university of washington, foster school of business press kit

University of Washington Foster School of Business

Seattle, Washington

Seattle, WashingtonSeptember 2010 (Phase I)June 2012 (Phase II)

Location and Completion

University of WashingtonClient

LMN ArchitectsArchitect

133,000 gross square feet (Phase I)63,000 gross square feet (Phase II)

Project Size

Phase I: $95 million (privately funded)Phase II: $46.8 million (University funded)

Project Cost

2013 AIA National Honor Award for Interior Architecture

2012 The Chicago Athenaeum & European Centre, American Architecture Award

2011 AIA/CAE (Committee on Architecture for Education) Educational Facility Design Awards, Citation

2011 AIA Washington Council Civic Design Awards, Honor Award

Selected Awards

PACCAR HallPhase I of the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business Expanded Campus Project

The new Foster School of Business converts the school’s existing collection of outdated facilities—through new construction and renovation—into a cohesive education complex that embodies its educational focus of leadership development, strategic thinking, and collaboration. The project includes two new, interconnected buildings: the privately funded 133,000 SF PACCAR Hall (Phase I) completed fall 2010; and a publicly funded 63,000 SF building that replaces 1960’s era Balmer Hall (Phase II) under construction. Also included is renovation of the subterranean Foster Business Library (completed fall 2010), which re-positions its primary entrance to link directly with the central activity zone of PACCAR Hall.

The design responds to the program’s strong emphasis on social connectivity and its active central campus site with a high degree of porosity—in terms of both visual and functional relationships. A four-story, day-lighted atrium runs the entire length of PACCAR Hall. Multiple entrances are knitted into the pedestrian flow of the campus, with views, topography and landscape embraced as integrated elements in the architectural experience. The exterior expression is a direct response to the functional needs of modern business education and environmental influences, while responding to adjacent historic campus buildings with compatible materiality, scale and proportion.

LMN University of Washington Foster School of Business


SUSTAINABILITY ELEMENTS

• LEED® Gold Certified

• Displacement ventilation in public areas, tiered classrooms, and auditorium.

• High efficiency chillers with magnetic bearings – the most energy efficient centrifugal chillers available in the industry.

• Indirect evaporative cooling in the main public areas including the Gallery and Café within the multi-story atrium space.

• Innovative window systems and strategic positioning of glazing to maximize daylight and views

• Sunshades to minimize glare and unwanted heat gain but maximize effective use of natural daylight.

• Operable windows in offices for fresh air providing environmental control to office user.

• Extensive tree preservation, resulting in 68 saved trees on project site including a specimen Hickory tree that provides summer shading to the Cafe.

Design Approach

At the heart of the Foster School of Business’ transformation is the concept of integrated communities, where the social environment, natural environment and campus context are embraced as interrelated influences in the architectural experience. Common areas are organized as a series of interconnected spaces that function in many different combinations—from small groups to large gatherings, encompassing a full spectrum of informal student activities, regular programs and special events.

The central atrium within PACCAR Hall works as a collector of community activity and social heart of the school, perceptually as well as functionally. Extensive day-lighting, transparency and views to the surrounding campus and landscape create a sense of openness and connectivity. A modern sensibility of materiality and detail is expressive of the school’s progressive business education philosophy.

CONNECTED TO CAMPUS

Transparency – The design for PACCAR Hall creates a strong sense of transparency—both visually and functionally. Extensive use of glass captures abundant daylight throughout the central atrium and common interaction spaces, instilling an overall spaciousness that blurs the distinction between inside and outside.

Connections – The interior spaces, views and entrances are organized to knit together with the landscape, site topography and campus pathways. Both PACCAR Hall and the Phase II building will have gracious plazas and a shared courtyard available to the entire campus community, mixing the daily life of the school with that of the campus

Engagement – PACCAR Hall’s outward architectural expression reflects a strong sense of community engagement. The building provides a prominent physical presence at the campus’s ceremonial entrance. Together with the law school, PACCAR Hall frames the public approach to historic, tree-lined drive Memorial Way, and its scale, propor-tion and use of materials are responsive to its historic campus context. The building’s brick, glass and metal exterior combines a respect for the character of the campus architecture with the school’s forward-looking approach to business education.

BUSINESS ‘CONVERGENCE ZONE’

Preparing students for the corporate environment of today and into the future necessitates a learning environment that embodies team-based strategic operations, teamwork and relationship-building that are paramount in an increasingly complex global arena. PACCAR Hall is a powerful example of how the core dynamic of


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modern business education can become embedded in the architectural design. The design provides an ideal environment for fostering collaboration and teamwork. Virtually every aspect of the building invites students to work together and provides technologies to assist them to collectively address business issues, concerns, and problems. For example:

Central “gallery” space – A four-story high, glazed atrium that runs the length of PAC-CAR Hall supports a diversity of group interaction fundamental to business education programs. Classrooms of varying sizes, breakout rooms, student commons, a cafe and covered terrace areas are organized around this central space to interconnect the around-the-clock presence of students, faculty, staff and visitors. From circulation between classes to small-group study sessions, special events, receptions and many other programmed functions, the gallery provides extensive flexibility to adapt to changing needs of the school’s business and education communities.

Tiered, U-shaped classrooms – Designed to cultivate interactive student-to-student discussion, tiered classrooms and associated small breakout rooms are finely tuned to programmatic and technical needs associated with teamwork and relationship-building skills—key qualities of successful business leaders . Natural light, with appro-priate solar control, is provided to the spaces to enhance quality of space and human comfort.

ROOTED, BUT REACHING OUT

Part of the Foster School’s strategy to become the nation’s top public business school involves leveraging Seattle’s assets—its location on the Pacific Rim and its connec-tion to so many leading-edge companies. The completion of PACCAR Hall bolsters the school’s competitiveness, attracting the best and brightest students, the leading minds for faculty, and the top companies as partners for internships and action-learn-ing opportunities. For example:

Variety of spaces for presentations and speaking engagements - Over the course of one quarter, 400 to 500 speakers from the region and around the globe visit the business school. With its new variety of spaces, from 25-seat classrooms to a 250-seat audi-torium, the school will be able to tailor the presentation environment for the speaker and the audience.

Forward-thinking technology capabilities - The entire business school complex reaches out to the global academic and business communities through carefully conceived in-tegration of technology. Throughout both buildings, enhanced technological capabili-ties such as Web-linked digital monitors , “course capture” and distance conferencing capabilities will support the intensive, continuous nature of communication in today’s global business world.


Architect

LMN provides comprehensive planning and design services for higher education facilities, cultural arts venues, convention centers, commercial and mixed-use developments, interiors, and urban plans that celebrate and enrich communities. The firm is widely recognized for distinctive, integrated design solutions that are highly responsive to specific social, cultural, economic and environmental influences. For more information, visit www.lmnarchitects.com.

The firm’s multidisciplinary 100-person team includes architects, interior designers, and urban planners with projects throughout the United States and 6 foreign countries. LMN has been recognized for its ability to deliver outstanding design for civic and public buildings, while seamlessly navigating the complexities of budget, schedule, and process. To that end, the firm’s work has been honored with more than 120 design awards and it has won 10 design competitions.

Recent public projects include the Cleveland Convention Center and Medical Mart, Seattle Symphony’s Benaroya Hall, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall (home to the Seattle Opera and the Pacific Northwest Ballet), The Duke Energy Center (expansion to the Cincinnati Convention Center), the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio, Texas, and the Vancouver Convention Centre West in British Columbia (this project earned the distinction as the first convention center in the world to earn LEED® Platinum rating, as well as including one of the largest living roofs, over 5.5 acres, in all of North America).

LMN’s significant higher education work includes the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, the Biotechnology/Life Sciences Facility at Washington State University, the Conrad Prebys Music Center at the University of California San Diego, and the Performing Arts Center Complex at City College of San Francisco.

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Swift Company

Davis Langdon

Nic Lehoux, Doug Scott, Ben Benschneider

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