EDUCATION 01 MACCAIN ENGINEERING BUILDING Jeronda Beason 02 INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION BUILDING Rayce Belton 03 MONTGOMERY HALL Laura Cole 04 OLD MAIN DORMITORY Joshua Cummins 05 THOMPSON HALL Maria Degtyareva 06 GREENSBORO CENTER Sam Graham 07 GILES HALL Laura Waddell 08 MCARTHUR HALL Breana Watkins 09 OVERSTREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Will Shoemaker 10 GREENSBORO OLD WHITE MIDDLE SCHOOL Rob Warlick
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Wildlife Service COOP unit, and elements of Animal Damage Control Unit. The Thompson Hall was built in two phases. The first phase was completed in 1992 with a budget of $7.8 million. The second phase was needed because the initial budget was not enough to satisfy the needs of the department. Because the money was not found during the design phase, the department decided to postpone the completion of the entire building, and search for budget further. The money for the second phase were found shortly after the completion of the first phase. The second phase was finished the following year, and it consisted of an additional 20,000 square feet and it cost about $1.9 million. The money were provided by various resources. The state and government funding was supplemented with self-generated university funds and private donations. The overall cost for both phases of the building was $9.7 million, where $7.8 million is cost of the Phase I, and $1.9 million is the cost of the Phase II. Today, the building serves as the main edifice of the School of Forestry, where the majority of the undergraduate classes take place.
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During the World War II, there was little activity in Forestry research; however, immediately after the World War II, the department of
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Thompson Hall Pilasters Kroon Hall Another significant building in the Forestry School in Yale University is the Kroon Hall. The Kroon Hall plays the role of the building, where the majority of undergraduate classes take place. It means that by the function the Kroon Hall is very similar to the function of the Thompson Hall. The Kroon Hall was awarded the LEED Platinum certification. It is the most sustainable building in the School, and it reflects the values of the entire department. The School of Forestry at Mississippi State also claims its values as promotion and support of utilization, conservation of forests and natural resources for the benefit of the nation and the world.
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Kroon Hall Products Laboratory. The laboratory was built in 1910, which is half a century before the Thompson Hall. The Laboratory is not affiliated with any university, but it is a part of the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The building is located in Madison, Wisconsin. This laboratory was performing various experiments with wood and its application to the martial weapons during the World War II. The laboratory proved itself useful during the war with their discoveries and inventions. Even though the Thompson Hall was built after the war, but during the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union. It is interesting to note, as the national laboratory was useful during the World War II, the government would be more eager to fund a forestry research facility in the
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N NARRATION Architecture could have many different purports. Somewhere architecture could help leaders to impose their power, somewhere architecture would be a shelter for people in need. In each of these situations, a building by its shape, appearance, and performance would play a role in prosperity of the aims of sheltering or enforcement. Such aspirations are the triggers, which make architecture evolve and search
Today, the department offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. Faculties and students actively participate in a research work, including theoretical as long as experimental aspects. Experimental part of the research work is possible by the virtue of having an extensive set of various equipment and forests, which the University owns. Research areas range from
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developing new plastics from wood to a method of cutting wood without producing sawdust (Forest and Wildlife Research Center Pamphlet). Currently, more than 50 faculty members and an extensive list of staff including number of postdoctoral research associates are employed by the School. With such a team, the department supports a great number of research projects simultaneously. At the same time, such a number of faculty member creates a great demand on research laboratories and a big variety of equipment. As department was growing from a small educational unit of five faculty members, the need for office space was growing. It is important to note, that in order for any department to add a new faculty member or staff, the employer must have a free office space or an appropriate desk space. Such fact implies that by performing an addition to the existing hall and adding new spaces and employees, the department was risking with money; however, the history proved that the building successfully played its role in the development of the department. By the means of catalyzing the research process in the Forestry Department at Mississippi State University, the building helped the entire industry to evolve. The goal of contribution to the society and service to the industry was also written as one of the major goals of the department. At the first place, the forestry department was completely dependent on the University, not only financially, but also by the square footage, which they occupied, as they did not have an official Forestry Department building. The College of Forest Resources was founded in 1954 as the School of Forest Resources to provide teaching, research, and service opportunities about forests and associated renewable natural resources for the state, region, and nation (catalog.msstate.edu). For a long time, the Forestry department did not have its own building. In 1965-1966, finally, the department by the legislature of Mississippi was able to construct their own building. The building main purpose was to be a laboratory space. Historic name of the building is the Forest Products Utilization Laboratory, but today the building holds another name. As the industry evolved, the definition of utilization in the industry changed as well. Today the building is referred as a department of Sustainable Bioproducts. As the laboratory was researching the ways of utilization of the wood raw material and byproducts as well, one could see that the initial aim of the facility was to hold the innovation process. The Thompson Hall was a significant building, because it finally provided the classroom space to the Forestry department. The general layout of the space follows the principles of a double-loaded corridor. Considering that the building has a great number of offices and laboratories, such strategy allows to decrease the
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footprint of the structure, lowering the perimeter exposure to the sun. The building plans depict the design prior to the expansion. The building as it is today has only one public stairs and one elevator. All the fire exit stairs are closed with a panic hardware, which makes communication between building levels little complicated. The addition is located on the opposite side from the main entrance. Two parts of the building are designed according to the same order and style; however, the transition between the two is very noticeable. The passage between two parts of the building is featured with a higher ceiling and a slight inclination of a corridor direction. Both parts could be completely closed from each other as the passage way door has a card reader access from both sides. Narrow corridors plays a part in how people might interact with one another within the space. As the building has only one public set of stairs and only one elevator, the people are forced to take a particular path to enter, to exit, or to go from one lab to another. Such constraint would result in the people, taking always one path, would be forced to meet with one another and as the corridors are narrow, they would be forced to cross one another’s conversational sphere. By doing that, the frequency of people starting a conversation in a corridor would increase. People might have to walk some distance together, in case if they were coincided in time, the width of the corridor is created in the way, that it feels awkward to not start a conversation. Such arrangement affected people and how they perceive their privacy on a work space. Walking through the corridor in the Thompson Hall, one could meet a lot of open doors, people moved beyond the communication in the corridors, but to engage the corridor into their workspace, anyone seems to be welcomed to come in and have a conversation about forestry or aquaculture. The building itself promotes a healthy lifestyle. The second floor of the building is featured with a shower room and a petty storage lockers for the occupants to use. The availability of the shower room creates a great inspirational factor for people to bike to work or to workout outside during a lunch hour. As the Forestry Department has its own network of buildings, the landscape in front of them is also carefully designed.
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The Thompson Hall is featured with a small water garden. An artificial pond is cladded with natural stones, planted grass and with benches around. The landscape is located in a sufficient distance from the building to provide observers an opportunity to stay in shade or in a sunlight.
outside of the significant circle. In fact, all the buildings of the Forestry Department Complex are located outside of that boundary.
Mississippi State University campus has a number of remarkable landscape sites, and one of the most significant ones is the Green The Mississippi State University Corridor. The Green Corridor Campus is very green. Looking at the originates from the North Entrance campus master plan, one could see of the campus and the Chadwick that the Thompson Hall is situated Lake, it follows the Bulldog on a very interesting location of the Walk, runs through Davis Wade campus. The building is situated on Stadium, incorporates the Junction a central spot, which is very close to landscape, continues with the the main place of the campus, the Dorman walk, the Thompson Hall Drill Field, and at the same time on is located on the Stone Boulevard the south side of the building there Recreation Fields, which follow next, are only trees and a clear horizon. the Green Corridor terminates with The building is located according the South Gates leading to the South to the same logic as majority of the Farm. In the master plan, the road, buildings on campus. According to which the Thompson Hall is located the finding from the Master Plan of on, is projected to transform into a the University campus, “A majority real forest passage. Such location of the buildings are sited on the would reinforce the mission of the higher ground or “plateau” of the school, and in conjunction with the campus; the land above elevation Green Corridor, the general location 360’ ” (Master Plan). The Thompson of the building within the campus Hall is located on an edge of the seems very thoughtful. The Green plateau, which is characterized with Corridor, which was planned to steep slopes preventing an easy become a local Central Park, would construction and pedestrian flow. feature bicycle and pedestrian Historically, the most important land pathways. Such development for an academic mission is inscribed compliments the building by a 10 minute walk distance from facilities and the healthy lifestyle. the Drill Field. As the importance It is important to note the Green of the Forestry Department was Corridor is not yet established in the noted earlier, it is surprising to know full projected extent, and majority of that the Thompson Hall is located the proposed pedestrian pathways 76
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Forestry got a new head of the department and also employed a new faculty member, R. T. Clapp, who came in Mississippi State University from the Navy and who was previously an Associate Professor and the Director of Yale Forests in the Yale University School of Forestry. New faculty member were writing the development plans and were trying to bring the School of Forestry to a national level. After the President Truman’s order to transfer a significant portion of the Noxubee Refuge to the Department of Agriculture, the School of Forestry started a path for expansion and further development. In 1950th the Department of Forestry started to offer graduate classes. Five years later, the school experienced an academic crisis, the graduates were not able to perform the tasks they supposed to knowhow to do, they did not satisfy the demands of the industry, and it ended up with abolishing the program of Agricultural Forestry. At the same year, the Department of Forestry started to offer scholarships for the students and hold scientific symposiums and conferences. R. T. Clapp was appointed as a Head of the Department. Finally, in 1961 the Forestry Department started to plan a new building. Up to this time, the school was functioning within the Montgomery Hall and the Agricultural Experiment Station. Upon the completion of the Forest
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Products Utilization Laboratory, the Department hired a person, who would be in charge for the building and the equipment. The person was Doctor W. S. Thompson. The architect for the laboratory was chosen to be Thomas Wakeman, because he was previously famous with the use of wood in his designs. According the historical documents written by the Departmental officials, the “plans were drawn up emphasizing both the structural and the aesthetic properties of wood, so as to provide a showplace for Mississippimanufactured wood products.” By the end of the construction process of the Laboratory, the demand for foresters in Mississippi soared, and the number of graduates were not able to fill all the jobs available in the market. At that moment, Department of Forestry classes were offered within the Dorman Hall, which today hosts the department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Department of Biochemistry. As the School was becoming more and more popular, the demand for foresters grew, the space, which was allotted for the Forestry department was becoming more and more crowded. The administration had to give more space within the Dorman Hall to the Forestry Department. As the Forest Products Utilization Laboratory also had to convert some spaces into offices, the Board of Trustees finally approved the need for a new
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At the time of honoring ceremony, the president of the university was Donald Zacharias, and he was the invited speaker. Professor Thompson was a forest Resources dean, he also was the leader of the Forest and Wildlife Research Center and the Forest Products Research Laboratory. Professor Thompson was especially important for the forestry department as one of the core faculty member, who contributed to the establishment of the forest products research program, which was recognized internationally. Being honored as one of the America’s “outstanding leaders in science and education in the field of forest resources management and utilization”, Warren Thompson became a title of a distinguished professors in the Forestry Department. Currently, two professors in the Forestry Department hold the title “Warren S. Thompson Professor of Wood Science and Technology”. Professor Thompson himself was holding the title “Giles Distinguished Professor”. Global MSU Campus Master Plan Vision building. Since that time, the School of Forestry constructed a few more research facilities, and, finally, in 1990 the School decided to build a new classroom building. During the construction phase, the campus and Mississippi analytics were publishing their financial conclusions about the new construction on campus. The researchers were estimating the true value of the construction as the budget amount multiplied by 1.9. According to a CPI Inflation Calculator run by the USA government, the value of $9.7 million of 1989 in today dollars is $18,628,067.74. Considering the factor from the analytics, the true value of the Thomson Hall construction was estimated as $18.43 million in 1989, which means that in today money it would have a value of $35,393,329. Taking into account that it is a building on campus having
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a scientific and academic purpose, the value is a really significant portion (0.616%) of the State of Mississippi annual budget today of $5,744,059,207. After 4 years since it was completed, the building was named in honor of Warren S. Thompson. The ceremony was held on the 2nd November 1996.
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Today, the Department of Forestry expanded and became the School of Forestry, and it is spread to occupy the Thompson Hall, the McCarty Building, the Pace Seed Technology Building, and the Mississippi Seed Association Building on campus. Also the School of Forestry has a significant amount of land on the very border of the campus, where the Forest Products Laboratory with the Cully Cobb Museum are located, as well as the Franklin Center for Furniture Manufacturing and Management Building. A little campus of the Forestry School is linked to the main Mississippi State University campus with the S.M.A.R.T. shuttle system.
represented as a Y-shaped pilaster. The Greeley Memorial Laboratory uses the same order inside as on the outside. The interior of the The Forestry Department at space is also featured with the same Mississippi State University was not columns, which support the exterior the only forestry school in the United overhang, while interior of the States, which was built at that time, Thompson Hall looks disconnected several schools as well invested in the from its exterior. prosperity of a forest industry in their Even though the themes of these states. The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where two facades seem to be similar, the Professor R. T. Clapp previously held buildings are entirely different. Just a faculty position, was established like the columns in the Thompson in 1901 in New Haven, Connecticut, Hall are very slander and branchy, and it was the first forestry school while the Greeley Hall columns are in the United States, it means thick and solid. Such distinction is that the Yale school had already also translated into the language established a certain curriculum, of the interior circulation. The which the students were following Thompson Hall is designed as a by the time when Mississippi State maze of very slander corridors established their own department. connecting numerous laboratories, The entire Forestry at Yale is located while the Greeley Hall has central in 8 buildings, so the reach of the planning with a very easy access to school is pretty much similar to the each of the spaces. Mississippi State. The development vector of the Mississippi State University Forestry Department could be found following the path of the Forestry School at Yale. It is possible that Professor R. T. Clapp was keeping the model of the Yale Forestry School model as an example of the development program.
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The Greeley Memorial Laboratory is a part of the Forestry School in Greeley Memorial Laboratory Plan the Yale University. The structure was built in 1959, which is almost thirty years before the Thompson Hall was even designed, and a few years earlier than the Forest Utilization Laboratory was built. The architect of the project was Paul Rudolph, who was a former Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Yale. The similarities of these two buildings are evident on the facade. Both of the buildings use an analogous shading device systems, and the facades of both buildings feature a similar order, where a column module is Greeley Memorial Laboratory
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do not yet exist. In addition to this, the Green Corridor is not intended to be crossed by cars, as there is no automobile connection to cross the campus following a single road. The Green Corridor is focused primarily on pedestrian and bicycle paths. At this moment, the entire segment of the Stone Boulevard Street is not developed, it does not have neither trees nor a comprehensive pedestrian pathway. The building has a few logical approaches through the campus. Two gateways lead straight to the street where the building is located. These are the Russell Street gate and the South Entry at Blackjack and Stone Boulevard. The Russell Street is a very beautiful entry with an elaborate landscape decorations and a monumental sign of the Mississippi State University. Currently, the way lacks the pedestrian ways and the bike routes; however, as the context of the university sustainability campaign, this entry is planned to gain crosswalk and a bike lane. The South Entry at Blackjack and Stone Boulevard is the most immediate entry to the Thompson Hall. The road has a corridor of trees form one side and a sequence of recreational fields on the other. The view of the recreational fields once more stress the sense of the healthy lifestyle, which the entire architectural complex promotes.
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The master plan shows that student housing district would be located right behind the Thompson Hall. As the building would be
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Thompson Hall Main Entrance situated in between the residential halls and the Drill Field, the site of the Thompson Hall might become a very important transportation and pedestrian intersection. Such adjacency could be very important for the promotion of department. The university overall has a very extensive pedestrian network, which is planned to expand even more. The Thompson Hall contributed to the richness of the network by adding an entire plaza for walking, sitting, and for spending a break time under the sun. The Thompson hall is located on the intersection of most important East – West and North – South connections. In addition to a pedestrian flow increase, the building would be situated on an intersection of onroad bike routes, which connect the proposed residential village to the Drill Field. As an important part of the Sustainable development,
Through a careful review of the Mississippi State University campus Master plan, one could conclude that the area around the Thompson Hall and the entire complex of the Forestry Department buildings are not planned for a major redevelopment. It could mean that the area is proven to be sufficiently developed for a productive student and research performance. However, according to the master plan the Stone Boulevard is located in both the South Campus District and the Central District of the campus, and considered an area for a further development, which means that, even though the building and the immediate landscape would not be changed, the context of the building could endure significant changes in both visual and symbolical ways.
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H The first classes related to the forestry studies were offered in 1908 at Mississippi A&M College, which was the former name of the Mississippi State University. After that these classes were offered occasionally having no particular department affiliation. That is an interesting fact as Mississippi is a very rich in forestry resources and has a very favorable clime for a commercial forest development. Nine years prior to Mississippi A&M College becoming Mississippi State University, in 1923 the Department of Forestry was establish in the School of Agriculture; however, at that point there was not any significant activity. The classes were taught in the Montgomery Hall, which means that the department did not have its own building. The absence of a centralized space, storage for equipment, lack of offices and opportunity for collaboration really influence the way the department was performing. However, the workers of the Forestry Department were willing to develop and in 1937 the Agricultural Experiment Station was established in order to do experiments and research.
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Mississippi is full of forests, majority of the forest resources in the United States are located in the South East, which makes the Mississippi Forest industry one of the most influential industries in the nation. This fact makes the Forestry Department at Mississippi State University one of the most significant departments on the campus. Such economic importance urges the architecture of the Forestry Department building be very carefully planned with high student performance in mind. Since the department was established, its buildings were changed a few times. Each stage of the departmental development was reflected in a building renovation or an addition. Each time a building was updated, it gave a new peak of the evolution of the department.
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for new methods and new functions. In places, where performance and effectiveness are most important, building design is one of the most crucial factors for success.
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Architecture is a magical manifestation of the space and time concept. An architectural space changes over time; aging and development of the structure are inevitable partners of the process. In this research, I am going to take different slices of space and time, comparing the Thompson Hall to similar buildings of the same construction epoch, analyze the contemporary condition of the structure, and to give a perspective of the anticipated future of the building. The Thompson Hall was designed by the architecture firm Wakeman & Martin. The builder/ contractor of the project were the Terrell & Quinn Construction Co. The building was designed in a modern international style. Construction of the Phase I started in June 1990 and the second phase was completed in around 1992. The building is located on the Stone Boulevard, which is east of Sorority Row and west of intramural athletic Fields. The building has three levels. The L-shaped structure has a floor area of approximately 83,000 ft². The space serves to a variety of activities. It has over 75 offices, almost 30 laboratories, 80 graduate student carrels, 4 conference rooms, around 5 teaching labs, and more than 30 support spaces such as student lounge and storage spaces. The building houses Department of Forestry and Wildlife and Fisheries (including Extension personnel), elements of U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and
richest state in forest recourses. As a context of the time, the United States prioritized the funds towards military development in strive for military advance during the Cold War. As civil areas of life during the Cold War were underfunded, it means that the US government might have seen some use for the forest resources in help the US government to advance in the International scientific arena.
the university campus is featured with its own bus transit network, the S.M.A.R.T. The Thompson Hall is located in a walking distance from two bus stops, which creates a sense of a transportation hub. Availability of a bus stop right in front of the building encourages the occupant to use the bus for daily commute. Even though sustainable ways to commute are vigorously promoted in the Forestry Department, it is natural that a great percentage of the occupants would arrive on job by cars. The building reconciled it in a very elegant way. As the building and the parking lot are surrounded with trees, where a pedestrian approach has a narrow passage in between the parking lots. One could pass it and not realize that there was a parking lot next to the building. Parking is always an issue in the Mississippi State University campus.
MSU North-South Connections In the future, the University is not planning to put any increase in the quantity of the parking lots, but to change its location. The immediately adjacent parking lot is not big, but the area has two centrally organized parking locations, and a residential complex circular parking. This way, the building itself is not required to an extensive parking surface to accommodate the need. This fact makes the building landscape free for parks and plazas. The main aspects of the sustainability program, which the university started are: efficiency and conservation, passive design strategies, energy usage intensity targets, and the use of renewable energy. As a part of the program, the building should change all the equipment to the most efficient, educate the occupants, and to regulate the use of recourse during no-peak hours. Mississippi State University strives for efficiency
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and sustainability. The university published a set of recommendations for the building design strategies, which would account for the climate of the Mississippi State area. The true cost of space is highlighted in terms of use of electricity per square foot of a building. The buildings should be as small as possible and the Thompson Hall with its compressed plan is a great example of such space efficiency. Each staff member and faculty has a very small office, which could hardly accommodate a desk, a chair, and a space for a visitor.
shape. The building is rotated to expose a greatest surface area to the prevailing winds; it should promote natural ventilation, which is crucial for the thermal comfort in the Mississippi climate. The side farthest from the wind exposure is designed to “catch” the Bernoulli Effect. The building has two wings, which are connected by a narrow passage on all floors. The passage has petty operable windows on both sides. When the windows on both sides of the passage are open, the building starts to actively ventilate, increasing the number of air changes per hour. Such effect is called a Bernoulli Effect, and has a lot to do with hydrodynamics and pressure. The wind flow creates an area of a negative pressure in a place adjacent to the passage, the blowing wind brings a positive pressure, which draws the air from the adjacent spaces. Such strategy is extremely useful in a hot and humid climate, such as climate of Mississippi.
It is important to note that the building does not have a suggested orientation for the solar efficiency; however, the Thompson Hall could be called a very environmentally mindful building. It employs a number of passive strategies. Walking through the building, one could notice some of the careful strategies, which affected the overall building footprint
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Inconsistency was found in the final draft of the Mississippi State University campus master plan of the 2010 and the reality one could see today. According to the master plan, recreational fields should fill the entire block along the Stone Boulevard; however, today, the intersection of Stone Boulevard and the Bully Boulevard is featured with the “Fresh Food Company”. The Fresh Food Company is a dining hall, which serves organic food prepared in front of the visitor. The space of the Fresh Food Company is featured with an expo kitchen and a buffet space. Such adjacency promotes the healthy lifestyle of the occupants once again. Throughout the history of the Forestry Department, the architecture of the buildings played a great role in development of the academic strength, prosperity and health of the occupants and student, and their relationships with one another. At each stage the buildings were a shelter, a trigger for development,
manifestation of the departmental goals, and the way to establish its place in the Mississippi State Campus. As the university still goes on with its mission, the environment around the building change, the story of the Forestry Department and the role of the Thompson Hall will continue forward.
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