Arts + Innovation VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MAY 2020
ABOUT BNIM BNIM is an innovative leader in designing high performance environments. BNIM’s instrumental development of the USGBC, LEED, and the Living Building concept, combined with projects, methods, and research, shaped the direction of the sustainable movement. Through this involvement, the firm has redefined design excellence to elevate human experience together with aesthetics and building performance. In practice, this multifaceted approach to design excellence has yielded national acclaim, including the AIA National Architecture Firm Award, and consistent design recognition nationally and internationally. BNIM is Building Positive, a notion that describes how our practice leverages its collective capacity for design thinking to solve issues at every scale in a way that is focused on building the positive attributes of community and the built environment. Through an integrated process of collaborative discovery, BNIM creates transformative, living designs that lead to vital and healthy organizations and communities.
Arts + Innovation VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MAY 2020
Arts as a Conduit for Innovation
“As a field of study, the arts are often recognized as a conduit for creativity, innovation, and risk-taking.” CHO, CHRISTINE LOUISE; VITALE, JOHN LUKE. USING THE ARTS TO DEVELOP A PEDAGOGY OF CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, AND RISK-TAKING (CIRT). 2019
Innovation is all about collision. We understand the importance of arts education and engagement as a catalyst for innovation. VCU’s vision for a new Arts and Innovation facility has the embodied potential to create a backdrop for future transformational moments – the birth of new disruptive ideas, innovative breakthroughs, first encounters that will lead to globally impactful collaborations. Many have explored and proven the significant role that the arts play in learning and human cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development. In her study, Judith Burton with Columbia University demonstrated that subjects such as mathematics, science, and language require complex cognitive and creative processes that are typical of learning in the arts1. A separate study showed that music training and performance provide a strong base for characteristics attributed to success in many areas of individual growth, including communication, enthusiasm, style, and presentation2. Another study in 2019 explored the connections between teaching and creativity as a means to “…. enhance creativity, boost innovation, and encourage risk-taking.”3
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Our work with higher education institutions across the country reflects the adoption and permeation of these findings. It shows that when students and faculty have access to a hub that is specifically designed to encourage the intersection of arts, education, technology, research, collaboration, and other disciplines, a crosspollination of ideas begins to happen that, in time, breeds extraordinary outcomes. To reflect on the etymology of the term “alma mater,” our clients are creating places that act as a “fostering mother” – to ideas, knowledge, discovery, creativity, collaboration, nature, and the human spirit. In the following pages, we would like to share with you a selection of BNIM projects that express this notion of collision. They demonstrate through our built work how BNIM’s human-purposed integrated design approach, paired with a client vision of integrated disciplines, results in the cultivation of a creative economy.
SEATON HALL ADDITION AND RENOVATIONS KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Human-Purposed Integrated Design We deliver beautiful, integrated, living environments that inspire change and enhance the human condition. This is BNIM’s core purpose, and it guides and informs our approach to design. To accomplish this, we employ a process that we call HumanPurposed Integrated Design, or HPID, which guides us to create solutions that advance human and organizational potential and building performance through design. For higher education, this means helping students, faculty, staff, researchers, and investigators achieve more while working in environments that are better for them, more responsible to natural systems, and less expensive to own and operate.
Collision of Disciplines
BLOCH EXECUTIVE HALL UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
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Many contemporary university buildings are being designed as academic hubs that house or support multiple schools and departments. These types of facilities can promote spontaneous and chance interactions between disciplines by way of strategically designed collision spaces such as shared common zones for focus and collaboration, open circulation systems, small nooks, stairway landings, study areas, and multi-use breakout rooms. The spaces encourage human connection and cross pollination of ideas, effectively cultivating the potential for innovation.
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA INFORMATICS INITIATIVE (UI3)
Creative Economy The concept of a Creative Economy reflects the value and permeation of creativity throughout an entire economy rather than just within creative industries. Design Thinking, for example, is an increasingly common business strategy that demonstrates the philosophy of a Creative Economy, integrating a creative approach to problem solving for business. By designing an academic facility that brings students and faculty from various disciplines together with those from the schools of visual and performing arts, VCU is spurring the evolution of our national and global economy to be one that breeds creativity and innovation.
The following pages illustrate BNIM’s relevant experience and expertise in Higher Education projects, with a focus on arts and innovation.
AIB COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Campus Master Plan CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH Child Development Center Presidents Suite The Pointe Renovation CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO Kennedy Library Renovation Programming + Feasibility Study CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN MARCOS Academic Building Feasibility Study CAMBRIAN COLLEGE Cambrian College Energy Center of Excellence CHATHAM UNIVERSITY Eden Hall Campus Master Plan DRAKE UNIVERSITY Meredith Hall Feasibility Study Harkin Institute GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Price Gilbert Library and Crosland Tower Renewal GRINNELL COLLEGE Nollen House Renovation + Addition Academic Center Renovation 1127 Park Street Renovation + Addition Study Grinnell House Renovation + Addition Study Preschool Psychology Lab Facility Study
“BNIM's leadership has been critical to the success of this project. We have been greatly impressed by the depth of their staff at all levels, whether related to design or technology, building codes, sustainability, envelope detailing, waterproofing or specifications. Their goal has been to make the finished product the best it can be, consistent with our budget.” JANE CURRY, SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LEWIS ARTS CENTER
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IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Gerdin Business Building Expansion Troxel Hall Auditorium Pearson Hall Classroom Improvements JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Career and Technical Education Building Fine Arts + Design Studios KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE Campus Master Plan + Plan Verification Campus Coffee House ARTSpace (adaptive reuse) Jannes Library + Learning Center New Academic Building Feasibility Study
BNIM Higher Education Experience
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Justin Hall Renovation + Addition Study Seaton Hall Renovation + Expansion (with Ennead) FASTER Feasibility Study + Programming McCain Auditorium Study + Concept Design LITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE Health + Wellness Center
RICE UNIVERSITY Anderson Hall Improvements SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Visual Arts Building (with Koch Hazard Architects) TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE DISTRICT Center of Excellence for Energy Technology
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE Center for Advanced and Emerging Technology
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA C.K. Choi Institute of Asian Research (Sustainable Design Consultant)
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Middlebury College Bicentennial Hall
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY Moffitt Library Renovation
MIRACOSTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Master Services Agreement
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES Medical Education Building + Biomedical Library (with Lake | Flato Architects) Engineering VI Phase I (WIN-GEM) (with MRY) Engineering VI Phase II (with MRY)
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY Walnut Street Housing (with Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas) Exterior Renovation of Blair-Shannon House Exterior Renovation of Freudenberger House Exterior Renovation of Hammons House Exterior Renovation of Hutchens House Kentwood Hall Study Exterior Renovation of Garst Dining Center Exterior Renovation of Looney Hall (West Plains Campus) Exterior Renovation of Jordan Valley Innovation Center Ozarks Education Center, Bull Shoals Field Station MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Montana State University EPICenter + NIST Report Gaines Hall Renovation OBERLIN COLLEGE Green Arts District Master Plan Master Plan Programming + Planning PALOMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE Maintenance and Operations Facility PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Lewis Center for the Arts (with Steven Holl Architects) RESEARCH COLLEGE OF NURSING Classroom Renovations ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY Campus Master Plan Parking Structure
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge (with UrbanWorks Architecture)
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center Virginia Avenue Parking Garage Maryland Avenue Parking Design-Build Guidelines Reynolds Alumni Center Journalism School Renovations Parking Garage No. 7 Patient-Centered Care Learning Center School of Music Building UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY The Henry W. Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship + Innovation Cherry Street Parking Garage Hospital Hill Parking Garage Hospital Hill Health Sciences Education + Research Buildings Planning Study School of Medicine Renovation UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER Harold M. + Beverly Maurer Center of Public Health UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL Carolina North Utilities Master Plan
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Odum School of Ecology
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA University Center Feasibility Study
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON Campus Expansion Site Study Michael J. Cemo HalL
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE-CHATTANOOGA Sustainability Workshop
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Visual Arts Building (with Steven Holl Architects) Newton Road and Melrose Avenue Parking Facilities Architectural Enhancements Museum of Art Psychological + Brain Sciences Center Stuit Hall Renovation Art Building West Flood Recovery Art Building Flood Replacement Project (with Steven Holl Architects) Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts + Sciences University of Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3) College of Nursing Building UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Marvin Hall Addition + Renovation Study School of Engineering M2SEC Research Building NIST Grant UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER Parking Garage #5
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON University of Texas Flood Mitigation + Hazard Plan University of Texas Central Campus Master Plan University of Texas Campus Redevelopment School of Nursing + Student Community Center The Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building Mental Sciences Institute UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON School of Nursing (Programming + Design Development Consultant) WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS East Precinct Framework Plan + New Parking Facility YORK UNIVERSITY Computer Science Building (Sustainable Design Consultant)
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LEWIS ARTS CENTER
WASHINGTON UNIERSITY AT ST. LOUIS EAST CAMPUS GARAGE AND MASTER PLAN
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PRICE GILBERT LIBRARY AND CROSLAND TOWERS
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY REIMAGINING MOFFITT LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES MEDICAL EDUCATION AND BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY STUDY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES WESTERN INSTITUTE OF NANOELECTRONICS, GREEN ENGINEERING AND METROLOGY
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUE KENNEDY LIBRARY PROGRAMMING AND FEASIBILITY STUDY
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SEATON HALL ADDITION AND RENOVATION
FAYEZ S. SAROFIM RESEARCH BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS
“With BNIM’s leadership we were able to achieve a new paradigm for collaborative science and research. The building is a tremendous asset in the recruiting process.” IRMA GIGLI, MD - DEPUTY DIRECTOR EMERITUS, IMM UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON
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2030 CHALLENGE
170
INDIVIDUAL BNIM PROJECTS REPORTED
44%
OF ALL OF BNIM REPORTED PROJECTS MET OR EXCEEDED 2030 GOALS IN THE LAST REPORTING YEAR
EXCEEDING THE 2030 CHALLENGE GOALS CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION BUILDING JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
LIGHTING IS DESIGNED TO BE
30%
OFFICE OF CONSUMER ADVOCATE IOWA UTILITIES BOARD
BELOW ASHRAE 90.1
81%
MORE EFFICIENT
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA SEAMANS CENTER FOR THE ENGINEERING ARTS AND SCIENCES
THAN THE NATIONAL OFFICE BIULDING AVERAGE
Human-Purposed High-Performance Design
40% REDUCTION
IN WATER USE AND 50%
80% REDUCTION
IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA (96.8 BTU/SF/PERSON BEFORE RENOVATION, 19.9 BTU/SF/PERSON AFTER RENOVATION)
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SEATON HALL ADDDITION AND RENOVATION
DESIGNED TO PRODUCE
105%
MORE ENERGY
THAN IT CONSUMES
LEED PLATINUM ON A STATE BUDGET AND
68%
EUI REDUCTION
FROM BASELINE
M & O BUILDING PALOMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
MU PATIENT-CENTERED CARE LEARNING CENTER
Front Door and Gateway Buildings
CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
SEATON HALL RENOVATION + EXPANSION KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY is building positive
LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPE PACIFIC CENTER CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT
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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART BLOCH BUILDING
EAST CAMPUS PARKING GARAGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY is building positive
LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
SEATON HALL RENOVATION + KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
THIRD AND GRAND KANSAS CITY AREA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
EXPANSION
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS COMPLEX PALOMAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
DESIGNING FOR
Urban Sites
SCHOOL OF NURSING AND STUDENT COMMUNITY CENTER UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT HOUSTON HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS
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SEAMANS CENTER FOR THE ENGINEERING ARTS AND SCIENCES - SOUTH ANNEX ADDITION , UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
FAYEZ S. SAROFIM RESEARCH CENTER UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT HOUSTON HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS
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BLOCH EXECUTIVE HALL UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
PRICE GILBERT CROSLAND TOWERS GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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EAST CAMPUS GARAGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AT ST. LOUIS
SPACES FOR
Innovation
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CENTER FOR ADVANCED + EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES / MCC
BLOCH EXECUTIVE HALL UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
INFORMATICS INITIATIVE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
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PACFIC CENTER CAMPUS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BUILDING
SEATON HALL KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE RENOVATION UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BUILDING PACIFIC CENTER CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT
CENTER FOR ADVANCED + EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES / MCC
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BLOCH EXECUTIVE HALL UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
SEATON HALL KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
INTEGRATION OF
Art in the Public Realm
NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART KANSAS CITY, MO
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PLAZA COLONNADE KANSAS CITY, MO
PACIFIC CENTER CAMPUS AMENITIES BUILDING is building positive
THE GILCHREST LEARNING CENTER SIOUX CITY, IA
GSA BANNISTER FEDERAL COMPLEX FINANCE OFFICE
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BARTLE HALL BALLROOM EXPANSION (WITH HNTB ARCHITECTS)
FINE ARTS
Studio Spaces
VISUAL ARTS BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
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SEATON HALL RENOVATION + EXPANSION KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
FINE ARTS + DESIGN STUDIOS JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGET is building positive
FINE ARTS + DESIGN STUDIOS JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
VISUAL ARTS BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
VISUAL ARTS BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF IOWA is building positive
THE GILCHREST LEARNING CENTER SIOUX CITY ART CENTER
FINE ARTS + DESIGN STUDIOS JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COL
LLEGE
VISUAL ARTS BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
FINE ARTS + DESIGN STUDIOS JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
FINE ARTS + DESIGN STUDIOS JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
SPACES FOR
Performance
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER EXPANSION WASHINGTON, DC
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FOLLY THEATER KANSAS CITY, MO
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JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER EXPANSION WASHINGTON, DC
FOLLY THEATER KANSAS CITY, MO
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JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER EXPANSION WASHINGTON, DC
NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART KANSAS CITY, MO
KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS KANSAS CITY, MO
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LEWIS ARTS CENTER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, NJ
LEWIS ARTS CENTER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, NJ
LEWIS ARTS CENTER YMCA LYRIC RENOVATION PRINCETON NJ KANSASUNIVERSITY, CITY, MO
LEWIS ARTS CENTER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, NJ
SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI / COLUMBIA, MO is building positive
SCHOOL OF MUSIC LEWIS ARTS CENTER UNIVERSITY OF UNIVERSITY, MISSOURI / COLUMBIA, MO PRINCETON NJ
SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI / COLUMBIA, MO
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SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI / COLUMBIA, MO
SPACES FOR
Collaboration
COLLEGE OF NURSING BUILDING-BUILDING MODIFICATIONS UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
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CENTER FOR ADVANCED + EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES / MCC
INFORMATICS INITIATIVE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
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TROXEL HALL IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
SEATON HALL KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE RENOVATION UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
AMENITIES BUILDING PACIFIC CENTER CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT
PLEXPOD WESTPORT COMMONS KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
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BLOCH EXECUTIVE HALL UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
BLOCH EXECUTIVE HALL UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
GARST DINING CENTER MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BUILDING PACIFIC CENTER CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT
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“The MU Life Sciences Center design process demanded exceptional people skills. The BNIM team has been outstanding and instrumental in bringing together the many voices to create a unified vision for what will be a flagship facility for our campus. I have also found their project management and design skills to be exceptional. The project team has been consistently responsive in resolving issues, keeping the University informed throughout the process and ensuring the design integrity of the Life Sciences Center.” BOB SIMMONS, FORMER UNIVERSITY ARCHITECT UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM
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NOTES “Shifting the Arts Debate from One-Way Transfer of Skills To the General Development of Critical Thinking Abilities.” http://www. tc.columbia.edu/articles/1999/june/shifting-thearts-debate-from-one-way-transfer-of-skills-to-/ 1
“Early MUSIC LESSONS BOOST BRAIN DEVELOPMENT.” https://www.mcgill.ca/ channels-contribute/channels/news/early-musiclessons-boost-brain-development-224936 2
“Using the Arts to Develop a Pedagogy of Creativity, Innovation, and Risk-Taking (CIRT).” https://doi.org/10.21977/D915130132 3
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