Integrated Planning Marketplace

Firm Description

For over 36 years, The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) has been privileged to work with administrators, faculty, and students of many of the most distinguished colleges and universities at both national and international levels.  SLAM is redefining architecture by designing facilities to be an integral component of our client's world, conceived to achieve specific future outcomes, and defined by the change they promote.

A fully-integrated, multi-disciplinary firm, SLAM offers architecture, programming & planning, interior design, landscape architecture and site planning, structural engineering and construction services.  Among these resources, we also include expert capabilities in educational and laboratory facilities programming and planning, construction cost estimators, and sustainable design specialists.   SLAM is dedicated to serving the needs of higher education institutions, and designing buildings that help our clients fulfill their missions to teach, heal, and discover. 

Our education work is focused on science teaching and research facilities for a range of disciplines including life and health sciences, physical sciences and engineering.  We strive for a thorough knowledge of each educational institution’s history and mission, as well as the faculty, students and staff who utilize its buildings. We understand project drivers including enrollment, curriculum, fundraising, budgetary constraints and schedules. We build upon contextual elements present on each campus, taking special care in site placement to encourage interaction in formal and informal ways.

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