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BAY DE NOC COMMUNITY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY CENTER
Escanaba, Michigan
Square Feet: 40,596

The design of the new University Center in plan meshes with the context of the existing campus with enclosed connections to the Science Building and Health and Applied Technology Center. The orthogonal grid of the new building matches the campus pattern with an extended canopy at the building entrance, which also serves as a new entrance image for the campus southern face.

The new building exteriors are primarily dark gray insulated aluminum panels following the lead of the Learning Resources Center. The silver frames and silver aluminum panels occur at all the locations that natural light enters the building including doors, windows, and clerestories. This natural “light” is a direct response to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan northern climate and the relatively long and dreary winters. The brick service core matches the brick on all the 1960’s original campus buildings.

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Straub Pettitt Yaste Architects
850 North Crooks, Suite 200, Clawson, Michigan 48017-1311
Phone: 248-658-7777 Email:
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