The Project Team

• Roosevelt University

• The John Buck Company

• Jones Lang LaSalle

• VOA

• Magnusson Klemencic Associates

• Power Construction

• Specialty consultants

VOA Associates, Inc

• Founded in 1969 – 250 Employees

• Based in Chicago with offices in:• Beijing, China

• Highland, Indiana

• New York, New York

• Orlando, Florida

• Sao Paolo, Brazil

• Shanghai, China

• Washington D.C.

• Higher Ed - one of our core markets

Roosevelt University + VOA

• Collaborating Since 2001

• University Center Chicago• Providing Student

Housing Facilities and Student Life Activities for

• Roosevelt University

• DePaul University• Columbia College

• Completed in 2003

• Began Design Process in 2008

• To Be Completed in 2012

PROJECT SITE

The Site

• Chicago Campus

• Auditorium Building

• Gateway to City

• Overlooking Grant Park and Lake Michigan

The Urban Campus

• WHY HERE?

• Small (17,500 sf) and Difficult Site

• Already occupied

• Land-Locked

• Key Factors

• Auditorium Building Connection

• Herman Crown Center Upgrade

PROGRAMMINGPLANNINGSTACKING

The Program

• What about a “traditional” campus layout?

• “Spreadsheet” program distributed to VOA

• 225,000 sf of Academic space and 600 beds of residence needed

• Student Services Building

• Student Union

• Science Building

• Business School

• General Classrooms

• Student Residence Hall

The Graphic Program

• Planning representation made easier thru graphic description

• Actual Room Sizes Represented

• Relationship to Site Identified

• Number of floor determined

Forming Adjacencies

• “street” used as a metaphor

• Graphic Program changed to Bubbles

• Adjacencies Formed

• 17,000 sf Campus “buildings” Organized along a Street

The Transformation

• Horizontal to Vertical

• Campus “quad” is stacked

• The Core becomes the circulation spine

Hierarchy Established

• Stacking of Program

• Street Turned Vertical

• Relationship to Grade

• Accessibility

• Security

• Views

Incorporating the “QUAD” • Elevators as

Public Street

• Connects

Programs

• Connects

Public Space

• Speed to get to

class, and

organized to

“hangout” as well

• Security issued

addressed – sky

lobby

Neighborhood Concept

• Organization

• Not a “Typical Office Building”

• An URBAN idea

• Mini Vertical Quads

• Atriums

• Group Gathering

• Hangout Spaces

• Color Palettes identify different areas

STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES

Height of the Program (Building Stacking )

• Total ratio of the

core needs to be

10:1

• The required ratio

was still too big

to accommodate

the given program

• Outrigger

columns & trusses

were needed

Offset Building Core• Site size and program

spaces dictate offset core

HISTORICAL BUILDING CHALLENGES

Historical Building Challenges

• 421 s. Wabash

“rebori Façade”

required landmark

setbacks

• Wedding cake

foundation of

auditorium

building

• No foundations

south of “E” line –

building

suspended from

truss

DESIGNINFLUENCES

Roosevelt UniversityHistory

A Dialogue with History

Influences

Constantin Brancusi, Endless Column, 1926

Sol Lewitt Wall Drawing, 1986

Offset Core

Commissariat of Heavy Industry,Ivan Leonidov, 1926

Inland Steel Building, Bruce Graham & Walter Netsch, 1957

THE BUILDING

The Balanced Whole

THE BASE

Vibrant LivingCommunity

Interiors

Interiors

THE SPINE

Calm and

StableSupport Element

Calm and

StableSupport Element

THE ENDLESS COLUMN

the GlassTower

THE SKINDevelopment of the Expression

The Pattern

the Skinthe Meaning within

the Pattern

Pattern

Technology