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Walsh College
Architect Valerio Dewalt
Train Associates
Client Walsh College
Where Troy, Michigan
What 28,600 square feet of
new construction and 30,000
square feet of renovation on
two floors
Cost/sf $211
For a full project source
list, see page 76 or visit
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corridors that access every area of the school. These internal
connectors establish three zones. The south pavilion houses the
Success Center-a classroom for teaching communications skills,
which extends out to a patio area facing the street. The student lounge
is in the middle pavilion. And the welcome center's public entrance
is within the north pavilion. From the exterior, the pavilion facades
are defined with floor-to-ceiling glass curtain walls, canted masonry,
and sloping metal panels. The nighttime streetscape is important,
with open interiors appearing bright, vibrant, and active after dark
when most students are present.

Student Services (above,
left, and opposite, bottom)
and the Technology Help Desk
(left) provide comprehensive
assistance to current and
incoming students.
Surrounding the Success
Center, breakout rooms
(opposite, top) accommodate
both individual and group
study sessions. Colors from
the linear carpet gradient
(above, right) are echoed
in the upholstery of
lounge furnshings.

Corporate, but cool
VDTA Principal-in-Charge Christine McGrath Breuer, AIA, employed
strong, bold gestures throughout the interior while providing many
non-traditional sitting spaces for both formal and informal collaborative
study outside of the classroom. Linear patterned carpeting runs
counter to the direction of the east-west paths, with the same pattern
appearing throughout the entire complex. But the pattern's color
receives varying gradients that help define specific places. The
designers emphasized the circulation paths with linear wooden
slat ceilings that mark the direction of travel. Lower ceilings help
to delineate specific locales, such as the lounge and meeting areas.
"We chose to limit materials and use them consistently," Breuer says.
VDTA's in-house Media Objectives Studio, involved with the
project from its inception, developed custom graphics and branding.
Tailored to specific uses, graphics include varied patterns across
interior glass partitions providing different levels of opacity.
Walsh students now enjoy contemporary interior environments
that are typically found in the most advanced business workplaces.
As corporations are thinking more like college campuses, this college
was designed to appear more like a business. "We're all business; there
are no foosball tables," Stout says. "It's cool, but it's corporate." c

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Editorial
Industry News
Designers You Should Know: PELLE
Columnist: Takeaways for Designers from the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show
Product Focus: Learn by Doing
Product Briefs
Walsh College
Beus Center for Law and Society at Arizona State University
Loyola Marymount University Life Sciences
Parkside Student Residence
Designers Select: Education Solutions
Sources
Ad Index
First Phase of Richelieu Library Extensive Renovation Opens in Paris
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