Little - Higher Education

RESULTS BEYOND ARCHITECTURE

HIGHER EDUCATION

HIGHER EDUCATION

Little prides itself on creating living and learning environments that advance our clients’ individual goals and improve the quality of life within a campus community. Our Higher Education experts have designed residence halls, living and learning centers, student centers, dining halls, performing arts centers, classrooms, libraries, laboratories, athletic facilities and administrative buildings.

HEALTH & SCIENCE

STUDENT LIFE / DINING

WORKFORCE TRAINING

HOUSING

WELLNESS & RECREATION

STUDENT SUPPORT / ADMINISTRATIVE ARTS / PERFORMING ARTS

ACADEMIC

HEALTH & SCIENCE

CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: TRACEY F. SMITH HALL OF NURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES

Buies Creek, NC 72,300 sf

Home to Campbell University’s nursing and physical therapy programs, this project’s design was heavily informed by the University’s faith, community and global impact. Its learning environment supports problem-based learning, and features lecture space, nursing labs with simulation mannequins, OSCE suites, breakout spaces, study rooms and faculty offices. Visual cues taken from studies of the human form, the Holy Trinity and the balance of Mind, Body and Spirit (a recurring theme throughout the university) are reinforced through interior signage, graphic murals and entryway sculptural screen. A custom, back-lit world map in the student commons highlights Campbell’s global impact, inspiring students to imagine their impacts beyond their rural campus.

HEALTH & SCIENCE

DAVIDSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: HEALTH SCIENCES BUILDING

Thomasville, NC

53,000 sf

This new health science facility consolidates the college’s current health programs into one state-ofthe-art facility with general classroom space and medical simulation that encourage quality healthcare education. The client’s vision was to create a space that is functional, flexible enough for future growth of the curriculum and expresses an overall sense of good health. Little’s design enhances the site’s existing circulation patterns, serving as a central gateway and yielding new green space. The new façade resembles a multi-cellular structure, a nod to the science programs it houses, while balancing the existing architectural context of the campus with new sustainable design elements, resulting in LEED Silver Certification.

SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

New Haven, CT 93,520 sf

Currently under construction, this building is the first phase of a comprehensive master plan developed to create a new face and sense of identity for Southern Connecticut University. Allowing all Health and Human Services departments to be housed together, this project will create a more unified campus and foster interdiscipline collaboration between departments. Enhancing the school’s ability to develop the next generation of health and human service professionals, this facility offers a public clinic for the Communications Disorders and Recreation Therapy Departments, providing diagnostic and ongoing therapy services to the public and enhancing the University’s connection to the community.

HEALTH & SCIENCE

CRAFTON HILLS COLLEGE: CANYON HALL

Yucaipa, CA 45,000 sf

Perched dramatically at the top of a steep slope overlooking magnificent landscaping, this facility connects the two sides of the College’s campus. Focusing on STEM education, the building accommodates teaching laboratories and support spaces for the college’s health science program, including courses in anatomy and physiology, chemistry, biology and microbiology. The interiors were intentionally designed to promote immersive and effective learning experiences, with a steel and glass window wall providing breathtaking views and a calming connection to the outdoors.

STUDENT LIFE / DINING

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FORT SMITH: RESIDENCE HALL & STUDENT DINING FACILITY

Fort Smith, AR 107,260 sf

In developing an aggressive, long-range campus plan, the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith sought help from our design team to holistically considered the role of student life. The University aimed to increase its student population to approximately 8,000, which would require a corresponding expansion across residential space, athletic offerings and academic programs. Findings from the campus plan analysis identified an immediate need for housing and dining facilities, which resulted in this project’s hybrid, complex design that offers a 450-bed residence hall and a 230-seat dining area.

STUDENT LIFE / DINING

CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: STUDENT UNION

Buies Creek, NC 113,000 sf

Developed to replace an undersized student center, this facility also serves as the hub of student life at the university by blending the academic experience with social opportunities. It joins the “Academic Circle”, located at the heart of the campus, and will offer amenities such as an 800-person gathering hall, several dining facilities, including an outdoor dining area and a fitness facility. The site for this new student union was chosen for its visibility from a main thoroughfare and its adjacency to a pedestrian path leading from student housing on the south campus.

STUDENT LIFE / DINING

SAN DIEGO CCD: MIRAMAR COLLEGE STUDENT SERVICES BUILDING

San Diego, CA 70,000 sf

This facility was realized through a collaborative programming and design process that included the client, design team, faculty, staff and students. Together, the group identified several design objectives: architectural unity with the existing campus, encouragement of students to stay on campus between classes, establishment of a sense of place and the expansion of service offerings. The new, sustainable facility consolidates existing services and introduces new offerings, such as a cybercafé/multipurpose room, designed to keep students on campus and more engaged with their educational experience, while reiterating the college’s departure from a commuter campus.

WORKFORCE TRAINING

SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: SHELTON-BADGETT NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR VITICULTURE AND ECOLOGY

Dobson, NC 80,700 sf

With its design inspired by the agrarian landscape of a vineyard and the wine-making process, this center is known for being the first of its kind east of the Mississippi. Serving as a gateway to the North Carolina wine country, the teaching laboratory and demonstration model for the state’s burgeoning wine industry supports a commercially bonded and student-run winery. The plan for the building depicts the linear process from viticulture to enologyfrom classrooms, labs, fermentation, storage and bottling to ultimately a celebration as wine is shared with the community in the grand hall, where large glass windows reflect towards nature.

WORKFORCE TRAINING

ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: ADVANCED APPLIED TECHNOLOGY CENTER

Graham, NC 50,000 sf

Considered a game-changer for this College, the Applied Technology Center addresses a skills gap that impacts local businesses in Alamance County. This state-of-the-art technical learning and training center houses cutting-edge programs like Automotive Systems Technology, Welding Technology, and Computer Integrated Machining Technology, helping to attract students, maximize the learning experience and prepare students for careers in highly skilled fields. Sustainability goals for the project included energy efficiency measures and maximizing daylight for the technology labs, resulting in LEED Silver certification.

HOUSING

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: SMITH HALL & THE VILLAGE

Delaware, OH

108,269 sf

Delaware, OH

47,600 sf

These residential facility renovations stemmed from the University’s multi-phased comprehensive Residential Renewal Housing Plan. The largest building on campus, Smith Hall, was renovated as a center for first-year students and was strategically designed to encourage students to engage with one another and develop a strong sense of community as they begin their college experience. The Village, a quadrangle of apartment buildings, will offer seniors privacy and the opportunity to live independently in preparation for life after college. Over four years, students will benefit from a residential experience that progresses from the interactive community of a first-year student to the privacy of a senior experience.

CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: LUBY WOOD RESIDENCE HALL

Buies Creek, NC 70,000 sf

Offering students so much more than just a room to sleep, this 199-bed residence hall provides modern, updated accommodations while seamlessly blending with the architectural style of Campbell’s existing campus. Shared living rooms, communal kitchens, and common areas on each floor encourage inclusive, organic student interaction, while bike storage, sand volleyball courts, wooden deck patios, and courtyards offer convenient opportunities for staying active.

HOUSING

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: CASSELL HALL

Washington, D.C.

124,000 sf

Built to meet the needs of a rapidly-expanding student population, this 365-bed residence hall offers suite-style living options complemented by wellness features, green strategies and finishes throughout; providing an attractive, durable, and healthy living environment for AU’s student body.

STUDENT SUPPORT / ADMINISTRATIVE

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: COLVARD HALL

Charlotte, NC 24,000 sf

Like most universities, UNC-Charlotte is challenged with producing greater results with fewer resources. The renovation of Colvard Hall embraces this challenge by consolidating and centralizing academic service offerings critical to student success and global citizenship. Primarily an interior design renovation, Colvard integrates five departments into a single facility. Rather than the departments operating autonomously, our team created an inviting, centralized hub highlighted with branded graphics so that students are greeted in one location and then directed to the appropriate service(s).

STUDENT SUPPORT / ADMINISTRATIVE

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: MILLIKAN LIBRARY RENOVATION

Pasadena, CA 60,000 sf

The Robert A. Millikan Memorial Library, Caltech’s only high-rise building with nine floors and a full basement, opened in 1967. Initially, the library occupied most of the space with Development Offices occupying approximately two floors. As book collections transitioned to digital, an opportunity to consolidate library related functions and repurpose the space for multiple uses that would benefit the entire Caltech Community. Through an extensive discovery process with multiple departments, a comprehensive program for the building was created. The library’s Basement, 1st, 2nd 3rd and 9th floors continue to house print collections, individual and collaborative work spaces as well as full copy services. The remaining four floors were repurposed to house critical administrative personnel who protect the intellectual property rights of Cal Tech professors.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GLOBAL CAMPUS: OFFICE OF THE FUTURE

Hyattsville, MD 25,000 sf

The University of Maryland Global Campus, formerly UMUC, engaged our team in a strategic re-evaluation and redesign of its current space usage and sought to pilot their Office of the Future through a significant renovation. UMUC’s goal was to re-map its workspaces to better suit its culture, brand, business practices and mission. The redesign features a central work café, focus rooms and additional meeting spaces for a variety of meeting styles and sizes, and neighborhood hubs serving as both touchpoints for departments as well to celebrate and share their identity and work. The new space also incorporates a “garden room” that brings nature indoors through simulated daylighting and abundant plants, positively effecting human neurobiology, lowering stress and increasing productivity.

ARTS / PERFORMING ARTS

LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY: JARMAN AUDITORIUM

Farmville, VA

29,100 sf

The largest performance space in the region, this 1,000-seat auditorium has been hosting programs and events held by the university, the local community and numerous touring performances since its construction in 1951. With wear and tear over the years, the hall required both cosmetic and functional modernizations to continue serving its current audiences. With a limited budget, our team devised a tiered package approach with scalable price points that could be accomplished independently if needed. This allowed stakeholders to comprehensively upgrade the building systems, acoustical and performance quality, interiors and exteriors while staying within budget.

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ARTS / PERFORMING ARTS

QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE: SARAH BELK GAMBRELL CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Charlotte, NC

61,209 sf

Serving as both an arts facility and “front porch” to the University, this center enhances life at Queens and in the Charlotte region by fostering educational opportunities to connect, create and collaborate through the visual, performing and literary arts. Combining all seven of the campus’s arts disciplines under one roof, the space incorporates a renovated 1,000-seat theater (with mezzanine, balcony and orchestra levels), rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and an outdoor learning studio, promoting a more immersive learning experience.

WELLNESS & RECREATION

ORANGE COAST COLLEGE: KINESIOLOGY AND ATHLETICS COMPLEX

Costa Mesa, CA 113,000 sf

Reflecting “movement”, a key characteristic of both kinesiology and athletics, the design of this stateof-the-art complex will help revitalize the campus of one of the nation’s largest community colleges. The new Kinesiology and Athletics Complex provides an expanded, modernized space for a wide variety of programs, including physical education, athletics, sports medicine and kinesiology studies. The most significant component is a new regulation-size pool for competitions and instructional classes that will allow the College to accommodate for more community programs.

WELLNESS & RECREATION

QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE: LEVINE CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECREATION CENTER

Charlotte, NC 152,000 sf

This project was designed to serve as the primary sports and student recreation facility of the Queens University. Observing the traditional architecture of the school’s existing buildings, the center is appropriately scaled for the school and the surrounding historic neighborhood; preserving large, mature trees to use as a natural buffer between the two. The interior celebrates its primary uses – Activities, Support and Administration. It features a triple 2,000-seat gymnasium an Olympic training and competition natatorium available for public use, a student lounge, special events hall, indoor running track, fitness classrooms and administrative and support offices.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT LANCASTER: FOUNDERS HALL

Lancaster, SC

39,552 sf

Considered a game-changer for this College, the Applied Technology Center addresses a skills gap that impacts local businesses in Alamance County. This state-of-the-art technical learning and training center houses cutting-edge programs like Automotive Systems Technology, Welding Technology, and Computer Integrated Machining Technology, helping to attract students, maximize the learning experience and prepare students for careers in highly skilled fields. Sustainability goals for the project included energy efficiency measures and maximizing daylight for the technology labs, resulting in LEED Silver certification.

CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: CATO CAMPUS III

Charlotte, NC 85,000 sf

This latest addition to the Cato Campus for Central Piedmont Community College includes a 200-seat amphitheater, library, student lounge and an abundance of classrooms. By closely collaborating with our in-house team of engineers, this building performs 3 times better than a typical classroom building and over 1.5 times better than other buildings on this campus, resulting in the College saving $15,000/year on energy usage. The campus upfit also involved the renovation of existing facilities as well as a minor expansion to the horticulture facility.

ACADEMIC

LITTLE IS DEDICATED TO ENHANCING CLIENT PERFORMANCE BY ORCHESTRATING THE RIGHT MIX OF EXPERTISE, CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION TO DESIGN NEW DIMENSIONS OF SUCCESS.

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SERVICES

COMMUNITY

HIGHER EDUCATION, CIVIC, JUSTICE, SCHOOLS

HEALTHCARE

ACUTE CARE, SPECIALTY CENTERS, MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDINGS & CLINICS

RETAIL

BRAND EXPERIENCE, SERVICE RETAIL, SUPERMARKETS, MARKETPLACE, CORPORATE

ROLLOUT

WORKPLACE

OFFICE, INTERIORS, MIXED-USE, CRITICAL FACILITIES

ENGINEERING

MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, STRUCTURAL, LOW VOLTAGE, PLUMBING, CIVIL, CENTER FOR BUILDING PERFORMANCE

ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, PLANNING, SUSTAINABILITY, SITE DESIGN, BRAND CONSULTING, DIGITAL VISUALIZATION, SMART BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES