce the desired aesthetic while abiding by their respective code.

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office floorsmain entree and back-of-house