University of Chicago – South Campus Chiller Plant / Murphy Jahn
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The project for a new chiller plant at the University of Chicago provided the opportunity to design for function, performance, materials, construction while simultaneously considering how the technical equipment could be displayed as if it were a piece of art. The resulting expression of the South Campus Chiller Plant is a modern celebratory display of technical equipment. As the utility equipment is exposed, other elements of construction remain “uncovered” – concrete walls and floors, steel structure, ducts, light fixtures, and pipes.
The University of Chicago – South Campus Chiller Plant received the 2009 AIA Chicago Chapter Award, the 2008 Chicago Architecture Foundation Patron of The Year Award, and the 2008 Midwest Construction’s Best Award.
Architects: Murphy Jahn
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Client: University of Chicago
Lead Designer: Helmut Jahn
Structural Engineer: Burns & McDonnel, Werner Sobek Engineering & Design
MEP: Burns & McDonnel , Primera
Project Area: 26,400 sqf
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Rainer Viertlboeck
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The plant’s façade language composed of two principal systems which facilitate showcasing of the major equipment while allowing the building to “breath” in and out in response to individual internal air intake and exhaust requirement. In major equipment rooms, there will be a floor to floor Low Iron Ultra Clear Glass curtainwall supported on Steel Bar Mullions – all the building’s technical systems are visible from the street – equipment, piping, valves, columns, girders, beams, and floor decks.
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In those areas where the building needs to “breathe” the skin is clad with continuous sheets of profiled perforated stainless steel panels held 4” in front of precast concrete planks. The mechanical nature of the façade construction as well as the “uncovered” nature of the structure allows the building’s function to grow as demand increases.
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really cool.
it reveals the beauty of the “machine”.
it also reminds me the pompidou center’s atmosphere.
Here is a link to the actual location of the building.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=6080+South+Dorchester+Avenue,+Chicago,+IL&sll=41.784265,-87.591108&sspn=0.005976,0.016512&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=6080+S+Dorchester+Ave,+Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois+60637&ll=41.784961,-87.590416&spn=0.001494,0.004128&t=h&z=19
Fine… I like this type of projects…
The glass expanse to reveal the workings of an industrial plant reflects O’Hare airport’s heating and air-conditioning plant (1963) designed by Murphy/Jahn’s predecessor firm, C.F. Murphy.
http://www.artificeimages.com/gbc/images/cid_aj2013_b.jpg
interesting project, but it would have been nice if they had put a little more effort into the stale bldg sections.
I agree with you, that this building is undubtly very interesting, but in my opinion we also should ask ourselves if this idea is orginal. As far as i am concerned architect somehow showed similar idea to the ones claimed by Le Corbusier. This Swiss architect was the first one who used to think about the building like we think about the machines.
Great design, emphasizing function and using the machinery and pipework as architectural elements. Remark: compressors and rotating machinery are usually very noisy: how is the building soundproofed?
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