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Tuesday, December, 07, 2010

Upgrading Windsor Halls at Purdue

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As part of a $65M multi-phase project, Purdue is renovating its Windsor Halls: Five women's residences that are quite old (buildings built between 1930-1950, mostly), linked by underground tunnels. This brief article by an architect working on the project, Sanford E, Garner, is from University Business magazine.

An external and an internal image of part of the work (Phase II, Duhme Hall) are available. Here is a brief report on landscaping and here is the overall master plan for the campus.

‘New’ doesn’t necessarily mean better. Shiny and new does have its appeal. But Windsor Halls also has a place in Purdue’s history. Students like to know that famous people, such as Amelia Earhart, once stayed there. That history was preserved during the renovation. Date rooms, once used for young women to meet their dates as men weren’t allowed on the residence hall floors, have been replaced by common areas. The renovation included restoring the ornate coffin ceiling, original woodwork, formal fireplaces, window seats and the fieldstone floors. The character of the residence halls was preserved in a variety of ways throughout the collegiate-Tudor-style facilities. Students want and need their privacy. After all, most students grew up with their own rooms and private bathrooms. When possible, we worked to create more private rooms and bathrooms. Because of the age of the buildings, however, we were limited by the mechanicals system to create an abundance of private rooms. To compensate, we used residential-style finishes and created more amenities so Windsor could compete with newer campus living options.

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Saturday, September, 18, 2010

Sustainable Residence Hall Renovation: Teach Your Old Dog New Tricks

Learn from experts in four realms, who provided a comprehensive and pragmatic look at planning for sustainable renovation of residence halls originally built in the 50s and 60s. The webcast was transmitted live on Thursday, September 16, 2010. Information about the presenters can be found below the video or here.

We captured brief video, below, from the live stream. High-quality video of the entire webcast can be purchased from SCUP here. The webcast was a co-production of the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) and the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). 

Orange Page Moderator

Susan J.D. Gott
University Planner
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Sue Gott has served as the University of Michigan’s (UM) university planner since September 2002. As the university planner, she is responsible for guiding master planning and development of the UM campuses. She oversees planning of capital projects including buildings, parking structures, utilities, roads, open spaces, and plazas. Gott also ensures an integrated and coordinated approach to physical planning and design on campus in respect to site planning and site design. She serves as an important link with the community to coordinate UM projects with community planning initiatives. Prior to her current position, she was an adjunct professor with UM’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she instructed graduate studies in the fundamentals of the planning practice. She was also a senior planner at the consulting firm JJR Inc., where she practiced campus planning, transportation and environmental planning and urban design. She is highly regarded for her focus on integrated planning, environmental stewardship, advocacy for public art and efforts to promote historic preservation.


Orange Page Presenters

Paul J. Wuennenberg
Principal
Mackey Mitchell Associates

Paul J. Wuennenberg, AIA, ASAI, LEED AP, joined Mackey Mitchell Architects in 1989 and became a firm principal in 1998. He is recognized throughout the country as an expert on facilities for student residential life. He has been a frequent speaker at ACUHO-I and has produced in-depth books on student housing. Wuennenberg has developed concepts for student housing of the future, and his designs have won two People’s Choice awards in ACUHO’s 21st Century Project competition. He recently was invited to participate in the Chief Housing Officers Bootcamp, where he was the only architect on the panel. Wuennenberg holds a bachelor of architecture from University of Kansas.


Andrea Trinklein
Executive Director, Residence Life & Housing
Emory University

Andrea Trinklein, PhD, LEED AP, is the executive director of residence life and housing at Emory University. Previously, she was the director of housing at Georgia State University. She has over 27 years of professional housing experience at Western Illinois University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Nebraska Wesleyan University. Trinklein is a frequent national and international presenter. She has served as chair of Commission III - Housing and Residential Life for the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and in leadership roles with The Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I). She has been involved in numerous renovation and construction projects throughout her career. At Emory, she played an integral role in the program design and construction of four residence halls, which achieved LEED Silver or Gold certification. Trinklein is a senior faculty member for Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University. She received her PhD in administration, curriculum, and instruction with a higher education emphasis from the University of Nebraska.


Nadia Zhiri
Principal, Vice President
Treanor Architects

Nadia Zhiri, AIA, LEED AP, is a principal for Treanor Architects’ student life design studio, and believes in architecture’s ability to support and enhance the learning environment. Zhiri holds degrees in both environmental design and architecture from the University of Kansas, and has dedicated her career to the design of healthy student life facilities. She has spent the last year writing articles and speaking to groups about how to transform dated residence halls into high-performance buildings that better support a school’s mission. Zhiri's designs have won such honors as the People’s Choice Award for Product Showcase at ACUHO-I’s 21st Century Project, and College Planning & Management’s 2009 Grand Prize for Education Design Showcase.

 

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