A New Building TypologyTykeson Hall, a new 64,000 square foot academic building, is currently under construction in the historic core of the University of Oregon in Eugene. Designed by OFFICE 52 Architecture - a multidisciplinary practice based in Portland, Oregon - the building defines a new typology with innovative programming and flexible place-making geared towards our evolving society to create a relevant contemporary spatial model for a community that fosters academic excellence and student success.

Innovative Programmatic VisionConceived by OFFICE 52 Architecture in conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), the university’s largest college, Tykeson Hall is the first-of-its-kind building on a university campus in the nation. Key to this creative vision and transformative spatial concept is the integration of academic advising with career services, programs for academic excellence and tutoring, and affiliated resources currently dispersed across campus. These are combined with flexible state-of-the-art classrooms, student-focused spaces, and administrative leadership, all of which are supported by the latest developments in technology. The Commons, a centrally located, flexible public space for events and student activities, unites the new building’s programmatic elements and allows students to connect with one another, mentors, alumni, and the broader community. It is a vision for a community-oriented Liberal Arts center with an architecture based on the concept of flexibility, integrated functions, forward-thinking, technology-based applications and open access for student communication.

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WHERE THE LIBERAL ARTS, SCIENCE AND INNOVATION INTERMINGLEA Modern Reinterpretation of Traditional Campus Materials for a New Building TypologyNovember 2018

Tykeson Hall was designed primarily in section with attention to natural light, interior and exterior site lines and views, reclaimed wood from the site, and a variety of spaces that accommodate a new combination of programmatic elements for this landmark project. Image by OFFICE 52 Architecture.

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Tykeson Hall has a central location in the historic core of the University of Oregon campus to provide interconnection as a new vibrant center for the College of Arts and Sciences. Image by OFFICE 52 Architecture.

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The building is architecturally defined by three interlocking forms, each with its own tectonic expression related to its program and spatial character: glass for the Commons - a modern and transparent public meeting space, custom-designed terra cotta for innovative program features, and brick for state-of-the-art classroom spaces. Diagram by OFFICE 52 Architecture.

Flexible Classroom SpaceCollaborative SpacesCommonsExisting Chapman Hall

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Context and MassingA centrally located, interstitial site on campus provided an opportunity to creatively organize the building’s massing and proportions so they conceptually relate to neighboring structures. The building is architecturally defined by three interlocking forms, each with its own tectonic expression related to its program and spatial character: brick for flexible state-of-the-art classroom spaces, custom-designed terra cotta for innovative program features, and glass for a modern and transparent public meeting space. Materiality: First Campus Building in Eighty Years Designed with Terra CottaThe local architectural vernacular on campus - brick with terra cotta embellishments - inspired OFFICE 52 Architecture to reinterpret these traditional building materials in thoughtfully unexpected ways for a contemporary architectural language representative of the building’s innovative vision. The exterior forms are clad with local brick using a custom-designed Norman Cross Bond pattern and a terra cotta (rain screen) façade of tiles finished with an elegantly subtle palette of five custom glazes - the first building to use terra cotta on campus in eighty years.

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This is the first building designed with terra cotta on campus in eighty years and the first building in the Pacific Northwest to integrate post-tensioned concrete slab construction with hydronic radiant heating and cooling. Image by OFFICE 52 Architecture.

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Painting part of a series of Oregon landscape color studies for Tykeson terra cotta custom color options. M. LaFoe, oil on BFK paper, 7-1/2” x 11.”

A thoughtful and contemporary reinterpretation of traditional campus building materials by OFFICE 52 Architecture includes a custom-designed Norman Cross Bond brick pattern and terra cotta tiles with an elegantly subtle palette of five custom glazes. Image by OFFICE 52 Architecture.

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High performance glazing with openings provides a desired level of transparency with visual and physical connectivity to a new outdoor courtyard that compositionally unites Tykeson Hall with its neighbor Chapman Hall. This access creates a strong relationship between the exterior public space and the adjacent interior public meeting space in Tykeson Hall. Pin Oak and Port Orford Cedar trees salvaged from the site and surrounding community are used to finish the primary public spaces in the building.

Environmental BenefitsTykeson Hall is designed to exceed the Oregon Energy Code by 34%. The overall approach towards materiality for Tykeson Hall benefits the environment and local economy while also enhancing the user experience with the use of materials that connect the new building to its campus context in a contemporary manner. The building design incorporates a highly efficient hydronic radiant heating and cooling systems in a post-tensioned concrete structure, exposed thermal mass, and extensive daylight harvesting on all building levels to create a comfortable, healthy and invigorating interior environment. The building aims to receive LEED Gold certification and is scheduled to open in the summer of 2019.

Why is this project so important?Tykeson Hall is a landmark project for higher education due to the philosophical concept underlying the vision for the building. In a rapidly changing and globalized world, the challenges faced by today’s students to find success in college and afterwards are numerous. While engineering and medicine have been widely touted as paths to career success, an increasing chorus of voices from academia, the business world, and the tech economy are talking about the value of a broad-based education in the Liberal Arts. Tykeson Hall is designed around that belief that an education in the Liberal Arts better prepares students for lifelong learning and success in a changing world by empowering them with foundational skills in critical thinking, creative problem solving, and communication to provide a solid foundation for leadership and life-long success. The University of Oregon and the College of Arts and Sciences with OFFICE 52 Architecture are leading the way with a first-of-its-kind integrated center to help provide students with this type of educational advising.

What is so innovative about Tykeson Hall?The design of Tykeson Hall brings together currently disparate resources with innovative programming for academic advising, career counseling, and academic excellence in combination with state-of-the-art learning environments and relevant curriculum to create a one of a kind center for student success focused on the Liberal Arts and Sciences. OFFICE 52 Architecture and the College of Arts and Sciences worked together to form a vision for the building that reimagines how student services and programmatic elements are physically organized and accessed to create a uniquely integrated program and collaborative, technologically enabled learning environments for a new model in higher education. A reinterpretation of traditional building materials found on campus with custom designs and details for the new building highlights this modern and innovative approach.

Why is the building located in the historic core of the University of Oregon campus?Tykeson Hall creates a new center for the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), the largest academic unit on campus representing roughly 65% of the university with 42 departments and over 800 faculty spread across the entire campus. Thus it is important for the new building to have a central location and interconnection as a place for students, faculty, visitors, and alumni to come together, interact, network and learn.

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Centrally-located Tykeson Hall is a building that brings together currently disparate resources across campus with innovative programming to create a one of a kind center for student success focused on the Liberal Arts and Sciences. Image by OFFICE 52 Architecture.

Tykeson Hall is intelligently integrated into the existing fabric of the campus by reinforcing interconnection with current campus axis and pathways while also creating new outdoor spaces as an extension of the new building. Image by OFFICE 52 Architecture.

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Design Features and Points of Construction:

Project Type: New construction

Building Area: 64,000 square-feet

Completion Date: Summer 2019

LEED: Aim to achieve LEED Gold Certification. 34% better than the Oregon Energy Code – energy model

Structure: Post-tensioned concrete with light steel framing.

Mechanical Systems: Hydronic radiant floor and wall systems with active chilled beams. Tykeson Hall is the first building in the Pacific Northwest to integrate post-tensioned concrete slab construction with hydronic systems.

Exterior Enclosure: Cavity wall brick veneer and terra cotta rain screen over metal stud construction. Aluminum curtain wall.

Terra Cotta: 3,100 glazed Shildan Longoton terra cotta tiles fabricated in Germany in five custom colors of varying length. This is the first building on campus to use terra cotta in eighty years.

Brick: A custom blend of 78,000 Mutual Materials bricks made from Oregon and Washington clay and shale installed using a custom-designed Norman Cross Bond pattern created specifically for this project by OFFICE 52 Architecture.

Design innovation - our vision for the building re-imagines how student services are organized and accessed to create an integrated and relevant contemporary spatial model with creative and innovative programming. Diagram produced in collaboration with RMA Studio.

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Curtain Wall and Windows: Kawneer thermally broken aluminum curtain wall with a custom extruded fin cap.

Glazing: Vision glass – double-glazed insulated units with Vitra Solarban 60 and Vitra Solarban 70 high performance Low-E coatings. Spandrel glass – custom color double-glazed spandrel units. Canopy – Sentryglas laminated glazing with translucent interlayer. Skylights – Laminated double-glazed insulated units with Viracon VE1-2M Low-E coating and ceramic frit.

Wood: Salvaged Pin Oak and Port Orford Cedar from the building site and neighboring community

Flexible Classrooms: (1) 100-seat, (2) 70-seat, (1) 40-seat, (2) 30 seat, (1) 24-seat seminar, (2) 24-seat tutoring spaces.

Project Contact:For more information, please contact:Isaac Campbell or Michelle LaFoeOFFICE 52 Architectureicampbell@office-52.commlafoe@office-52.com503-680-7655

Michelle LaFoe, AIA, and Isaac Campbell, AIA are the co-founders of OFFICE 52 Architecture, a multidisciplinary practice working at the intersection of architecture, fine arts, and materials technology and recognized for its innovative and distinctive approach to design with the juxtaposition of traditional and advanced materials, natural light, outside-the-box thinking, and creative programming and problem-solving. OFFICE 52 Architecture is based in Portland, Oregon.