新霍普金斯学生中心（“The Village”）丨马里丨BIG 比亚克·英格斯集团等

BIG selected to design new Hopkins Student Center

Image from the design competition submission by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.

It appears to be a big week for student center design announcements: after

Rice University revealed

its pick of Adjaye Associates to replace the Rice Memorial Center in Houston with a three-story structure, now Baltimore's

Johns Hopkins University

presented renderings for the new Hopkins Student Center, designed by

BIG

.

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Dubbed "The Village," the proposal was chosen as the winner of an international design competition led by a special advisory committee which took into consideration more than 1,200 student, faculty, staff, and alumni responses to the four finalist design proposals.

BIG's competition team also includes

Shepley Bulfinch

as Architect of Record,

Rockwell Group

as Interior Architects, and

Michael Van Valkenburg Associates

as Landscape Architects.

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

"The approximately 150,000-square-foot building will include spaces for relaxation and socialization, creative and performing arts spaces, student resources and support services, lounges, a digital media center, a performance space with seating for 200 people, and a dynamic dining hall that connects directly onto a new plaza along Charles Street," explains the project description. "The facility will satisfy the long-acknowledged need for a true non-academic gathering spot on the university’s Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland."

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Johns Hopkins University's President, Ronald J Daniels, praised the design, saying: "This will be a new kind of space for us—one that is not academically focused but entirely social by design, open to all, reserved for none, and boasting the kind of flexible spaces that invite connection and collaboration, this will be a place where athletes and actors, step teams and SGA members can gather side by side."

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

From the project description: "Located just south of the iconic open space on the Johns Hopkins campus known as 'The Beach' at the intersection of 33rd and Charles Streets, the facility will foster greater connectivity between the campus and the neighboring Charles Village community by creating a prominent, welcoming new entry point at 33rd Street. It will turn an area of the campus into a dynamic hub at the crossroads of student activity. As a natural gateway, the area will connect Charles Village and more than 3,500 Hopkins students who live in the neighborhood, to the heart of the Homewood campus."

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

"The Village is conceived as a central living room surrounded by a collection of spaces tailored to the needs of the Hopkins community. The building negotiates the sloping grade of the site to allow direct entry from all four levels of the building, while maintaining a friendly human scale and providing several accessible routes across the site. Arriving on Charles Street, students and visitors are greeted by an open building façade with dining areas spilling out onto a sun-splashed plaza."

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

"The entrance of The Village opens into a cascading interior landscape of dining, performance, lounging, and socializing. The mass timber structure provides a warm and acoustically comfortable environment as light filters in between the photovoltaic roof panels—features that help to meet the university’s larger sustainability goals."

Image by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Construction on the new Hopkins Student Center is set to commence in Spring 2022 and last until Fall 2024.