Raleigh, North Carolina
Program: A three-story, 50,000-square-foot classroom and research building at North Carolina State University, with lecture halls, laboratories, advising offices, a television production studio, video editing suites, and an internet caf'. The L-shaped structure defines a new campus plaza.
Design concept and solution: Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee sought to preserve one of the oldest spaces on campus—a 1914 masonry building that once housed steel shop classes—and update it in a way that sets off its history and texture. The architects gutted the structure, removing gypsum board walls and sandblasting the brick beneath. They cleared two intersecting paths through the wings on the main level, echoed by similar paths on the ground level. Where the corridors meet, PBC+ L removed a third-floor bay of restrooms to bring the lobby to double height and allow light from the clerestory windows to filter down. At the main stair, they cut away a section of floor to open up views of all three stories. Visitors descend the stair to a glassed-in café pavilion, which serves as Park Shops' new main entrance. Contrasting old materials with new, the architects left narrow gaps between the brickwork and some of the ceiling edges, so that thin strips of light wash over the bricks and reveal their texture.
Architect:
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee
333 Fayetteville Street
Suite 1000
Raleigh, NC 27602
919.836.9751 (p)
919.836.1751 (f)
www.pbclarchitecture.com
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Completion Date: August 2009
Total construction cost: $10.9 million
PeopleOwner: North Carolina State University Architect: Donna Francis, AIA (principal in charge) Consultant: Engineer(s): Structural Engineer: Civil/Landscape: General contractor: Photographer(s) CAD system, project management, or other software used: |
ProductsStructural system: Existing 1914 loadbearing masonry structure with steel roof trusses and reinforced concrete frame. New excavated space created with concrete underpinning walls beneath masonry structure. New composite deck and steel frame structure inserted into shell. Steel frame canopy structure. Exterior cladding Glass curtainwall: Kawneer Wood: IPE Wood Benches Roofing Single Ply Membrane: Polyguard TPO membrane Windows Glazing Skylights: Supersky Doors Wood doors: VT Industries Hardware Hinges: McKinney Closers: LCN Exit devices: Von Duprin Pulls: Rockwood Interior finishes Acoustic Paneling: Conwed Designscape with Knoll Progression Cabinetwork and custom woodwork: by Cleora Sterling Corporation Carpet: J&J Commercial, Integrity Acoustical ceilings: Armstrong Suspension grid: USG Centricite with Compasso 4" suspension trim Floor and wall tile: Daltile, Keystones (restrooms) Furnishings Lighting Downlights: Infinity Task lighting: Day-o-lite, Alera Exterior: Kim Lighting, Gotham Controls: Lutron Conveyance Plumbing |
