Higher Education Portfolio

KSS ARCHITECTSHIGHER EDUCATION & COMMERCIAL PORTFOLIO MARCH 2016



KSS ARCHITECTSFIRM HISTORY INNOVATION in the intersections KSS Architects is a full-service architecture, planning, We consistently use creativity to turn opportunityand interior design firm in Princeton, New Jersey into reality. We are relentless and fearless inand Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since our founding our reimagining of what places can be, creatingin Princeton in 1983, KSS Architects has matured, meaningful innovation that realizes many goals atgrowing in size, abilities, and ambitions. KSS today once. Although we face a world more complex thanhas a staff of near 60 talented and dedicated ever before, our inquisitive minds and deep expertisedesign professionals passionate about creating built provide the unique ability to solve challenges withenvironments that stimulate commerce, learning, elegant, effective solutions that go beyond singleand community. paradigm design.GUIDANCE through the process RELATIONSHIPS that are lastingOur clients are leaders in the fields of business, We believe that deep human relationships are theindustry, education, development, cultural and social heart of all great architecture. We value buildingimpact. They call us their trusted advisor because those relationships as much as the building of stonewe have honed a process of ideation, built upon and steel. We are experts at building bonds betweenintensive listening, deep research, and collaborative people and project, client and community. Our firmimagining. We think like owners, stewarding all the creates design solutions that facilitate and celebrateresources of the project to the greatest return. We these interwoven relationships, creating rich andhave earned the trust of our clients to lead them rewarding communities.through challenges, manage the process, and exceedtheir goals with design that inspires and execution DESIGN that inspiresthat delivers. Architecture, when steeped in expertise and insight, can affect meaningful change—transforming the heart of the matter beyond metal and mortar, into empowerment, creativity, knowledge and achievement. Thoughtful detail imbedded in a structure cultivates change - meaningful and lasting change. 1|

CORNELL UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF HOTEL ADMINISTRATIONThe prominent location of the School of Hotel At the heart of the school, the innovativeAdministration (SHA) at Cornell University’s south orientation of the classrooms and auditoriumentrance symbolizes SHA’s role on campus and in the creates a three-story atrium that is highly covetedworld as the leading institution of hospitality and for school and private functions. The building ishotel management. However, its existing building also home to the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitalitywas anything but hospitable. Often confused with the Entrepreneurship, a leading industry innovator.adjoining Statler Hotel, it had become an accumulationof spaces that neither attracted nor engaged students. As the project’s second phase, the Statler Tower renovation captured additional space in the buildingThe new Beck Center reinforces the school’s mission and added to the prominence of SHA in the campusof hospitality with an expansive glass curtain wall fabric. The expansion and renovation of the tower,facade that essentially turns the building inside formerly used to store theater sets, created aout, exposing the activity inside. Four new tiered multidisciplinary research and entrepreneurshipclassrooms and one renovated 775-seat auditorium center and added a multistory curtain wall thatform the cornerstone of the academic program. welcomes visitors to Cornell’s campus. Location: Ithaca, New York Size: 36,000 sf addition and 16,000 sf renovation Features: Case study rooms, Computer laboratories, General classrooms, 775-seat auditorium, Hospitality suite for events, Fly tower renovation, Lobby/reception Recognition: American Institute of Architects New Jersey, Merit Award (2nd phase), American Institute of Architects New Jersey, Honor Award (1st phase), American Institute of Architects Philadelphia, Merit Award (1st phase)|2



|4

5|





CORNELL UNIVERSITYMOOT COURT RENOVATIONIn 1932 Cornell University Law School moved collegiate Gothic architectural character whileinto the just-completed Myron Taylor Hall, a improving the seating configuration, lighting andstately Gothic building by architects Eggers and accessibility. A new acoustical system seamlesslyHiggins. Its long and narrow moot court room integrates into the room’s grand barrel vaultwas renovated and reconfigured in the 1980s to ceiling, and the new audiovisual systems look as ifadd functionality, but left outstanding issues such they were part of the original design.as its poor acoustics and lighting. The room alsolacked any audiovisual system. For presentations The moot court room will have tiered seating foror hearings, participants would literally roll in a 100 students and a judges’ bench, petitioner andchalkboard or projector. respondent tables and jury box made accessible in a manner that blends with the architecturalWorking closely with the law school, KSS Architects surroundings. Vibrant, rich finishes such asdesigned a renovation that will finally make the raised oak wall panels and oak and leatherspace into a world-class moot court room and furnishings give the room a reverent but engagingteaching facility. The project preserves the space’s atmosphere.Location: Ithaca, New YorkProgram: Courtroom and classroomSize: 3,000 sfFeatures: Moot court room, Tiered seating, Lighting system. Advanced audiovisual equipment and technology



CORNELL UNIVERSITYLAW SCHOOL RENOVATIONWith the renovation of Cornell Law School’s and informal exchange toward corridors & stairs.Hughes Hall, KSS seeks to transform the student A stronger entryway and portico will becomeexperience through an enhanced entry sequence a celebrated transition space that solidifiesand wayfinding. By organizing student & academic identity and improves comfort. A grand glassed-programs into an intelligible, coherent series of in stair will serve as a beacon, offering full-scalewelcoming spaces, the renovation reinforces the views of campus.law school’s mission and acknowledges historicheritage and character while meeting the needs of Offices for Student Affairs, Alumni Affairs, &faculty and departments. Admission/Financial Aid will be designed to maximize visibility. In addition, the creationTransparent materials and natural lighting help of a multi-functional event space will builddefine spaces and shift opportunities for gathering fellowship in the law school.Location: Ithaca, New YorkProgram: Offices, Dining and event spaces, Meeting rooms, Student activity spaces



ROWAN UNIVERSITYROHRER COLLEGE OF BUSINESSRowan University has evolved from its 1923 the art entrepreneurial makerspace transitioninginception as a normal school to a comprehensive student business initiatives to market, and thepublic research university whose strong reputation Center for Business Professionalism: a situationalwields extraordinary impact upon the economic space preparing students for the world of businessdevelopment of the region. The Rohrer College of presentations, interviews, and the interpersonalBusiness, in the context of a new building, seeks relationships of the work place.to develop the entrepreneurs, business leaders,and innovators of the future by becoming South Learning environments are scaled for experientialJersey’s center for innovative thinking, strategic learning, offering numerous breakout spaces withproblem solving, and business acumen. flexible, collaborative arrangements. Targeted to achieve LEED Silver, sustainability considerationsAcademic programs and business development emphasize energy conservation, locally sourcedare supported by key program elements—The materials, and hydrology and ecology measures inRowan Business Center: a venue for business relation to the campus’ wetland assets. The formalinnovation, joining the opportunities of the region masonry building features an elliptical glass towerwith the expertise and resources of the College showcasing the manufacturing history of the regionof Business. The Hub: a public café and lounge as depicted by glass artisans—at once a reflection ofprompting interaction among students, faculty, the past and the promise of the future.and businesses leaders. The Hatchery: a state ofLocation: Glassboro, New JerseySize: 99,000 sf new constructionFeatures: Business center, Café, Lounge, MakerspaceProgram Expert: Goody Clancy







UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNOVATION CENTER Pennovation Works—the 23 acre former DuPont and a “bleacher” to facilitate the many pitches that industrial site along the Schuylkill River, in the start-up companies typically present. This central up-and-coming neighborhood of Grays Ferry, is the space, above all else, is an area of intersections— next generation of Philadelphia and global innovation. where disciplines, theories, and brilliant ideas overlap Pennovation Center, a brick and mortar factory and collide in a spectacular array of what-if, outside- relic, is the site’s anchor building and will become an the-box, next-big-thing thinking, doing, and “we’re iconic landmark for Penn. The Pennovation Center’s going to need more space” happening. program will enable entrepreneurs, researchers, and industry partners to translate inventiveness into KSS, as the executive architect, has facilitated viable ventures in a dynamic environment. a thoughtful process through creativity, careful management, and thorough oversight in all aspects Co-working space has been amalgamated and of the team’s work. The Pennovation Center is centralized to connect offices, labs, and shared the cutting edge home for the next generation of resources—allowing engineers to break out from their entrepreneurship in the region and its design is both laboratory space and work cross-curricular with other an inspiration and a testament to the University’s lessees. In addition to co-working desk space, the mission of fostering innovation by creating vital, common area includes meeting rooms, social space, vibrant, and prolific intersections. ViLeowcatoiofnF: lPohoilard2elpInhciau, bPAator / Co-working Space Size: 58,000 sf addition and renovation Completion Date: Est. Summer 2016 Features: Business Incubator, Offices, Wet and dry labs, Co-working desk spaces, Studio spaces, Meeting rooms, Central presentation “bleacher,” Social spaces Design Architect: HWKN| 16



VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC LEARNING COMMONS Dedicated to providing an excellent learning Located at a crossroads of city and campus environment for its 22,000 undergraduate students, activity, the building creates connections the Academic Learning Commons provides a state-of- between interior and exterior spaces. A large the-art building for learning and teaching excellence courtyard allows indoor interactions to spill in the heart of the academic campus. The building outside on warm days. Vegetated green roofs will provide a stimulating educational atmosphere, provide garden views from the interior and help facilitate interaction between students and faculty, regulate indoor temperature and manage storm and support the context of historic Richmond. water. The building facade incorporates red brick masonry, cast stone, and metal detailing to tie The building design combines formal and informal in to the city’s historic, vernacular architecture. collaborative spaces with large classrooms. To The design integrates different levels of building provide an opportunity for physical and intellectual scale to transition elegantly from the small-scale collaboration, the rooms are proportioned to give residential neighborhoods of Richmond to the instructors room to move around and interact with larger scale of VCU campus buildings. students, and for students to interact with each other. Location: Richmond, Virginia Size: 102,000 sf Features: Center for Teaching Excellence, State-of-the-art classrooms, Lecture halls, Informal gathering spaces, Administrative and faculty offices, Outdoor courtyard Recognition: LEED Gold certification Architect-of-Record: BCWH Architects| 18

“It’s an amazing facility. We feel it elevates the quality of the environmentto the quality of the education we provide.” JAMES E. HINTERLONG, DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, VCU

| 20

21 |

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AARON BURR HALL Aaron Burr Hall had all the characteristics of The renovation and addition design not only a celebrated historic architectural landmark. brought the building to current standards in Designed by Richard Morris Hunt, America’s building code, safety, and accessibility, but also first classically trained architect, it stands at a introduced spaces that fulfill the building’s prominent intersection of Princeton University’s potential for greatness. Past programs were campus. Absent significant renovations in more replaced with new programs,including case study than a century, the building had become an rooms, lounge space, and reception areas. The eyesore. Its dark façade mirrored its dark interior project preserved and restored the building’s of antiquated, isolated, and unusable lab spaces. original exterior, floors, windows, and front Low ceiling heights on lower levels coupled with entrance for their historical significance. high ceilings on upper levels gave the building an uneasy upside-down feeling. Talks of demolition It currently houses the anthropology department surfaced before the university decided to give the along with several classrooms and labs to support building one more chance. the psychology department. Location: Princeton, New Jersey Interior Designer: Sheila Nall, ASID Scope: Addition, renovation and conversion of laboratory building into modern learning space Construction Cost: $10.8 million Year Completed: 2006 Size: 35,000 sf addition and renovation Features: Lobby, Reception areas, Toilet rooms, Classrooms, Informal lounge, Elevator, Mechanical support spaces, Infrastructure and building services Design Architect: Allan Greenberg Architect LLC| 22



FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY CENTER The newly renovated University Center creates a ‘front door’ past the event rooms, gallery, and dynamic, student-centered facility that kindles learning marketplace dining, the main street graciously steps opportunities and collaboration between students, down toward the center of campus to wrap along faculty, and community. A comfortable “living room” the quad in a dramatic double-height student lounge for students to meet, relax, study, and socialize, the space. The transparency of the elevation into quad- University Center is transformed into an architectural level lounge will captivate the campus community as centerpiece to enliven the nearby quad and showcase it displays student life 24/7. The new additions to the the student life of FSU. It is the place to “see and be north and west seamlessly link many of the facility’s seen” and a hub for student life. most important features and functions. With its transformation the University Center The new University Center provides connections becomes a front door and gateway to the campus, a for faculty and students, space for formal and window into student life and a resource for academic informal learning, and achieves a real “wow” factor and social activities. The center will be an open and through the use of design elements that showcase engaging place for the University and Big Rapids the activities within through light, color, and rich community to come together. Organized along an building materials. internal “street” which flows from the campus Location: Big Rapids, Michigan Size: 135,000 sf (112,00 sf renovation; 23,00 sf addition) Features: Event rooms, Meeting rooms, Informal lounges, Bookstore, Student organization offices, Career services, Coffee shop, Dining, Emporium, Tech services, Student life offices Associate Architect: Neumann/Smith Architecture| 24



| 26

27 |

| 28

29 |

CORNELL COLLEGE THOMAS COMMONS CAMPUS CENTER The addition and renovation to Thomas Commons glass fill the building with natural light and break brings sweeping changes to Cornell’s student center, down barriers so students can “see and be seen.” adding a welcoming entrance and lobby and glass- The modern dining and servery provide a greater enclosed marketplace dining addition. Located along variety of fresh food stations. The new open plan the campus walk, the new Commons creates outdoor offers engaging views from the lobby through the spaces which frame the beautiful campus landscape marketplace to the valley beyond. An addition to and support the ebb and flow of student life. A new the east along the campus walk increases dining and façade to the 1966 building adds vibrancy and blends event space. The Orange Carpet, Cornell’s popular with Cornell’s historic campus and architecture. In “living room” area, remains the building’s unique hub. refining the building’s image and identity, the project creates a front door to the college, embodying its The project will result in a striking building that cultural and architectural heritage and providing a meets the highest needs and goals, while leaving showcase of campus life and achievements. room for additional growth. Giving new life to the Thomas Commons will foster what has always been The existing Commons’ flat roofline is tempered by Cornell’s strength—its community. a pitched roof on the new additions. Large areas of Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa Size: 69,000 sf renovation; 7,500 sf addition Features: Dining rooms and marketplace Lounge spaces, Welcoming entry, Classrooms, Student organization office, Fitness room, Multi-purpose room, Meeting rooms, Campus store, Mailroom Associate Architect: OPN Architects Recognition: Association of College Unions International (ACUI) Award, 2015| 30

“The new entrance areas represent a staggering wow factor for our students and are dramatically different from what we have today. When complete, the new Thomas Commons will be a warm andwelcoming center of activity that entices students to enter, and once inside, to feel like they belong here.” —TRUSTEE DEAN RIESEN ‘79, CORNELL COLLEGE

| 32

33 |

STOCKTON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS CENTER In the vast region of preserved forests and supports environmental responsibility and wetlands known as the New Jersey Pinelands, preserves Stockton’s natural setting. Sited at the Stockton University is naturally situated to become head of a future campus green, the campus center a leading practitioner of sustainable design. As the has become a destination that greets visitors and college continues to grow, it faces the challenges of fulfills everyday services of the community. creating a campus able to attract top students and faculty, meet the needs of academic and collegiate The design translates the existing forested life, and simultaneously celebrate its integration transition between the college and outside and place in nature. community by using organic, nature-inspired architectural details such as soaring columns The new building provides a place where the topped by outstretched trusses reminiscent of community can truly realize the Stockton tree limbs, and a drop ceiling canopy created from University values and culture. KSS coordinated wood panels. Sustainable design elements include managing the college’s project budget with Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage, an energy- designing a social and cultural center that efficient geothermal heating and cooling system. Location: Pomona, New Jersey Size: 153,000 sf new construction Features: Meeting spaces, Dining facilities, Bookstore, Retail destinations, Theater, Informal hang out spaces, Admissions, Dean of Students, Student services Recognition: Special Citation, American School & University Educational Interiors Showcase. LEED Gold certification. Associate Architect: VMDO Architects| 34



DREW UNIVERSITY EHINGER CENTER ADDITION AND RENOVATION The original University Center at Drew University students a place “to see and be seen” along the aspired to be a living room for the campus that campus walk. Marketplace dining and informal and would welcome all members of the campus formal gathering spaces, like a multipurpose room, community, host events, and encourage students stimulate social interaction and artistic expression. to hang out. Yet the existing one-story building fell short of supporting student activity. Adding to the renovation’s complexity and objectives, the design implements several innovative and The new Ehinger Center has created spaces that economical strategies to give the Ehinger Center the attract and maintain campus flow by capitalizing strong visual presence it needs. For example, ceiling on the building’s coveted site at a crucial hinge heights in select program areas not only increase the between residential and academic buildings on building’s visibility on the exterior, but also benefit the main campus walk and edge of the campus’s the functionality and atmosphere of the space in ancient forests. Through the renovation effort, the interior. The new Ehinger Center provides an program elements, such as lounge areas and a cafe, engaging, lively, and safe environment reflective of have been relocated to the building’s center to give the campus community’s values. Location: Madison, New Jersey Size: 30,000 sf renovation; 3,000 sf addition Features: Performance spaces, Multipurpose room, Pub, Game room, Dining spaces, Mail room and bookstore relocation, Kitchen Recognition: LEED Certified, AIA New Jersey Merit Award 2013| 36

“Now we have a place to have everything.It makes us feel like we’re a real university now. It ties us together now, this is our home. ANDREW BINGER, ’13, STUDENT

| 38

39 |

LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY RICHARD & MARGOT WARCH CAMPUS CENTER Lawrence University wanted to create a place for The campus center embraces Appleton’s history as students to experience its vibrant college community the heart of the papermaking industry by facing the and embrace its natural surroundings. By breaking Fox River. Situated on a hill, the building literally down the building’s large scale into sections emerges from the ground. Its materials embody connected by a glass-enclosed Great Hall, the growth, starting with poured concrete finishes at the design team created a village in which students can foundation and lower levels, locally quarried limestone engage the university’s community, circulating both wall panels at mid-level floors, and finally to soaring horizontally and vertically on its interior “streets” to glass panels to symbolize the sky. An illuminated find places to eat, study, and relax with friends. stair tower at the campus center’s northwest corner beckons students, returning alumni, and the town of Appleton to a place of community and pride. Location: Appleton, Wisconsin Size: 110,000 sf new construction Features: Cafe Bookstore, Dining Hall and servery, Theater Meeting rooms, Multi-purpose room, Student performance space, Convenience store, Gallery, Student lounges Recognition: LEED Gold Certification, U.S. Green Building Council Associate Architect: Uihlein/Wilson Architects| 40



“ The Warch Campus Center is transformational for the campus. We’ve never had a central gathering space that brings the entire community together. Now we have a building that literally the entire campus can fit in.”GREG GRIFFIN, ‘80, CAMPUS CENTER DIRECTOR, LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | 42

43 |

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE DINING SERVICES - [MASTER PLAN + RENOVATIONS] Dining venues play a unique and important role services to provide students with a variety on college campuses. By bringing students, of options that support and improve their faculty and staff together, they help to foster the student services and academic experience while interaction that is so vital to promoting student strengthening the sense of campus community. engagement and campus community. As such, how these venues are designed can have a profound The College understands that students today effect on student success. crave a sense of belonging, and the Lafayette campus life system should strive to give every Recently, Lafayette College engaged Bon Appetit student that sense of being part of a known as its campus-wide food service vendor. This community. The renovation of the dining venues project has fostered the renovation of several will provide a residential life system that fosters dining venues on campus to improve service, to the development of a range of communities that coordinate with the capabilities and processes of provide a platform for intellectual engagement, its new food vendor, and to promote an updated friendship, and bonding. aesthetic consistent with the college’s mission and identity. The renovations will enhance dining SUPPORT ENTERTAINMENT IMPROVE FOSTERCONNECTIVITY COMMUNITY RELOCATE PROJECT COMFORTABLESTUDENT HUB GOALS SEATINGS FOOD LAFAYETTE ACCESS STORY HEALTHY FOOD PROJECT GOALS: foster communityprovide attractive, comfortable seating tell the Lafayette story provide fresh, healthy food provide variety of food access support robust use of Farinon improve connectivity support entertainment Location: Easton, Pennsylvania Size: 60,400 sf existing building Features: Lounges, Meeting spaces, Dining facilities, Bookstore, Retail destinations, Student Organizations, Theater, Student services. Design and implementation of 4 dining halls; 900 seats, appox. 20,000 sf total | 44

LOWER FARINONCAFE, GRAB + GO, HOT + COLD, SUSHI... COMMUNITY DINING, GRAB + GO LATE NIGHTINFORMAL, COMFORTABLEUPPER FARINONBOARD DINING, HOT + COLD, CHEF SPECIALS...UNIQUE, FRESH, HANG-OUT, COMMUNITYSPECIAL LOCAL, VARIETY RE-FRESHKIRBYCAFE, COFFEE, GRAB+GO, HOT + COLD...COMMUNITY FRESH INTIMATE MEET STUDY SEE + BE SEEN RELAXMARQUIS HALLBOARD DINING, EVENTS, FACULTY DINING ...FELLOWSHIP IDENTITY EVENTS COLLEGIALITY HERITAGE 45 |

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE COLLEGE CENTER MASTER PLAN The Farinon College Center originally opened Farinon College Center has the potential to serve in 1991 with great fanfare and after much as the center for campus life, provide students anticipation. Twenty-three years later and nearly with cultural, social, recreational, educational, 15,000 Lafayette graduates later, it is well used and leadership programming that complements and is currently well worn. Built to support a students’ academic experiences. To be the center pre-Internet generation of students, the Farinon of the co-curricular experience, a space for College Center has undergone minor renovations, engaging in conversations and creating memorable but now requires a more complete review— events. physically and programmatically—to support the current generation of students and those to come. The goals for Farinon College Center are to: The College is not looking to reconstruct the • Provide a place to foster community Farinon College Center, but to refresh it, with a • Provide modern, clean and communal dining focus on the importance of creating communities in spaces and quality services a liberal arts college today and many years into the • Create inviting spaces of a diverse campus future. • Create efficient and inviting student service office • Integrate technology throughout the building. Location: Easton, Pennsylvania Size: Master Planning Study for 60,400 sf existing building Features: Lounges, Meeting spaces, Dining facilities, Bookstore, Retail destinations, Student Organizations, Theater, Student services| 46

would you rather what colors sit down with do you want to be around? friends or take itwhere do you to go?feel at home? where do you where do you want to hang prefer to read? out with friends?“TASTE TEST” 47 | LEGEND SUPPORT SPACE STUDENT SER- BOOKSTORE COMPUTER LAB POST OFFICE MEETING MEETING ROOM EVENT ROOM / THE- ATER PUBLIC LOBBY LOUNGE FOOD SER- KITCHEN SERVERY DINING SEATING ADMINISTRA- STUDENT LEAD- STUDENT ORGANIZA- RESIDENCE LIFEEXISTING SPACE ANALYSIS LEGEND SUPPORT SPACE STUDENT SER- BOOKSTORE COMPUTER LAB POST OFFICE MEETING MEETING ROOM EVENT ROOM / THE- ATER PUBLIC LOBBY LOUNGE FOOD SER- KITCHEN SERVERY DINING SEATING ADMINISTRA- STUDENT LEAD- STUDENT ORGANIZA- RESIDENCE LIFEPROPOSED PLAN

ACUI 2013 NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATION VISIONING + PROGRAMMING The campus center is an invaluable asset to institutions for enhancing community, academic excellence, marketability and recruitment. With online options on the rise, colleges and universities are seeking new ways to build engagement and community on campus. Following is a brief introduction to our visioning approach to access how your building is making a difference. Project Considerations: • Understand the role campus centers play in advancing university mission, recruitment and building community • Understand how to assess whether your campus center is enhancing community on campus • Recognize how to refute the recent push for online education which ignores the value of campus community • Learn how your facility measures up against current research on recently completed campus centers. • Capture new strategies for building community on campustellyourstory embraceyourvalues showcasecampuslife heartofthecampus information welcome embody culture collaborateengage transform timeless center refine identity vibranthanging out academic success foster student leadership alumnistudentaffairsoffices celebrate heritage community fellowshipexpression transparent connection commons createafrontdoorsong acappella welcome campus admissions toembodycultural+architectural heritage warm support student learning engaginglounge drink coffee meet greet collaborate connect the streetenrichinglives expression studentorganizations kiosk thebookstorerecruit coffeehouse community avibrantexcitingheart+centermakingplace welcome gathering place embracingideals+valuesacademics mission architecturalshowpiece iconic improve campus life game transparent flexible comfortable celebrate fostering community| 48