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Area
337,200–382,200 gsf
The New CoE Building would provide programmatic flexibility, pursue net zero carbon emissions, and serve as innovation incubator and teaching tool through its visible measures to communicate the building’s performance.
The lower half of the building would house a variety of social, teaching, workplace, and maker spaces for students and faculty, while the upper half of the building would support advanced research, technological advancement, and industry collaboration.
We explored a variety of initial massing approaches to understand the potential of scale and volume on the site.
Its design would implement CoE’s mission to provide a student-centric intellectual and social hub, where cross-disciplinary research is accessible and visible to the wider campus community and industry partners.
CoE envisions the new building as a transformative headquarters that provides palpable college identity and serves as a campus gateway.
As the college leadership has implemented a pedagogical shift to prioritize spaces that encourage on-campus collaboration and participation, so must its facilities.
College of Engineering Study
Spread across 11 existing facilities, Drexel University’s College of Engineering (CoE) is an academic keystone and active contributor to the University’s status as an premier research institution. In evaluating CoE’s aging and decentralized facilities, an ambitious 10-year Master Plan was developed to understand its current and future needs and aspirations, and then formulate an actionable and phased plan to address them through a combination of renovations, leased space, and the construction of a new CoE Building.