Education: Community Colleges Architectural Design for Tomorrow’s Campuses
Designing learning environments that redefine function and embrace change to maximize learning modalities and enhance the quality of life for students, faculty, staff, and administrators.
Creating places to build intelligent minds Today’s successful educational environments are required to adapt seamlessly to evolving curriculum and technological demands. Huitt-Zollars understands current pedagogical challenges and is able to provide that adaptability. We create learning environments that redefine function and embrace change to maximize learning modalities and enhance the quality of life for students, faculty, staff, and administrators. On the pages that follow are projects from our portfolio which begin to illustrate Huitt-Zollars’ extraordinary breadth of experience and the depth of our expertise in educational facility design which offer our clients fresh ideas in: • Fostering and/or accommodating innovation in teaching and learning • Providing appealing amenities to attract students • Reducing both initial project cost and operational expenditures • Enhancing collaboration and creativity in the learning environment • Promoting the school’s image and culture
Huitt-Zollars’ philosophy and commitment to design excellence is based on . We approach each project as a unique opportunity to understand our client’s needs and embrace their mission while crafting a design solution that best serves them.
San Jacinto College North Campus Center for Industrial Technology (CIT) Pasadena, Texas This 107,000 SF vocational building supports San Jacinto College’s industrial curriculum in both laboratory and classroom settings for advanced manufacturing logistics, sheet metal, electrical, welding and diesel technologies. Other technical programs for the College’s new CIT include instruction in pipe fitting fabrication, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR), machining, and millwright training.
The Center for Industrial Technology is designed to offer programs reflecting the commercial and industrial needs of the Houston area. The Center will influence our program-level outcomes and allow for flexibility in instructional design. The faculty can create integrated learning opportunities across disciplines to strengthen and enrich course content, while providing a foundation for cross-discipline teamwork. Dr. Kerry Keith Mix, Dean of Technology and Business San Jacinto College North Campus
San Jacinto College North Campus Center for Industrial Technology (CIT) Pasadena, Texas
San Jacinto College North Campus Cosmetology and Culinary Arts Houston, Texas Designed by Huitt-Zollars, this 57,650 SF Cosmetology and Culinary Center at San Jacinto College North Campus provides updated instructional labs and support spaces for core cosmetology, and culinary training and certification programs. Instruction will be based on realworld situations in a professional salon and restaurant environments and will prepare students to be industry-ready. Providing a unique outreach opportunity, the salon and restaurant components directly impact the community they serve and will create a positive, engaged perception of San Jacinto College.
San Jacinto College South Campus Cosmetology Houston, Texas The new Cosmetology Center at South Campus will provide updated cosmetology instructional labs and support spaces for the Cosmetology program. Focused on providing students with the knowledge and skills required by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations examination, the Center concentrates on practical technical skills and hands-on learning. The new facility will also support specialty programs such as Nail Technician, Eye Lash, and the Cosmetology Instructor Program as well as a Massage Therapy program with its specific licensure requirements and dedicated instructional space.
San Jacinto College North and South Campuses Centers for Student Development Pasadena and Houston, Texas Welcome Desk 350 SF
These student centers are the new entry and public faces for two of San Jacinto College’s
Enrollment Services 3,119 SF
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Center for Student Development 6,423 SF
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Financial Aid 2,006 SF
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Business Office 1,565 SF
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Shared Services 2,350 SF
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Staff Support 1,388 SF
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San Jacinto College Central Campus Transportation Center Pasadena, Texas The 84,600 GSF center houses the latest in technology and factory automotive equipment to service vehicles from General Motors, Ford, Toyota Lexus, Honda Acura, and Chrysler and has been programmed to meet the NATEF (National Automotive Technical Education Foundation) accreditation requirements. It is equipped with 14 high-bay manufacturer labs - each with a classroom, offices and storage rooms; a 10-bay all-purpose lab; instructional areas; an academic administration office suite; 100-seat multipurpose room with prep room, catering kitchen and furniture storage space; a student break room; and building support areas.
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San Jacinto College Central Campus Transportation Center, Pasadena, Texas
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University of Texas Austin Jesse H Jones School of Law Renovation
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Lone Star College Tomball Performing Arts Center Tomball, Texas This instructional black box theater is a fully-integrated complex where students at Lone Star College learn and practice the Arts. The 425-seat Center is a versatile state-of-the-art venue well-equipped to accommodate a wide variety of theatrical, intellectual and musical performances. It features an orchestra pit, dressing rooms, costume shop, Green Room and back-of-house spaces.
As Project Director for this state-of-the-art facility, I can honestly say it has been a pleasure working with the Morris (now Huitt-Zollars) team. Morris has performed with professionalism and has exhibited exceptional sensitivity to the users’ needs. The Performing Arts Center has become a focal point for both the campus and the City of Tomball and is used for college and community stage productions, concerts, civic events, and graduations. Wayne Thompson, Project Director Lone Star College Tomball
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Lone Star College University Park Energy and Manufacturing Institute (EMI) Houston, Texas This 70,000 SF workforce training facility is equipped with:
• 27 laboratory spaces for automated / advanced manufacturing and engineering technology • 5 classrooms • Administrative and faculty offices • Two simulation labs (drilling and crane operation) • High-bay manufacturing area and machine shops • Quality control lab
Lone Star College University Park Energy and Manufacturing Institute (EMI) | Houston, Texas
Lone Star College- University Park Energy & Manufacturing Institute 70,000 SF $12,600,000 The new 70,000 sf Engineering and Manufacturing Institute for Lonestar College is designed to take advantage of typical suburban office park construction typologies in order to provide an integrated classroom and lab space at the site, building, and interior scale. The loosely wooded site, an existing late 70’s corporate campus organized formally but without spatial relationships, now operates as a community college. This project acts as a new front, opening accessibility from the street and other campus buildings. Typical tilt wall construction is modified here in materiality and technique to join the institute with the site. First, a micro textured formliner captures the linearity of the loblolly pines. Second, Tilt wall is joined with ‘Lift’ wall and ‘cast’ wall to create thresholds and highlight the public entry and teaching. Tilt and lift wall is also used at the interior of the site and allows visual and physical connections between the classroom and lab.
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Santa Monica College Information Technology Building Santa Monica, California The IT Building centralizes the college’s IT Offices, Data Center, Network Services, Telecommunications, Media Center, Reprographics, and equipment and training by gathering them all under one roof. Designed to strengthen and define the campus’ southern edge, the building is a model of integrated sustainable technologies and has attained LEED Gold Certification. Sustainable elements include solar panels, natural ventilation, visual screen of glass fritting whose opacity changes in response to programmatic needs, and use of recycled materials. Its large concrete roof 1) functions as a sunscreen; 2) is a rainwater collection system; and 3) subsidizes the building’s power needs with turbines powered by wind which is accelerated and funneled by the roof design.
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AIA Houston On-the-Boards Design Award
The new IT Building’s design provides a new distinctive campus edge. It combines the IT Group, Network Communications, Telecommunications offices, the Data Center, the Main Distribution Frame and Police Dispatch, and the Media Center and Reprographics Department into one highly functional facility. Greg Brown, Director of Facilities Planning Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College Information Technology Building | Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica College Student Services Building Santa Monica, California Currently under construction, this building will provide centralized access and a one-stop service delivery location to more effectively serve the college’s 35,000 students per year. The building will house the departments of Enrollment Development, Student Services, and the Bursar’s Office, Academic Affairs Offices, the President’s Offices and an Assembly Hall for Board of Trustees meetings and performances. A pedestrian entry and vehicular drop-off combine to create a central entry plaza to the Campus on Pico Boulevard.
Louvers Detail / Santa Monica College Student Services Building | Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica College Bundy Education Center Classrooms Santa Monica, California This 6,500 SF shell space build-out includes five (5) classrooms and the Workforce/Economic Development Department offices. IT infrastructure + audiovisual systems enable access and interaction in these classrooms designed specifically for easy reconfiguration to accommodate traditional instructor-based learning and/or a collaborative learning environment.
HUITT-ZOLLARS Huitt-Zollars is an award-winning, full-service design practice providing comprehensive architecture, engineering, interior design, urban design and planning services. Our legacy, footprint and experience know no bounds. From the U.S. to China to South America to the United Arab Emirates and back, Huitt-Zollars makes places that make a difference around the world.
is a company-wide philosophy we practice every day. It is an approach that explores design from all sides, meeting challenges from new angles and helping to uncover perspectives often overlooked. This innovative approach to design coupled with our technical expertise have earned worldwide recognition. Equally important to our success is our dedication to our clients and respect for their vision. Our desire is to integrate the innovative with the technical to realize that vision. Huitt-Zollars was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1975. In 2012, the firm acquired Morris Architects (founded in Houston, Texas in 1938) creating today’s Huitt-Zollars - a full-service design firm which combines the strengths of HuittZollars’ engineering and Morris’ rich architectural design into a powerful organization. With 550+ highly skilled professionals, technicians, and support personnel in offices across the country, you can rest assured Huitt-Zollars offers everything needed to see your project through to its successful completion.
The strength of the firm lies in our people and their ability to provide expertise in all disciplines required for a project. This full-service capability affords coordination beyond the prime/consultant organization. In-house lines of communication are firmly established, easy to maintain and provide a single focus for the project, resulting in smoother progression; efficient plans and designs that balance function, economics, and aesthetics; and construction documents that incorporate our client’s objectives. We offer large firm resources and small firm attention to detail to our clients, many of whom have secured our services through long-term, indefinite delivery or task order contracts. In addition to full service traditional design services, we offer design/build and other alternative delivery methodologies and are ISO-9001:2015 compliant.
Our commitment is to understand the needs of our clients and to meet those needs by delivering professional services with the highest level of quality and integrity.
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