Nursing + Allied Health Building, Harford Community College Bel Air ...
Nursing + Allied Health Building, Harford Community College Bel Air, Maryland Institutional Architecture The Nursing + Allied Health Center at Harford Community College will be the NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT for multi-discipline health related curriculums. The 50,000sf 3-story new building consists of a simulation center, laboratories, active-learning classrooms, conference center and a learning commons. The simulation center and laboratories create a real workplace context for nursing teams to practice and perform skills, and the active learning classrooms CONCENTRATE LEARNING THROUGH GROUP EXERCISES. The focus on MULTI-DISCIPLINARY student team projects create the need for space dedicated to outside-the-classroom collaboration. The learning commons is the central spine and contains a VARIETY of ENHANCED LEARNING SPACES. Glass enclosed group study rooms, with FLOOR-TO-CEILING MARKER SURFACES, are technology and projection capable. A three-story light well contains learning stair, which connects the first and second floor offering an informal space for team meetings, individual study or an impromptu lecture. LEARNING NOOKS appear as café booths with a wall-mounted screen for technology assisted work, and are located along the corridor for that SERENDIPITOUS FACULTY MEETING. Student lounges with soft movable furniture allow students to create their own group study space.
PUBLIC / MAIN ENTRY
SITE PLAN The design of the Nursing + Allied Health Building begins at the scale of the campus. NO BUILDING SITS ALONE, it is INFLUENCED BY and RESPONDS TO its SURROUNDINGS. The building INTEGRATES and CREATES meaningful outdoor learning environments. Its location allows the building to act as FILTER between the public and the campus. It is both an ICON and a GATEWAY.
FALLSTON HALL
EDGEWOOD HALL
NEW ACADEMIC QUAD
PU BLIC
At the scale of the building, we know learning does not stop at the classroom/lab door. It occurs throughout the building and in the landscape. The organization of these formal and informal spaces CREATES LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES that FOSTER COLLABORATION between students, as well as between students and teachers. Active learning classrooms EMPOWER STUDENTS to construct their own learning in collaborative and creative problem-solving exercises. Informal student and group study spaces are also provided throughout the central atrium. Glass-enclosed group study rooms, technology enhanced booths, stadium seating facing the quadrangle and nexus spaces with moveable soft furniture invite students to CUSTOMIZE THEIR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT outside of class.
CAMPUS
The building houses a two-year nursing program as well as credit and non-credit Allied Health programs. The non-credit program is on the first floor, while the credit program is on the third. The second floor is SHARED between both programs and other departments in the college. ELEVATING THE PUBLIC REALM to the second floor gives EQUAL ACCESS to both programs. Openings within each floor connect all three, CREATING A WHOLE OUT OF THE SUM OF THE PARTS.
COMMON SPACES
CREDIT CLASSROOMS, OFFICES, + LABS
CHESAPEAKE HALL
3
RD
SHARED CLASSROOMS
LEARNING SPACES
1
ST
FUTURE BUILDING
NON-CREDIT CLASSROOMS, OFFICES, + LABS
2
ND
MATERIAL ARTICULATION TO CREATE SENSE OF HUMAN SCALE
N
CAMPUS ENTRY
MAIN ENTRY + SOUTH FACADE
MATERIALITY + TECTONICS
MATERIALITY + TECTONICS
MATERIALITY + TECTONICS
MATERIALITY + TECTONICS
FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1. SIMULATION LABS 2. DEBRIEF ROOMS 3. ACTIVE LEARNING CLASSROOMS 4. COLLABORATIVE SPACE 5. OFFICES 6. MECHANICAL 7. PUBLIC / MAIN ENTRY 8. CAMPUS ENTRY
5
4
2
1
1
1 8
4 1
2
2
4 3
3
4 6
7
N
LEARNING COMMONS - level 2
LEARNING STAIR
LEARNING COMMONS
SECOND FLOOR PLAN 4. COLLABORATIVE SPACE 1. SIMULATION LABS
5. OFFICES
2. DEBRIEF ROOMS
6. CONFERENCE ROOM
3. ACTIVE LEARNING CLASSROOMS
7. OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
3
3
3
3
5
4
4
4 4
4
“CAFE BOOTHS”
7
3
4
4
3
4
6
7
6
3
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
1
2
1
2
5
4 4 44 4
4 1 INFORMAL LEARNING
GROUND STUDY ROOMS
LEARNING COMMONS - level 2
1
1
5
3
N
LEARNING COMMONS - “NOOKS + BOOTHS”
CONTROL ROOM
NURSING LAB
OB + PEDS SIMULATION LAB
DEBRIEF ROOM - LOOKING INTO SIMULATION LAB
NURSING LAB - COLLABORATIVE SPACE
PUBLIC / MAIN ENTRY
PUBLIC / MAIN ENTRY
SITE PLAN The design of the Nursing + Allied Health Building begins at the scale of the campus. NO BUILDING SITS ALONE, it is INFLUENCED BY and RESPONDS TO its SURROUNDINGS. The building INTEGRATES and CREATES meaningful outdoor learning environments. Its location allows the building to act as FILTER between the public and the campus. It is both an ICON and a GATEWAY.
FALLSTON HALL
EDGEWOOD HALL
NEW ACADEMIC QUAD
PU BLIC
At the scale of the building, we know learning does not stop at the classroom/lab door. It occurs throughout the building and in the landscape. The organization of these formal and informal spaces CREATES LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES that FOSTER COLLABORATION between students, as well as between students and teachers. Active learning classrooms EMPOWER STUDENTS to construct their own learning in collaborative and creative problem-solving exercises. Informal student and group study spaces are also provided throughout the central atrium. Glass-enclosed group study rooms, technology enhanced booths, stadium seating facing the quadrangle and nexus spaces with moveable soft furniture invite students to CUSTOMIZE THEIR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT outside of class.
CAMPUS
The building houses a two-year nursing program as well as credit and non-credit Allied Health programs. The non-credit program is on the first floor, while the credit program is on the third. The second floor is SHARED between both programs and other departments in the college. ELEVATING THE PUBLIC REALM to the second floor gives EQUAL ACCESS to both programs. Openings within each floor connect all three, CREATING A WHOLE OUT OF THE SUM OF THE PARTS.
COMMON SPACES
CREDIT CLASSROOMS, OFFICES, + LABS
CHESAPEAKE HALL
3
RD
SHARED CLASSROOMS
LEARNING SPACES
1
ST
FUTURE BUILDING
NON-CREDIT CLASSROOMS, OFFICES, + LABS
2
ND
MATERIAL ARTICULATION TO CREATE SENSE OF HUMAN SCALE
N
CAMPUS ENTRY
MAIN ENTRY + SOUTH FACADE
MATERIALITY + TECTONICS
MATERIALITY + TECTONICS
MATERIALITY + TECTONICS
MATERIALITY + TECTONICS
FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1. SIMULATION LABS 2. DEBRIEF ROOMS 3. ACTIVE LEARNING CLASSROOMS 4. COLLABORATIVE SPACE 5. OFFICES 6. MECHANICAL 7. PUBLIC / MAIN ENTRY 8. CAMPUS ENTRY
5
4
2
1
1
1 8
4 1
2
2
4 3
3
4 6
7
N
LEARNING COMMONS - level 2
LEARNING STAIR
LEARNING COMMONS
SECOND FLOOR PLAN 4. COLLABORATIVE SPACE 1. SIMULATION LABS
5. OFFICES
2. DEBRIEF ROOMS
6. CONFERENCE ROOM
3. ACTIVE LEARNING CLASSROOMS
7. OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
3
3
3
3
5
4
4
4 4
4
“CAFE BOOTHS”
7
3
4
4
3
4
6
7
6
3
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
1
2
1
2
5
4 4 44 4
4 1 INFORMAL LEARNING
GROUND STUDY ROOMS
LEARNING COMMONS - level 2
1
1
5
3
N
LEARNING COMMONS - “NOOKS + BOOTHS”
CONTROL ROOM
NURSING LAB
OB + PEDS SIMULATION LAB
DEBRIEF ROOM - LOOKING INTO SIMULATION LAB
NURSING LAB - COLLABORATIVE SPACE
PUBLIC / MAIN ENTRY
