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Galileo's Pavillion
Galileo's Pavillion
12345, College Boulevard, Overland Park, KS, United States
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Galileo's Pavillion
12345, College Boulevard, Overland Park, KS, United States
Project Featured on Dec 03, 2014
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
JCCC's strategic plan calls for the college to champion environmental sustainability in curriculum and in the college's infrastructure, transforming the physical campus into a living learning laboratory. With these goals in mind, Galileo's Pavilion was designed to take advantage of the daily and seasonal cycles of nature to passively heat, cool and daylight the building as well as supply electricity and utility water. Sustainable strategies include material innovation, rainwater harvesting, living walls and green roof trays — in addition to active systems such as photovoltaics and a wind turbine. Galileo's Pavilion was Studio 804's fifth LEED Platinum building.
The sculpture Galileo’s Garden is near the student union at the heart of campus in a quad that simply served as circulation, there was not a significant building facing it to give it a presence on campus. Galileo's Pavilion transformed this ill-defined greenspace into a pedestrian hub and a node of student activity and social interaction. The building frames sculpture and shares the same the same goal of promoting awareness of the way the built environment can be calibrated with the cycles of nature.
The division between interior and exterior was dematerialized with a strong interplay between the two. The classrooms, and student lounge are not only visually open to the courtyard and Galileo’s Garden thru floor to ceiling glass walls but employ passive solar design strategies to help keep the spaces heated and cooled. Exterior frosted glass louvers are calculated to block out the intense summer sun while allowing the lower winter sun to penetrate the rooms, heating the thermal mass of the concrete floor and then radiating the heat into the space at night. The glass louvers are opaque enough to block the sun’s heat but still allow enough light to pass through to create soft, consistent daylighting that will lessen the need for energy to operate artificial lighting. During warm weather the concrete floors remain shaded and cool and when the weather is nice operable windows are strategically placed in order to capture the prevailing winds and cross ventilate through opposite side windows or operable skylights. The skylights also provide crucial natural light to over 60 feet of living green walls that create striking backdrops for the classrooms and lounge while also filtering toxins from the air and acting as a sound absorber.
The University of Kansas Department of Architecture invites applications for Studio 804, a comprehensive one-year, fully hands-on design-build experience for students who are at an advanced stage in their studies and committed to the continued research and development of affordable, sustainable and inventive building solutions. Students enrolled in Studio 804 work full time to design and build a new building every year. The widely-published program, under the direction of Distinguished Professor Dan Rockhill, has produced ten LEED Platinum buildings, three of which are Passive House-certified. To learn more, visit studio804.com and architecture. ku.edu/studio804. The university accepts transfers, 4+2 grads, B.Arch grads, M.Arch grads, or professionals — anyone who wants to be a better architect by having had the experience of designing and constructing a sophisticated building in its entirety from the ground up.
The sculpture Galileo’s Garden is near the student union at the heart of campus in a quad that simply served as circulation, there was not a significant building facing it to give it a presence on campus. Galileo's Pavilion transformed this ill-defined greenspace into a pedestrian hub and a node of student activity and social interaction. The building frames sculpture and shares the same the same goal of promoting awareness of the way the built environment can be calibrated with the cycles of nature.
The division between interior and exterior was dematerialized with a strong interplay between the two. The classrooms, and student lounge are not only visually open to the courtyard and Galileo’s Garden thru floor to ceiling glass walls but employ passive solar design strategies to help keep the spaces heated and cooled. Exterior frosted glass louvers are calculated to block out the intense summer sun while allowing the lower winter sun to penetrate the rooms, heating the thermal mass of the concrete floor and then radiating the heat into the space at night. The glass louvers are opaque enough to block the sun’s heat but still allow enough light to pass through to create soft, consistent daylighting that will lessen the need for energy to operate artificial lighting. During warm weather the concrete floors remain shaded and cool and when the weather is nice operable windows are strategically placed in order to capture the prevailing winds and cross ventilate through opposite side windows or operable skylights. The skylights also provide crucial natural light to over 60 feet of living green walls that create striking backdrops for the classrooms and lounge while also filtering toxins from the air and acting as a sound absorber.
The University of Kansas Department of Architecture invites applications for Studio 804, a comprehensive one-year, fully hands-on design-build experience for students who are at an advanced stage in their studies and committed to the continued research and development of affordable, sustainable and inventive building solutions. Students enrolled in Studio 804 work full time to design and build a new building every year. The widely-published program, under the direction of Distinguished Professor Dan Rockhill, has produced ten LEED Platinum buildings, three of which are Passive House-certified. To learn more, visit studio804.com and architecture. ku.edu/studio804. The university accepts transfers, 4+2 grads, B.Arch grads, M.Arch grads, or professionals — anyone who wants to be a better architect by having had the experience of designing and constructing a sophisticated building in its entirety from the ground up.
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