Project Details
- Project Name
- Haverford College Visual Culture, Arts, and Media Building
- Location
- PA
- Architect
- MSR Design
- Client/Owner
- Haverford College
- Project Types
- Education
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 25,000 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2017
- Shared by
- Ayda Ayoubi
- Consultants
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Civil Engineer: Nave Newell,General Contractor: Whiting-Turner,Interior Designer: MSR Design,Lighting Designer: Gallina Design,Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE AIA:
Learning in the 21st century requires active engagement that mirrors an ever-changing creative workforce. Fully developed visual and digital literacy practices enable students to move fluidly between multiple media forms, building upon source materials to create collaborative arts, scholarship, and media productions. Haverford College’s new Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) Building provides students, faculty, staff, and the wider community with a new, highly flexible, 24/7 learning environment of intersecting spaces designed for interpreting and making visual media.
Located in a converted 1900 gym, the facility fronts the historic Founders Green in the center of campus. Classrooms, labs, offices, and presentation spaces encourage trans-disciplinary collaboration and experimentation in digital media, film, 3D fabrication, and material culture. VCAM represents an intersection of the physical and the curricular in which modes of seeing, understanding, and remaking the world are activated in productive combinations. The center serves as a setting where students from different disciplines can work together and engage in social dialogue and hands-on production. The VCAM facility includes exhibition and presentation spaces where students can share their work.
