Project name:PSU Engineering Collaborative Research & Education Building
Project overview:The Engineering Collaborative Research & Education Building (ECoRE) is a flagship academic facility at this College of Engineering, acting as both social heart and academic/research engine of a new Engineering Precinct.
Providing thematically based research and teaching across several departments, the building engages a newly created Plaza and Quad in clear dialogue with a second engineering building simultaneously designed and delivered by this team.
ECoRE is 280,000 SF of engineering research and teaching at the heart of the new precinct accommodating a comprehensive program of high-tech engineering laboratories, core facilities, next-generation teaching space, as well as spaces for faculty, departmental headhouses and administrative offices. Together, the building and landscape create a connected, transparent and vibrant home for students and faculty united through open study zones, food, classrooms and social space.
Anchoring ECoRE spatially and pedagogically is the Vertical Commons, a dynamic student area showcasing the social energy of the entire precinct and establishing a vibrant new identity, inside and out, for the College of Engineering. As a focal point for interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration, ECoRE re-aligns research space into strategically thematic groupings focusing on shared use and increases space utilization at a scale that will change the culture of the College of Engineering for decades to come. With copper toned surfaces of folded form, fins and brick, the language of exterior expression collectively recalls hues of the existing campus context.
Project location: State College, Pennsylvania
Firm name:PAYETTE
Architect of Record:Mi Li
Completion: 2024
Client:Penn State University
Jury comments:
Images/Photographer(s):Robert Benson Photography; Warren Jagger Project or Construction Manager: Whiting-Turner Planning: PAYETTE Civil Engineer: HRG Structural: Arup Mechanical: Arup Electrical: Arup Plumbing: Arup Acoustics: Acentech FF&E: Lamar Johnson Collaborative Landscaping: Lamar Johnson Collaborative Lab Lighting: Available Light Code Consultant: Code Red Consultants
Cost Estimator: Vermeulens
Energy Model: Arup
Sustainable Design/LEED Consultant: Arup
