Conference Presentations

Many campuses face challenges integrating with their surrounding urban contexts. Gateway buildings along campus edges can reinvigorate campus-city connectivity while a contextual design can contribute to an institution’s sense of place. The Catholic University of America’s newly completed School of Nursing and gateway plaza serves as a threshold between the urban fabric and pastoral landscape with a collegiate gothic exterior and an educationally advanced, innovative interior. This session will illustrate a project case study that engages the surrounding urban context with sustainable, responsible design, combining a historically responsive exterior with technology-rich, contemporary interior spaces.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify building massing and site design opportunities to develop creative solutions to complex site constraints.
2. Detail ways to incorporate new building envelope technologies to achieve an historically responsive design.
3. Discuss how both LEED and the WELL building standard can promote faculty and student wellbeing.
4. Explain how learning environments can support a variety of instructional methods through flexible and adaptable design.

Presenters:

Debra Nauta-Rodriguez, Associate Vice President, Facilities Planning & Management and University Archit, The Catholic University of America 
Nicole Ostrander, Senior Associate, Ayers Saint Gross
Jennifer Stone, Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Thomas Striegel, Sr Director of Planning & Design Management, Associate University Architect, The Catholic University of America

Continuing Education Units: AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM24C2709) | AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Delivered 03/05/2024.

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