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Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Firm
YEAR
2010
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
The University of Pittsburgh
decided to expand and renovate Benedum Hall, the circa 1968 home for the
Swanson School of Engineering on their main Oakland campus. The original limestone clad
modernist tower and separate auditorium buildings, with their inflexible and
non-daylit concrete block labs and offices and out of date classrooms, had
become obsolete as the school’s focus shifted to the 21st century collaborative
disciplines of nanotechnology, bioengineering and materials research. The
University desired a more flexible facility that was conducive to
inter-departmental collaboration, and that could help attract the best and
brightest research faculty and students from around the world. The project had
two segments: a 22,000 square foot addition to house the Mascaro Center
for Sustainable Innovation, and a full renovation in phases of the existing
buildings, including full upgrades to all mechanical, electrical, plumbing and
life safety systems (the design team was responsible for both segments). The
project started with an extensive master planning and programming phase, with
the often conflicting needs and desires of over 70 research faculty and administrators
coordinated and organized in close collaboration with the university facilities
group. Both the addition and renovations were completed while the building
remained fully occupied and functional, making the planning, move management
and construction management a significant challenge.
The
addition, housing the Mascaro
Center for Sustainable
Innovation, forms a raised link on the site’s north side between the original
tower and auditorium. A poured-in-place concrete structure carefully threads
its way through the existing basement and subbasement lab spaces below, and is
expressed by the large sloped piers supporting the building over O’Hara Street. The
metal panel and mullionless curtain wall-clad addition contains computer labs,
conference spaces and administrative spaces, and will itself act as a
laboratory for cross disciplinary research into sustainable building and
product design. It also contains a new four story open stair hall, linking the
three buildings of the ensemble, and forming a new entry down to the original
building’s basement which has been opened up to house a new Teaching / Learning
Center.
decided to expand and renovate Benedum Hall, the circa 1968 home for the
Swanson School of Engineering on their main Oakland campus. The original limestone clad
modernist tower and separate auditorium buildings, with their inflexible and
non-daylit concrete block labs and offices and out of date classrooms, had
become obsolete as the school’s focus shifted to the 21st century collaborative
disciplines of nanotechnology, bioengineering and materials research. The
University desired a more flexible facility that was conducive to
inter-departmental collaboration, and that could help attract the best and
brightest research faculty and students from around the world. The project had
two segments: a 22,000 square foot addition to house the Mascaro Center
for Sustainable Innovation, and a full renovation in phases of the existing
buildings, including full upgrades to all mechanical, electrical, plumbing and
life safety systems (the design team was responsible for both segments). The
project started with an extensive master planning and programming phase, with
the often conflicting needs and desires of over 70 research faculty and administrators
coordinated and organized in close collaboration with the university facilities
group. Both the addition and renovations were completed while the building
remained fully occupied and functional, making the planning, move management
and construction management a significant challenge.
The
addition, housing the Mascaro
Center for Sustainable
Innovation, forms a raised link on the site’s north side between the original
tower and auditorium. A poured-in-place concrete structure carefully threads
its way through the existing basement and subbasement lab spaces below, and is
expressed by the large sloped piers supporting the building over O’Hara Street. The
metal panel and mullionless curtain wall-clad addition contains computer labs,
conference spaces and administrative spaces, and will itself act as a
laboratory for cross disciplinary research into sustainable building and
product design. It also contains a new four story open stair hall, linking the
three buildings of the ensemble, and forming a new entry down to the original
building’s basement which has been opened up to house a new Teaching / Learning
Center.
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