1 REVISITING HALEY This section summarizes analysis for understanding the Haley Center from the campus scale all the way to the scale of a single room. This analysis will help identify and support the questions to which this study will attempt to address. This study is not seeking to provide concrete answers; rather, seeks to provide possibilities.
AUBURN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS LOCATION
LAWN STADIUM STUDENT CENTER
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SITE & CONTEXT CONVERGING AXES
HALEY CONCOURSE
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THACH CONCOURSE
EXISTING EXTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHS
repetitive / brick
exterior circulation / stairs
courtyards / primary entry
EXISTING INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHS
long confusing corridors
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bland / underwhelming rooms
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student-centric lower levels
PRELIMINARY STUDY RE-SKINNING THE TOWER
Rumors of Haley Center being demolished have long circulated Auburn University. Motivated by a desire to rehabilitate before starting over, Stacy Norman Architects engaged in a voluntary creative design experiment to re-imagine what the Haley Center tower might be. This exercise was largely exterior and explored the addition of a double skin facade attached to the existing tower structure for a strong effect. A new stair tower was also added to satisfy modern egress requirements which is one of the greatest issues facing the tower component of Haley. Additionally, lower level masonry was substituted for patterned terracotta panels. This project was shown to Auburn University as an example of potential - not necessarily a solution. As a result, Stacy Norman Architects was then asked to explore the potential of a reinvented Haley Center (both inside and out) that does not include the tower. The rest of this study will forego the tower.
scheme with double skin facade
preliminary schemes without tower
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scheme with auditorium audition
EXISTING EXTERIOR SURFACE AREA
EAST:
Solid: 11,711 SF (78%) Glass: 3,310 SF (22%)
NORTH:
Solid: 10,945 SF (78%) Glass: 3,088 SF (22%)
WEST:
Solid: 11,710 SF (78%) Glass: 3,310 SF (22%)
SOUTH:
Solid: 11,117 SF (79%) Glass: 2,909 SF (21%)
STACY NORMAN ARCHITECTS 126 TICHENOR AVE. AUBURN, AL 36830 334-887-7010
ELEVATIONS Project Name Project Status
EXISTING EXTERIOR PATTERN STUDY
TRENDS:
126 TICHENOR AVE. AUBURN, AL 36830 334-887-7010
ELEVATIONS Project Name Project Status
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STACY NORMAN ARCHITECTS
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Verticality: Horizontality: Clustered:
EXISTING PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION
level 1
level 2
PROGRAM:
Utilities: Stairs: Circulation:
Retail: Student: Faculty: Restrooms:
TOWER: Faculty: Core: Circulation: Total:
PROGRAM TO BE LOST
x6 FLOORS
9100 1200 3000 13,300
68.4% 9% 22.6%
54,600 7,200 18,000 79,800
51,700 9,100 2,900 16,300 80,000
64.6% 11.4% 3.6% 20.4%
47,700 11,600 3,000 17,700 80,000
59.6% 14.5% 3.8% 22.1%
21,500 12,700 3,000 21,400 14,700 73,300
29% 17% 4% 29% 21%
LEVEL 3: Student: Faculty: Core: Circulation: Total:
LEVEL 2: Student: Faculty: Core: Circulation: Total:
level 3
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Student: Faculty: Core: Circulation: Retail: Total:
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LEVEL 1:
EXISTING STRUCTURAL COLUMN GRID TRENDS: Regular: Irregular:
Irregular portions of existing column grids present challenges that must be considered in terms of programming.
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Existing structural grid allows for the potential of re-visiting the facade in a major capacity.
PUBLIC PERCEPTION [page 1 results from Google]
Quadrant one faces the stadium because we’re number one. Two is the quads because there are two. Three is Foy because it has three letters. And I can’t remember the fourth but it’s the only other one... I did one of the campus tours, and that was helpful. -Emma Wall Nobody is ever on time on the first day of classes because they can’t find their classroom. -Student (overheard in Haley)
WHY SAVE HALEY?
With careful planning and design, we believe the Haley Center can be one of Auburn’s most popular and beloved buildings for all of the right reasons.
HALEY CENTER - REVISITING
The easiest (and more costly) option would be to demolish the Haley Center and start anew. This approach, however, has serious logistical issues with the fiber cables supporting campus being housed in a portion of the building’s basement.
Though Haley has its challenges and weaknesses, it is still a solid structure with great potential for reinventing itself through a lessconfusing programmatic concept and new considerations given to external conditions such as natural light and visual transparency. The prospect of reusing and rehabilitating an existing building has environmental and contextual effects that outweigh the option of demolition.
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The Haley Center has long been a nexus on Auburn’s campus. With a close proximity to the Student Center, Jordan-Hare Stadium, the Quads, Cater Lawn, and many other buildings meant for learning, this site deserves to support one of the best buildings that the university has to offer so that it can in turn better support all of its neighbors.
2 REIMAGINING HALEY This section showcases images and concepts that inspire the vision of what a rehabilitated Haley Center could be. Inspiration ranges from interior and exterior precedents and comes together to help determine the key concepts that will inform tangible possibilities and schemes.
INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES CONTEXTUAL SURROUNDINGS
t: Foy Hall b: Walker Building
t: Marriage & Family Therapy b: Thach Hall
t: Student Center b: Tichenor Hall
INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES EXTERIOR
t: Denmark Campus / Friis & Moltke b: Beaver Country Day School / NADAAA HALEY CENTER - REIMAGINING
t: Reed College Performing Arts Center / Opsis b: Watt Family Innovation Center / Perkins + Will
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t: Palais de Justice Caen / Pierre Champenois b: La Seyne-Sur-Mer / data architects
INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES COURTYARD / ATRIUM
IMPROVISE
t: CREATE / Perkins + Will b: Beaver Country Day School / NADAAA
t: Maggie’s Lanarkshire / Reiach and Hall Architects b: Denmark Campus / Friis & Moltke
SHARE
Casa Mipibu / Terra E Tuma
INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES INTERIOR
PLAY
t: Moma / Taniguchi b: Watt Family Innovation Center / Perkins & Will
t: Panoramic Garden of CCIS / Sadar + Vuga b: Denmark Campus / Friis & Moltke HALEY CENTER - REIMAGINING
t: Dickinson College Kline College / Cannon Design b: IIT Student Union / OMA
REST
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EXPOSE
REIMAGINING HALEY PUBLIC SPACE CONCEPT I:
The areas between quads currently house exterior stairs and feel barren. There is a possibility to make these areas feel more like a merging of both the site and the quads themselves rather than a leftover. A combination of covering and enclosing the areas, providing new circulation, and bringing nature in would help make the areas into destinations for students.
CREATE / Perkins + Will
Atriums, green space, & circulation in quad pockets
REIMAGINING HALEY RETAIL SPACE CONCEPT II:
The ground level wants to open up to students and faculty in the form of retail, restaurants, and recreational services. Though a bookstore with a semi-open facade already exists, much of the ground level remains solid and closed off. A much more open and inviting ground level would be a benefit to both the university and the students.
Clarence Reardon Centre / GHD Woodhead
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Ground Level Retail
REIMAGINING HALEY STUDENT SPACE CONCEPT III:
Student spaces within The Haley Center should be flexible and future-forward in terms of how students, in tandem with technology, utilize study/work areas of various sizes and privacy. With Haley being a nexus on campus, there is opportunity to showcase what students are doing at Auburn by implementing galleries throughout these areas.
IIT Student Union / OMA
Flexible student spaces with gallery nodes
REIMAGINING HALEY FACULTY SPACE CONCEPT IV:
It is important for faculty to feel at home within the Haley Center. Natural light, attractive views, and community within and outside of departments are keys to achieving comfort. There are only so many opportunities for offices and work spaces on the perimeter that allow for windows and views towards campus. One way to alleviate this problem is to open floor plates to allow for special opportunities, allow natural light and promote community with neighbors.
Casa Mipibu / Terra E Tuma
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Floor openings for light and spatial re-organization
REIMAGINING HALEY WORK CONCEPTS RETHINKING WORK:
The idea that all work should be done within an enclosed, private office is one that deserves a revisit. The concepts of public workspaces for collaboration have caught on within the corporate world while students have also expressed interest in and increasingly been given flexible spaces for learning and studying. This is an important concept that should also be incorporated into the areas that faculty occupy by blending and merging the traditional office with more public and shared spaces along a spectrum that aims to accommodate all types of faculty work as best as possible.
Collaborative Walls / Rustoleum
Clark Library Univ. of Portland / Knoll
CASE STUDY ON AUBURN’S CAMPUS SCHOOL OF KINESIOLOGY:
The School of Kinesiology is an example of a recent project on Auburn’s campus that has begun looking at how faculty and staff can begin to step outside a personal office to boost collaboration and community with peers through other options for work. Haley Center provides an opportunity to expand upon those intentions and take it a step further to help bring together different departments on campus while still accommodating individual preferences.
public workspace
conference workspace
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shared workspace
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private office
3 REORGANIZING HALEY This section looks at potential schemes for reorganizing Haley in terms of overall building massing and program between oors. Each scheme explores very different options and exists with the potential for mixing and matching concepts between one another and is not restricted within itself.
REMASSING HALEY SCHEME A
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Q2 Q3
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Identify & Demolish Tower.
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Haley Center without tower. Haley & Thach Concourses converge at corner of Haley Center.
MASSING: Tower: Existing Courtyard: Infill:
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Connect quads on West side. Separate Quad 3 to solidify cornerstone at converging concourses and to allow passage.
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Cover and/or enclose courtyard area to create indoor/outdoor area for circulation and gathering.
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REPROGRAMMING HALEY SCHEME A This scheme is about giving prominence to the corner of the Haley and Thach concourses. Each of the primary programs types - retail, students, and faculty - has a spot on the corner. Retail wraps the perimeter of the ground level with students embedded off the promenade. Faculty are given reign of most of level 2 and all of level 3.
Retail on outer perimeter
Courtyard / Circulation area Possibly enclosed.
Faculty spaces
Courtyard/Circulation area open
Courtyard/Circulation Covering
Faculty spaces
Student spaces on interior
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PROGRAM: Retail: Student: Faculty:
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Student spaces on corner
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Book store
REMASSING HALEY SCHEME B
Q1 Q4
Q2 Q3
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Identify & Demolish Tower.
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Haley Center without tower. Haley & Thach Concourses converge at corner of Haley Center.
MASSING: Tower: Existing Courtyard: Infill:
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Connect Quads 3 and 4. Separate N & S bars to create indoor/ outdoor axis through building for circulation and gathering.
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Invert penthouses to allow for light wells at centers of floor plates
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REPROGRAMMING HALEY SCHEME B This scheme is about giving the ground level to the public and the above levels to faculty. Ground level is split between retail and student services while more program is given to faculty on levels 2 and 3. The offset penthouses allow for light to penetrate the center of each quad.
Retail on outer perimeter
Courtyard / Circulation area Possibly enclosed.
Courtyard/Circulation area open Shared community space between faculty
Faculty spaces
Courtyard/Circulation Covering
Faculty spaces
Student spaces at corner
Faculty spaces on corner
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Faculty spaces on corner
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PROGRAM: Retail: Student: Faculty:
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Book store
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Student spaces on interior
REMASSING HALEY SCHEME C
Q1 Q4
Q2 Q3
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Identify & Demolish Tower.
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Demolish Quads 2 & 3 to allow for demolition of Tower. Demolish Tower and Base.
MASSING: Tower: Existing Courtyard: Infill: New Structure:
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New E Quad to be strong connection on Haley Concourse Axis acting as an extension to student union and cornerstone at converging concourses.
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Cover and/or enclose courtyard areas to create indoor/outdoor area for circulation and gathering.
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REPROGRAMMING HALEY SCHEME C This scheme is about integrating and stacking different programs on all three floor in order to promote community between students and faculty rather than division between floors.
Shared community space between faculty and students Student spaces
Courtyard/Circulation area open
Faculty Spaces
Retail bar
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Courtyard/Circulation Covering
Faculty Spaces
Faculty bar
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Student spaces
Faculty Spaces
Double height faculty bar
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PROGRAM: Retail: Student: Faculty:
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Courtyard / Circulation area Possibly enclosed.
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Student spaces
Shared community space between faculty and students
REMASSING HALEY SCHEME D
Q1 Q4
Q2 Q3
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Identify & Tower.
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Demolish Quad 3 to allow for demolition of Tower. Demolish Tower and Base.
MASSING: Tower: Existing Courtyard: Infill: New Structure:
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New Quad 3 to solidify cornerstone at converging concourses and to allow passage.
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Cover and/or enclose courtyard areas to create indoor/outdoor area for circulation and gathering.
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REPROGRAMMING HALEY SCHEME D This scheme is about using a promenade through the building to create distinct and separated functional bars rather than quads. Ground level is split between students and retail. Level 2 is split between students and faculty. All of level 3 is given to faculty.
Student spaces on South side
Courtyard / circulation area Possibly enclosed. Possibly open.
Student spaces on South side
Faculty spaces on North side
Courtyard/Circulation Covering
Faculty spaces
Retail on North side
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Faculty spaces on corner
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PROGRAM: Retail: Student: Faculty:
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Courtyard/Circulation area open
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Book store
REMASSING HALEY SCHEME E
Q1 Q4
Q2 Q3
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Identify & Tower.
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Demolish Quads 1 & 2 to allow for demolition of Tower. Demolish Tower and Base.
MASSING: Tower: Existing Courtyard: Infill: New Structure:
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New Quads to interface with Student Center with open courtyard connection.
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Open courtyard continues to create new axis through building. Other connections between quads to become indoor/outdoor areas for circulation and gathering.
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REPROGRAMMING HALEY SCHEME E This scheme is about using a promenade through the building to create distinct and separated functional bars rather than quads. Ground level is split between students and retail. Level 2 is split between students and faculty. All of level 3 is given to faculty.
Retail spaces
Courtyard / circulation area Possibly enclosed. Possibly open.
Student spaces
Higher ceilings allowing for light to enter
Faculty spaces Faculty spaces
Courtyard/Circulation Covering
Retail on North side
Shared community space between faculty and students
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PROGRAM: Retail: Student: Faculty:
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Book store
4 REBUILDING HALEY This section takes the previous concepts and schemes and attempts to add a layer of realism of what is actually possible. Images suggest a potential conďŹ guration of one part of one quad. This section is still possibilities -- not answers.
REBUILDING HALEY EXISTING FACADE
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REBUILDING HALEY FACADE SKETCHES
WIDE OPENINGS GEARED TOWARDS VIEWS
RECESSED “PORCHES” AT OPENINGS OVERLAPPING MATERIALS
VARIED STAGGERED OPENING
HORIZONTAL & VERTICAL SLOTS
VARIED ALIGNED OPENINGS
REMOVING HORIZONTAL BANDS
STEPPING OUT OF EXISTING FACADE
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TRANSPARENT LEVEL 1
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STAGGERED OPENINGS FLOW FROM COURTYARDS WIDE OPENINGS
REBUILDING HALEY RESKINNED FACADE KEY CONCEPTS 1 Sawtooth roof with openings allow light into 4th floor 2 Penthouse equipment relocated and enclosed STAD
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3 Skylights at existing to allow light into interior work spaces
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REBUILDING HALEY SITE KEY CONCEPTS 1 Open air ground level passing through from Thach to Student Center 2 Semi-enclosed gathering and public circulation areas STAD
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3 Park area to interface with Student Center and new portion of Haley
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REBUILDING HALEY LEVEL 1 KEY CONCEPTS 1 Existing book store to remain and be renovated 2 Retail opportunities with larger footprints (dining, goods) 3 Retail opportunities with smaller footprints (boutiques, provisions)
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4 Student pods with gallery spaces 5 Meeting areas for students and faculty (movies, studying)
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REBUILDING HALEY LEVEL 2 KEY CONCEPTS 1 Simplified core promotes better sense of place within Haley 2 Public meeting / congregating spaces (open to above level) STAD
3 Clusters of offices located to benefit from light wells and exterior openings
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REBUILDING HALEY LEVEL 3 KEY CONCEPTS 1 Simplified core promotes better sense of place within Haley 2 Skylight above brings light into interior and down through holes in the floor plate STAD
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RECAPPING HALEY This study explored just a few of the many possibilities that exist for the future of the Haley Center. With the proper understanding of what currently stands on the site and the challenges / opportunities that the existing provides combined with an inspiring vision of what could be, the Haley Center is an enormous opportunity waiting to be reinvented and enjoyed for generations of students and faculty to come.