University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

This project follows the proposed scheme of Ayers/Saint/Gross’s campus master plan and consists of two utilitarian structures on an open sight near the new bioinformatics building. The firm provided the conceptual design study and then the schematics, final design, construction documents, and landscaping.

Included in the scope of work are a thermal storage tank; a three-story structure with a machinery and work room, operations and control room, offices, and cooling towers. Landscape components are a central part of the architecture, including a grass roof and a row of trees along a planting strip parallel to a road. Sidewalk design complies with standards set in the master plan, and service and delivery will be on the low part of the south side facing the tank and an electrical equipment yard.

Completion: 2005
Size: 21,000 gsf
Cost: $2.4 million for architecture and landscape