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Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University
Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University
Riverside, CA, United States
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Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University
Riverside, CA, United States
Type
YEAR
2013
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
La Sierra University was founded in 1922 is fully accredited today. It is a privately funded Seventh-day Adventist Christian institution of higher learning which offers programs from the baccalaureate through the doctoral level. The university’s business school was established in 1986. La Sierra’s Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE; now Enactus) team, based in the business school, was founded in 1991; since then, La Sierra’s SIFE team has gone on to achieve an unparalleled record of successful competition with teams from other institutions, winning four SIFE International Championships and two SIFE World Cups and earning global recognition for La Sierra’s business school. Regularly ranked as the most diverse higher educational institution in the western United States, La Sierra attracts students from all over the world, many of whom enroll at what is now the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business to learn how to live out the school’s inspiring motto: “Create value. Make a difference.”
The university articulated two goals for the business school’s new 60,230 s.f. building: it was to be a monumental and contemporary building with one caveat—and it needed to be a tilt-up structure. Designed as a powerful, striking statement marking the entrance to the La Sierra University campus, the building takes advantage of a twelve-foot drop across the site to create a strong presence, with grand stairs leading up to its rotunda. To create the building’s stately appearance and conceal the tilt-up joints, the joints were placed at the inside corners between the pilasters and the recessed areas on the building and then covered with strong cornices.
The building features a central atrium for daylight and a spacious rotunda designed to foster communication and collaboration. The building contains eleven classrooms and two lecture halls, designed to seat a total of 533 students, as well as student club rooms, conference rooms, offices, centers, a video recording studio and a 380-seat auditorium and conference center featuring a large stage.
The entire building is on axis with the center of campus where the striking Glory of God’s Grace sculpture depicts the story of the return of the Prodigal Son. At the entrance to the building facing the sculpture, a large chandelier is suspended in the atrium space to represent the Holy Spirit.
This dynamic building will serve the projected 750 students for the School of Business and at full capacity could serve over 1,000 students.
University Quote:
TR Design Group’s building proposal was exceptionally attractive, marked with elegance and grace, full of light and air. It was simultaneously reasonably priced and aesthetically memorable. —John Thomas, PhD, Dean of the Zapara School of Business.
The university articulated two goals for the business school’s new 60,230 s.f. building: it was to be a monumental and contemporary building with one caveat—and it needed to be a tilt-up structure. Designed as a powerful, striking statement marking the entrance to the La Sierra University campus, the building takes advantage of a twelve-foot drop across the site to create a strong presence, with grand stairs leading up to its rotunda. To create the building’s stately appearance and conceal the tilt-up joints, the joints were placed at the inside corners between the pilasters and the recessed areas on the building and then covered with strong cornices.
The building features a central atrium for daylight and a spacious rotunda designed to foster communication and collaboration. The building contains eleven classrooms and two lecture halls, designed to seat a total of 533 students, as well as student club rooms, conference rooms, offices, centers, a video recording studio and a 380-seat auditorium and conference center featuring a large stage.
The entire building is on axis with the center of campus where the striking Glory of God’s Grace sculpture depicts the story of the return of the Prodigal Son. At the entrance to the building facing the sculpture, a large chandelier is suspended in the atrium space to represent the Holy Spirit.
This dynamic building will serve the projected 750 students for the School of Business and at full capacity could serve over 1,000 students.
University Quote:
TR Design Group’s building proposal was exceptionally attractive, marked with elegance and grace, full of light and air. It was simultaneously reasonably priced and aesthetically memorable. —John Thomas, PhD, Dean of the Zapara School of Business.
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