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Architects: Marlon Blackwell Architects
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: Bradley Corporation USA, Cosentino, Ellison Bronze, RHEINZINK, Terrazzo & Marble, Assa Abloy, Bega, Sherwin-Williams, Spectrum Lighting, American Specialties, Aristech, Armstrong Ceilings, Cali Floors, CertainTeed, Claridge, Corbin Russwin, DXV, Delta Faucet, Duro design, HDI Railings, +24
Text description provided by the architects. The Steven L. Anderson Design Center, a 37,000 square foot addition to Vol Walker Hall, designed by a collaboration of Marlon Blackwell Architects and Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, is intended to be a modern complement to the traditional architecture of Vol Walker Hall, sensitive to the past without being imitative of it and conceived to enhance the spatial character of the historic campus plan. To achieve these design goals, the addition was conceived in plan and massing to harmonize with Vol Walker Hall’s proportions and spatial configuration. The footprint of the addition replicates that of the traditional structure’s entry (eastern portico) wing, physically and conceptually balancing the old and the new. Similarly, regulating lines established by the classical composition and rigorous proportions of string courses, cornice lines, traditional fenestration and moldings of Vol Walker Hall generated the organizational system for articulating and sizing the Indiana limestone panels that clad the north and south walls of the Anderson Design Center and the sleek fritted-glass panes, designed to ameliorate the harshness and heat of western light, that comprise its curtain wall.
