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ENZI EDUCATIONAL FACILITY [STEM] University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming
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UNIVERSITY BACKSTORY Maximizing Impact of Funds
When the state of Wyoming decided it would fund a science facility at the University of Wyoming, University leadership made a strategic decision: the University would focus the new facility on first and second year STEM lab courses which would impact the greatest number of students and achieve the maximum bang for the buck. As an additional benefit, the relocated lab courses would release space in existing buildings to enhance upper division courses and provide expanded research space. In honor of Wyoming’s long-standing champion of education, the facility was to be named for United States Senator Michael Enzi.
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Catalyst for Science Project
“The center of mass at UW is changing…about 1/9th of the student body will be located north of Lewis Street.” Bryan Shader, Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research and Economic Development
The project was intended to be a foothold for University expansion to the north side of Lewis Street, an area slated for campus expansion. A site was selected at the threshold between the historic and future portions of the campus so that the Enzi project could act as a catalyst for development north of Lewis and could begin to transition the area from automobile-dominated to a pedestrian campus environment.
Right UW Long Range Development Plan
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A “Gateway” Program
“Virtually every student who comes to UW will take…two or three courses that meet there.” Bryan Shader, Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research and Economic Development
The building would house the University’s core lower-division lab classes in Physics, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science and Math, which are foundational to many areas of study. The facility was to become a gateway for science majors at the school: it should make the excitement of science palpable, so that more students might choose to continue to study science as an upper-division specialization
Left Connections between labs, collaboration areas and computational rooms at the Enzi facility
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DESIGN UNDERPINNINGS Building as Geode
The project is a kind of “geode.” The exterior of the building continues the University’s longstanding masonry tradition and is characterized by the solidity of the stone container. In contrast, the interior reveals the excitement of the science within and is characterized by transparency, daylight and connecting views. Once inside, one can simultaneously see computer-programmers projecting code, physics students measuring experiments and chemistry students transforming chemical compounds.
Left Center of the “Geode”: an open atrium surrounded by labs
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A Gathering Place for Science
“Everybody wants to be here. You can try almost everything in here.” Larry Blake, Campus Architect
The project is organized around a central hall, dubbed the “hearth” because it is the gathering place for the building. The hearth is multi-story, connecting departments which reside on different floors. Some of the time, the space is used as a student study space where people work on problem sets together or catch up on reading before starting a lab. At other times, furniture is re-arranged to accommodate guest speakers or the University’s summer outreach science fair. Teams of students can cluster around glass marker boards to work on group projects. It is the heart of the facility.
Left Gathering Space
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Floor Plans
Level 1 | Site Plan
Level 2
Level 3
Lewis Street
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Teaching Labs
Lab Support Spaces
Computational Labs
Collaboration Areas
Offices
The Design Team conducted iterative, participatory workshops to develop the floorplans which provide for 32 technology-enabled lower division laboratories for Biology, Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Computer Science and Mathematics. The laboratories and
building infrastructure are designed on a modular basis for both initial flexibility and long-term adaptability to support change over the life of the building.
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Stem Suites
Life Sciences Laboratory
Collaboration / Presentation Areas
Study Carrels
Computational Laboratory
“It is, by far, the most advanced class-laboratory building on campus.” Larry Blake, Campus Architect
A set of spaces forming one side of the central gathering space addresses a new paradigm for higher education science learning. In that suite, science laboratories, computer labs and student work / meeting areas are carefully grouped, then connected with moveable glass walls. The suite of
spaces allows students to work in the manner of professional scientists: there is a free-flow of work between physical experimentation in labs, digital modeling in computational spaces, and group collaboration and presentation in meeting areas.
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An Ecosystem of Study Spaces
“Students actually go to the Enzi building just to study.That never happened with our old teaching facilities.” Daniel Dale, Professor of Physics & Astronomy
Student study occurs across a wide spectrum of spaces: studying for an exam may best be done in secluded study carrels, working on problem sets might occur in groups around markerboards or monitors, catching up on reading assignments may simply require a comfortable chair and good lighting. The project provides a wide spectrum of student study spaces, establishing a rich “ecosystem” of student study space that supports the building’s laboratories. In the STEM Suites, students can move pivoting walls to re-shape the study spaces to their needs.
Left Collaboration area supporting Physics STEM Suite
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A Stone Container
The University of Wyoming has strict requirements for connecting to its traditions. New buildings must utilize the campus’s red-orange sandstone, laid in a random ashlar pattern.The Enzi building embraces the notion of a stone container and expands upon the University’s traditions. Openings for typical lab program spaces are made with vertical cuts in the stone skin extending from the top or bottom of the wall; openings for unique spaces or special views are created in a contrasting manner with projecting aluminum window bays.
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Connecting to Past and Future
In addition to the material traditions of the University, the Design Team was asked to connect to the University’s formal traditions, as represented in a few key touchstone buildings. The design strikes a nuanced balance between rooting in the campus’s past, but doing so in an abstract way that also connects to the forward-looking nature of science.
Above Historic Aven Nelson Hall near Enzi Educational Facility
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Celebrating Circulation
With over 900 students accommodated for a given lab period, passing periods are a highly active time. The project showcases these kinetics with a glass elevator, open stairs, and visually charged corridors characterized by distinct color schemes. Tackable walls, windows into labs and padded benches add interest in these circulation spaces.
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Heat Recovery Heat exchangers allow air handlers to recover or reject heat to the exhaust air stream as needed.
Reduced Fan Speeds Air handlers are oversized to allow for reduced fan speeds. Fan speed has a cubic relationship to energy savings, so a small speed savings pays big dividends.
Daylight For All All primary program spaces are directly or indirectly daylit, reducing electrical lighting needs.
High Performance Shell Walls with a U-value of 0.023 and a fluid-applied, field- commissioned air infiltration barrier mitigate the sometimes harsh Wyoming climate.
Split Penthouse Dividing the penthouse into two shortens the distance between HVAC equipment and labs, reducing duct lengths and losses in static pressure.
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SUSTAINABILITY
25% projected energy savings below ASHRAE 90.1 2007 baseline
The central sustainability challenge for the Enzi project is energy usage, primarily driven by the mechanical exhaust requirements needed to maintain a healthy working laboratory environment. At the core of the building’s approach to sustainability is an effort to reduce this energy usage. Through a combination of strategies, the building is projected to achieve energy savings amounting to 25% below the ASHRAE 90.1 2007 baseline established by LEED 2009. In addition to energy reduction, the building incorporates an array of other sustainability strategies in areas such as water efficiency, material choices and indoor environmental quality. The project is designed to LEED Silver certification under LEED 2009 criteria.
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LABORATORIES Enhanced Prep Rooms
Laboratories are clustered in the building by lab type around centralized prep rooms. Lab Coordinators can conveniently circulate between prep rooms and laboratories using a “ghost corridor”: a path of doors and aisle ways at the backs of the labs. The prep rooms need to be efficient and safe, but they are also places where coordinators spend long hours and, as such, they need to be pleasant places to be. In the Enzi building, these rooms are filled with daylight and connected to views of the outdoors and to activities in adjacent labs.
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Life Science Central Prep Room
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General Chemistry Prep Room
Heavy-duty adjustable shelving with safety edging for storage of glassware, consumables, and chemical reagents
Perimeter bench with two sinks and under-counter glassware washer
Generous windows provide natural daylighting and access to views for Lab Coordinators
for cleaning of laboratory glassware
Doors at each end of Central Prep Room connect with ‘ghost corridors’ in adjacent General Chemistry teaching laboratories for ease of service access
Lab Coordinator Office with ample windows providing access to borrowed natural light and ease of monitoring staff and work study students
Two 6’-0”wide chemical fume hoods for safe preparation of chemical solutions for use in the Chemistry teaching laboratories
Dispensing window in recessed corridor alcove serves students needing replacement glassware or other laboratory supplies.The dispensing window is staffed by work study students whose actions can be monitored from the laboratory coordinator office behind
The General Chemistry Central Prep Room houses a wide range of support functions including a dispensing window staffed by work study students, fume hoods for solution prep, and adjustable shelving for storage of laboratory glassware, consumable supplies, and chemical reagents. Vented special-
purpose cabinets are provided for safe storage of flammables and corrosive liquids.
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General Chemistry Laboratories
Prototyping
Instructor fume hood for waste, dispensing and instruction. Internal camera allows instructor to project demonstrations
Instructor demonstration table with A/V controls for short-throw projector on white wall surface
Coat & book bag storage by each entry door to keep student belongings out of the aisles and away from chemicals
Safety shower / eyewash station
located near egress door
Glass doors and side lights put ‘science on display’ and help activate the corridors for occupants and visitors
Full-view glass fume hoods at exterior wall allow introduction of natural light
Vented backdraft exhaust at each student station activated by instructor- controlled timer based on experimental procedures
Side doors connect adjacent spaces with ‘ghost corridor’ for ease of lab prep during class changes
Six General Chemistry Teaching Laboratories occupy the east wing of the third floor and are organized in clusters for ease of prep/servicing through the “ghost corridors” at the back of the laboratories through inter-connecting
benches perpendicular to the teaching wall to facilitate integration of lab and lecture activities. Four 6’-0” wide full-view glass fume hoods are available at the perimeter of each laboratory for shared use by student teams when working with caustic chemicals.
doors. Each laboratory serves 24 students at three 8-person island
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Organic Chemistry Laboratory
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Safety as Driver
“The safety features of the Enzi building are outstanding.” Malgorzata Clennan, Lab Coordinator, Department of Chemistry
Safety is a primary driver in all of the laboratories, but particularly in the organic and general chemistry labs. In those laboratories, select benches are equipped with vented backdraft exhaust, fumehoods allow students to work safely with volatile chemicals, and view windows between spaces allow lab coordinators to help each other in monitoring student’s safe laboratory practices.
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Life Science Laboratories
Prototyping
Glass doors and side lights put ‘science on display’ and help activate the corridors for occupants and visitors
Safety shower / eyewash station located near egress door
Microscope storage cabinets
Instructor demonstration table with A/V controls for short-throw projector on white wall surface
Perimeter of each laboratory is outfitted with benches, sinks, fume hood, storage, and floor space for owner- furnished equipment
Overhead service carriers over movable tables with dual- compartment aluminum raceways for power and data distribution
Twelve 2-person movable laboratory tables allow for reconfiguration to support different pedagogical styles
Seven Life Science Teaching Laboratories occupy the second floor including six 24-station labs and one 40-station laboratory. Each laboratory is outfitted with 2-person movable tables that allow for reconfiguration from lab island clusters to ‘eyes forward’ lecture mode or docked-in peninsula workshop
mode. The tables are prewired with duplex electrical receptacles for each student wired to a cord and plug that can plug into overhead service carriers or perimeter raceways. Typical of all of the laboratories in the building, each Life Science laboratory has an instructor demonstration table with audiovisual
technology to facilitate integration of laboratory and lecture activities.
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Life Science Studio Laboratory
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Planning for Flexibility
“The new facility seems to inspire professors to try new methods of instruction.” Travis Laurance, Lab Coordinator, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Laboratories in the building are highly flexible. Each laboratory is sized according to a 10’-8” wide planning module, and building services are planned on this same module so that in the future, laboratories can grow or shrink within the modular plan in a relatively painless manner. But laboratories are also planned to be flexible, where possible, on a day-to-day basis. In the majority of the labs, fixed casework is relegated to the perimeter and benches in the middle of the room are moveable so that instructors can arrange the rooms to fit different pedagogical styles.
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Life Science Studio Laboratory
Prototyping
Tall cabinets for storage of microscopes, laboratory supplies and other experimental apparatus
Safety shower / eyewash station
Instructor demonstration table with A/V controls for short-throw projector on white wall surface
located near egress door
Overhead service carriers over movable tables with dual-compartment aluminum raceways for power and data distribution
Perimeter of each laboratory is outfitted with benches, sinks, fume hood, storage, and floor space for owner- furnished equipment
Windows from laboratory into central atrium“hearth space”allow for indirect daylight and connecting views to other activities in the building
Twenty 2-person movable laboratory tables allow for reconfiguration to support different pedagogical styles
The Life Science Studio Laboratory supports larger enrollment sections of up to 40 students for a range of courses and disciplines. The Studio is paired with an adjacent Prep/Storage Room at one end and a Group Study Room at the other end. The laboratory is outfitted with 2-person tables that are movable tables
to support different pedagogical styles. The tables are prewired with duplex electrical receptacles for each student wired to a cord and plug so that tables can re-configured and plugged either into overhead service carriers or into perimeter raceways.
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Physics Laboratories
Instructor demonstration table with A/V controls for short-throw projector on white wall surface
Glass side lights put ‘science on display’ and help activate the corridors for occupants and visitors
Side walls of each laboratory are equipped
with writeable wall surfaces for use by student teams
Overhead service carriers over movable tables with dual-compartment aluminum raceways for power and data distribution
Black-out shades provide support for experiments that require room-darkening
Rear wall of each laboratory is outfitted with benches, sinks, and storage cabinets
Twelve 2-person movable laboratory tables allow for reconfiguration to support different pedagogical styles. Tables are ‘shaped’ to encourage collaborative teamwork
Two 24-station and three 32-station Astronomy and Physics Teaching Laboratories are located on the first floor and served from a Central Physics Prep Room. Each Physics Laboratory is outfitted with 2-person movable tables in a chamfered shape that facilitates collaboration among lab partners.
The movable tables are prewired with a cord and plug so that they can be plugged into central overhead service carriers, or docked at the room perimeter and plugged into perimeter raceway, allowing the labs to be used either in an ‘eyes forward’ mode or in a peninsula workshop mode.
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Shared Studio Laboratory
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Optimizing Learning Outcomes
“Students learn twice as much [compared to conventional lecture courses].We estimate this via pre and post-testing of concepts before and after the semester [in the two class formats].” Daniel Dale, Professor of Physics & Astronomy
The building has improved learning outcomes for the students who use it. Faculty using the studio laboratory, for example, report that student attendance is 90% compared to 70% for attendance in lecture halls. They also report that retention rates for students in the studio format are significantly higher than for students in conventional lecture-format classes.
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Shared Studio Lab
Heavy-duty adjustable wall shelving for storage of experimental apparatus
Viewing windows put ‘science on display’ and help activate the corridors for occupants and visitors
Instructor demonstration table with A/V controls for high-resolution LCD projectors
Overhead service carriers above movable tables with dual- compartment aluminum raceways for power and data distribution
Twenty-eight 2-person movable laboratory tables allow for reconfiguration to support different pedagogical styles.Tables are shaped to promote collaborative teamwork
A 56-station Shared Studio Laboratory is strategically positioned in a high visibility location on the First Floor to support high enrollment courses for a variety of science disciplines. The laboratory is extremely flexible: it can easily be reconfigured from group pod format to eyes forward lecture format. The front
of the laboratory is shaped with angled writeable white walls and two short-throw projectors which allow instructors to draw over projected images. Perimeter walls are covered in writeable wall surfaces for use by student teams.
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Window into Shared Studio Laboratory
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Showcasing Science
“The Enzi STEM building gives aspiring scientists at the University of Wyoming a fantastic first impression of what working in a research laboratory can be like.” Jacob Williams, Junior in Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics at UW
Throughout the building, windows into laboratories allow passersby to see the science within. The Shared Studio Laboratory has a particularly large window showcasing students working with pendulums, wheels, air tracks and the other apparatus of introductory science courses.
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One of the ways the building illuminates the excitement of science is to, where possible, give students a taste of the free-flowing work style of modern professional science. In the STEM suites, students can flow between an experiment in a lab, a data set in a computational area and a collaborative break-out session with team members. Modeling Work Styles
Life Science STEM Suite
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PROJECT TEAM Prime Subconsultants
$41.4M l $387/SF 106,900 SF designed to LEED Silver
Design Anderson Mason Dale Architects Associate Architect By Architectural Means Educational Planning Learning Spaces Collaboratory Laboratory Research Facilities Design Mechanical The CE Group Electrical Adonai Professional Services, Inc. Technology Rimrock Group, Inc. Structural
Martin/Martin Wyoming Sustainability Engineer Integral Group Landscape Lime Green Design Civil BenchMark Engineers Acoustics/A V D. L. Adams Associates Cost Parametrix, Inc.
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3198 Speer Boulevard Denver, Colorado 80211 303 294 9448 www.amdarchitects.com
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