PROJECT Coppin State University Science and Technology Center
LOCATION Baltimore, Maryland, US
PROJECT COMPLETION DATE 9/1/2015
ARCHITECT CannonDesign
ASSOCIATED ARCHITECT N/A
OWNER/CLIENT Coppin State University/University of Maryland Baltimore
CONTRACTOR / CONSTRUCTION MANAGER Barton Malow
PHOTOGRAPHER Matt Kirschner
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN TEAM Lee Coyle, Philippe Dordai, John Reed, Thomas Harvath, Richard Williams, Scott Whitehead, Demos Simatos, Don Reeves, T.J. Kim, Hyeon Ju Son, Che-Liang Hung, Tae Jung, Robert Drury, Punit Jain
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT
The new Coppin State University Science and Technology Center will establish a new campus quad for the University by framing a space between it and the recently opened Health and Human Services Building, (HHSB), to the west. The building establishes a very strong presence at the corner of Warwick Avenue and North Avenue and presents itself as a gateway to Coppin State University to anyone approaching the campus from central Baltimore along North Avenue. The building aligns and organizes itself along a major north/south pedestrian spine that internally connects the entire Coppin State University campus. The Science and Technology Center will extend that pedestrian spine across North Avenue and draw it into the quad where it will eventually connect to a major performing arts center and parking facility planned for this end of the campus. The new quad includes a set of campus steps that provides a transition from North Avenue. These steps, patterned after Mckim Mead and White’s Columbia University Low library campus steps, will form a great place for students to gather facing south over the new quad. The quad itself is designed as a very simple lawn with clusters of larger trees to create a green oasis for this urban campus in west Baltimore. The building is organized to create a collaborative learning environment for Science. Faculty and students from different departments will have the space to collaborate and work together on projects that cross traditional departmental boundaries. The new facility is designed to house the Math/Computer Science Department, the Natural Sciences Department, (Biology, Chemistry and Physical Science), the IT Department and the main campus data center that supports the entire CSU campus. General classrooms and computer labs for campus wide use are also included on the lower level of the building. An exhibit space and a lecture hall for one hundred students will create an active and vibrant entry level to the facility. A small animal vivarium will support the Natural Sciences Department. Research space for advanced undergraduate students has also been planned into the facility. All of the labs and classrooms are designed in detail to allow for teams from two to eight people to work together on projects as part of the daily learning experience. A cubic glass building volume which houses the faculty offices is designed to float over the main building entrance and glow at night, revealing the activity of the science professors inside. The teaching and research lab spaces are planned along a double loaded corridor. At the ends of the corridor the lab and support “bars” are gently bent and manipulated to define collaboration zones on the inside of the building and to give the building greater dynamic presence from the outside. Within the widened corridor space created by the bent bars are a series of smaller two-story spaces designed to give presence to the collaboration spaces inside of the building. These collaboration spaces are designed to bring daylight into the building and take advantage of the dramatic views to the south and the west.
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IMAGE CAPTIONS & CREDITS
IMAGE 1 CSU_STC_EXT-04.jpg, View from West at Campus Steps, Matt Kirschner Architectural Photography
IMAGE 2 CSU_STC_EXT-14.jpg, View from South West at Quadrangle, Matt Kirschner Architectural Photography
IMAGE 3 CSU_STC_INT-ANATOMY LAB 02.jpg, View of 4th Floor Anatomy Lab, Matt Kirschner Architectural Photography
IMAGE 4 D 14427, 091115, CSU-STC-08, NW to SE-EDIT.jpg, Aerial View, Barton Malow Company
IMAGE 5 CSU_STC_EXT-06_sm.jpg, View at Entrance, Matt Kirschner Architectural Photography
IMAGE 6 CSU_STC_EXT-11_sm.jpg, View at West Ramp, Matt Kirschner Architectural Photography
IMAGE 7 CSU_STC_EXT-10_sm.jpg, View at South Entry, Matt Kirschner Architectural Photography
IMAGE 8 CSU_STC_EXT-07_sm.jpg, View at East Teaching Gardens, Matt Kirschner Architectural Photography
Coppin State University Science and Technology Center
Category
State > AIA Maryland > Institutional Architecture (AIA Maryland)
Winner Status
- Merit Award
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