Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Behnisch Architekten Completes John and Frances Angelos Law Center for the University of Baltimore
0 comments Posted by swl at 10:45 PM
Aside from its eye-catching exterior, the 192,000 sq.ft. (17,837 m²) structure at the urban center of Baltimore is full of revolutionary features—like its sustainable technology and its numerous state-of-the-art educational facilities—as described in the official press release below.
The building form consists of three interlocking L-shaped volumes which articulate the functions of the building program – classrooms and offices, the legal clinic, and the law library – and define a narrow atrium, a "green stalk" rising up through the heart of the building and connecting the three volumes. In addition to its function as the connective tissue between program spaces, the atrium also captures the lobby, two coffee bars (forum level and Level 6) and informal work and meeting spaces..." to find out more...
Images & passage via Bustler
Saturday, June 2, 2012
This atrium contributes to an emotional and entertaining spatial experience that is beyond the common daily experiencing. Beside the transportation function, it is the vagueness and uncertainty that also provide a number of possibilities in spatial utilization. The external form and the façade represent the inevitability to the internal relation aswell. Apart from the two separated shapes of this architecture, the constantly transformed height among different floors is been represented onto the façade as well...." to find out more...
images & passage via archdaily
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