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Campbell Hall

Karen Van Lengen; SMBW Architects of Richmond
CAMPBELL HALL, THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Faculty Architect: W.G. Clark Architect: W.G. Clark Associates�Joshua Stastny, Azadeh Rashidi Architect of Record: SMBW Architects�Willard Scribner, Bland Wade, Rab McClure, Ron Wolfe, Gwen Logan, Josh McCullar, Nicole Truitt, Yalin Uluaydin, Bronwen Warner, Andrew Cocke Structural: Fox & Associates Civil Engineer: Draper Aden Associates M/E/P: Hurd & Obenchain Box Kite Design/Metal Fabrication: Charles Yeager Lighting: Mark Schuyler LC Contractor: Donley's Construction
LANDSCAPE, 2008 The additions to Campbell Hall provided an opportunity to reconnect the school to its immediate surroundings. Warren Byrd, former chair of the school's department of landscape architecture and a principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects of Charlottesville, created a series of new and adapted landscapes that are expressive of regional hydrology, geology, and ecology. One of these, the Woltz Bioretention Garden, is a demonstration garden that addresses erosion and removes impurities from rainwater as it flows from the site. "There was always an intention that this would be a teaching landscape," says Byrd. Faculty Landscape Architect: Warren T. Byrd Jr. Landscape Architect of Record: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects�Todd Shallenberger (senior project manager); Thomas Woltz, Serena Nelson, Emmanuel Didier, Sophie Johnston, Sara Osborne, Michael Stouse, Jason Kreuzer, Dan Norman, Anne Samuels (project team) Architect of Record: SMBW Architects Structural: Fox & Associates Civil Engineer: Draper Aden Associates M/E/P: Hurd & Obenchain Designed by associate dean William Sherman in collaboration with SMBW Architects, the South Addition adds 26 new faculty offices to the building?a boon in a school whose faculty has tripled since the building?s completion. The addition?s adjacency to the design studios on the third and fourth floors (the faculty had previously been segregated on the lower levels) greatly improves communication with students. ?It?s a way to reorganize the way the institution works, as well as the interaction between faculty and students,? Sherman says. The south fa?ade reflects Sherman?s interest in buildings that respond to climate. The exterior wall incorporates a louver system that combines frosted and clear glass panels that open and close in response to the sun?s movement. Open during the day, they admit light directly into the building; closed at night, they trap the accumulated day?s warmth, creating a greenhouse effect on the porches that connect faculty offices. Outdoor classroom Outside, a recessed area carved out of the first floor provides two outdoor classrooms. Porch connecting faculty offices The offices are clustered in groups of four around a vestibule that forms small communities of interdisciplinary faculty, and two new classrooms on the southwest corner add needed instructional space. Exterior Wall Section This student project, guided by professor William Sherman, produced three folded stainless steel tables that promote activity around a brick courtyard. As a memorial to a member of the class of 2002, a pair of outdoor classroom spaces was erected by professor Peter Waldman's design/build studio. The construction?composed of two tilt-up concrete walls flanking a narrow passageway?is a study in opposing themes. Designed by W.G. Clark in collaboration with SMBW Architects, the East Addition?a slender, four-story pavilion?is a new icon for the campus. Its east fa?ade thrusts toward Rugby Road, a busy pedestrian route, dressing up the back-of-house image that has characterized this approach to the building for decades. Designed primarily to increase the School of Architecture's space for pinups, the addition includes three loftlike rooms with concrete floors, maple ceilings, and expanses of glass that allow passersby to view the activity inside. ?The review room is an extension of the teaching experience,? Clark says. ?I wanted the building to show what we do.? Site Plan NAUG LOUNGE, 2009 Working with New York designer Joel Sanders, Van Lengen herself is turning this double-height space into a hub where students can plug in an iPod to share music, tune in to a real-time lecture on campus, or select a channel that captures sounds of nature on campus. Faculty Architect: Karen Van Lengen Architect: Joel Sanders Architect_Joel Sanders, Chris Kitterman The first "Campbell Construction," this small project revamped the school's original entrance and created a new lobby gallery.
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Project Details

Project Name
Campbell Hall
Location
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville ,
VA ,
United States
Client/Owner
The University of Virginia
Project Types
Education
Shared by
Devan Maddox ,
Hanley Wood
Project Status
Built
Cost
$155,000,000

Project Description

When Karen Van Lengen arrived at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) in 1999, the School of Architecture she joined as dean was full of talented people and fresh ideas. But the building it occupied, Campbell Hall, was sorely lacking in space for reviews, classes, and staff. Van Lengen seized the opportunity to upgrade the building. Instead of hiring a name-brand outsider, her stratagem was to provide design opportunities for the U.Va. faculty. Starting with a rather modest gallery renovation, Van Lengen quickly moved on to bigger projects. A feasibility study by Bushman Dreyfus Architects, of Charlottesville, set the stage for three larger-scale projects—two additions and a new landscape plan.

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