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The Yale Art and Architecture Building may be the best known work by noted Brutalist pioneer Paul Rudolph, but his sprawling 1.5-million-square-foot campus for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has received renewed attention in recent years. Hired by the university in 2007, Boston-based designLAB architects spent six years renovating and extending the campus\u2019s innovative centerpiece, the Clare T. Carney library. After receiving an AIA honor award this year, the firm\u2019s architects Sam Batchelor and Ben Youtz reflected on the tools and ideas that helped them revive Rudolph\u2019s phenomenal work.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe weren\u2019t necessarily huge Rudolph enthusiasts or aficionados when we started the project,\u201d admits Batchelor, \u201cbut we came to really appreciate what he had done.\u201d In order to turn that appreciation into a new state-of-the-art learning center and improved hub for the campus, the designLAB team dove deep into research, scouring old Rudolph interviews and digging up original interior textiles. In those materials, the team found one of the main components to revive Rudolph\u2019s original design: color.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople don\u2019t necessarily associate Brutalism with bright colors, but it was actually central to the movement with color theory and integration with art. It\u2019s something that\u2019s been lost over time,\u201d says Youtz. Indeed, gray had replaced the bright hues Rudolph intended, so Youtz developed a new complex color theory to reintroduce the lost accents. \u201cWe also added a material foreign to the building, but not to Rudolph,\u201d he says. Rich walnut, reminiscent of the architect\u2019s modernist Florida homes, was used to bring in a brighter palette, connecting the library\u2019s heavy concrete with the brand new addition.<\/p>\n

While colors and new materials helped revive the interior, the building\u2019s striking exterior served as both inspiration and challenge. \u201cThe whole campus is one utopian vision that emerged out of cornfields,\u201d says Youtz, \u201cso it\u2019s pretty dramatic in that sense.\u201d The library also creates drama with its cantilevered projections. \u201cIt\u2019s very sculptural, volumetric and expressive in its form-making. The limitations of cast-in-place concrete were really being pushed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The other drama created by the cantilevered elements was fitting new ideas into the unusual spaces they created. \u201cWe were trying to fit a space in a footprint that didn\u2019t work very well,\u201d explains Youtz about the new grand reading room they wanted to create in line with Rudolph\u2019s vision. \u201cWe proposed changing the existing envelope of this particular corner and expanding it proportionally.\u201d Before they went ahead with the change however, they consulted the late Granton Hill, the architect who worked with Rudolph and took over the project when he was fired over a ballooning budget.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGranton teased us quite a bit that we were trying to tame Rudolph. But he agreed with us.\u201d says Youtz. For Batchleor, Granton\u2019s input changed his entire perspective on the project: \u201cNormally when you\u2019re working with an artifact it becomes so sacrosanct. Working with Granton we realized that it was an experiment. It made the whole thing more fluid in our minds.\u201d Even with this invaluable input, however, bringing these new experiments to life was no easy task. To try and tame Rudolph\u2019s artifact, they relied on the ARCHICAD BIM software available from GRAPHISOFT.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeing able to three-dimensionally model all of the complex geometries of the building was hugely helpful,\u201d says Youtz, who found that the program helped them to more easily modify such an envelope. \u201cI just scratch my head thinking about how people in the late \u201950s completely relied on 2D drawings. It blows my mind that they could do that. I don\u2019t know how we would have been able to understand all of the geometries, conditions and cantilevers of the existing building without ARCHICAD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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DesignLAB has been running the software since the firm\u2019s founding in 2005, and both Batchelor and Youtz refer to themselves as ARCHICAD stalwarts, finding it effective and useful in all aspects of BIM modeling. \u201cFor a small practice where you sometimes need to model your own structural and mechanical, it\u2019s more flexible and you get more control in creating an integrated set of drawings,\u201d says Batchelor. He has seen the program help them to keep smaller scale projects in-house, lowering costs and improving communication across teams.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, ARCHICAD\u2019s IFC files and open BIM commitments have helped them to better coordinate with outside consultants and other collaborators \u2014 an important step in efficiently taking on large-scale projects like the Carney Library. \u201cGRAPHISOFT has made vast improvements in ARCHICAD\u2019s handling of interoperability and exchanging models across platforms,\u201d says Youtz. \u201cIFC works really well for consultants where we can bring in an engineer\u2019s structural model, or a mechanical model.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On the exterior of the building as well, ARCHICAD helped them to finalize a vertical steel sunshade for the new addition. \u201cWe were able to do some sun studies and create a model to really understand at a detailed level the quality of light that would be able to filter through,\u201d says Youtz. To him, these accurate and agile models helped the project team to expertly address every detail of the Carney, like bringing specific light and color back to the library \u2014 it\u2019s a process he found truly invaluable.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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