College of DuPage

Project Overview

Client

College of DuPage

Location

Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Size

190,000 sf

Principals

Avram Lothan

Year

2010

Services

programming, benchmarking, architecture, interior design, LEED management

Awards

Distinguished Building Award, Citation of Merit, American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter; Citation of Merit for Interior Architecture, American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter; Mies van der Rohe Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, Illinois Chapter; American School and University Architectural Portfolio

Balancing instructional and hands-on education to support curriculum-driven tech while serving as a living laboratory for sustainability.

The new four-story building contains a diverse and complex set of programs and educational spaces to support technology-based career training courses, all of which were brought together into this single facility for the first time. The client wanted the building to serve as an example of quality and sustainable applications for construction and educcational programs supported within.Designed to be used as a teaching tool, the building’s architectural expression reveals structural and MEP systems which is useful to students studying environmental applications for those trades. Contrasting exterior materials visually articulate the rich functional mix of interior spaces. The siting, massing and orientation of the building respond to parking, vehicular and pedestrian traffic, preservation of nature areas, and future building development. The result is a unique facility that implements the College’s mission of cultivating new ideas while expressing its tech-savvy image.

College of DuPage

Balancing instructional and hands-on education to support curriculum-driven tech while serving as a living laboratory for sustainability.

The new four-story building contains a diverse and complex set of programs and educational spaces to support technology-based career training courses, all of which were brought together into this single facility for the first time. The client wanted the building to serve as an example of quality and sustainable applications for construction and educcational programs supported within.Designed to be used as a teaching tool, the building’s architectural expression reveals structural and MEP systems which is useful to students studying environmental applications for those trades. Contrasting exterior materials visually articulate the rich functional mix of interior spaces. The siting, massing and orientation of the building respond to parking, vehicular and pedestrian traffic, preservation of nature areas, and future building development. The result is a unique facility that implements the College’s mission of cultivating new ideas while expressing its tech-savvy image.

Project Overview

Client

College of DuPage

Location

Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Size

190,000 sf

Project Team

Avram Lothan

Year

2010

Services

programming, benchmarking, architecture, interior design, LEED management

Awards

Distinguished Building Award, Citation of Merit, American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter; Citation of Merit for Interior Architecture, American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter; Mies van der Rohe Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, Illinois Chapter; American School and University Architectural Portfolio

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