Taking Moisture Off the Table

摘要

The design team for the new Central Iowa Shelter & Services (CISS) facility in Des Moines, Iowa, faced a dilemma. They needed to identify a design solution for a homeless shelter that projected a "caring institution without looking like a Taj Mahal" and still stick the landing on key envelope performance goals. "We wanted to achieve as high an R-value as possible without insulating the stud space," explains Rob Smith, principal of Des Moines-based Architects Smith Metzger. "It's all about water vapor.