Loyola University Chicago
Design for a changing world. Solomon Cordwell Buenz
SCB is an architecture, interior design, and planning firm with a thoughtful design vision and a dynamic national imprint. Since 1931, SCB has made a lasting visual impact on skylines, campuses, and neighborhoods nationwide. From offices in Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle we offer our expertise to university clients across the country, helping them achieve their goals, serve their students, and create unique campus environments. Our diverse practice includes architectural design, campus planning, programming, and interior design for projects that include teaching and research laboratories, academic buildings, student unions, student residence halls, dining halls, athletic facilities, and offices for faculty and administrative staff. Our team is nimble, creative, and dedicated to creating environments that promote student success and contribute to a greater campus and community context. Our designs are responsive, responsible, and distinctive. We are future-oriented, continually challenging ourselves to design to a higher standard, innovate at every level, and give our university clients more as we achieve design excellence.
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SCB + Loyola University Chicago SCB is proud of a 30-year partnership with Loyola University Chicago in the planning, design, and construction of numerous facilities at the University’s three campus– the main Lake Shore Campus, Health Sciences Campus, and downtown Water Tower Campus. This successful collaboration has resulted in several of Loyola’s most recognized, award-winning, and cutting-edge buildings and has helped the University attract students and faculty to its newly expanded campuses.
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Richard J. Klarcheck Information Commons Quinlan Life Sciences Center Regis Residence Hall Simpson Residence Hall & Dining Norville Center for Intercollegiate Athletics Halas Student Recreation Center Saint Joseph’s Seminary Cuneo Hall Albion Flats Montserrat at Loyola Station Campus Parking Garage Joseph J. Gentile Arena Institute of Environmental Sustainability de Nobili Residence Hall & Dining Santa Clara Residence Hall Arnold J. Damen, S.J. Student Center Francis Hall
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Francis Hall
SCB continues its long partnership with Loyola University with the completion of Francis Hall, a new undergraduate residence hall located within the campus’ south residential district. The seven-story brick building is set back from Winthrop Avenue and features a curved glass façade that embraces a new plaza and public green space. The ground floor is separated into three distinct program zones; a café and lounge space open to all Loyola students; a new suite for the University’s Honors College, which includes faculty offices and a seminar room; and a large community kitchen, lounge, and multipurpose room for residents located beyond the main desk and secure point of entry for the residence hall. Floor-to-ceiling glass throughout the ground floor visually connects the indoors to the outdoors, while a large vertical operable glass door opens to seamlessly connect the two spaces and allow fresh air to flood the space in warmer months. The 133,000-square-foot, 406-bed residence hall is comprised of double-occupancy, semi-suite units. Elevators open directly into each floor’s bright and daylit central shared social lounge and kitchen located in the glass curvature of the building. Placing these “living rooms” at the building’s most trafficked circulation point helps to build community amongst student residents. Quieter study-focused lounges are located at the northeast corner of each floor, providing views toward the academic core of campus and Lake Michigan. Francis Hall is LEED Gold. Building Size Sustainability
133,000 SF LEED Gold
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Arnold J. Damen, S.J. Student Center
The Arnold J. Damen, S.J. Student Center is the new hub for student life at Loyola University Chicago. Centered around a sun-filled atrium, the Damen Center’s networked and interlinked activity spaces accommodate student dining, collaborative learning spaces, student services offices, ecumenical faith worship spaces, offices for student groups, movie theater, retail, student lounge, and entertainment areas. This vibrant mix of comfortable and inviting spaces provides students with a new campus community center designed for study, dining, and play. The Damen Center enhances the main gateway to campus on the north side and along the west quad, and its architecture provides a new face for Loyola’s student life. The design for the Damen Center incorporates a full renovation of an existing structure, new additions to expand the size of the facility, and a series of connection spaces, linking the Center to the renovated student athletic and recreation facilities. The design marries Loyola’s traditional collegiate masonry architecture with high performance, daylit, energy efficient, environmentally friendly spaces and reflect the University’s commitment to sustainability. Building Size Sustainability
106,000 SF LEED Silver
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Halas Student Recreation Center
The renovation and expansion of the existing Halas Recreation Center was an integral part of Loyola’s Reimagine campaign, and is a model for adaptive reuse of an underutilized campus structure. A new brick and glass façade allows the building to seamlessly connect to the other facility components of the greater Athletic Complex, as well as complement the traditional campus center. As a full-service recreation and fitness center, Halas provides spaces for group exercise, cardio, and weight training, as well as supporting locker rooms and administrative space. The facility also houses a climbing wall and 25-yard, multiple lane pool. Building Size Sustainability
54,000 SF LEED Silver
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Joseph J. Gentile Arena
The Gentile Arena is a state-of-the-art sports arena that serves as the home of the Loyola University Ramblers sports program. The 4,500-seat arena is used for men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball, as well as Loyola special events (including commencement) and Rogers ParkEdgewater neighborhood gatherings, concerts, and performances. The arena’s unique design allows the space to be configured for a variety of crowd sizes and events. Initial tiered bleachers retract hydraulically to open up the space or change to dual court events. For a more intimate setting, large blackout draperies can be lowered to cordon off tiers of seating. The arena concourse features new concession stands, restrooms, locker rooms, hospitality rooms, and storage areas. Building Size
45,000 SF
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Norville Center for Intercollegiate Athletics
The Norville Center for Intercollegiate Athletics was part of Loyola’s extensive campaign to revitalize the University’s athletics programs and student recreation offerings. The three-story athletic training facility supports the University’s varsity athletic programs and connects to Loyola’s renovated campus arena. The Norville Center houses a student athlete academic center, state-of-the-art strength and conditioning training center, sports medicine center, offices for coaches and administrators, and modern locker rooms for the home and visiting teams. Building Size Sustainability
75,000 SF LEED Silver
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The Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, the Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons serves as a learning commons for students with an open, modern design and breathtaking views of Lake Michigan. As a library designed for the digital age, the Information Commons provides space for collaborative learning and web-based research. The building’s site inspired the design team to create a modern, transparent building that offers unobstructed views to the water from campus, while also respecting the historic architectural context of the main academic quad. The resulting design links the University’s past to its future through clear glass walls enclosed between limestone “bookends” using materials, scale, and details similar to those of the surrounding historic buildings. Matching the Information Commons’ inventive digital library program is an equally innovative approach to mechanical and structural systems. The building features a double skin western façade to pre-heat and cool air, an automated window system along the east facade to capture and utilize airflow along Lake Michigan, radiant flooring, and a computer-controlled shading system to attain energy efficiency. Designed in collaboration with Transsolar, the building reduces energy consumption by 52% while maintaining a comfortable interior environment for users. Building Size Sustainability
69,000 SF LEED Silver
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Cuneo Hall
Designed to complete the University’s historic quad, Cuneo Hall respects the architectural style of the adjacent Cudahy Hall (1910) and Dumbach Hall (1908) through its use of traditional brick, limestone, and clay tile details. This traditional architectural vocabulary conceals a LEED Gold, Net-Zero Ready building that employs innovative active and passive mechanical systems to substantially reduce energy consumption. A central atrium not only organizes four stories of classrooms and faculty spaces around its perimeter, but also provides natural ventilation and abundant natural light, creating a vibrant internal campus hub. Following the completion of Cuneo Hall, SCB, along with Argonne National Laboratory, received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to evaluate how the innovative ideas and integrated processes from the design of the new high-performance Cuneo Hall could be applied to retrofitting the existing Dumbach Hall to achieve powerful energy savings. Building Size Sustainability
67,000 SF LEED Gold, Net Zero Ready
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Institute of Environmental Sustainability
The Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) is the next step in the evolution of student housing, integrating academics and targeting aggressive sustainability goals to create a unique and transformative educational experience. IES is a multi-disciplinary, research-based facility that includes classrooms, research and teaching labs, a clean energy lab, an aquaponic farming display, and a greenhouse. The complex is composed of the academic portion of the program; San Francisco Hall, a 357-bed student residence; and a winter garden that links the buildings and provides dining, community spaces, and greenhouse. The residential portion of the program is a freshman and sophomore residence, along with a café and recreation areas, all of which are integrated into the building’s activities and environmental systems. IES’ inclusive programming and planning approach fosters interdisciplinary interactions between academic disciplines, student social groups, and the local community. IES recalls the Jeffersonian academical model of integrated living and learning by combining student residential living spaces with experiential learning facilities. Traditional classrooms and student housing are linked with an innovative passive greenhouse learning space that engages students to live sustainably, showcases urban farming, and harvests thermal energy from Chicago’s largest integrated hybrid geothermal building system. The design integrates these different program elements and results in a LEED Gold, Net-Zero Ready community. Sustainable building strategies include natural ventilation, geothermal heating and cooling, rain water collection, grey water systems, green roofs, and living walls. Building Size Sustainabilty
215,000 SF LEED Gold, Net-Zero Ready
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de Nobili Hall
de Nobili Hall combines a 213-bed freshman residence hall with a student dining facility that serves the greater south side of campus. Through workshops held during the programming phase for the new student community building, the design team learned that students wanted a more traditional residence hall layout as they felt it encouraged residents to come out of their rooms and increased opportunities to meet fellow residents. As a result, the upper floors feature traditional freshman double-occupancy rooms and community bathrooms. More community building spaces are located throughout the building including two-story social lounges with kitchenettes and laundry on each floor, as well as several group study lounges. Located along the University’s new pedestrian thoroughfare, de Nobili Hall features an active ground floor with a 400-seat dining hall that offers a variety of eateries. The design team created the dining hall as a place to eat during traditional mealtime hours and could also serve as a large, multipurpose lounge. The space was designed to allow seating to remain open and accessible by all students as a 24-hour study lounge even when the servery is closed. Building Size Sustainabilty
73,000 SF LEED Silver
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Additional Projects Completed by SCB – Water Tower Campus | Downtown Chicago – Health Sciences Campus | Maywood, IL
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The John and Kathy Schreiber Center — Quinlan School of Business Administration
The new John and Kathy Schreiber Center at the Quinlan School of Business Administration is a 10-story, mixed-use vertical campus located in the heart of Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower campus in downtown Chicago. The building is centered around a glass atrium that allows for an abundance of daylight to reach all interior spaces, while also promoting transparency and inclusion—elegantly signifying Loyola’s ethics-driven educational ideals of social justice and equality. The building offers programmatically integrated spaces, active learning classrooms, faculty offices, and a social stair climbing the full height of the building to encourage interaction, passage, and collaboration. The tower groups faculty offices and classrooms into two-story neighborhoods, creating smaller, more intimate community gathering spaces throughout the building. The building features a custom sustainable design for the urban environment, taking into account unpredictable winds, street noise, and air quality. It utilizes a highly efficient envelope design and operates using a variety of sustainable building and mechanical systems such as natural ventilation, daylighting, radiant heating and cooling, and self-shading. Building Size Sustainabilty
150,000 SF Targeting LEED Gold
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THE CONTINUOUS ATRIUM ACTS AS A VERTICAL SHAFT TO DRIVE NATURAL VENTILATION THROUGH THE BUILDING. AUTOMATED OPERABLE WINDOWS AT THE TOP EXHAUST WARM AIR. THE DOUBLE FACADE PROVIDES INSULATION AND PROTECTS THE AUTOMATED SHADING. THIS ALLOWS FOR HIGHLY TRANSPARENT GLASS THAT MAXIMIZES DAYLIGHT IN THE ATRIUM.
AUTOMATED OPERABLE WINDOWS AT CORRIDORS AND ATRIUM PROVIDE NATURAL VENTILATION FOR THE SOCIAL STUDY AREAS.
OPERABLE WINDOWS AT ALL OFFICES AND CLASSROOMS INCLUDE INDICATORS, PROMPTING OCCUPANTS TO OPEN THE WINDOWS DURING NATURAL VENTILATION MODE.
FIXED SHADES AT SOUTH AND WEST FACADE CLASSROOMS AND OFFICES CONTROL GLARE AND SOLAR HEAT GAIN.
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Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and Center for Collaborative Learning
Located on Loyola University’s Health Sciences Campus in Maywood, Illinois, the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and Center for Collaborative Learning is the new home of the University’s nursing program. An educationally innovative model in medical education, the facility directly links the new nursing school to the existing medical school. In this collaborative learning environment, students simulate real world situations, working and learning together as a medical team. The four-story building houses a learning commons and quiet study area, as well as a cafe, classrooms, lecture hall, faculty offices, and full-floor hospital simulation lab for mock medical and nursing procedures. SCB and Transsolar collaborated in the design of the sustainable facility. The building utilizes a radiant slab for heating and cooling, as well as a natural ventilation system, which uses automated windows and solar chimneys to pre-heat air and generate currents of fresh air throughout the building. The building’s glass enclosure maximizes natural lighting, while fixed external shades on the south wall and an operable external shading system on the west wall help mitigate heat gain. This combination of sustainable strategies has resulted in substantial energy savings, reduced operating costs, and a healthy workplace for students and faculty.
Building Size Sustainability
60,000 SF LEED Gold
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Center for Translational Research and Education (CTRE)
The Center for Translational Research and Education (CTRE) is an integrated research and teaching facility that augments bench-tobedside effectiveness created by co-localizing basic sciences with clinical research, including population, health services, nursing, and intervention foci, all targeted on improving prevention strategies and treatment outcomes for the patient. The CTRE allows for program consolidation; provides a high-quality interactive and collaborative research environment; supports program growth; and encourages outreach and interaction between the Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Loyola University Health System, and the surrounding community. The SCB-led design team focused on creating flexible, state-of-the-art laboratory spaces and a variety of office and collaborative environments on the upper floors, as well as a more public, accessible ground floor with an auditorium for large lectures and public, health-related community events. Working with Transsolar, the design team’s sustainable approach concentrated on environmental stewardship, energy efficiency, and interior environmental quality. The research laboratories are awash in daylight and surrounded by a naturally ventilated area for write ups. Programming and lab and vivarium planning for the project was provided by SmithGroupJJR. Building Size Sustainability
262,000 SF LEED Gold
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