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Ithaca College

Athletics and Events Center

Details
Ithaca, NY
Location
179,000 SF
Size
LEED Gold
Certification
Awards
Learning by Design
Honorable Mention Award
Recreation Management
Innovative Architecture & Design Award
American School & University Educational Interiors Showcase
Outstanding Design
2012
National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA)
Honor Award
2012

A symbol of campus identity in a sustainable campus neighborhood.

 

Located within a hillside, the facility promotes wellbeing of people and planet, designed to minimize the impact on wetlands, woods, and neighboring residences.

Like the athletes it serves, the collegiate center draws life from breathing, facilitating air movement through natural ventilation while creating a light-filled campus icon. Both in materiality and transparency, the building nods to the surrounding hilly and wooded landscape.

A Campus Anchor and Pedestrian Hub

The structure is set into the ground to reduce the project scale, accentuating the tower while creating a meaningful iconic element for the college. The main hall gathering space is a main central control point for the building where both the community and campus enter.

Beneath the central tower a vibrant central public space flows from inside to out, linking to campus, and overlooking new and future athletics fields, while establishing a backbone framework for future expansions.

Letting it Breathe

The field house uses natural ventilation powered by the stack effect of warm air rising to expel warmer hotter air out of the higher louvers in the core tower with minimum mechanical means as cooler air is drawn into the building through lower louvers on the prevailing wind side of the building. The height of the tower allows for differential air pressure to create the airflow and takes advantage of higher wind speeds at the height of the louvers – much like a chimney.

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