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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