The Magazine of ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN INSIDE LOOK: Three new additions to MSU

November 2011

MSU continually strives to improve its campus through modern architecture

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The overall design is very environmentally focused with better

insulation and a green roof. Large portions of the four-story

addition are all glass. Natural sunlight will reach further

into the building than just the perimeter, allowing for those

inside to engage with the landscape outdoors. To reinforce

connectivity between the existing Wells Hall floors, the

top three stories will contain a communication space with

break-out seating and art display.

“Wells Hall was supposed to be a place on campus that represented

the most innovative teaching space,” said President Lou Anna K.

Simon. “What we’re doing is going back to the sense of that

building and assuring that the most cutting-edge technology

for the 21st century for teaching and learning is a part of

that.” This $38 million relocation project will shuffle around

a few departments on campus, but will be a new learning

place that all will want to be a part of.

In 2010, Michigan State Board of Trustees approved the plan to demolish Morrill Hall on the north end of campus. Morrill Hall currently houses the English and History departments. Tt was decided to expand the existing Wells Hall to make space for these departments. Lead designer Hamilton Anderson Associates has come up with an expansion design that will create a greater sense of community between students, faculty and staff. expansion

The Wells Hall Expansion will create better

connectivity between the two existing wings.

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Due to the nationwide

nursing shortage, Michigan State has

planned to increase its nursing learning space

with a Life Science Building addition. The Bott Building

for Nursing Education and Research will link to the existing Life

Science Building and contain 50,000 square feet of research labs, classrooms

and conference spaces. “The Bott Building will be a nucleus for where the nursing

community – students, faculty, staff, alumni, partners and stakeholders – can come

together and influence healthcare,” MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said.

“It will be a magnet for new nursing researchers, scholars, practitioners and

teachers.” The Bott Building will also be the first building on campus

to use ground-source geothermal energy for heating and cooling. The

piping system for this will be placed under a nearby field, and will

transfer geothermal energy from the ground for use in the building.

Construction began at the official groundbreaking in May of 2011

and the Bott Building will be occupied by the end of 2012.

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Granger Construction Company will handle all work related to the Bott Building installation. However, none of this construction would be possible without the generous gift of $7 million from the Timothy & Bernadette Marquez Foundation and $7.45 million from the National Institute of Health. Overall, 850 donors have contributed to the Life Science addition effort. There has been a large amount of support for this project, and there is a general hope that it will help severely reduce the nursing shortage in this country. All seem to be on board for the continuing education of nursing students through modern technology and resources aimed to improve health care. Watch construction progress at construction.msu.

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It doesn’t come as a surprise that business leaders

Eli and Edythe Broad are at it again in their generous

philanthropy to Michigan State University. Twenty

short years ago, the Broads endowed The Eli Broad

College of Business and The Eli Broad Graduate

School of Management at MSU. Years later, they

announced a $26 million gift to create the Eli and

Edythe Broad Modern Art Museum on campus.

Thrilled with this generous gift, Michigan State

turned to design critic Joseph Giovannini to judge an

architectural competition for the look of the museum.

Architectural firms were asked to create a concept

that would drastically stand out from the tradition

campus buildings to honor the connection of old to

new. There were five finalist firms, but the winner

was Londoner architect Zaha Hadid.

The museum’s construction will

be completed Spring of 2012

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Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect whose largest focus is the working of spacial

concepts through urban design and architecture. Her architectural design firm,

Zaha Hadid Architects, contains roughly 350 people who plan and execute

her design. Hadid is also a professor at the University of Applied Arts

Vienna in Austria. She has designed for the fashion, automobile and

furniture industries, spanning her work across multiple mediums

throughout her career. She has won countless architectural

awards. Most notably, in 2004 she became the first

woman to ever receive a Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Hadid’s design for the Broad Art Museum highlights

circulatory and visual connections that make up its

structure. This sparks the curiosity of passerby by never

fully revealing the museum’s content from the outdoors.

Its modern nature will juxtapose perfectly with the

surrounding gothic architecture that Michigan State is

known for. The Eli & Edythe Broad Modern Art Museum

will house the contemporary art of both students and

professionals alike. Its grand opening is in 2012, and will

be a great addition to Michigan State University.

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