INFINITY
ARCHITECTURE
A WORD ABOUT US INFINITY ARCHITECTURE is a 9-person firm based in Montgomery, Alabama. Originally founded in 1991 as The Butner Architectural Group, the firm transitioned to Infinity Architecture in 2004. INFINITY is a collaborative practice, focused on working with our clients, consultants and project delivery team from the beginning. Teamwork, communication and an open, integrated process are part of every project. Our goal is to develop innovative, functional and constructible architectural solutions.
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“INFINITY ARCHITECTURE has the right combination of creativity, experience and skills to meet and exceed your needs if given an opportunity.” Jay Jacobs, Director of Athletics, Auburn University
GARY GREENSHIELDS, AIA President
YANN COWART, AIA Vice President
Gary has been with Infinity since its inception. He has been a registered architect for 26 years and is registered in four states. He has led project teams on a wide variety of commercial, athletic and institutional projects. Before becoming an architect, Gary earned a Master’s Degree in Special Education and taught in the Montgomery Public School System.
Yann is the firm’s lead designer and has been with Infinity since 1995. Mr. Cowart has been involved with a wide variety of sports projects including weight rooms, locker rooms, gymnastics, soccer and wellness facilities. He is an indoor practice facility design specialist with a strong affinity for intercollegiate sports projects. As a four-year letterman in football at Auburn University (1983 - 1986), he offers a rare inside perspective on athletic facility design.
WHAT WE DO INFINITY has successfully completed athletics projects for institutions including Auburn University, Clemson University, Jacksonville State University, Samford University, Huntington College, and Faulkner University. In the last 10 years, at Auburn University alone, Infinity has helped with more than 57 projects, including the recent completion of Auburn’s Indoor Football Practice Facility in August of 2011.
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INFINITY ARCHITECTURE maintains a stable staff size and project load in order to provide a high level of service to our clients. Our experience and expertise spans a wide variety of building types and services, including:
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University Athletic Facilities University Academic and Research Buildings Retail Planning and Development Interior Design Master Planning Site evaluation + Site selection assistance LEED registration + Sustainable design Facility management services BIM technology Architectural Graphics
“Infinity Architecture demonstrated the ability to providing a quality facility that exceeded expectations while keeping the project under budget and on schedule.� Mike Parker Project Manager, Clemson University
^ Terry Don Phillips Athletic Director, Clemson University
INDOOR FOOTBALL PRACTICE FACILITY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
This 88,000 SF project is 410’ x 210’ with a 1-story annex for support spaces. The pre-engineered metal building is accented with brick and metal panels, with translucent panels providing natural light. A standing seam metal roof and insulated metal panel end walls enclose the building. Eleven 16’ wide doors allow easy movement from indoors to outdoors during workouts. Inside there is a regulation synthetic practice field, training room, restrooms, storage area and video room. The facility has two filming towers on each end at 55’-0” above the field and a center platform that allows both interior and exterior viewing. The interior walls are padded up to 7’ around the entire perimeter and adjustable lighting provides 100 FC at the field on demand.
INDOOR FOOTBALL PRACTICE FACILITY CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
This has a ‘wow’ factor to it and when recruits come on your campus you “have that factor. But, it further demonstrates this university’s commitment to competing to be the best. If our competition is providing these resources and we are not, well, you are not on a level playing field.
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Dabo Swinney, Head Football Coach, Clemson University
“When you walk into this facility, you go WOW!” Dabo Swinney, Head Football Coach, Clemson University
Digital Model & Interior Rendering 3D.A Auburn University Plainsman Park Renovation Auburn University Jordan Hare Stadium 3D.B Digital Model & Interior Rendering 3D.C Clemson University Indoor Football Practice Facility Digital Model & Exterior Rendering 3D.D Clemson University Indoor Football Practice Facility Multiple design schemes were created for the front entrance of the facility.
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN PROCESS DIGITAL & PHYSICAL MODELING BENEFITS OF 3D MODELING: • • • • •
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visualization project representation coordination design decision making Fundraising
INFINITY utilizes both physical and virtual modeling to study structure, design and materials throughout the design process. Three-dimensional digital modeling and BIM technology provide clash detection and improve coordination of building systems.
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3D.E Physical Model - Exterior Clemson University Indoor Football Practice Facility
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3D.E Physical Model - Interior Clemson University Indoor Football Practice Facility
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Auburn Indoor Multi-Sport Practice Facility is one of “theThe best examples I have witnessed of a comprehensive full project team effort to meet an aggressive schedule, while staying within budget and holding to our high standards of quality. Infinity Architecture’s performance was exemplary. They were responsive to client needs, schedule demands and site challenges. We are very pleased with this project.
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Greg Parsons, Auburn University Architect
INDOOR PRACTICE FACILITY AUBURN UNIVERSITY
INDOOR PRACTICE FACILITY AUBURN UNIVERSITY Auburn’s 86,600 sf indoor facility is 395’ x 205’ with 1-story annex for support spaces. The clear interior height at the eaves is 38’ with 67’ clear at highest point of the barrel roof. It is a pre-engineered metal building with a precast panel exterior that has a thin-set brick veneer. Translucent panels provide natural lighting and five 16’ wide doors allow for easy movement from indoors to outdoors. A standing seam metal barrel vault roof covers the building and insulated metal panel walls enclose the ends. The Indoor Practice Facility is a conditioned space with a full-sized synthetic practice field. Support spaces include a training room, restrooms and storage. The project also included renovation of 2 exterior practice fields with new sod, irrigation, drainage, lighting and three filming towers.
Structural framing
Standing seam metal roof Translucent panels Insulated metal panels 16’-0” wide overhead door Padded wall up to 7’-0” Brick veneer
â&#x20AC;&#x153;our new indoor practice facility is state of the art and one of the best of its kind in the country. Everyone with Infinity Architecture did a phenomenal job and we are very proud of how it turned out.â&#x20AC;? Gene Chizik < DESIGN PROCESS Beginning with the structure of the pre-engineered building, Infinity created 3D models to study options for the interior spaces, roof shape and exterior skin of the building. Infinity studied potential building components individually and as parts of integrated systems. The finished product is economical, functional, and aesthetically pleasing.
nity Architecture has been an invaluable partner for Auburn Athletics on â&#x20AC;&#x153;a Infi number of projects, the most recent of which is our Indoor Practice Facility. Infinityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talented team of professionals, with their attention to detail and
steadfast commitment to excellence, has made them an ideal fit for Auburn University Athletics and what we have accomplished with our facilities. I have the highest regard for Infinity and the world-class work that they do. Jay Jacobs, Athletic Director, Auburn University
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BEFORE
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A renovation of the baseball team’s facilities at Auburn’s beautiful Plainsman Park. A new locker room, training area and lounge enhance the hours the players spend at the ballpark. Powerful graphics celebrate the game and the athletes.
PLAINSMAN PARK TRAINING ROOM AUBURN UNIVERSITY
PLAINSMAN PARK TRAINING ROOM AUBURN UNIVERSITY
SOCCER & TRACK FACILITY AUBURN UNIVERSITY
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Not only will we have a great facility for our team and coaches, but it also shows a total commitment from the University to the track and field program. It will give us a real boost in recruiting because it will show potential student-athletes that we’re making a commitment to providing them with the best possible opportunity to be successful. Having a showcase facility like this really sends a statement that our facilities will be second to none.
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Ralph Spry Head Track & Field coach, Auburn University
Team Room Meeting Room
Training Room
This new facility is a 21,961 SF two-story building with a steel frame and masonry and precast veneer. The mechanical system is supplied by 39 geothermal wells and is currently pursuing either LEED Gold or Platinum level by the USGBC. The facility houses the offices, training rooms, locker rooms, team rooms and support spaces for the Men’s and Women’s Track teams and the Women’s Soccer team. It overlooks both Auburn’s competition track and soccer fields. This project was built by a single prime contractor and Infinity Architecture actively participated in the construction administration from ground breaking to closeout.
Our soccer and track and field programs have “ demonstrated a commitment to excellence not only athletically but also academically. Having a facility like this will help elevate our programs to continue to compete for championships at the SEC and NCAA level. Two of our five goals are winning and graduating our studentathletes. A facility like this will certainly help us obtain a couple of our goals, if not all of them.
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Jay Jacobs, Auburn University Athletic Director
AUM WELLNESS CENTER AUBURN UNIVERSITY MONTGOMERY As Auburn University at Montgomery has grown and the number of on-campus residents increased, AUM’s administration recognized the need for a comprehensive facility to support a healthy lifestyle for its community. The award winning AUM Wellness Center is dedicated to fitness, wellness, intramural activities and human performance research. AUM desired a facility at the campus’s main entrance that makes a statement to students and the community affirming its commitment to lifelong wellness. The initial building concept grew out of a “bend and stretch” diagram as a metaphor for exercise and wellness, focused on openness and transparency to promote facility usage. It includes a gymnasium for intramural basketball, volleyball, badminton and similar sports, as well as an indoor pool with fitness and social areas. Multiple exercise areas have state-of-the-art equipment. There is a 25’ climbing wall, running track, stretching areas and multi-purpose rooms. An outdoor patio area at the south end includes a spa and bocce ball court. The academic portion of the facility includes two classrooms, faculty offices and state-of-the-art human performance laboratories.
AUM Wellness Center completed in collaboration with THREESIXTY ARCHITECTURE
AUM WELLNESS CENTER AUBURN UNIVERSITY MONTGOMERY The project is pursuing LEED Silver certification. There is abundant daylight throughout and automated lighting controls monitor occupancy, promote daylight harvesting and minimize energy usage and artificial lighting. The HVAC system includes super-efficient chillers with electromagnetic bearings, minimizing maintenance and energy usage while providing durability. Roof drains collect rainwater and direct it to a bioswale on the east side of the building that dissipates much of the water on site and minimizes discharges to the city storm drainage system.
AIA ALABAMA
AIA MONTGOMERY
2012 Merit Award
2012 Honor Award
WEIGHT ROOM RENOVATION AUBURN UNIVERSITY
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The construction of the indoor practice facility provided an opportunity to expand Auburnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weight room and connect it to the practice building. Infinity worked closely with the University and the CM to develop a plan that met stringent code requirements and the project phasing schedule. The result: an integrated facility on time and in budget.
The renovation of the lobby serving the football players’ and coaches’ locker rooms, equipment storage area and training room. Infinity Architecture designed this project around a flexible graphics system, creating a dynamic environment for the athletes. Serving as a place to relax between practices, the lounge and lobby create an area that is comfortable and inviting for the current and prospective athletes.
ATHLETIC COMPLEX LOWER LEVEL LOBBY RENOVATION AUBURN UNIVERSITY
ATHLETIC COMPLEX LOWER LEVEL LOBBY RENOVATION AUBURN UNIVERSITY
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AIA MONTGOMERY
2012 Honorable Mention
I think that our new facility has the “ potential of being one of the top facilities in the Southeast as well as being on par with many of the best in the nation, we know that it is going to be a first-class place, and it will be capable of hosting a number of SoCon championships and NCAA Regionals in the future.
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Todd Yelton Head Soccer Coach, Samford University
TRACK & SOCCER FACILITY SAMFORD UNIVERSITY The public entrance to Samford University’s track and soccer complex is a new field house with ticket office, concessions, locker rooms and restrooms. The project also included a new press box to enhance the facility. Construction cost $1.1 million
SOFTBALL FACILITY JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY The addition to Jacksonville State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competition softball field of a new press box with concessions and restrooms below and video platform above was completed in 2012. Construction cost $800,000
Faulkner Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young NAIA football program took a major step forward with the completion of its new field house, locker rooms and 4,200 seat football stadium. A beautiful plaza with a sculpture honoring Gene Stallings and his son John Mark highlights the stadium entrance. Construction cost $4.2 million.
FOOTBALL STADIUM FAULKNER UNIVERSITY
Working with the City of Auburn and Auburn University on this design/build project, Infinity designed a facility with five indoor tennis courts, locker rooms and training room. The competition courts meet NCAA standards for size, lighting and ventilation and provide AU with year-round availability for practice and matches. Construction cost $3.5 million.
TENNIS FACILITY AUBURN UNIVERSITY
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The new facility is going to benefit every facet of our program. The building will be used for game preparations and on game days with brand new locker rooms. It will allow our current student-athletes to come together more often, and will help for recruiting purposes as well.
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Karen Hoppa AU Head Soccer Coach
Intercollegiate athletic programs are an integral part of today’s Colleges & Universities. Successful athletic programs generate revenue, increase financial contributions and improve the image of the university as a whole. BUILDING A QUALITY PROGRAM Many components contribute to building a quality athletic program; facility design is a major factor in that process. There’s a strong correlation between facility design and program operation. Our goals are efficiency, value and a safe, functional, inspiring environment for athletes, coaches, and visitors. FACILITY GOALS A great place for athletes, coaches and staff. Flexible. Everything the budget will allow. Cutting edge. Delivered on time.
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INFINITY ARCHITECTURE STAFF: Gary Greenshields, AIA, LEED AP, President Yann Cowart, AIA, LEED AP, Vice President Rick Wendling, AIA, Principal Lance Bellenger, AIA Erik Consuegra, Assoc. AIA Rachel Crafton-Stiver, Assoc. AIA Laurie Forks Mike Swinson Nicole Truitt, Assoc. AIA
Accolades, Achievements and Professional Memberships • AIA Alabama 2012 Merit Award for AUM Wellness Center • AIA Montgomery 2012 Honor Award for AUM Wellness Center • AIA Montgomery 2012 Honorable Mention for Auburn University Lower Level Lobby Renovation • Published in Athletic Business magazine for our design work on the AUM Wellness Center • Published in Metal Building Magazine Professional Memberships include: • American Institute of Architects • NFPA • USGBC • ICC
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twenty fourteen edition
ATHLETIC FACILITIES