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1997 design awards Merit Award
Juror's Comment: Project Description: This 300,000 s.f. campus is masterplanned to accommodate 2,500 students with expansion of the three story academic wings and additions to fine arts and athletic facilities. Core facilities were built to accommodate the ultimate population with only minor alterations required during subsequent construction phases. The building is articulated into three primary massings, housing academics, fine arts and athletics. These volumes radiate from the central entry/lobby, defining entrances, inviting students and community into the facility. Varied articulation and fenestration of these areas provide for easy recognition of the main activity areas of the building. A special concern was to achieve an acceptable scale in the articulation of the three story academic wing. Varying window treatments from the ground floor to the third identify differing academic activities. Large punched windows occur at the first and second floors housing typical teaching stations. At the third floor, horizontal glazing runs between masonry pilasters allowing lab casework to pass beneath the sill and provides a strong visual termination to the elevation. The main entrance and lobby are the centroid of the building from which the other activity areas radiate. Off of this lobby is an 850 seat, full performing arts theater. Entrances to the cafeteria and gymnasiums also occur off of this lobby area facilitating community use of these facilities. This project combines load bearing masonry and poured in place concrete structural systems. Load bearing walls in the academic and fine arts area carry long span steel joists as well as providing the acoustical isolation required for these activities. A repetitive structural bay in the three story academic wing lends itself to a cost effective use of labor and formwork associated with a concrete structural system. The three story academic wing reduces the number of drilled piers required on the project lowering construction costs. Use of a 4" x 4" x 16" utility brick lowered the cost of the brick veneer, and its larger size compliments the scale of the project.
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