The new addi­tion to the sin­gle-build­ing cam­pus of Lake Supe­ri­or Col­lege pro­vides future-ori­ent­ed facil­i­ties for the Health and Sci­ence pro­grams while con­sol­i­dat­ing the wide­ly dis­persed areas into this state-of-the-art building. 

Lit­er­al­ly grow­ing out of the bedrock, the build­ing adds 34,000 square feet and remod­els 5,500 square feet of the exist­ing 307,970 square feet facil­i­ty on the main cam­pus. The new build­ing com­bines stu­dent-cen­tered teach­ing lab­o­ra­to­ries and open lab­o­ra­to­ry space on cam­pus for health, nurs­ing, and sci­ence pro­grams. Hands-on learn­ing is pro­vid­ed through sim­u­la­tion lab­o­ra­to­ries with adja­cent lec­ture class­rooms for the allied health sci­ences, includ­ing nurs­ing, med­ical assis­tants, and radi­ol­o­gy. Lab­o­ra­to­ries and class­rooms for the Sci­ences, includ­ing Earth, Chem­istry, and Physics, are locat­ed at the oth­er end of the class­room wing. Adja­cent instruc­tion­al and lab­o­ra­to­ry class­rooms pro­vide max­i­mum flex­i­bil­i­ty. The vacat­ed spaces with­in the exist­ing facil­i­ty pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties to address the short­age of gen­er­al class­rooms and gen­er­al use/​support spaces.

The Health and Sci­ence Cen­ter, a LEED Cer­ti­fied Sil­ver build­ing, is con­struct­ed on the hill behind the main build­ing. A glass enclosed walk­way con­nects the exist­ing build­ing on the main cir­cu­la­tion, sec­ond lev­el. This loca­tion for the addi­tion achieves sev­er­al goals: cam­pus expan­sion to the north as pro­posed in the Mas­ter Plan; pro­tects Miller Creek and pro­vides vis­i­bil­i­ty for this pro­gram on cam­pus. The new addi­tion cap­i­tal­izes on the nat­ur­al site and the views toward the St. Louis Riv­er and Lake Superior.

Client: Lake Supe­ri­or Col­lege, Min­neso­ta State Col­leges and Uni­ver­si­ties (MNScu)
Pro­gram: Teach­ing and sim­u­la­tion lab­o­ra­to­ries for allied health sci­ences, includ­ing nurs­ing, med­ical assis­tants and radi­ol­o­gy and sci­ence lab­o­ra­to­ries and class­rooms for Earth, Chem­istry, Physics pro­grams 
Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion: LEED Sil­ver Cer­ti­fied
Size: 34,000 SF
Cost: $14,000,000

Role: Design Archi­tect
Col­lab­o­ra­tive Part­ners: 
LHB Engi­neers and Archi­tects (Archi­tect of Record, MEP, Civ­il and Struc­tur­al Engi­neer, Land­scape Archi­tect)
Shaw-Lundquist (Gen­er­al Contractor)

Pho­tog­ra­phy Cred­its: © Kate Joyce Studios