Design for Thriving Knowledge Communities
Higher Education Practice
As a higher education design practice, our vision is to partner with our clients to create knowledge communities that thrive.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
Colleges and universities are continuously balancing competing priorities such as shifting educational models, tight budgets, and rapidly changing technology. With increasing options for online learning impacting the traditional campus model and tuition costs undergoing heightened scrutiny, institutions of higher education need academic and social environments that not only appeal to students but actively facilitate learning. Capital projects undertaken on college and university campuses today must support clear goals and objectives – and we collaborate with our clients to plan and design innovative learning environments that promote academic success among students. From cutting edge STEM and STEAM facilities, to library design, to integrated facilities developed in partnership with corporations, our architects, engineers, planners, and interior designers partner with our clients to discover new academic solutions.
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Contents
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LEARNING Transforming the concept of the classroom
RENEWAL Expand, Replace, Transform
DELIVERY Realizing Your Vision
ABOUT Firm Overview & Accolades
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As both educators and designers, we see three primary trends influencing the way higher education will look in the future: + the transformation of the concept of the classroom; + campus renewal; + and the importance of alternative delivery methods. In the following pages, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll explore these shifts and review innovative design responses that position our college and university partners for success.
01 LEARNING Transforming the Concept of the Classroom Referred to by Time magazine as “the library of the future,” the design of the Hunt Library reflects how learning has changed. Featuring multiple, varied spaces for both collaboration and quiet study as well as the integration of cuttingedge technology and gaming spaces, this environment propels NC State University toward its vision.
The concept of the classroom is undergoing rapid transformation, impacting the way education is delivered and received. Traditionally, the classroom has functioned around a teacher giving information to students – the “sage on the stage” model. Today, educational research and the students themselves are shifting our notion of instruction, emphasizing a “guide on the side” model that promotes collaboration, interaction, and projectbased learning. As both designers and educators, we help our clients meet these shifting education trends, including the need for hands-on, studio-based learning; STEM and STEAM programming; advanced technology; living-learning environments; leveraging gaming as learning; and creating spaces that allow for student preference to take precedence. The following pages explore examples of these changes and their positive impact on higher education. The classroom can be anywhere, as learning takes place everywhere.
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Classroom to Studio
With increased emphasis on maker spaces and project-based learning, classrooms must be more flexible, enabling professors to engage with students in new ways. In James Madison Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Duke Hall, the renovation and expansion of this space emphasizes hands-on learning in a studio environment. Crafted to inspire arts exploration, studio spaces are light-filled and open to a sculpture courtyard where work in progress can be viewed.
LEED Silver Certified by the USGBC
AIA Virginia Merit Award
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Interdisciplinary Collaboration
STEM, STEAM, and STEM-H demand is growing across the nation as students, private businesses, and institutions recognize the tremendous career opportunities in these fields. To create effective STEM-related environments, designers and institutions must promote interdisciplinary collaboration, hands-on learning, and independent research. The Health & Human Sciences Building at Western Carolina University is a cutting-edge facility that promotes collaboration between scientific disciplines as well as between faculty and students. Structured around a light-filled central atrium, labs, classrooms, a teaching clinic, and coffee shop share spaces for both collaboration and reflection. Responsive to its site, the building capitalizes on stunning mountain views with a 20,000 square foot roof garden. LEED Gold Certified by the USGBC
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AIA Virginia Honor Award; AIA North Carolina Merit Award
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Living & Learning
No longer confined to traditional academic spaces, learning is increasingly being integrated into student life environments. By transforming the residence hall concept to create living-learning centers, colleges and universities can improve student engagement, success, and retention. At Duke University, the Edens Quad Residence Complex was transformed from a fortress-like environment to one that conveys indoor-outdoor connectivity and a sense of energy around academic pursuits. The programming integrates strategically located areas for group and individual study, collaboration, and gaming, promoting the high levels of academic achievement Duke is known for.
AIA North Carolina Design Award; Award for Excellence in Structural Engineering
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Collaboration & Focused Learning
The freedom to choose how and where collaboration and study take place is a top priority for today's students, making it critical to provide a variety of flexible, engaging spaces. The UNC Coastal Studies Institute features a stunning natural setting that promotes the collaborative and independent study taking place within its walls. Designed to be a highly sustainable, resilient research building, CSIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program enables the structure to withstand sea level rise and other future realities of the coastal environment. "The design has already established a reputation for beauty and functionality," said Nancy White, Executive Director of the Coastal Studies Institute, "it will serve us well in recruiting the best faculty, providing the best experience for the faculty and students, and conducting top-notch multi disciplinary, integrative, inter-institutional research." LEED Gold Certified by the USGBC; AIA North Carolina COTE Award for Sustainability
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Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for Best New Global Design AIA North Carolina Design Award AIA Virginia Design Award
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Learning on Display
With the modern emphasis on project-based learning, the natural consequence is to put learning on display. Further, colleges and universities seek to create academic environments that embody their intended purpose through design. In the Knight Hall College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, the use of transparency serves dual purposes as it relates to the importance of transparency in the practice of journalism and offers engaging views into student activity. Conveying the image of an institution at the forefront of the 21st century journalism profession, Knight Hall features four news labs, a 70-seat broadcast theater, a multipurpose studio and editing lab, and a 24-hour multimedia open lab space. Public spaces are woven throughout to encourage frequent interaction between students, faculty, and journalism professionals.
LEED Gold Certified by the USGBC AIA Potomac Valley Sustainable Honor Award; AIA Maryland Design Award
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Buildings that Inform
As our understanding of the learning process grows, we better understand the role of the visual and tangible experience. Merging technology, education, and sustainability, the Regional Plant 2 at Wake Technical Community College is primarily intended to house heating and cooling systems, but the design team seized the opportunity to present those systems for educational purposes. The striking aesthetic of the building technology creates a unique instructional experience that reveals technologyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in preserving the beauty of the natural world.
AIA CAE Education Facility Design Excellence Award; AIA Virginia Honor Award; AIA North Carolina Honor Award; Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award
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Outdoor Instruction
As faculty seek new ways to engage students, the setting for learning must change. We see this evolving mentality – moving away from auditoriums featuring a ‘sage on the stage’ – in the inclusion of living-learning environments, the transformation of library use, and in the integration of new elements, such as outdoor classrooms, in academic building design. The new Academic Building at John Tyler Community College defines a new campus quad and houses a black box theater, classrooms, offices, and study spaces. Indoor/outdoor connectivity was a priority for both the client and design team, and the building program created the opportunity for a green outdoor teaching space on the third floor. In high demand, faculty and students alike have embraced this space and the opportunity to engage in a new setting.
AIA Hampton Roads Honor Award
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Project-Based Learning
Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instruction increasingly leverages project-based learning to empower students to explore and understand complex concepts. This teaching method requires flexible spaces, technical tools, and inspiring environments for the greatest degree of student success. To the left, the laboratory setting at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute offers the opportunity for students to engage with technology and research their own hypotheses. To the right, students collaborate on projects in Wake Tech's Regional Plant 2, a building that acts as both a classroom facility and functional plant.
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Environments for Unique Learning Styles
Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students prefer to learn, interact, and socialize differently. In Building F at Wake Technical Community College, the design concept responds to and actively engages a wide variety of unique learning styles by offering a corresponding degree of environments. Throughout open spaces, furniture is varied and organized to offer both group arrangements and private study, while collaboration rooms provide opportunities for students to work together.
LEED Silver Certified by the USGBC
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Aligning Education and Workplace
As colleges and universities face increasing pressure to graduate students prepared to contribute immediately in the 21st century workplace, instructional spaces must align with future workplace experiences. At Western Carolina University, the Health & Human Sciences Building integrates a community clinic in which students provide care directly to patients while under faculty supervision. By aligning the environment with real-world experience, students gain invaluable exposure and faculty are presented with an opportunity to offer specific, immediate guidance on both interaction and care.
LEED Gold Certified by the USGBC AIA Virginia Honor Award; AIA North Carolina Merit Award
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02 RENEWAL Expand, Replace, Transform
The renovation of Duke Hall at James Madison University renewed this fine arts facilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose, transforming its ability to serve both students and the surrounding community as a cultural center.
Campuses today are in a constant state of renewal, expanding with new buildings and spaces, replacing buildings that have outlived their useful life, and transforming existing facilities to meet changing needs. Campus renewal projects often help address the learning transformation previously outlined, as buildings become more functional or gain new purpose. Renewal may take shape in the renovation of historic or outdated facilities; expansion of existing buildings or programs; adaptive reuse; preservation; and the implementation of a master plan. Regardless of what form campus renewal takes, the goal of higher education clients is the same: to meet current and future programmatic needs while giving new life to the campus community. The following pages explore examples of campus renewal and the transformative impact it can have on campus connectivity, preservation, sustainability, and the student experience.
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Amenities to Enhance the Student Experience
As colleges and universities seek to increase crossover between academic and social aspects of students’ lives, a key component of campus renewal takes shape in enhancing the function and amenities in historic buildings. The East Campus Union on Duke University’s campus was long thought of as a dining hall only. A top priority in its renovation was to go beyond dining and create a multifunctional, welcoming facility for first-year students to use around the clock. The addition of study spaces, a café, and integration of technology provide students with the opportunity to collaborate, study independently, or catch an open-mic show – transforming the function and amenities of the space. In the college and university arms' race, amenities like exceptional dining stand out to prospective students. Duke is frequently recognized for its top-ranked dining program, including being named College Innovator of the Year 2017 by Food Management and ranked first for Best Colleges for Food in America 2016 by The Daily Meal. 36
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Expanding Arts Programming
To meet goals for STEAM programming and integrate artbased fields of study, colleges and universities must find new, collaborative ways to expand arts programs on campus. At John Tyler Community College, a black box theater creates a home for the arts within a multidiscipline academic building. This effort to blend the arts with other fields of study is geared at graduating well-rounded students with both technical and analytical skill sets. The reimagined Duke Hall at James Madison University acts as an arts center for both the university and the community, putting art on display and fostering engagement between students and regional professionals.
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Creating New Campus Gateways
Every college campus has an aging population of 1960’s era buildings requiring not just systems upgrades, but also transformative design vision to create spaces that attract students. At Duke University, the Edens Quad Residence Complex represented this breed. Previously described as fortress-like by students, today Edens Quad is a vibrant residential community transformed through a series of “lanterns” that provide transparency and connect student commons activity to exterior quad activity. The threshold is animated by group study and gaming areas that provide a unique campus amenity for Edens as well as the larger campus community.
AIA North Carolina Design Award; Award for Excellence in Structural Engineering
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Enhancing Campus Landscape
Campus landscape plays an important role in the student experience, from providing easy wayfinding between buildings to supporting a sense of engagement and well-being. The Semans Library at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts transformed the campus landscape and connectivity, establishing a new sense of place with an urban path leading to a revitalized plaza. Students now study, mingle, and meet in the vibrant landscape around the library in addition to taking advantage of its light-filled interior spaces. At night, the transparency of the library acts as a lantern on campus, illuminating the surrounding path and plaza.
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03 DELIVERY Realizing Your Vision
The Henderson County Health Sciences Center integrates a hospital cancer center as well as academic space for Wingate University and Blue Ridge Community College. Led by Henderson County, this unique public-private partnership enhances the Hendersonville community, healthcare delivery, and health education.
In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environment of constrained financial resources and increasing competition, colleges and universities are searching for creative ways to finance and build capital projects. Requiring strong leadership at the institutional level, successfully realizing a project vision involves team members with expertise in finance, design, and construction. While traditional financing and construction delivery methods such as legislative appropriation, institutionally or project-backed bonds, design-bidbuild, and CM at Risk have been used by higher education institutions for many years, newer approaches are emerging. Public-private partnership (P3) is one of the hottest topics in higher education project delivery, and for good reason. Done right, P3 can be incredibly successful. Additionally, fast-track construction methods such as design-build are gaining traction as faculty, students, and staff demand more immediate solutions. The following pages explore the partnerships behind these emerging project delivery approaches.
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04 ABOUT Firm Overview & Accolades
Clark Nexsen is a transdisciplinary architecture and engineering firm providing innovative design solutions to U.S. and global clients. With 10 offices spanning Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas, our people work to shape the future by discovering opportunities to transform the way we live in and experience our world. Leveraging the strength of multiple disciplines, we actively collaborate across intersecting areas of expertise to gain new perspectives, inspire innovation, and deliver high-performing, sustainable projects. Our firm of 400 professionals delivers solutions for architecture, engineering, planning, interior design, and landscape architecture. Our expertise encompasses higher education, K-12, science and technology, healthcare, institutional, and public work for local and national clients.
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Integrated Design Enhances Sustainability
We believe it is our social responsibility to advance our communities through innovative, sustainable design. Sustainability and green design must positively impact long-term environmental, economic, and social roots. As a transdisciplinary architecture, engineering, and planning firm, Clark Nexsen offers a collaborative, solutions-oriented design approach that addresses integral systems, structures, and finishes of a project - and environmental, economic, and social impacts. We refer to this approach as 'Integrated Design.' In addition to the LEED Rating System, our staff is experienced with Green Globes, Energy Star, the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Envision tool, and other mechanisms for designing sustainable outcomes. By leveraging the intersections of our diverse knowledge base, we embrace an integrated design approach that has led to the delivery of more than 120 LEED certified, pending, or self-certified projects. Through our commitment to the AIA 2030 Challenge, we are holding ourselves accountable to continue innovating and implementing new sustainable strategies. 87 LEED Certified projects complete; 120+ projects are LEED Certified, pending certification, or self-validated
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Select Higher Education Clients
Appalachian State University Augusta University Barton College Bluefield College Clemson University Christopher Newport University College of William & Mary Davidson College Duke University East Carolina University Eastern Virginia Medical School Elizabeth City State University Elon University Fayetteville State University George Mason University Georgetown University Georgia Southern University Georgia Tech Hampden-Sydney College Hampton University James Madison University Kennesaw State University Liberty University Longwood University Mary Baldwin College Meredith College 70
Middle Georgia State University Mount Olive College Norfolk State University North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University North Carolina Wesleyan College Old Dominion University Penn State University Radford University Randolph College United States Military Academy United States Naval Academy University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa University of the District of Columbia University of Maryland at College Park University of Mary Washington University of North Carolina at Asheville University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina at Pembroke University of North Carolina School of the Arts
University of North Carolina at Wilmington University of South Carolina at Lancaster University of South Carolina at Aiken University of Southern Mississippi Troy University University of Georgia University of Miami University of Oklahoma University of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Institute of Marine Science Virginia Military Institute Virginia Tech Virginia State University Virginia Wesleyan College Warren Wilson College Washington and Lee University Western Carolina University Wingate University Winston-Salem State University
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