BSA LifeStructures Learning Brochure

bringing life to learning

Biomedical Engineering Building / Purdue University / West Lafayette, IN

We are architects and engineers.

We are interior designers, master planners, project and facilities managers.

Our work is about enhancing the experience of those who spend time in the environments we create.

Using color, texture, lighting and space, we aspire to make their learning and their teaching the best it can possibly be.

We call that Human Potential Design.

Our work is also outcome-based. We measure its impact and its success with tools designed to support your strategic plan and vision.

We call these Operational Performance Gains.

We are a diverse collection of multidisciplinary specialists who think independently and work collaboratively, with each other and with you.

We create inspired solutions that improve lives through learning, discovery and healing.

We are BSA LifeStructures.

Sometimes architecture is driven by a desire to stand out. Other times, it’s all about fitting in.

The University of Notre Dame’s new multidisciplinary engineering teaching and research facility, Stinson-Remick Hall, houses the most advanced technology available, inside a structure designed to reflect a heritage more than 165 years old.

What we were, are and will be.

A part of history. The future and the past.

The Class of 2012 has more in common with the Class of 1952 than you might expect.

Because even as technology and teaching and post-graduation aspirations have changed, the essence of the college experience remains much the same.

Students still come to learn, faculty to teach, administrators to guide and grow their students and their universities. The campus community unites under a single identity with a shared sense of pride and mission.

We create learning environments that capture culture and tradition, recognizing that a classroom or a laboratory or a hallway never work alone. They are part of something immeasurably larger. They celebrate the accomplishments of what came before.

They inspire history still in the making.

We build more than buildings. We build futures.

Stinson-Remick Hall / University of Notre Dame / Notre Dame, IN

Which came first?

Where you teach can inspire what and how you teach.

Today, our project teams are collaborating with our clients to co-develop the facility and the curriculum. As the vision for the program evolves, so too does the planning for the facility.

Questions are posed, pondered and answered in real time. The results position the program to attract and retain top talent, both academic and professional.

The same thinking extends to current structures in the form of renovation.

Using anticipatory architecture, we help universities transform existing or even outdated buildings to technologically current facilities designed to adapt.

Together, we’re changing the way people learn, and how people teach.

User groups worked closely with the design team to create an adaptable facility the emerging undergraduate biomedical engineering program could call home. Space planning puts faculty close, but not too close, to graduate researchers, allowing observation without intrusion.

Biomedical Engineering Building / Purdue University / West Lafayette, IN

Student Services and Library Complex / Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne / Fort Wayne, IN

Master planning provokes thought about campus needs today, tomorrow and in the future. Designers work to integrate new construction into existing facilities, creating a sense of unity campus wide.

On our campuses, chance meetings are part of the plan.

We help students explore and navigate, connect and discover.

A college is an environment alive. From the first day they set foot on campus, students are making connections, turning a temporary destination into a place that feels like home.

Campus planning is how we help.

Like an invisible map, a campus plan intuitively guides movement and creates opportunities for students to connect — to ideas, to each other.

Gateways denote transitional spaces, community to campus, learning to recreation.

Streetscapes provide navigation, room to room or building to building.

Nodes define and give context. Vistas invite pause.

The campus plan moves a college forward. It brings the campus to life.

Marion Campus / Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana / Marion, IN

We build more than colleges.

We build communities.

Colleges and communities are interdependent.

It’s not enough to break down the walls. We work to replace them with a bridge.

Sometimes it’s physical — a gateway or transitional space surrounding the campus itself.

More often, it’s intellectual or emotional, by designing a campus and facilities that address holistic needs, and reflect the community as a single population.

At its best, it’s a resource to both.

One that attracts people and business to build the economy.

One that fosters integration and advances allegiance.

One that acts as a mirror of the community, and a window to its future.

We aspire to make every campus a “community” college.

We bring learning to life.

Virgil and Elizabeth Hunt Hall / Indiana University Kokomo / Kokomo, IN

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