Berkeley, California
The Student Community Center project is a student-based initiative that calls for recasting the existing facilities at Lower Sproul Plaza into a revitalized and state-of-the-art facility combining both new construction and adaptive reuse strategies. The project design is rooted in sustainable practices and is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification. The project encompasses a site area of approximately 184,000 sf and includes a replacement to the existing Eshleman Hall, renovations and additions to the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, the plaza deck itself, and minor renovations to Cesar Chavez Student Center and Anthony Hall.
The proposed scheme calls for a series of careful interventions combined with the adaptive reuse of approximately 200,000 sf of existing buildings and approximately 90,000 sf of new construction. The existing 8-story Eshleman Hall is in poor seismic condition and will be replaced with a lower, more porous and transparent 6-story building that will have built-in flexibility for the sharing of spaces between various student organizations. The MLK Student Union will be transformed on its west and south sides from its current solid mass to a series of semi-transparent glass additions housing retail and dining spaces, presenting an active and open public face to Lower Sproul Plaza and the adjacent urban streetscape of Bancroft Way.
Project responsibilities involved collaboration with the project team on the architectural design of Eshleman Hall, and assistance with Revit modeling, renderings, client presentations, the 100% Design Development package, and the 50% Construction Documents package.
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Site Plan |
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South Elevation |
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Student Organization Offices |
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Student Organization Diagram |
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Aerial View of Site |
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Eshleman Hall at Dusk |
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Site Model Showing Program Elements |
| Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners |
2012 |
| Client | University of California |
| Project Principal | Mario Violich |
| Project Manager | Richard Destin |
| Project Architect | Clay Holden |
| Renderings | Shimahara Illustration, Moore Ruble Yudell |
| Watercolor Illustrations | Al Forster |