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ECSU School of Pharmacy  

ECSU School of Pharmacy

1704, Weeksville Road, Elizabeth City, NC, United States

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ECSU School of Pharmacy

1704, Weeksville Road, Elizabeth City, NC, United States

YEAR
2010
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
Totaling
55,500 gsf, the three-story Elizabeth City State University School of Pharmacy
is located on the western edge of the university’s North Campus.  Home to the new Doctor of Pharmacy
Partnership Program, which serves both the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and Elizabeth City State University, this facility provides its
students and faculty with state-of-the-art distance learning classrooms,
teaching labs, and research space. 
The
design of this building exterior is inspired by the historical Apothecary’s
chest, where pharmacists categorized and quantified the elements used in their
medicines.  The regular grid formed by the
chest’s compartmentalization is expressed through the modularity of the
building’s façades. 
 Responding
to its narrow triangular site, the building’s design consists of two linear
program bars – the west bar which houses faculty offices, classrooms, and conference rooms, and the east which contains the labs and large
classrooms.  The cant of the western
façade references the angle of the existing adjacent Hoffler Street, while the
rectilinearity of the eastern façade follows the pre-established grid of the
campus.  The two sides of the building
merge at the building’s south end to create an intimate, double-height atrium
where students and faculty gather and interact. 
The two sides of the building react to
their respective contexts; the western side’s design is tied to its external
identity, facing the adjacent residential community, while the eastern side is
influenced by its surrounding university campus. Engaging with the language of
the residential neighborhood that lies across Hoffler Street, the western side
of the building is designed as a contemporary porch through the creation of
shaded exterior space and use of light-screening materials.  The faculty offices which occupy this portion
of the building are characterized by transparent glazing, allowing for ample
natural light during the day. Because the western “bar” forms an external edge
of the campus, the transparency allows the building to serve as a sleek public
landmark for the Pharmacy School and the University by day and a glowing icon
by night.  The eastern side of the
building, which houses the labs, is contrastingly opaque, controlling the light
levels through narrow horizontal windows to create appropriate lab
conditions.  The solid rendering of the
more-internal, campus-facing facade echoes the vernacular of the existing
construction that surrounds it and, in doing so, integrates the building into
its larger university context.  Becoming
the nexus for these two distinct identities, the Pharmacy Building resolves the
external and internal by uniting them into a single, cohesive entity.

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