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Area
88,500 sf
Certification
LEED Silver
In the Media
Design Profile, Context Magazine
Award for Design Excellence
AIA Pennsylvania
Many spatial features of the original building were honored through improved circulation, reestablishing relationships to the grand windows, and by placing activity spaces in key locations.
New infrastructure pathways are carefully introduced into the renovation so that the character of existing masonry walls and original ceilings are compromised as little as possible.
Originally built with little infrastructure, Chandler Ullmann Hall had endured over a century of accretive layers of ductwork, wiring, devices, and lighting—all of which had lost its usefulness.
Chandler-Ullmann Hall
Lehigh University
At the historic center of Lehigh University’s campus, Chandler Ullmann Hall stands out with iconic red brick chimneys that identify it as one of the first collegiate chemistry buildings in the country, unique for its innovations in ventilation and safety. The original T-shaped building, designed by Addison Hutton, opened in 1883 with later additions for a West Wing in 1919 and an East Wing in 1937. While continually occupied by academic departments for over a century, during the past several decades it became tired, ineffective, and unloved. The entire building is renovated and selectively restored for new use as the home of the Department of Psychology and the Department of Math, both popular undergraduate programs requiring classrooms, faculty offices, and labs.