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Sustainable Design Project Profiles
Browning Day has a legacy of sustainable design leadership in Indiana.
Among its accomplishments, the firm has lead project efforts for: + The first Net-Zero Energy Building certification in Indiana:
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Chrisney Branch Library
+ The first LEED certified project in Indianapolis: i.d.o.
Headquarters
+ The first SITES project in Indiana: The Center (top right)
+ The first Sustainability Award from the
City of Indianapolis for innovative energy-related strategies: Butler University’s College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences (COPHS) (bottom right) The Center
Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Design performance modeling tools were utilized from concept through final design. This led the project team to optimized energy and environmental design strategies. Indiana University Global and International Studies Building
Butler University Center for the Sciences
Indianapolis, Ind.
Continuing 25 years of experience working on Butler University’s campus, the school selected Browning Day to provide exterior architecture and landscape architecture services for a new science addition.
With science at the foundation of many of Butler’s academic programs, a new laboratory and classroom facility is planned as an addition to two adjacent renovated facilities - Gallahue Hall and the Holcomb Building.
In addition to providing space to accommodate growth, the new addition will provide the opportunity to reorganize classrooms, instructional labs, and research and support space to better match contemporary science teaching methods. The project will consist of a new 40,000-square-foot addition, approximately 120,000 square feet of renovations for Gallahue Hall, and approximately 60,000 square feet of renovations for the Holcomb Building.
The new atrium space will better connect the various components of the new and renovated facilities. It will serve as the central “hub” for the sciences and is envisioned to be a destination place for the new science center. The atrium will provide soft seating areas for informal and formal gatherings. It will also incorporate multimedia technology areas for presentations or for displaying department classroom content.
The Center for the Sciences is tracking LEED Gold certification.
Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Addition
Indianapolis, Ind.
The addition to Butler’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences encompasses a 36,000 square-foot, three-story addition. The design includes two 140-seat lecture halls, 5,000 square-feet of lab spaces, offices, classrooms and a campus data center.
The new lab facilities facilitate improved staff research opportunities and lecture halls provide learning environments that were not previously available in the existing building. Lab spaces were designed over large lecture halls to improve the overall building efficiency ratio.
This building is a certified LEED Gold building and received an Award for Excellence in Energy from the Indianapolis Office of Sustainability, SustainIndy. The LEED Gold certified Schrott Center for the Arts is a 450-seat venue for music and theater, with the primary purpose of providing teaching space for Butler University. The theater is located near Clowes Memorial Hall, and responds to the theater and music departments’ needs for a mid-sized performance facility. The project is designed to meet the particular requirements of choral, orchestral, and theatrical productions, and includes a lobby, green room, dressing rooms, and other support spaces. Due to its relationship with other buildings on campus, the exterior design employs a mix of buffcolored architectural precast concrete and ashlar-pattern Indiana limestone veneer.
Butler University Schrott Center for the Arts
Indianapolis, Ind.
Indianapolis Zoo Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center
Indianapolis, Ind.
The International Orangutan Center at the Indianapolis Zoo is the home for orangutans on four acres of zoo property.
The exhibit is a derivative of the Polynesian pole house to create a sustainable/eco-friendly shelter for the orangutans. It features an approximately 8,000 square-foot vegetated green roof. It is a three axis sloped roof, making it more challenging to design over a standard flat vegetated roof. The roof is able to be seen from almost a mile away.
The center also offers state-of-the-art exhibits and interactive computer games, offering an unprecedented intimate level of interaction with one of the planet’s most endangered primates. A landmark project in the arena of animal husbandry, the facility affords its occupants the freedom to travel in and around the exhibit building with greater mobility than the human visitors.
Eagle Branch Public Library
Indianapolis, Ind.
The Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library wanted to add a new branch that maximized access to services, improved the Library’s visibility and met the needs of a diverse and growing community. Browning Day worked with the Library to plan a space that was functional, modern and sustainable. In addition to access to computers and display and storage for books, DVDs and other materials, useful and engaging spaces for children, teens, students and adults were incorporated into the design. Using materials and massing complementary to the transitional commercial/residential surroundings, the Eagle Branch has an open floor plan with tall central stack, facing full-length windows that welcome light into the whole space.
Browning Day incorporated the client’s commitment to sustainability into the design with energy-efficient technologies including a solar panel array. With these important steps, the Eagle Branch is working towards LEED Gold certification, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and consuming 25% less energy than buildings of similar size and nature.
The Eagle Branch Library is efficiently and sustainably designed and will continue to serve the Indianapolis community for years to come.
Bloomington, Ind.
The Global and International Studies Building houses nearly 300 dedicated faculty offices, in addition to large areas for workstations integrated amongst the offices. The auditorium, 13 classrooms, and six seminar rooms provide registrar controlled educational space along the bottom two floors. Large and small conference rooms are dispersed throughout the upper floors.
The exterior architecture looks both to the past and to the future of the campus. The exterior façades are rendered in modern adaptations of recognizable details from the historic buildings on campus. While the Jordan Avenue façade is familiarly massive with punched openings and grouped windows, the multi-story lobby is a transparent glass enclosure that is designed to permit views within and beyond its boundaries as well as to and from Wells Library. The curved west wing forms a radial edge along the Arboretum, further integrating building and site.
Browning Day was the Architect-of-Record. Ennead was the design architect.
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music East Studio
Bloomington, Ind.
The East Studio of the internationally acclaimed Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University further enhances the school’s worldclass reputation, providing practice and office space befitting a school of Jacobs’ stature.
The facility accommodates 84 faculty teaching studios and music practice rooms, and administrative and Dean’s offices. Browning Day’s landscape architects provided leadership on the master plan and coordinated the utility relocation planning for the East Studio Building. Responsibilities included the site and landscape design for a 5.25-acre site with a 20-foot grade change.
In addition to the East Studio Building, the project involved an addition to the Music Arts Center to include two large rehearsal spaces and percussion rehearsal space. This project is certified LEED Gold.
Browning Day was the Architect-of-Record. Flad Architects was the design architect.
Earlham College Science Center Richmond, Ind.
The Earlham College Science Center was a collaboration with Bora Architects. Browning Day’s landscape architects led the site design and were charged with knitting the project seamlessly into the north edge of existing campus buildings and mature landscape.
As a new modern statement found within an early 19th century traditional brick and limestone campus, the building and landscape design reinforced the axial entrance with canopy trees in lawn that have a dual function as code required fire truck access and bio-swale. A modern elevated plaza features wide elegant steps, a sloping walk and wall doubling as a sign, and a Cretaceous Garden highlighted in the internal courtyard. Extensive involvement in the programming of the site was done so that it offered educational value. With a LEED Gold Certification, this state-of-the-art facility features a generous amount of natural light, and welcoming social spaces created through the use of large glass windows. Browning Day’s design of the landscape architecture includes a versatile central arts plaza that doubles as an outdoor performance venue. The building features occupancy and photocell sensors that compliment a whole-building control package. Site plantings and softscape were selected to be native, durable and minimally-irrigated. The outdoor “amphitheater” created between Runyan Center and CVPA is a multi-purpose space for impromptu and seasonal performances, shows, and rehearsals, showcasing the talent of students and faculty.
Earlham College Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
Richmond, Ind.
The Center
Indianapolis, Ind.
An Indianapolis corporation commissioned Browning Day to design a new Center for Innovation, with a mix of offices and laboratories. The needs of the end-user take center stage and spaces respond accordingly to provide flevxibility and choice in the daily work environment. The goal is to create an environment that spawns new ideas and encourages new working patterns centered on efficiency, casual interaction and collaboration.
The building occupies 105,000 square feet of the 50-acre campus, allowing the majority of the site to remain wooded and landscaped. Having analyzed early-stage energy models, Browning Day ascertained a short list of highly effective design strategies that reduce both utility costs and carbon emissions. By combining the best orientation, glazing ratio, shading, material properties, and mechanical efficiencies, the design team was able to optimize the structure’s energy performance, balance the daylighting potential, and arrive at a design solution that is projected to save the owner more than $30,000 per year in utility costs.
Bloomington, Ind.
The Indiana University Marching Hundred is a 250-person band that was formed during the university’s inception in 1896. To address the group’s concerns of not having permanent practice space, Browning Day architects designed an indoor environment for the band’s needs.
Indiana University Ray E. Cramer Marching Hundred Hall features a 7,900 square-foot rehearsal space, two smaller rehearsal rooms at 1,900 square feet each, instrument storage and repair, uniform storage and associated support space such as office space and meeting rooms. All practice rooms are acoustically isolated from one another. The building provides the band with an adjacent relationship to the basketball and football facilities where they perform. On game days, the marching band emerges from the building at the corner and proceed to the football stadium.
The exterior of the building is constructed of architectural load bearing precast concrete and finished to emulate the look of limestone, which complements the existing buildings on campus.
The $10 million project was completed in November 2017. The project is LEED Gold certified.
Ivy Tech Community College Frankfort Campus
Frankfort, Ind.
Browning Day was retained by the City of Frankfort to design parking lots and pedestrian plaza spaces to complement a renovated building that was transformed into classrooms for Ivy Tech Community College. The project’s challenges included working around newly relocated site utilities including gas, fiber, telephone, electric, and cable.
The design provided irrigated landscape planting areas in the asphalt parking lots in addition to lighting for safety and beauty. Both lots are located above fill from past building demolition. Stormwater is managed through a combination of pervious concrete, permeable pavers, vegetated swales, and drain pipes. These best management practices help reduce the environmental impact on the adjacent Prairie Creek.
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