Tour of Loyola Quinlan School of Business

Note: This is a tour, thus attendees are to meet at 12:00 at the grand social stair in the atria, 16 East Pearson, Chicago.

AIA Credit: 1.0

General Project Information:

The new John and Kathy Schreiber Center at the Quinlan School of Business Administration is a ten-story, 150,000 sf, mixed-use, vertical campus located in the heart of Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower campus in downtown Chicago. The building is centered around a glass atrium inspired by architect Daniel Burnham’s use of atriums to bring the outdoors in. This modern atrium allows for an abundance of daylight to reach all interior spaces, while also promoting transparency and inclusion— elegantly signifying Loyola’s ethics-driven educational ideals of social justice and equality. The building offers programmatically integrated spaces, active learning classrooms, faculty offices, and a social stair climbing the full height of the building to encourage interaction, passage, and collaboration. The tower groups faculty offices and classrooms into two-story neighborhoods, creating smaller, more intimate community gathering spaces throughout the building. The projected LEED Gold building features a custom sustainable design for the urban environment, taking into account unpredictable winds, street noise and air quality. It utilizes a highly efficient envelope design and operates using a variety of sustainable building and mechanical systems, including natural ventilation, daylighting, radiant heating and cooling, and self-shading.

Abstract:

For the last 20 years, Loyola University of Chicago has committed to a mission of integrating a sustainable philosophy within their campus environments.   This presentation will provide an overview on the challenges of incorporating Loyola’s sustainability mission into the fabric of the new Quinlan School of Business through design strategies inclusive of high performance curtain wall  assemblies, natural ventilation, radiant heating and cooling, and daylight harvesting.   The presentation will focus on the challenges of incorporating a double skin façade into the envelope of the building.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the benefits of double skin façade integration and the challenges for maintenance and ventilation.
2. Review methodology for integrating building code atrium smoke evacuation requirements into a 10 story atrium space
3. Review strategies for heating and cooling atrium environment.
4. Review strategies for naturally ventilating and day harvesting for classrooms and offices.
5. Review integration of exterior shading concepts into the exterior façade.

Presenters:

David Swain, AIA LEED BD+C, Associate and Senior Project Architect, Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Paul Meyer, Power Construction

RSVP:

For BEC Chicago members, an RSVP invite will be sent out approxiately 7 to 10 days in advance. For non-BEC Chicago membrers interested in attending, you may contact jdiqui@stocorp.com to request an invite. The invitation will include a link for individual to RSVP. Attendance will be limiited to the first 25 that RSVP.