David Blackwell Hall
David Blackwell Hall
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 and San Francisco, 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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David Blackwell Hall
Developed through a public-private-partnership with American Campus Communities (ACC) and the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), David Blackwell Hall is a new undergraduate residence hall on campus. The seven-story, 184,000-square-foot, mixed-use project combines urban planning principles, innovative sustainable systems, and campus design sensibilities to create a unique addition to both the UCB campus and South Berkeley community. The building was designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) and was completed in July 2018.
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Living in Support of Learning
David Blackwell Hall provides 776 beds of first-year undergraduate housing organized into a series of pods made up of double occupancy rooms and gender-inclusive bathrooms. The pods accommodate 32 students and are supported by a dedicated study lounge and resident advisor. All of the floors include social lounges and laundry facilities to encourage resident interaction across pods. An open communicating stair is located adjacent to the elevators and the lounge to better unite the building’s communities vertically. These communal spaces in the building are strategically located and characterized by liberal amounts of glazing to capture extensive views to the San Francisco Bay and beyond. Shared amenities for the full residence hall include a fitness center and a larger social and recreation lounge adjacent to the building’s entry lobby. A private courtyard nestled between Blackwell Hall and the neighboring building provides student residents with an outdoor amenity space with a distinct, urban feel. An academic success center rounds out the amenities, offering students a space designed to support study and group-based work.
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Knitting Together Town and Gown
SCB sought to design a building whose massing and architecture complemented the urban aesthetic of the South Berkeley neighborhood. David Blackwell Hall is composed of six stories of residences over a mixed-use ground level. To tie into the surrounding context, SCB incorporated a series of articulated building reliefs and layered modules to break down the scale of the building. Façades oriented to the streets are deeply layered, with a prominent grid of cement fiber rainscreen panels superimposed over punched window-articulated plaster walls. By enveloping two floors within the grid’s spacing, the perception of building height changes from seven stories to four. Active street frontages along Bancroft Way and Dana Street enliven the neighborhood, offering 7,000 square feet of retail space and a new home for Stiles Hall, a mission-driven community service organization that has engaged UC Berkeley students for over 125 years.
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Sustainable Design
The building achieved LEED Gold through a variety of sustainable features focused on reducing energy consumption. Air conditioning is provided only in shared, communal spaces; residential units are served by low-velocity, tempered ventilation, which is augmented by operable windows and supplemented by individually controlled electric radiant modules over the windows. Responsive lighting throughout adjusts in brightness according to the amount of natural light infiltrating the building at different points in the day. The building consumes 44% less energy than required by the stringent local code, achieving an energy use intensity of 36 kBtu/square foot. It meets the ambitious energy targets set by the American Institute of Architects’ 2030 Challenge, performing 70% better than similar buildings in the same climate. Low-flow fixtures help reduce resident water usage, while storm water treatment gardens filter and control flow during rain events.
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Plans 1 Residence Hall Entrance / Lobby 2 Package Storage 3 Fitness 4 Mail 5 Co-Lab 6 Multi-media Room 7 Academic Services Center 8 Administrative Office Suite 9 Storage 10 Private Courtyard 11 Maintenance 12 Retail 1 13 Retail 2 14 Stiles Hall
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