The Magazine of ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN INSIDE LOOK: Three new additions to MSU November 2011 MSU continually strives to improve its campus through modern architecture and green technology construction spotlight METROPOLIS Michigan State University
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The Magazine of ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN INSIDE LOOK: Three new additions to MSU
November 2011
MSU continually strives to improve its campus through modern architecture
and green technology
construction spotlightMETROPOLIS
Michigan State University
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In 2010, Michigan State Board of Trustees approved the plan to demolish Morrill Hall on the north end of campus. Morrill Hall currently houses the English and History departments. Tt was decided to expand the existing Wells Hall to make space for these departments. Lead designer Hamilton Anderson Associates has come up with an expansion design that will create a greater sense of community between students, faculty and staff. expansion
The Wells Hall Expansion will create better
connectivity between the two existing wings.
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The overall design is very environmentally focused with better
insulation and a green roof. Large portions of the four-story
addition are all glass. Natural sunlight will reach further
into the building than just the perimeter, allowing for those
inside to engage with the landscape outdoors. To reinforce
connectivity between the existing Wells Hall floors, the
top three stories will contain a communication space with
break-out seating and art display.
“Wells Hall was supposed to be a place on campus that represented
the most innovative teaching space,” said President Lou Anna K.
Simon. “What we’re doing is going back to the sense of that
building and assuring that the most cutting-edge technology
for the 21st century for teaching and learning is a part of
that.” This $38 million relocation project will shuffle around
a few departments on campus, but will be a new learning
place that all will want to be a part of.
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Due to the nationwide
nursing shortage, Michigan State has
planned to increase its nursing learning space
with a Life Science Building addition. The Bott Building
for Nursing Education and Research will link to the existing Life
Science Building and contain 50,000 square feet of research labs, classrooms
and conference spaces. “The Bott Building will be a nucleus for where the nursing
community – students, faculty, staff, alumni, partners and stakeholders – can come
together and influence healthcare,” MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said.
“It will be a magnet for new nursing researchers, scholars, practitioners and
teachers.” The Bott Building will also be the first building on campus
to use ground-source geothermal energy for heating and cooling. The
piping system for this will be placed under a nearby field, and will
transfer geothermal energy from the ground for use in the building.
Construction began at the official groundbreaking in May of 2011
and the Bott Building will be occupied by the end of 2012.
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Granger Construction Company will handle all work related to the Bott Building installation. However, none of this construction would be possible without the generous gift of $7 million from the Timothy & Bernadette Marquez Foundation and $7.45 million from the National Institute of Health. Overall, 850 donors have contributed to the Life Science addition effort. There has been a large amount of support for this project, and there is a general hope that it will help severely reduce the nursing shortage in this country. All seem to be on board for the continuing education of nursing students through modern technology and resources aimed to improve health care. Watch construction progress at construction.msu.
Metropolis Magazine - November 2011
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It doesn’t come as a surprise that business leaders
Eli and Edythe Broad are at it again in their generous
philanthropy to Michigan State University. Twenty
short years ago, the Broads endowed The Eli Broad
College of Business and The Eli Broad Graduate
School of Management at MSU. Years later, they
announced a $26 million gift to create the Eli and
Edythe Broad Modern Art Museum on campus.
Thrilled with this generous gift, Michigan State
turned to design critic Joseph Giovannini to judge an
architectural competition for the look of the museum.
Architectural firms were asked to create a concept
that would drastically stand out from the tradition
campus buildings to honor the connection of old to
new. There were five finalist firms, but the winner
was Londoner architect Zaha Hadid.
The museum’s construction will
be completed Spring of 2012
Metropolis Magazine - November 2011
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modern art museumZaha Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect whose largest focus is the working of spacial
concepts through urban design and architecture. Her architectural design firm,
Zaha Hadid Architects, contains roughly 350 people who plan and execute
her design. Hadid is also a professor at the University of Applied Arts
Vienna in Austria. She has designed for the fashion, automobile and
furniture industries, spanning her work across multiple mediums
throughout her career. She has won countless architectural
awards. Most notably, in 2004 she became the first
woman to ever receive a Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Hadid’s design for the Broad Art Museum highlights
circulatory and visual connections that make up its
structure. This sparks the curiosity of passerby by never
fully revealing the museum’s content from the outdoors.
Its modern nature will juxtapose perfectly with the
surrounding gothic architecture that Michigan State is
known for. The Eli & Edythe Broad Modern Art Museum
will house the contemporary art of both students and
professionals alike. Its grand opening is in 2012, and will
be a great addition to Michigan State University.
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