USciences IPX

Philadelphia, PA, United States

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USciences IPX

Philadelphia, PA, United States

Firm

L2Partridge

Type

Educational › University

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2014

BUDGET

$10M - 50M

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Greg Benson (17)

The building program is comprised of two new departments within the College of Health Sciences, the Physician Assistant Program (11,813 NSF)and the Speech Language Pathology Program (5,063 NSF). Shared space will also be provided for the College of Health Sciences and the College of Pharmacy called the Inter-Professional Area (2,005 NSF).

The building is designed as a (3) three story building measuring 57,000 GSF. The slope of the site allows the building to appear as a three story façade facing the campus core and as a single story façade facing the residential neighborhood. The SLP program is located on the ground floor and only requires limited excavation into the side of the hill. A central stair traverses the slope 15’ vertically and leads to the second floor where the PA Program is located. The PA Program occupies the entire floor, with classroom/student amenity space organized around a central circulation spine. Administrative offices are placed along the front perimeter of the building, taking advantage of the floor to ceiling perimeter glazing system. Clinical spaces are located at the rear of the floor plate and are close to the classrooms in the existing CHS building. A student lounge is positioned above the building entrance in a large “picture window” that visual connects the students back to the central campus green. The central circulation spine continues to traverse the slope of the hill to the third floor. A large window area at the location of this stair further infuses the interior of the building with natural light and acts as a ”way finder” to the third floor.