Un -l college of architecture expansion

With a growing student body, the University of Nebraska College of Architecture was on a crossroads. It had to expand its facilities, and it was the prospect of either tearing off existing buildings or alternatively expanding a complex of three buildings that go back to the 19th century. The architectural hall was built in 1891, the Law College in 1921, and the “Link” building was completed in 1985 to provide the historical complex with elevators, fire stairs and a lobby. Despite its big footprint, the “link” hardly does; Therefore, the newly proposed addition strategically assumes this undermined infrastructure in order to preserve the integrity of this historical campus and at the same time offer maximum flexibility for additional studio space, criticism rooms and the restoration of a historical auditorium. Since the existing buildings have different height heights on each floor, the new studio room mediates between all discrepancial levels.

With the introduction of this expansion we can provide A a new front door
Building complex that have been entered with additives for years. In return, we can also connect the four wings connected to each other so that all disciplines can communicate seamlessly. In addition, they all come together to challenge a central courtyard to frame and a classroom outdoors. In the expansion, two open porticos is also imagined as an extended exhibition space.

With the increase in construction costs due to the reverberation of the supply chain in the period after the kovise, we had to imagine how the buildings of buildings are located, the radical economies bring to construction protocols and at the same time nobility the materials used. In view of the audience of an architecture school, she taught as a faculty and student, every new School of Architecture can serve as a pedagogical building: not only as the spaces of learning, but actually as a didactic instrument. These target groups learn from the inventions and mistakes of these buildings. The reduction of business can lead to improved use of craft in any material technology. In this case, we have not only taken mass wood as a naturally renewable resource, but also as a technology, which can be put together at immense speed and considerable precision, which reduces the CO2 footprint of the building.

The floor levels of the existing Law College building, the architectural hall building, do not correspond. Therefore, the link was introduced in the 1980s to bring them to the orientation, which enabled accessibility for everyone. Our new addition took over the elevator of the left to save the infrastructure and at the same time use the malformations of old and new buildings to create graded seats between studios as outbreak rooms, informal classrooms and criticism.

The new input serves as an exhibition room, fully aligned with a flexible, retractable wall (always for pinups and ratings) and as a primary input for the extended auditorium.

With staggered Kalwall panels, you can deal with the Sheldon Museum to the east and west and frame the weekly promenades between the parking spaces and the football stadium.

For the northern facade we had researched a modest well-aluminum wall system that was significantly economical: In pricing, we found that the costs of the various shops for framework, isolation, chipboarding and cladding produced a price that could not compete with a single trading product. We have checked a fiber -reinforced polymer (FRP) panel (fiber -reinforced polymer), which could be manufactured and installed in three quarters of the price and at the same time guarantees natural daylight as part of its collateral advantages. This in turn also improves the revelation of the structural framework, including the lateral distribution, which opposes the shear forces.