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Architype Review Notable
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The University
of Chicago Graduate School of Business,
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Rafael Viñoly Architects’ design for University of Chicago’s new Graduate School of Business makes the quad a public room that identifies with the campus and unifies the functions of the school. By enclosing the quad in a greenhouse, the Winter Garden, the space can be used year-round and function as the main distribution hall of the building. The Winter Garden is a steel structure with a skylight roof and glazed enclosure that maximizes daylight in the central space. The vertical thrust of the central space follows the proportions of the lancet windows of the adjacent Gothic-style Rockefeller Chapel. The roof is a quadripartite, pointed vault, built with tubular steel members that follow the logic of the gothic method of transferring forces through thin structural members. The funneled shapes at the top of the vaults bring rainwater into the center of the four columns of the structure, which drain into a reservoir. These surfaces concentrate snow load on the column axis rather than in the span. The concave surface of the ceiling accelerates the convection of hot air towards the top of the space where it exhausts, allowing the room to be naturally ventilated year-round. The program is organized horizontally
in order to minimize the vertical movement of students and visitors.
Vertical circulation encourages the use of open stairs connecting the
three main levels (the student center, the teaching facilities immediately
below, and the administration and recruiting areas on floor above).
Three circulation cores, surrounding the Winter Garden, connect all
the levels for the students, faculty and public.
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University
of Iowa School of Art & Art History, Iowa
City, Iowa |
The site presented special conditions:
an existing 1937 brick building with a central body and flanking wings
located along the Iowa River in addition to two existing morphologies:
a lagoon and a connection to the organic geometry of nearby limestone
bluffs which form the edge of the Iowa City grid. The new building straddles
these two morphologies. | Owner
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Cooper Union
for the Advancement of Science and Art New Academic Building,
New York, NY |
The new academic facility is conceived as a stacked vertical piazza, contained within a semi-transparent envelope that articulates the classroom, laboratory and art studio spaces. The vertical campus is organized around a central atrium that rises to the full height of the building. This connective volume, spanned by sky bridges, opens up view corridors across Third Avenue to the Foundation Building. The interior space configuration encourages interconnection between the school’s Engineering, Art, and Architecture departments. All institutional amenities -- including meeting rooms, social spaces, seminar rooms, wireless hubs and computer drop-in centers -- are located in the fourth and eighth story sky lobbies that surround the atrium. The skip-stop elevator system makes trips exclusively to the fourth and seventh floors, drawing occupants to use, and congregate on, the grand stair; in practice, 50% of people will use the stairs as their sole means of circulation. These key social spaces for students, faculty, and visitors become the places where education informally takes place. The building’s physical and visual permeability helps integrate the college into its neighborhood. At street level, the transparent facade invites the neighborhood to observe and to take part in the intensity of activity contained within. Many of the public functions (including retail space and a lobby exhibition gallery) are located at ground level, and a second gallery and a 200-seat auditorium are easily accessible from the street. The open, accessible building is exemplary as sustainable, energy-efficient architecture. A steel-and-glass skin improves the building’s performance through control of daylight, energy use, and selective natural ventilation. The double skin system allows for heightened performance and dynamic composition on several levels: the operable panels create a continually moving pattern, provide surface variety on the facade, reduce the influx of heat radiation during the summer, and give users control over their interior environment and views to the outside. | Owner Architect Architect
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Simons Rock
College of Bard Daniel Arts Center, |
Located on an old working farm,
the existing campus is a place of contrasts. Dense forest is broken
by large meadows, which are spotted with old farm buildings, an occasional
historic structure and a series of 1960’s vintage campus buildings.
The building site is on gently sloping ground between a wooded wetland
and an old orchard field that fronts the main public road. | Owner
Architect Engineer(s) Consultant(s) Contractor(s)
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The Ohio State
University Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus,
Ohio |
The site of the new school of
architecture is at the western edge of the old campus, close to the
river and the football stadium, at the happily congested corner of West
Woodruff Avenue and Tuttle Park Place. Bounded by raw concrete parking
garages to the south and the staid red brick of the business school
to the north, laboratory buildings to the east and the emptiness of
the stadium parking lot to the west, edged and crossed by major campus
pedestrian thoroughfares, the site is a dynamic zone, capable of sustaining
a connective architecture and landscape and an inclusive urban form. | Owner
Architect Architect of Record
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Fashion Institute
of Technology Competition, New
York, NY |
Textiles, materials woven or
knitted from fibers, are cross-disciplinary, a common material that
links the diverse disciplines and departments that make up FIT. Not
only does our competition design employ a wide variety of fabrics, both
hard and soft, but also our building behaves like a well-dressed body,
clad in an ensemble of coordinated fabrics that knit together a series
of inter-connected academic and student programs tailor-made to fit
the FIT community. | Owner
Architect Architect
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University
of California San Diego Calit2, La
Jolla, CA |
Following the launch of a state
initiative to keep California at the forefront of technological innovation,
the University of California envisioned a network of four institutes
that would use collaboration to address large-scale societal issues.
Calit2, the second of them, was established at UC San Diego, one of
the nation’s highest-ranked research institutions. | Owner Architect Engineer(s) Consultant(s) Contractor(s)
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Sarah Lawrence
College Monica A. and Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Visual Arts Center,
Bronxville, NY. |
The new Heimbold Center establishes
a dynamic interdisciplinary environment for the visual arts at Sarah
Lawrence College, a progressive liberal arts institution, whose bucolic
campus is located about 15 miles north of Manhattan. | Owner
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Sustainable
and Innovative Solutions: College
+ University |
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Additional
Resources:College + Univerisity
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