Kansas State University – College of Architecture, Planning and Design in Manhattan, Kansas by Ennead Architects + BNIM

Article source: Ennead Architects + BNIM 

“APDesign is all about placing the students at the center of the experience. With a facility that emphasizes the tactility of design and creation, students can interact intimately with their budding role as the makers of our future.” – Tomas Rossant.

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• Design Architects: Ennead Architects + BNIM
• Project: Kansas State University – College of Architecture, Planning and Design
• Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
• Photography: Timothy Hursley
  
• Design Partner: Tomas Rossant AIA
  
• Management Partner: Kevin McClurkan AIA
  
• Project Designer: Gregory Smith, Brian Masuda AIA (Concept Design)
  
• Project Manager: Felicia Berger AIA
  
• Project Architect: Yu Inamoto AIA, Charles Griffith AIA
  
• Interiors: Charmian Place, Suzanne Troiano
  

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• Design Team: Gary Anderson AIA, Lauren Harness, Shaan Patel
  
• Structural: Walter P. Moore and Associates Inc.
  
• MEP: Henderson Engineers Inc.
  
• Civil: BG Consultants Inc.
  
• Landscape: Confluence
  
• Fabrication Lab Planner: el dorado inc.
  
• AV/IT/Acoustics: Sextant Group
  
• Building Code: Fire Protection & Code Consultants
  
• Size: 186,111 GSF
  
• Completed: 2017
  

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Image Courtesy © Timothy Hursley

Responding to the College’s focus on the designer as an instrument for positive change in the world, the building design creates a sense of place for APDesign and supports a new curriculum that trains future leaders to reconnect the act of design to making through inter-disciplinary collaboration and a focus on direct fabrication.

The design maximizes opportunities for communication and cross-fertilization of ideas between APDesign Departments – Architecture, Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning, Interior Architecture and Product Design – and related disciplines.

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The building is a didactic tool to showcase the fabrication-based research of the school’s design community. Studios, crit spaces, exhibition areas, collaboration pods and faculty offices are arranged around an axial three-story atrium, the “collaboration corridor,” to foster rapid exchange of intellectual and technical knowledge.

The project also introduces new research laboratories and vertically-integrated studios that comprise a 24-hour “Design Information Commons,” a new feature to a reconfigured Weigel Library.

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Image Courtesy © Timothy Hursley

Image Courtesy © Timothy Hursley

Image Courtesy © Timothy Hursley

Image Courtesy © Timothy Hursley

Image Courtesy © Ennead Architects + BNIM

Image Courtesy © Ennead Architects + BNIM

Image Courtesy © Ennead Architects + BNIM

Image Courtesy © Ennead Architects + BNIM

Image Courtesy © Ennead Architects + BNIM

Image Courtesy © Ennead Architects + BNIM

Image Courtesy © Ennead Architects + BNIM

Tags: Kansas, USA

Categories: Laboratory, Laboratory and Office, Offices, Studio, University, University Building

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