Higher Education

Higher Education THE PRACTICE OF BNIM

ABOUT BNIM BNIM is an innovative leader in designing high performance environments. BNIM’s instrumental development of the USGBC, LEED, and the Living Building concept, combined with projects, methods, and research, shaped the direction of the sustainable movement. Through this involvement, the firm has redefined design excellence to elevate human experience together with aesthetics and building performance. In practice, this multifaceted approach to design excellence has yielded national acclaim, including the AIA National Architecture Firm Award, and consistent design recognition nationally and internationally. BNIM is Building Positive, a notion that describes how our practice leverages its collective capacity for design thinking to solve issues at every scale in a way that is focused on building the positive attributes of community and the built environment. Through an integrated process of collaborative discovery, BNIM creates transformative, living designs that lead to vital and healthy organizations and communities.

Higher Education THE PRACTICE OF BNIM

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SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences South Annex Addition University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Western Institute of Nanoelectronics Green Engineering and Metrology University of California Los Angeles, California University of Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3) Iowa City, Iowa Ozark Education Center - Bull Shoals Field Station Missouri State University Springfield, Missouri

ARTS Visual Arts Building University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa

BUSINESS SCHOOLS Bloch Executive Hall University of Missouri - Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri

Lewis Center for the Arts Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey

Ivy College of Business Gerdin Building Expansion Iowa State University Ames, Iowa

Sinquefield Music Center University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri

College of Business Administration Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Stanley Museum of Art University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa

Patient-Centered Care Learning Center University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri

Seaton Hall and Seaton Court Renovation and Expansion Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas

School of Medicine Renovation University of Missouri - Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri

Glenn Korff School of Music Building University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Lincoln, NE

Psychological and Brain Sciences Building University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa College of Nursing Building Modifications University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa School of Nursing and Student Community Center The University Of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building The University Of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas Blunt Hall Renovation and Addition Missouri State University Springfield, Missouri

LIBRARIES Price Gilbert – Crosland Tower Library Renewal Georgia Institute of Technology Altanta, Georgia Robert E. Kennedy Library Programming and Feasibility Study California Polytechnic Institute St. Louis Obispo, California Center for Connected Learning University of California Berkeley, California

MASTER PLANS East Campus Framework & Master Plan | East Campus Garage Washington University St. Louis, Missouri

Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences south annex addition University of iowa, iowa city

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The South Annex Addition to the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences will build a larger community within the entire engineering facility and foster innovation in teaching, learning, and discovery.

The Annex includes new formal and informal research spaces, varied sizes of active learning classrooms, student development and tutoring spaces, and the creation of a new common lobby centered around a technology-rich student project design studio that brings the entire engineering community together.

Renovation work in the existing building includes creating an Engineering Learning Commons adjacent to the engineering library space. The Commons will include flexible study and presentation spaces for faculty and students use.

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SUSTAINABLE / NOTABLE FEATURES

• 68,094 SF facility • Building will serve as a living laboratory that

creates an attitude of discovery and innovation.

• The majority of the building is elevated above the grade plane to increase open space on the urban site and to create covered bicycle parking.

• The elevation also allows air and light to create a more habitable urban environment on a congested campus site.

• Above and beyond approach to universal design includes a digital kiosk with assistive learning technology and a comprehensive wayfinding strategy.

• The site / building design offers 24/7 accessible

access up and down a steeply sloped site, which was previously a significant barrier in a heavily utilized pedestrian path.

• Prior to the project, stormwater would run-off

down a steep slope to the storm sewer and near by river. The site now incorporates biocells to slow, cool, and clean storm water.

• Native landscaping and ground covers also create a more sustainable site condition.

• There is enough detention to reduce the post-

developed 100-year storm to be less than half of the pre-developed rate.

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20% PROJECTED COST SAVINGS COMPARED TO BASELINE

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undergraduate enrollment has doubled, reaching

2,200 students since the expansion

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AWARDS: 2018 AIA Central States Region Citation, Design Excellence Award 2018 AIA Iowa Merit, Excellence in Design

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234 solar roof panels with the capacity to produce

76,000 kWh of energy per year, saving energy costs

Western Institute of Nanoelectronics Green Engineering and Metrology UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES los angeles, california

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The development of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN) and Green Engineering and Metrology (GEM) building (Phase I) on the UCLA campus represents the highest of aspirations for the research community in supporting the advancement of clean and green technologies. The building houses three primary driving Centers of Excellence in the field of nano-systems and clean technology.

The WIN-GEM facility provides space for faculty and their industrial collaborators to perform research and development in energy harvesting, storage, conservation and management.

As such the facility is thoughtfully designed for collaborative, multidisciplinary research, and the building itself is thought of as an expression and armature of that research.

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61,625 SF Completion in 2014 LEED Gold certified

SUSTAINABLE / NOTABLE FEATURES

• 61,625 SF facility • Active chilled beams in dry labs • Natural ventilation in post doc office suites – mixed-mode VAV • Demand ventilation in wet labs to reduce air change rates • Exhaust stream monitoring to reduce fan power • Fume hood sash management by reduced height to reduce air changes • Dry lab return air used as supply air in wet research support space alcoves • Grey water system - reclaims waste RO process water for toilet flushing • Façade shading element for solar heat gain control

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University of Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3) university of Iowa iowa city, iowa

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The University of Iowa introduced a campus-wide initiative designed to foster collaborations and cultivate research opportunities across disciplines.

The initiative joins the computational discipline with the humanities, arts, natural, biological, health, and social sciences to identify and resolve current issues. Researchers and faculty who work within these different disciplines needed a place that would allow them to connect and collaborate, to work together, and to work privately.

The University of Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3) creates a physical and intellectual home for the initiative within existing building shell space at the university. Establishing a culture and identity for this new collaboration was an important goal of the project. While the individuals who are part of the program are dispersed across campus, a common ground is found in the work they do. By offering a rich variety of functional opportunities, the design ensures users are attracted to the space and utilize it regularly, regardless of where their departments are located. The space draws together these individuals, who share a common pursuit, creating opportunities that lead to academic collaborations and innovations.

11,913 SF Completion in 2016

During the programming process, BNIM and the University of Iowa determined that people – and the connections between them – were the most important element that a space can offer. The design was shaped by organizing a spectrum of spaces to support various modes of work, optimize interactions, interweave relationships, and promote visual connections while respecting appropriate levels of privacy. The diverse disciplines and backgrounds within the initiative necessitated a single unifying element. Design cues were drawn from genetics – a human data element and common thread that binds these disciplines together.

Visual connections through and across the entire space inspire curiosity and promote engagement.

Bent linear ribbons, inspired by the graphic linearity of human genome mapping and the ribbon-like structure of DNA, serve as a spatial organizing device. This unifier was interpreted in various scales, from the organization of spaces united by contiguous bands, to surface treatment such as glazing frit patterns. The frit pattern, which provides privacy and writable space at key areas, was based on the pattern of the human genome and developed using digital algorithms. Within the pattern itself the coded message can be found, revealing the name of the initiative.

This series of consistent gestures at various levels and scales establishes and reinforces a sense of place and identity unique to the program.

A central core of collaboration rooms spans east-west in the space, woven together with a series of bent wood ribbons.

Secondary ribbons rendered in white capture and organize smaller scale collaboration and focused workspaces adjacent to those contained by the central spine. These spaces take advantage of their proximity with connectivity to the central spine as well as views to the exterior.

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AWARDS IIDA Mid-America Design Awards Gold Award, Higher Education, Research 2017

“Working with BNIM was great. They were very collaborative and worked with us to help us better define our needs and vision, and then they came up with a wonderful design. We wanted to create a space that would help us bring the Informatics community together — from all corners of the University, from art to medicine — to foster collaborations, scholarship, and training.”

GREGORY CARMICHAEL Director University of Iowa Informatics Initiative

Ozark Education Center - Bull Shoals Field Station MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI

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The Bull Shoals Field Station is an existing research location for Missouri State University (MSU) students located within the Ozarks on the shores of Bull Shoals lake and within the Drury-Mincy conservation area. There is an increasing demand for educational opportunities within the college and other organizations at the Bull Shoals Field Station.

This project provides a location for education and research by MSU faculty and students, other universities, and non-profit organizations. The Ozarks Education Center, at +/-4,000 gsf, will provide one central location to accommodate larger groups with sleeping and bathing quarters, a dining center, classroom space, and room for programs.

The building is divided up into community space and residential space by way of an entry dogtrot and separate sleeping units. Small and large groups up to 60 people can be accommodated in the community space housed in the main building. The cabins accommodate 23 overnight guests at a time. They are located down in the topography and forest to immerse the guests into the environment, providing a full sensory experience. The restrooms associated with the residential component of this project are on the north side of the dogtrot. There is access to field equipment and a wash station from the exterior and close to the building entry.

4,000 SF Completion in 2020

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AWARDS 2021 Chicago Anthenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and European Centre for Architecture The American Architecture Award 2020 AIA Springfield Honor Award, Excellence in Design 2020 AIA Kansas Honor Award, Excellence in Design 2020 AIA Central State Merit Award, Excellence in Design

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Patient-Centered Care Learning Center UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI

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The University of Missouri School of Medicine (SOM) was tasked with expanding its enrollment in response to a call from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for all medical schools to increase enrollment by 30%. The SOM has partnered with CoxHealth and Mercy health systems out of Springfield, MO to create a clinical campus in Columbia, which will help meet a critical need for more physicians. This public-private partnership will bring transformational change by ultimately providing more than 300 additional physicians for the state, adding more than $390 million annually to Missouri’s economy and creating 3,500 new jobs.

The SOM’s focus on patient-based care defined the ultimate design, which includes improved daylight quality, access to views of campus, more generous amenities for students, and an enhanced focus on providing a facility that promotes collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. By improving its technology, increasing lab sizes and providing additional space for first- and second-year medical students, the new SOM will become a recruiting tool.

98,888 SF Completion in 2017

As the interior design of the building progressed in late 2014, the need to include a feature element at each of the six elevator lobbies became clear. Thinking that some warmer wood elements could meet that need, BNIM contacted brokers who collect and market reclaimed construction materials. We were able to identify and procure wood products that were salvaged exclusively within Missouri: walnut from Knox City, hickory from Palmyra, pine from Hannibal, and on. After consideration of how the wood could be detailed, we proposed to the Medical School that Missouri rivers be incorporated into the wood walls. Representing rivers from a variety of regions within Missouri, the rivers were carved into the wood with a computer-controlled router, and carefully pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. What resulted are six beautiful, artistic feature walls that express Missouri’s close connection with its waterways, and tell a story about how and where the wood was salvaged.

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EUI = 51.3 (INCLUDING SITE)

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REDUCTION BASED ON CBECS NATIONAL BASELINE

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Fixed horizontal and vertical louvers on the building’s exterior reduce solar heat gain and glare.

Designed glazing percentages based on combination of solar orientation and optimizing views.

Reduced ventilation rate of anatomy lab when unoccupied

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The mission to educate students to provide patient-centered care is realized in the 32 problem-based learning classrooms on levels 5 and 6.

In each classroom humanity is emphasized with images of Missourians overlaid on the glass door, each with individual stories. The creative collaboration with the School of Journalism incorporated works of professional photojournalists from the Missouri Photo Workshop to create the artistic installation.

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School of Medicine Renovation UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

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After completing programming and conceptual design services for the UMKC Hospital Hill Campus Health Sciences Education and Research Buildings, BNIM began a multi-phased renovation project on the 254,000 square foot School of Medicine building, scheduled to take place over the next several years. The first phase was comprised of approximately 11,000 square feet on the first and third floors. The primary program areas for the renovation were a Computer Test Lab and a prototypical design for a Docent Unit.

The Docent Unit design was developed as part of an overall planning study in creating 32 Docent Units on the third and fourth floors. This renovation provides four of those Docent Units, with the additional Units being constructed through future phases of renovation.

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Psychological and Brain Sciences Building UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IOWA CITY, IOWA

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The Psychological and Brain Sciences Building establishes an important gateway to the University of Iowa campus.

Providing numerous administrative functions, active learning classrooms, research laboratories, faculty offices, and collaboration and commons spaces, the Psychological and Brain Sciences building is frequented by students, faculty, and researchers. The building serves a unique purpose as both a teaching and research facility, involving the general public and visitors of all ages to the University of Iowa campus. As an anchor of the campus and connection to the neighboring downtown central business area, it was important to provide a welcoming environment for all who interact with the facility on a daily basis.

The Psychological and Brain Sciences Building establishes a renewed presence on the University of Iowa campus while maintaining the design context of the site through reflection of and connection to the adjacent Spence Labs. The existing facilities did not support the needs of the Psychological and Brains Sciences department, lacking a sense of campus connection and the Human Purposed Integrated Design qualities that are necessary to the practice of Psychology. The introduction of views of the outdoors and generous natural daylight open the building in a transformative way, creating a sense of connection among the different functional spaces of the building and better supporting occupant health, comfort, and well-being.

62,000 SF Completed in 2020

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The building is efficiently designed to perform at LEED Silver and uses low VOC materials and recycled content. For the unique

This data was balanced with the amount of view angle out of the building’s windows between the baguettes to optimize

sun shading façade of the building, the team explored various terracotta baguette options to analyze the amount of solar radiation reduced on the glass pane during the summer months.

performance and reduce glare and heat gain while still allowing views to the exterior.

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The facility is attentive to both the programmatic needs of the Psychological and Brain Sciences department and the campus community at-large, serving as a multi-disciplinary resource for students and faculty from across campus. As a functioning research facility, a series of research rooms are equipped with specialized light and acoustic controls to aid in experiments.

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The goal was to create a lab module that could be modified to accommodate the different research pursuits of the Psychological and Brain Sciences department. General purpose classrooms, student learning commons, and collaboration areas are also included to support the academic needs of students and faculty from various disciplines and colleges.

As a place of connectivity for students across campus and the surrounding community, it was important to the University of Iowa to create a welcoming, comfortable facility that would accommodate all building users through inclusive design. The BNIM team worked with the University of Iowa and an accessibility consultant to implement design strategies informed by ADA guidelines. In working with the University of Iowa, the BNIM design team also had the opportunity to learn from student groups about specific needs and considerations to help improve the facility’s accessibility and sense of comfort. Focusing on inclusive, human-purposed design, spaces are designed to enhance mobility and accommodate larger wheelchairs, provide easier access to bathroom facilities on each floor, and create clear wayfinding upon entry into the facility.

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AWARDS EUI = 50.3

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AIA Iowa Excellence in Design - Honor Award 2021

College of Nursing Building Modifications UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IOWA CITY, IOWA

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The University of Iowa Nursing building was built in 1971. A brutalist concrete midcentury modern structure, it houses programming for the College of Nursing, including regular on-campus curriculum as well as continuing education. Sited on the West campus and positioned high on a limestone bluff 40 feet above road level, the glass façade around the perimeter of the first level of the threestory building provides unprecedented views east across the Iowa River towards downtown Iowa City and the historical state capitol.

While the original structure made a powerful architectural statement, over time, the spaces inside became inefficient programmatically for the College’s needs. A loop corridor on the perimeter of the interior left classroom, lab, and office spaces relegated to the building core, windowless and with little to no access to natural daylight. For the renovation, the design teams focus was on students and the University community. The space was designed to be inviting to new nursing students and visitors from across campus, support active learning and modern health science pedagogical objectives, and encourage interaction and collaboration among budding nursing professionals.

A systematic approach to the reorganization of spaces was based on the building’s original five-foot module. Giving light back to the occupants and the spaces most used became the primary objective. The perimeter circulation became student commons areas, and rearranging walls with floor to ceiling glass partitions for lab and classroom spaces allow for natural daylight to penetrate nearly all occupiable spaces. Programming for the new space includes an entry lobby, offices, the dean’s suite, general assignment classrooms, student commons, a diversity resource center, a student success center, and administration spaces. Eight of nine classrooms include AV systems to support an active learning format, including remote student integration.

By maximizing the buildings potential and focusing on a long life, loose fit approach to a flexible and forward-looking learning environment, the College of Nursing renovation offers the University a highly efficient space centered on human health and productivity.

85,000 SF Completion 2019

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AWARDS 2020 AIA Iowa Merit Award 2019 AIA Kansas City Citation, Architecture Medium: Design Excellence Award

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School of Nursing and Student Community Center THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON HOUSTON, TEXAS

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As one of the premier teaching institutions for health-related professions in Houston, the University of Texas Health Science Center identified a critical need: create an environment that speaks to living health-centered lives and also creates a connection between the Health Science Center campus and the Texas Medical Center.

The School of Nursing and Student Community Center was designed to integrate seamlessly with its site and impart a sense of place that would become a heart for the campus. It utilized a holistic design approach to serve as a pedagogical model of wellness, comfort, flexibility, environmental stewardship, and fiscal responsibility. The building includes approximately 20,000 square feet of state-of-the-art classrooms, a 200-seat auditorium, cafe and dining room, bookstore, student lounge, student government offices, research laboratory, and faculty offices.

With Lake|Flato 195,000 SF Completion in 2005 LEED Gold certified

The School of Nursing utilized a holistic design approach that unites façade design, building systems, resource conservation and materials reclamation in creation of a high-performing, integrated educational and academic workplace facility. The strategies have a quantifiable return on investment: the annual purchased utilities cost for the School of Nursing is approximately 60% less than comparable buildings on the campus. In addition, rainwater storage tanks capture approximately 826,140 gallons of rainwater or “grey” water (non-potable water) per year fulfilling the estimated 42,000 gallons needed each month for toilet flushing and irrigation.Because of the limits of the available site, the building is oriented with its long axis in a north-south direction. A breezeway connection—a two story open air space carved from the lower levels of the building— runs east to west allowing the entrance and the main public spaces to be oriented toward Fay Park.

Each façade of the building was designed with unique fenestration and sun screening strategies, all of which were computer modeled by BNIM to maximize building performance.

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“The building showcases a philosophy that if we’re teaching about health, we’re also operating in a healthy way... We believe we’re now the most technologically advanced school of nursing in the country. And with an entire floor dedicated to nursing research, the school now has the kind of equipment and laboratories that will attract world-class researchers.”

PATRICIA STARCK FORMER DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF NURSING

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The building optimizes daylight and rejects unwanted heat and glare with its UNIQUE FIVE FACADE DESIGN that includes the roof

The building is LEED GOLD certified by the U.S. Green Building Council and recieved an AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects Award

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GRANT FAY PARK, to the east, is an amenity to the building, providing shade and a connection to nature for the adjacent spaces.

The annual purchased utilities cost for the School of Nursing is approximately 60% LESS than comparable buildings on the campus.

RAINWATER STORAGE TANKS capture approximately 826,140 gallons of rainwater or “grey” water (non-potable water) per year fulfilling the estimated 42,000 gallons needed each month for toilet flushing and irrigation.

SUSTAINABLE / NOTABLE FEATURES

• LEED Gold • 195,000 square foot, 8-story facility in the Texas Medical Center

• This classroom and academic office

building contains 20,000 square feet of classrooms and skills labs, a 200seat auditorium, a cafe and dining room, bookstore, student lounge, student government offices, a research laboratory and faculty offices.

• This facility was designed using three guiding principles:

1. Provide physical and visual connections to the park to the east; 2. Express the interior functions with the design of the exterior massing and materials; 3. Maximize human health and productivity and minimize the impact on the environment.

• This signature facility creates an

identity for the University by providing an important sense of place for students and visitors within the UT Health Science Center at Houston campus.

• Indoor air quality has been improved

with healthy interior materials such as agri-fiber board and low VOC paints, adhesives and sealants.

• For teaching and offices spaces, an

under-floor air distribution system is used to increase energy efficiency and provide increased thermal comfort for building users by providing user controls.

• Flexible building elements such as raised floor and demountable partitions will accommodate building changes over time.

• Water reduction strategies amount

to a 93% total reduction of potable water through the reuse of collected rainwater for flushing and irrigation, as compared to a LEED baseline case.

• Efficient plumbing fixtures such as

waterless urinals, low flow lavatories and low flow showerheads are installed throughout.

• 75% of the building’s total

construction waste was recycled or salvaged—including waste from the deconstruction of the building that had previously occupied the site.

• Building materials were chosen to

install photovoltaics on the roof structure for further emission reductions and self-reliance.

minimize environmental impact and include recycled brick from a 19th century warehouse in Texas, wood siding from reclaimed cypress logs, aluminum panels specially fabricated with 92% recycled material, and structural steel specified to have more than 80% recycled content.

so that all occupants have access to natural light. Vertical atria and a horizontal atrium provide additional controlled daylight.

concrete mixture, saving approximately 1,808 tons of carbon dioxide that would have been released into the atmosphere.

• The building was designed to save 33% more than a similar ASHRAE 90.1 1999 compliant building.

• The building was designed to easily

• Daylight penetration was a key strategy • The building used 48% fly ash in its

• Operable windows are installed

throughout the building and could be open approximately 134 days or over 1/3 of the year.

• Designed in collaboration with

Lake | Flato and a consultant team that represented 17 disciplines and specialties.

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SELECT AWARDS 2007 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas Environmental Excellence Award Finalist Small Business Category 2006 Top Ten Green Projects Award AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) 2006 Honor Award Texas Society of Architects 2006 Region IV Energy Project of The Year Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) 2005 Honor Award, Architecture AIA Houston 2005 Honor Award, Sustainable Architecture AIA Houston 2005 Award For Innovative Schools Recognized Value Award Designshare International 2004 Honor Award AIA San Antonio 2004 Honor Award, Excellence In Architecture AIA Kansas City 2004 Honor Award AIA Kansas 2004 Honor Award, Excellence In Sustainable Design AIA COTE Kansas City 2004 Merit Award AIA Central States Region

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Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON houston, texas

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The Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building, home of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, is a comprehensive research facility on a tight urban site within the Texas Medical Center campus. This facility is designated to support research collaboration in the area of molecular medicine, particularly in genetics and proteomics and bioinformatics. The Sarofim Research Building houses dry and wet laboratories, offices, conferencing areas, a 200-seat assembly facility, and appropriate support spaces. The design creates a dynamic, interactive environment conducive to research and learning on multiple levels. From the relationship with the outdoors, to the architecture of the building, to the interior spaces, the approach considers form and function holistically, promoting the productivity and well-being of users.

229,250 SF Completion in 2005

The building incorporates sustainable design strategies at many scales. Building orientation allows optimum penetration and control of natural light in relationship to the differing programmatic elements of flexible laboratory space, support laboratories, office and common areas. The separation of office and lab elements enabled the environmental control system to capture and reuse energy that would normally have been wasted.

The reinforced concrete column and slab structure employs high fly ash concrete thus reducing the upstream environmental impact of the building. The building also has a specialized facade design that responds to the Houston climate.

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The approach to the design was based on three underlying principles: place, collaboration and sustainability. The design focuses on creating a dynamic, interactive environment conducive to research and learning on multiple levels. The building is a composition of separate functional “species”.

Each species is designed as a unique typology fulfilling the specific needs of its function and use. These separate building elements are then connected by an atrium and circulation spaces. Distinction between the interior and exterior is blurred by the continuation of materials throughout.

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A HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING ENVELOPE with a terracotta rainscreen is designed to perform in the Houston climate

The team’s MASTER PLAN for a future adjacent academic campus positions the building as a campus hub

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The location — one mile from the UT Medical School — is LINKED BY LIGHT RAIL system to the main campus

The building’s SEPARATE OFFICE AND LAB ELEMENTS utilize numerous HVAC design techniques to address the sensitive air requirements of laboratory buildings while increasing energy performance

SUSTAINABLE / NOTABLE FEATURES

• 229,250 SF facility • 101,000 SF Laboratory Space • 22,367 SF Offices, Support • Prominent site along Bray’s Bayou in the Texas Medical Center

• Recipient of 9 Design Awards • Designed to LEED Standards • Conceived as a 100-year building • Building orientation allows optimum

penetration and control of natural light

• The building envelope is a terra cotta A CENTRAL ATRIUM encourages informal interaction and provides an important community heart

rain screen — a pressure-balanced system that reduces moisture penetration

• The reinforced concrete structure

employs high fly ash concrete reducing the upstream environmental impact of the building

• The concept for this building is an

“academic village” where a community of researchers, faculty, and students are engaged together in biomedical research and study

• Unique two-bar design that separates

laboratory and office functions in to separate wings for energy optimization and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration

• Apex of two bar design enables informal exchange

• The Sarofim building was conceived

as an organism with discrete parts or species. Each species is designed for individual functions with appropriate spatial configuration, mechanical system, lighting, furnishings, and other qualities to ensure the highest levels of health, comfort, productivity and innovation

• The Sarofim building houses dry and

wet laboratories, offices, conferencing areas, a 200-seat assembly facility, vivarium and appropriate support spaces

• This facility is at once both an entire

community to itself, complete with a sense of place, and an anchor for inviting future development within the planned campus

• The building is designed for long term flexibility, accommodating program changes and varying research parameters over time

• Lab spaces are open with custom

designed overhead carriers to provide ventilation and a movable wall system to provide physical separation as needed

• Houses the IMM’s 10 research centers:

Human Genetics, Cardiovascular Genetics, Diabetes and Obesity, Cell Signaling, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Stem Cells, Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases, Proteomics and Systems Biology, Molecular Imaging, Senator Lloyd Bentsen and B.A. Bentsen Center for Stroke Research

“The community has embraced the building as an ideal spot to host events and lectures. The water feature has been the greatest ‘discovery’ for many within the building and within the TMC campus. The south decks are now a daily place of interaction for staff during breaks.”

IRMA GIGLI, MD Director Emeritus, Brown foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine

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AWARDS 2007 Merit Award, Architecture AIA Kansas 2007 Honor Award AIA Houston 2007 Texas Society of Architects Honor Award 2007 Design Award, Smooth Metal Walls Metal Architecture 2006 Texas Construction Magazine Best of Higher Education Award 2006 Merit Award AIA Kansas City 2006 Merit Award, Architecture AIA Central States Region 2005 Merit Award, Unbuilt AIA Houston 2004 Excellence in Architecture, Unbuilt AIA Kansas

“The building is a tremendous asset in the recruiting process. With BNIM’s leadership we were able to achieve a new paradigm for collaborative science and research.”

IRMA GIGLI, MD Director Emeritus, Brown foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine

Blunt Hall Renovation and Addition MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI

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BNIM was selected to lead the design addition and renovation of Temple Hall at Missouri State University (MSU) in Springfield, MO. The new MSU Blunt Hall houses the College of Natural and Applied Sciences Program (CNAS) and serves as a hub for the College.

The addition and renovation will bring together the three primary departments of Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Geography, Geology & Planning (GGP), while improving flexibility and usability of spaces within Blunt Hall. The addition and renovation are envisioned to include state-of-the-art, flexible teaching and research laboratories for each of the three departments. Blunt Hall will serve as a welcoming place for current and prospective students while showcasing the research and programs within. Human-purposed design strategies will include increased access to natural light, connections to nature, outside views, and more comfortable, usable spaces. The first phase of the project is underway, including programming meetings, a design charrette, and sustainability workshop.

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Visual Arts Building UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, IOWA CITY, IOWA

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In 2008, the original University of Iowa School of Art and Art History building experienced significant flood damage.

The 1930s Art Building was no longer a viable venue for arts education. The new University of Iowa Visual Arts Building provides studio space for ceramics, sculpture, metals, photography, printmaking, 3D design, intermedia, animation, and graphic design, as well as graduate student studios, faculty and staff studios and offices, and gallery space.

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Sculptural open stairs are shaped to encourage meeting, interaction and discussion. Some stairs stop at generous landings with tables and chairs, others open onto lounge spaces with built-in seating.

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A punched concrete frame structure composed of cast-in-place concrete provides thermal mass at the exterior, while "bubble" slabs incorporating the Cobiax bubble deck system provide radiant cooling and heating. Computer modeling software was utilized to design the irregular shape of the structure and to coordinate the installation of the complex exposed mechanical pipes and ductwork. Key design features include significant daylighting, natural ventilation at the atrium skylight, a Rheinzink skin in weathering blue-green with a perforated stainless steel scrim for sun shade covers at the southwest and southeast building facades, thermal mass storage, an innovative thermal active slab heating and cooling system, and highly efficient HVAC systems utilizing energy recovery wheels to recapture potentially lost thermal energy through the extensive exhaust system.

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Connection and communication between the departments is facilitated in the vertical carving out of large open floor plates. Natural light and natural ventilation are inserted into the deep floor plates by the inclusion of what the design team calls "multiple centers of light." Several vertical cutouts are designed to foster interaction between the facility’s four levels. The atrium provides a central skylight and circulation space that results in a powerful core of the building.

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AWARDS 2018 American Concrete Institute (ACI) Excellence in Concrete Construction 2018 AIA Iowa Merit Award, Excellence in Craft 2017 AIANY Design Award Honor Award, Architecture 2017 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Prize 2017 The Weidt Group, Commercial New Construction Excellence In Energy Efficient Design 2017 Metal Construction Association Chairman’s Award For Overall Excellence 2017 SARA NY, Design Awards Design Award Of Excellence 2017 ENR, Midwest Regional Best Higher Education/Research Project 2017 Metal Construction News MCN Building And Roofing Awards, New Metal Walls 2016 Interior Design Best Of The Year Award Winner - Education 2016 Architect’s Newspaper Building Of The Year Award, Midwest 2016 Interior Design Best of Year Award, Education 2016 Architects Newspaper Building of the Year, Midwest

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Lewis Center for the Arts PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

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Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts is an academic program comprised of Writing, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, and the Princeton Atelier, a program that brings together artists from different disciplines to collaborate for one dedicated semester. The new Lewis Center for the Arts facility is a physical representation of these creative forces, dedicated to the belief that the arts lift the human spirit.

The 139,000 square foot complex consists of three contemporary buildings designed around a courtyard. The buildings will share a common reception area and will house several public spaces, including an art gallery, a black box theater, a dance studio and a music rehearsal room. The complex will also house faculty and administrative offices and a box office.

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The project has an energy goal of utilizing 50 percent less energy than required by current energy codes. Princeton’s policy is not to pursue LEED, but to go beyond LEED and focus on maximum carbon reduction throughout the design, construction and operation of the facility. To achieve this goal integrated sustainable features are being considered, including geothermal heating and cooling, green roofs, improved exterior envelope performance, displacement ventilation system; mixed mode ventilation system; radiant heating and cooling, and passive design strategies of building orientation, shading, natural light, natural ventilation and thermal mass. In furthering environmental stewardship goals, sustainable material selection and construction management practices also will be key components of the building project.

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2017 Best Building - Mid Atlantic Architect’s Newspaper 2018 Project Of The Year Award Professional Engineers Society Of Mercer County 2018 New Good Neighbor Award New Jersey Business & Industry Association 2018 Best Regional Project, Culture / Worship Category Engineering News Record 2018 International Architect Award, Schools and Universities The Chicago Athanaeum

“BNlM’s leadership has been critical to the success of this project.

We have been greatly impressed by the depth of their staff at all levels, whether related to design or technology, building codes, sustainability, envelope detailing, waterproofing or specifications.

Their goal has been to make the finished product the best it can be, consistent with our budget. BNIM is a valued team member, willing to listen closely, to offer their professional advice, to be patient, and to lead.”

JANE CURRY, AIA, LEED AP Sr. Project Manager, Princeton University Office of Design and Construction

Sinquefield Music Center UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA COLUMBIA, MISSOURI

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The Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield Music Center unites the School of Music within one welcoming, state-ofthe-art facility that renews the program’s culture and identity on the University of Missouri - Columbia campus. Students previously attended classes in a series of acoustically inadequate buildings scattered across campus and needed a facility that would better support and strengthen their premier collegiate music program. The new facility enhances opportunities for engagement, program growth, and student connection as part of a dynamic cultural corridor located on the northern edge of campus.

Immersed in the activity of the University community within downtown Columbia, the facility engages with students and the community through two large entry plazas that dual as external performance venues and impromptu classrooms. Windows along the ground level of the building also provide a glimpse into the percussion practice rooms. This design allows the building itself to become an instrument and music to extend into the community.

Completed in 2020 The project is being designed to achieve LEED certification.

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BUILDING CONTEXT The Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield Music Center represents the first phase of a larger building master plan envisioned for the site. The Sinquefield Music Center is designed to respond to its surrounding urban and campus contexts. Located at the corner of Hitt Street and University Avenue, the building sits at the frequently traveled northern edge of the campus, providing a uniqueisand valuable opbuilding positive portunity to spur the development of this cultural corridor, connecting the University of Missouri with downtown Columbia. Utilizing campus infrastructure, the new facility promotes density and walkability, as staples of sustainable design. Additionally, the design team worked with consultant team members and the University to provide sustainable resources, materials, and products.

BUILDING CONCEPT AND PROGRAM The design is shaped by the primary goal of enhancing the human experience, both by providing acoustically advanced facilities that increase functionality and by creating inspiring, comfortable spaces which promote creativity and well-being.

The new facility enables students to learn, practice, and perform in a strong acoustical atmosphere that supports the composition, instrumental, vocal, and editing and recording curricula.

The building’s program is laid out in a simple, yet incredibly thoughtful way to provide cost-effective solutions for acoustically isolated spaces. Resembling a series of ‘boxes’ slightly pulled apart, the design focuses on establishing distance between practice and performance spaces and situating the most acoustically sensitive spaces on the ground floor of the building to reduce the carrying of sound and vibrations to other areas. These effective strategies allowed the design to provide acoustic isolation without the need for additional extensive acoustical systems.

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PROGRAM SPACE TYPES ∙ Rehearsal / Performance ∙ Classrooms ∙ Collaboration Space ∙ Faculty Studios ∙ Administrative Offices ∙ Support Space ∙ Building Services

Often, music schools have a series of practice rooms and rehearsal spaces that cater to a single individual or small groups of people and, as a result, can cause facilities to turn inward, lacking access to natural daylight and views that are essential for health and wellness. To address this issue, the design team situated the building’s corridors, which serve as connective ancillary spaces, to include large windows to provide a sense of relief and a connection back to nature while orienting users throughout the building with a series of daylight vistas.

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Instrumental Rehearsal Room The practice and performance spaces of the Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield Music Center share a beautiful atmosphere with wood paneling and an abundance of daylight. Practice spaces allow for flexibility to adapt to emerging trends and different musical compositions and provide innovative acoustically isolated areas for all rehearsals, recordings, and performances.

The facility’s large instrumental rehearsal room and traditional choral rehearsal room are elegant performance spaces that are ‘tunable’ to different types of music being performed. They provide a substantial volume for acoustics and are outfitted with the ability to record and stream performances to physical or virtual live audiences. To create ‘tunable’ rooms, the design team worked with the project’s acoustician on a series of operable acoustic drapes that can be deployed or retracted depending on preferences of the musicians.

This cost-effective strategy provided acoustically advanced spaces while also allowing the School of Music the greatest amount of flexibility to accommodate program needs as curriculum continues to evolve in the future.

Traditional Performance Space Design for future flexibility is further demonstrated in the traditional performance rehearsal space which not only utilizes the retractable draperies to either enliven or deaden the room based on the performance, but also includes a floor plan designed such that the room can be morphed for a series of different purposes. The flat floor in the space was enlarged from a typical choral rehearsal room to allow the space to be flipped and risers to be utilized for patrons to view opera rehearsal or other individual or group performances. The custom woodworking on the room’s the south wall also includes concealed white boards to be utilized in a classroom format when not occupied by performances. Operable wood walls fold out to create a band shell-like form that meets directional requirements for performances of various scales to audiences.

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AWARDS AIA Kansas City Citation Award 2021

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“... This music center belongs to all of us, and I’m excited to imagine the kinds of new communityuniversity collaborations that will arise because of this beautiful facility. As the chancellor has already said, music brings people together. This music center brings us together, people from across campus, throughout Columbia and Missouri, and well beyond.”

PAT OKKER, DEAN, ARTS & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA JEANNE AND REX SINQUEFIELD MUSIC CENTER GRAND OPENING

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Glenn Korff School of Music Building UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN LINCOLN, NE

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The new Glenn Korff School of Music Building will be a premiere creative center for music and dance excellence located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) campus. It will redefine what it means to be a collaborative, inclusive, and healthy environment for performing arts education for the 21st century. Located at the corner of 10th and Q streets, the building will act as a welcoming front door to the city campus and tie into the existing Arts Quad. The project features an iconic performance hall which utilizes physical and electronic adjustable acoustics and leverages performance technology to make the room as flexible and adaptable as possible. The room itself becomes a creative tool for expanding interdisciplinary, multimedia performance possibilities. The project also features rehearsal and practice rooms with daylight and views; a state of the art digital recording studio and lounge spaces for study and student gathering. The design is focused on enhancing human health and wellness while also addressing technical requirements for the school of music such as sound isolation; optimum hearing quality and safety; room size and volume; accessibility; and HVAC systems with humidification for instrument preservation. The new facility will be a campus destination for high-quality arts education, scholarship, creativity, and performance.

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Stanley Museum of Art UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, IOWA CITY, IOWA

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The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art is a new cultural arts destination on the University of Iowa campus that restores a dedicated art museum presence to the campus community after 14 years.

Following historic flooding in 2008, the new Stanley Museum of Art reunites the University with its renowned collections of African Art, 20th Century Art, as well as seminal works such as Jackson Pollock’s Mural that previously held temporary residence in art institutions across the world.

Part of the campus network and adjacent to Gibson Square Park, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art welcomes students, faculty, and visitors in through a transparent and daylight-filled lobby and entry plaza. These spaces provide opportunity for gathering and socializing, events, performances, and classes, allowing artistic expression to extend from within the walls of the Museum to become a central component of the campus experience.

63,000 GSF Completed 2022

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Dynamic and kinetic dark, warm brick exterior recalls the academic and cultural brick masonry buildings of Alvar Aalto, Louis Khan, and Eero and Eliel Saarinen. Through an alternating composition of brick texture and brick finish, the façade is transformed by the daily and seasonal changes in sunlight.

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Programmatic requirements called for much of the building to be designed as a solid mass with limited fenestration in gallery, conservation, and storage areas. In response, the Museum’s rectilinear form is designed to serve as a protective and respectful home for the display, conservation, and storage of the collections. The design team strategically included a series of interconnected, occupiable voids in the building massing including exterior terraces, light wells, the main lobby and public circulation spaces to bring the outside in. This thread of connective spaces establish access to daylight, enhance transparency and wayfinding, and guide the cadence of visitor experience.

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Rotating displays of work by contemporary artists will be featured in the main lobby throughout the year. The first of these installations to greet visitors is a mural entitled Surrounding by Philadelphia-based abstract painter and professor at Temple University, Odili Donald Odita.

Envisioned as a library and laboratory for the Arts, the Stanley Museum of Art provides a series of welcoming gallery spaces where individuals can learn about, discuss, and explore the collections. Galleries are designed with flexibility to enable the Museum to tailor the size of each space to suit the needs of the collections as well as traveling exhibitions. The proportions of the galleries also allow for faculty to curate collections for teaching and research and for students to learn the principles of curating, an initiative central to the Stanley Museum of Art’s mission.

The Stanley Museum of Art features a visual arts laboratory classroom where works of art are installed for students’ coursework observation. A visible storage room, teaching studios, offices, and collaborative staff and volunteer spaces are also dedicated to the research, support, and teaching of the collections.

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Seaton Hall and Seaton Court Renovation and Expansion Kansas State university, Manhattan, kansas

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Over the last decade, the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design (APDesign) at Kansas State University has risen in stature and recognition among the nation’s design programs. Each semester, APDesign students, faculty, and visitors together explore the potential of design to impact human experience, health, and happiness – the new and renovated facility is born of these same pedagogical objectives.

The new addition stitches together the two renovated historic buildings of Seaton East (1908) and Mechanics Hall (1874), and is punctuated by “The Jewel,” a transparent, three-story social container and entry courtyard that assumes the new face of APDesign.

Located in the heart of the campus network, the facility is a hub of interdisciplinary interaction, engaging KSU in a unified expression of innovation, excellence, and sustainability.

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AWARDS 2019 AIA Kansas City Architecture XLarge: Merit, Design Excellence Awards 2018 Association of General Contractors Kansas Building Award 2018 ASLA Prairie Gateway Chapter Honor Award, Design 2018 AIA Kansas Honor, Design Excellence Awards 2016 ASLA Central States Merit Award, Design (unbuilt)

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Price Gilbert – Crosland Tower Library Renewal GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ATLANTA, GEORGIA

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The adaptive reuse of Price Gilbert Memorial Library and Crosland Tower at Georgia Institute of Technology will transform the two campus buildings into the Research Library of the 21st Century. The project is a critical initiative of the institute’s strategic plan and vision for transforming the campus into a knowledgebased community. The transformation is founded on changes in the way that students and faculty currently use the library, as well as future trends in library utilization found on peer campuses across the country. Georgia Tech has conceived of a place where knowledge is not simply stored, but generated.

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The Library, Future Tense: A Vision for Georgia Tech’s Research Library of the Twenty First Century Price Gilbert Memorial Library and Crosland Tower on the Georgia Institute of Technology Campus will be transformed into Georgia Tech’s vision for the Research Library of the Twenty First Century. These before/after pairs illustrate the big ideas of the transformation.

Price Gilbert and Crosland Tower have great value to Georgia Tech as physical assets. The buildings occupy prime real estate at the heart of Georgia Tech’s campus. They comprise 230,000 square feet of non-departmental Institute space. And in the case of Price Gilbert, the midcentury modern design is historically significant. Continuing to invest in the relevance of these buildings means first focusing on renewing core, shell, and building systems. The envelopes of the buildings will be rehabilitated and opened up to daylight wherever possible. The core elements will be upgraded to meet contemporary codes and will provide room for future expansions or modifications. The systems that heat, cool, move water, and light the buildings will be entirely new and very efficient. Taken together, these strategies will drive energy use dramatically downward even as the user population doubles, so that the energy use intensity per person reduces by a factor of almost five.

With circulation of physical library materials trending downward, knowledge is now recorded, stored, and disseminated by digital means. The digital cloud of shared knowledge is overwhelmingly vast. The Library of the 21st Century is a place to make sense of it all. There remains a human desire for the Library to be a physical, tactile, and serendipitous experience that inspires awe.

The future Library will do this by taking these digital, invisible resources and manifesting their presence through means that are sometimes pragmatic (as in virtual browsing) and sometimes artistic (as in an abstract installation) Despite demand for digital resources over physical books, the importance of a place to study, collaborate, and explore new learning methods is increasing among students and faculty. The role of the future research library is unique and necessary. It is neutral ground uniting the campus and community that provides global connectedness for collaborative, interdisciplinary and individual learning in ways that no other department or school can provide.

Crosland Tower was purpose built as a stacks building, originally called the annex. Well-suited to house books, it is a robust structure with low floor-tofloor heights and very few windows. With the renewal, the vast majority of books are leaving this facility and being relocated to the Library Services Center, a joint venture between Georgia Tech and Emory University. The resulting void will be transformed into people space. But the characteristics that make Crosland Tower a good storehouse for books need to be turned inside out in order to do so. People require daylight and views; volumetric spaces; and a variety of different space types for different uses, and the renewal will create these spaces.

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The two buildings are technically separate structures, but the separation is not so distinct when inside them. A connecting structure obscures the independence of each building and congests an important pedestrian thoroughfare, Cherry Street. The design will reintroduce this artery’s importance as a north/south campus connection by opening up the space between the buildings, connecting them with a light, transparent bridge. Inside the building, the main hub of activity will move one level down from where it currently is. This change will allow Price Gilbert to retain its pristine historic character on the upper levels, and down below will also permit a contiguous, accessible internal connection through Crosland Tower, Price Gilbert, and the recently completed Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons.

Long Life, Loose Fit, as found in AIA COTE’s measure nine, has become one of the strongest principles guiding the design of this project. BNIM’s design intent for the Library Renewal is to create good spaces for people that remain relevant far into the future. Daylight and volume are the basic building blocks that existing Price Gilbert possesses, and are exactly what will be created in Crosland Tower. Crosland Tower floor plates are designed for adaptability as office and user space needs wax and wane. A variety of spaces will be provided — small to large, grand to private. Georgia Tech is continuing to pilot new concepts for delivering service this fall and next spring. And the building design is flexible enough to react to and incorporate the findings of these pilot programs.

The next generation library becomes a place where knowledge is both produced and consumed. Crosland Tower was purposefully designed as an introverted building. The renewal will transform it into an extroverted building – a better reflection of the functions taking place within and of Georgia Tech’s relationship to the knowledge community beyond its walls. The north and south facades of the tower will be removed and replaced with highly transparent, low-iron glass to provide controllable south light and diffuse north light. The east and west facades will be left opaque in response to the harsh east and west sun. New entry points will be created where blank walls exist currently. And Crosland Tower will be crowned at it top level by a large reading room and event space with expansive views of the surrounding city.

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AWARDS Structural Engineers Association of Georgia Outstanding Project Award 2020 ENR Southeast (Engineering News Record) Award of Merit 2019

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Price Gilbert Library is a memorable 1953 landmark. Crosland Tower, completed in 1968, is a building originally intended to store books with limited space for students or faculty. In order to accomplish the vision and be respectful of the buildings’ landmark importance, the two buildings were approached differently in terms of architectural design and similarly in terms of human purposed integrated design. The interventions strive to maintain the clarity of the form while connecting the building to the campus and nature where the building touches the landscape, interacting with the sun through the envelope changes and at the roof with the introduction of a new reading room and roof gardens.

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WATER USE REDUCTIONS (Gallons per Year)

1,031K 97K BEFORE RENEWAL

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Central to the long-term success of Price Gilbert and Crosland Tower is the concept of “long life, loose fit” — that the ability to address future, unanticipated needs is something that can be designed. Price Gilbert, with its open plan and high-ceilinged reading rooms, is already an exemplar of this mentality; the goal is to capitalize on and retain its adaptable nature while providing for the same at Crosland Tower. The renovation will create spaces that are functional, flexible, and have plentiful daylight and views.

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The design team incorporated many sustainable strategies into the design, including chilled beams for cooling and LED lighting throughout the buildings. After the renovation, the population using the buildings will have doubled—the 1,250 seats currently in the buildings will grow to 2,360—yet total energy consumption will be reduced by about a third, and energy consumption per capita will be 80% less than what it is currently.

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Robert E. Kennedy Library Programming and Feasibility Study CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA

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The Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, originally completed in 1980, is heavily utilized by students, faculty, and the surrounding community. In 2016-217, the library received more than 1.5 million visitors, including researchers from around the world who traveled for its archival collections of manuscripts, rare books, architectural drawings, and photographs.

The five-story, 208,433 GSF Brutalist structure is in need of renovation to repair degrading infrastructure, accommodate current and future technology, increase energy and water conservation, and enhance overall functionality and flexibility for the 21st-century student experience.

Working with brightspot, BNIM is reimagining the library to achieve its 2015–2022 Strategic Plan — as a place where expertise, scholarly content, and technology come together in an experiential learning environment.

208,433 SF Completion May 2018 (Feasibility Study)

CONTEXT The design team aims to capitalize on the facility’s existing, intrinsic human-purposed design characteristics, including a central courtyard and views to the surrounding mountains. The project’s temperate, coastal siting also provides opportunities for natural ventilation and daylighting, optimizing passive design strategies to achieve high-performance results and meet Cal Poly’s LEED Gold design standard.

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Connection to Nature - The stepped building form pays homage to the neighboring Nine Sisters mountain range.

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CHALLENGES AND NEEDS

20,000+ STUDENTS

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THE BUILDING WAS COMPLETED IN 1980, AND SINCE THAT TIME, THERE HAD BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT RENOVATIONS. INSTEAD, THERE WERE SEVERAL INTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS MADE OVER TIME, BUT THEY DID NOT ADDRESS ISSUES THAT WERE BEGINNING TO APPEAR AS THE BUILDING AGED, INCLUDING: TEMPERATURE CONTROL THE WINDOWS ARE MANUALLY OPERATED, BUT THERE ARE NO CONTROLS AND NO HUMIDITY MONITORING. STUDENTS WERE OFTEN UNCOMFORTABLY HOT INSIDE THE BUILDING, EVEN ON MILD DAYS OUTSIDE. BUILDING SYSTEMS THE ELEVATORS WERE TOO SMALL AND UNRELIABLE, AND ACOUSTICS ON THE EXPOSED CONCRETE DECK WERE POOR. ADDITIONALLY, THERE WERE NOT ENOUGH OUTLETS FOR STUDENTS TO PLUG IN THEIR LAPTOPS AND MOBILE DEVICES. INEFFICIENT USE OF SPACE AS THE LIBRARY MOVED A PORTION OF ITS COLLECTIONS TO AN ADJACENT CAMPUS BUILDING, SPACE UTILIZATION BECAME A GROWING PROBLEM. THERE WERE MANY EMPTY POCKETS OF SHELVES, AND CERTAIN FACULTY DEPARTMENTS HAD MORE SPACE THAN THEY NEEDED WHILE STUDENTS WERE NOT PROVIDED WITH ADEQUATE STUDY SPACE. SECURITY SECURITY GATES WERE REMOVED OVER TIME AND VISITOR CHECK-IN OCCURS AT THE EXISTING CIRCULATION DESK ADJACENT TO THE ENTRY. SUSTAINABILITY AS AN INSTITUTION, CAL POLY ALSO PRIORITIZED

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PROCESS THE PROCESS BEGAN WITH VISIONING SESSIONS AND IDENTIFYING METRICS FOR SUCCESS. THE TEAM THEN MOVED INTO THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND CREATING THE PROGRAM, WHILE ALSO DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES. TO DETERMINE THE VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF KENNEDY LIBRARY, THE TEAM HELD FREQUENT ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS WITH STUDENTS, STAFF AND FACULTY, INCLUDING TOWN HALLS, WORKSHOPS WITH STAFF AND STAKEHOLDERS, AND STUDENT FEEDBACK FAIRS. IN EVERY FORUM, LIBRARY PATRONS HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED TO IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES

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FOR KENNEDY LIBRARY, FROM THE SERVICES IT PROVIDES TO THE SPACES WITHIN THE BUILDING. FOLLOWING THESE SESSIONS, BNIM AND BRIGHTSPOT DEVELOPED THREE DESIGN CONCEPTS, ALL OF WHICH INVOLVE UPDATING THE CENTRAL COURTYARD, REMOVING THE MAIN STAIRS, AND INTRODUCING A NEW SET OF STAIRS TO THE COURTYARD. THIS WILL MAXIMIZE THE AMOUNT OF USABLE SPACE FOR LIBRARY SERVICES. EACH CONCEPT ESTABLISHES A STRONG IDENTITY FOR KENNEDY LIBRARY AND ACHIEVES THE GOALS OUTLINED IN THE 2015-2022 STRATEGIC PLAN.

DESIGN RESPONSES THE THREE DISTINCT DESIGN CONCEPTS ARE GROUNDED IN SEVERAL COMMON ELEMENTS THAT WERE DERIVED FROM THE WORKSHOPS: ESTABLISH CONNECTIONS TO NATURE THROUGH INCREASED DAYLIGHTING, NATURAL VENTILATION, AND CLEAR CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR ENVIRONMENTS. PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH A DIVERSITY OF STUDY SPACE OPTIONS AND ADDITIONAL SEATS AND CHOICES TO SUPPORT QUIET, FOCUSED STUDY PERIODS AND COLLABORATIVE GROUP WORK. IDENTIFY A STAFF HOME BASE, WHICH IS A SINGLE, CONSOLIDATED AREA WHERE STAFF CAN INTERACT AND COLLABORATE. ADDRESS THERMAL COMFORT TO SUPPORT NATURAL VENTILATION AND INTEGRATE ADDITIONAL SYSTEMS AS NEEDED. USE LONG LIFE, LOOSE FIT PRINCIPLES TO INCORPORATE FLEXIBLE SPACES AND PROLONG THE USEFUL LIFE OF THE BUILDING. INCREASE POROSITY AT THE GROUND LEVEL AND CREATE A STRONGER CONNECTION TO THE SURROUNDING CAMPUS BY INCLUDING MULTIPLE POINTS OF ENTRY AND LOCATING PUBLIC PROGRAMS ADJACENT TO AREAS OF HIGH PEDESTRIAN AND TRANSIT ACTIVITY. PROMOTE THE LIBRARY’S SPECIAL COLLECTIONS THROUGH A GLOBAL GALLERY, WHERE THEY WILL BE CELEBRATED AND EXHIBITED is building positive

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UPDATES TO THE EXISTING OPEN COURTYARD REMOVES EXISTING MAIN STAIR AND INTRODUCES A NEW MAIN STAIR AT THE COURTYARD PLACE A STAFF ‘HOME BASE’ ON LEVELS 3-5 INCLUDE AREAS ON LEVELS 4 AND 5 WITH HIGH DENSITY SHELVING LOCATED ON LEVEL 1 FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS STACK CLASSROOMS VERTICALLY ON LEVELS 2-4 NON-LIBRARY PARTNERS WILL BE LOCATED TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST OF THE BUILDING ON LEVELS 2-3, ADJACENT TO CLASSROOMS STACKS ARE DISPERSED WITH QUIET STUDY ON LEVELS 2-5 ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING

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UPDATES TO THE EXISTING OPEN COURTYARD REMOVES EXISTING MAIN STAIR AND INTRODUCES A NEW MAIN STAIR AT THE COURTYARD PLACE A STAFF ‘HOME BASE’ ON LEVELS 2-4 INCLUDE AREAS ON LEVELS 1 AND 3 WITH HIGH DENSITY SHELVING ON LEVEL 1 FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CONSOLIDATE CLASSROOMS ON LEVEL 5 NON-LIBRARY PARTNERS WILL BE ADJACENT TO CLASSROOMS ON LEVEL 5 CONSOLIDATE STACKS ON LEVEL 3, QUIET STUDY ON LEVEL 4, ACTIVE STUDY ON LEVEL 2

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9,200 sf site - Baseline recommendation (incl. courtyard)

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9,200 sf site - Baseline recommendation (incl. courtyard)

2,100 sf site - Cal Poly Corporation

42,000 sf site - Additional recommendation

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2,100 sf site - Cal Poly Corporation Note: Potential recaptured space with enclosed courtyard option

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Moffitt Library UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

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BNIM is working with the University of California, Berkeley to create a project program for the initial phase of a full renovation of the first through third floors of Moffitt Library. UC Berkeley’s 32 constituent and affiliated libraries together make Moffitt the fourth largest university library by number of volumes in the United States — surpassed only by the libraries of Harvard, Yale, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Opened in 1970 as a cutting-edge library for undergraduates, Moffitt Library rejected the neoclassical tradition of most campus buildings. At five-stories and constructed of cast-in-place concrete, Moffitt Library is uniquely situated within memorial glade, partially below grade with building entry points at the third floor. In 1994, Gardner Stacks, a four-story underground addition connecting Moffitt to the historic Doe Library was completed, where more than 2.5 million volumes are stored within four acres of space.

In 2016, the University began re-envisioning Moffitt Library with the renovation of floors 4 and 5, comprising approximately 38,000 SF. This initiated the transformation of the library to interactive and dynamic modes of learning and research. A stated goal of the University is that the renovation of floors 1, 2, and 3, comprising of approximately 100,000 SF, should “both capitalize and improve on the foundations presented by the work on floors 4 and 5 toward the creation of a flexible yet culturally and aesthetically harmonized facility.” Through our current work on major library renovations at both Georgia Tech and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, we are seeing a reinvention of the library system that focuses on the revitalization of historic structures to reposition libraries as contemporary centers for discovery and innovation.gy come together in an experiential learning environment.

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Bloch Executive Hall UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY MISSOURI

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation is designed for high levels of collaboration between students and faculty in a variety of active learning classrooms, similar to the interdisciplinary collaboration within health sciences facilities. The building serves as a social hub for students on campus, providing new spaces for increased student population, the specialized needs of entrepreneurial education programs, and growing executive education programs. Its design is intentionally simple and elegant. It includes a 200-seat auditorium, multiple flexible- and active learning classrooms, seminar rooms, a finance lab, faculty offices, and prototyping and business incubator spaces. The upper three floors are connected by an open, light-filled lobby that includes an amphitheater.

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Level One connects with Level One of the existing Bloch School and has a west-facing, grade-level entry providing convenient access to the largest parking area of the Bloch School. This floor houses lobby spac, the behavioral research lab and building support spaces for mechanical and other uses.

The main entries are on Level Two, which houses a 200-seat auditorium, three active learning classrooms, a finance lab, small group study rooms and informal student study areas. The spaces are organized along a north-south axial lobby space.

At the center of the building is an amphitheater connecting the three main levels of the building with a light-filled, three-story lobby.

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Auditorium Amphitheater Cafe Womens Mens Atrium Group Study Finance Lab Quiet Study Tiered Classroom Executive Mentor

Level Four will house a second 80-person tiered classroom, the remaining active learning classroom/ boardroom, small group meeting/office rooms for departmental use and the dean’s suite. There is also a roof garden that opens to the central lobby space and serves the entire building for small group study, relaxation and special events.

The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the primary occupant of Level Three. The spaces include the Design-Led Innovation Lab, one 60seat active learning classroom, an 80-seat tiered classroom, small group study rooms and institute offices wrapped around central lobby space.

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AWARDS 2015 IIDA Mid America Mid-America Design Awards - Silver Award Higher Education 2014 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Best Higher Education/University Building 2014 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) The Harry H Edwards Industry Advancement Award 2014 AIA Kansas City Merit Award, Excellence in Architecture 2014 AIA Kansas Excellence in Architecture Merit Award 2013 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Honorable Mention 2013 Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) Mid-America Regional Award 2013 Concrete Promotional Group (CPG) Excellence in Concrete Award – High Rise 2013 AIA Kansas City Citation Award – Architecture 2013 Southtown Beautification Award

Ivy College of Business Gerdin Building Expansion IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY AMES, IOWA

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The new Gerdin Building expansion at Iowa State University creates a dynamic nexus and intellectual center for the Ivy College of Business. The design expands the College’s ability to foster collaboration and innovation among business scholars through modern teaching methodologies, impactful research, and community engagement. BNIM and Story Construction formed an integrated design/build team in response to the university’s request for design and cost proposals. The team outlined below was organized prior to being selected by ISU for the project and incorporated a highly integrated problem-solving design methodology utilizing LEAN methodologies for design which Story Construction has defined as CP2.0. The team was tasked with not only providing a design that minimizes the impacts on natural resources and the environment, but to also provide a human-purposed setting for improved performance by students and faculty. The resulting design is focused on creating a building that is comfortable and provides a spectrum of spaces and qualities that promote the creation of community.

Completed in 2020

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An axis extending from the campanile from the west entrance through Granite Hall and east entrance becomes a centralizing circulation element and key concept for the organization of the expansion.

A spacious central lobby will become the heart of the entire building, This area will provide a logical connection of space through a central volume and core informal meeting space for ongoing collaboration. This daylit heart to the building, as well as increased quality of pedagogical space, will create a setting that enhances the student, faculty, and visitor experience and reinforces the high-quality brand of the Ivy College of Business.

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Strategic spatial organization, refined programming, and simplicity in design have resulted in seamless integration of the expansion with the original building, maintaining and upholding a timeless campus aesthetic. The expansion provides a complementary massing and incorporates matching stone, glass, and brick masonry on the exterior while the circulation system inside extends the logic of the existing building diagram. Creative solutions for universal design and access have allowed the design of the expansion to manage grade changes on the site to graciously allow access for all.

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College of Business Administration MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | MILKWAUKEE, WI

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BNIM is currently designing a new business school facility situated on a heavily-traveled and visibly prominent site at the gateway to Marquette University’s campus, located on the corner of 16th and Wisconsin Avenue. The new building will be designed to fit the urban context and successfully engage the street edges and campus circulation, creating a new home for the College of Business Administration that is collaborative and welcoming. The new College of Business Administration will house business and interdisciplinary leadership programs, establish a hub for innovation, and engage community stakeholders across the University while linking students, faculty, and industry leaders to the Milwaukee region and beyond.

100,000 SF BNIM with Workshop Architects

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East Campus Framework and Master Plan WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

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Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) has undertaken a major endeavor to transform the East Campus area to accommodate future growth and create a new gateway to the surrounding city. The projects have been divided into three phases, each building upon the foundation laid by the previous phase.

In Phase 1, BNIM partnered with Sasaki and Andropgon on the East Campus Framework Plan. The team developed the fundamental strategies of open space concepts and program, identified pedestrian pathways and connections, and established pedagogical and sustainability goals for buildings and landscape, among other strategies. The campus contains significant opportunities for this development but was somewhat restricted

by St. Louis County’s mandate to provide a specific amount of parking. To create a vibrant campus with thriving landscape and responsible development that respected the prestigious campus history, the plan explores creating a new underground parking structure. This would allow for future growth and meet WUSTL’s programmatic needs.

During the second phase, BNIM collaborated with Michael Vergason on the master plan, which delved deeper into the framework, identifying specific strategies and potential projects.

BNIM and Michael Vergason worked together to refine building placement and scale of five new structures — which are currently underway — plus the addition to the Kemper Museum, including the parking structure.

In the third and final phase, six projects and landscape work are currently being executed. BNIM’s primary role in this phase is to serve as architect of the new underground parking structure, along with KieranTimberlake. In addition, BNIM participates on the advisory committee with Moore Ruble Yudell, KieranTimberlake, and Michael Vergason.

Renderings in collaboration with KieranTimberlake.

Select renderings provided by Studio AMD.

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East Campus Garage WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

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Following the East Campus Framework Plan (with Sasaki and Andropogon) and the East Campus Master Plan (with Michael Vergason), BNIM continued its collaborative relationship at Washington University in St. Louis, this time with KieranTimberlake on a new underground parking garage.

The new garage is the connective tissue for all of the buildings on campus. It also plays a prominent role in the visitor experience. The overall goal of removing cars from the landscape and creating comfort, safety, and beauty for pedestrians was paired with the goal of creating a welcoming presence for visitors to the campus when entering campus through the new parking facility. As such, it has been carefully crafted to uphold WUSTL’s prestigious reputation, designed with the intention of making visitors and other users feel welcome and comfortable when coming to campus.

Knowing that the need for parking will eventually decrease over time, the team designed the garage to be transformed into academic or other campus space in the future. The design incorporates higher floor-to-floor dimensions, heavier floor loads for anticipated occupancies, accommodation for connections to daylight and landscape above, and other strategies that will enhance the transformation of parking space into people spaces.

AWARDS AIA Pennsylvania Merit Award 2020

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