Loyola College in Maryland, Timonium

Ayers/Saint/Gross was hired by Loyola College to convert an industrial warehouse to academic space housing graduate, professional, and corporate education. The design accommodates a variety of teaching requirements, including 22 technology classrooms, group treatment and therapy areas for the speech pathology program, practice areas for Montessori training, and a diagnosis room and cadaver storage for physician assistance courses.

The facility also has distance learning classrooms, breakout space, computer labs, a resource center, administrative offices, and support spaces, all of which are shared by departments. The project included 50,000 gsf of renovation and 15,000 in construction, all in a single-story building.

Central to the scope of needs were the technology classrooms, all of which have audiovisual and telecommunication cabling and infrastructure with built-in flexibility to changes in teaching and technology.

Completion: 1998
Size: 65,000 gsf
Cost: $6 million