Conceptually Design for LEED Silver Certification
Design Organization is working with Valparaiso University to create a vision for its Gellersen Engineering and Mathematics Center Addition. Under consideration is an expansion and renovation project designed to foster a vital learning community reflecting the University’s mission through creating relationships between programs, people, research and educational themes.
The goal is to incorporate an addition and renovations into the existing architectural vocabulary of the Fites Center, while expressing the advanced technology of the programs offered, creating spaces for Senior Design Labs, an Energy Systems Lab, a Science/Materials/Structural Lab, Student Project Lab, and an expanded Manufacturing Process Lab. The facility is intended to be a "living laboratory" wherein educational experiences result from an interaction with the building systems and subsystems, such as showcasing emerging technologies and their integration into the academic curricula.