Gates Center

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Gates Center

• Faculty Lunch Jan. 19, 2005

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Outline

• Location, Size and Massing
• Architect Selection/Timeline
• The Interior Space What do we want?

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SCS Building Committee

• Small committee
• Guy Blelloch (Chair)
• Randy Bryant
• Sharon Burks
• Peter Lee
• Jim Skees
• Manuela Veloso
• ???
• Everyone is encouraged to give input.

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Proposal Design
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A Hiccup
West Campus
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• Looks like the building will be 200-220K Gross
  Square Feet (GSF)
• Original Proposal 150K
• Wean Hall 290K (We have about ½)
• NSH 155K
• With 220K we would still have to keep about 30K
  of Wean Hall. With 150K we would have to keep
  about 100K.
• Note Assignable Square Feet (ASF) .6 GSF

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• Exactly what parts of SCS move into the new
  building has not yet been decided

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Deciding on the Massing
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Some Constraints
Maintain Alignment and create pathway
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Some Constraints
Preserve view of Oakland??
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Some Goals
Create a SCS quad with greenspace
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Some Goals
Indoor above grade Connection to NSH
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Some Goals
Easy Connection to the Cut
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Some Goals
Visitors entrance on Forbes
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Some Goals
Underground Parking
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Some Constraints
Accessible undergraduate core
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Some Constraints
Lots of light and nice views
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Example Design
bridge
Terrace even with cut (3 floors below)
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Connections
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Undergraduate core
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Greenspace and views
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Selecting an Architect

• A Committee Headed by Christina Gabriel
• SCS Peter Lee, Randy Bryant, Guy Blelloch
• Trustees Lucian Caste, Oscar Harris
• Architecture Gerard Damiani, Laura Lee
• FMS Paul Tellers
• Request for Qualifications (sent and received)
• Select final 3-5 by February

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Original Timeline
Jan 05
Jan 06
Jan 07
Jan 08
Jan 09
completion
architect selected
schematic design
construction docs
groundbreaking
our input into the design
fundraising
Probably a month or two behind
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Interior Organization

• Many Questions
• Special Wishes
• Grouping
• Types of common spaces
• Conference room features and sizes
• Undergraduate/Research connecitivity
• Time Critical How do these affect the layout

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UC Berkeley
5 Levels of Detail
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Function
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Groups
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Rectangles
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Sketch
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Floor Plan
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UW Allen Center
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UCSD
UCSD
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Stata Center (MIT) Student Street
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