Johns Hopkins Student Center

Baltimore, MD
Johns Hopkins Student Center

structural engineering, facade design, special structures  Services

Bjarke Ingels Group, Shepley Bulfinch  Architect

A new campus social hub with mass timber structure and 29 cascading photovoltaic roofs

Project

The Student Center is a new hub for student life at Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Campus, providing 143,000 SF of space for social engagement and student resources with a food hall, 200-seat theater, multi-purpose rooms and lounge spaces. The building acts as a new gateway to the campus, with a series of highly transparent, timber-framed volumes with stepped roof planes cascading down the sloped site towards Charles Street. Knippershelbig was structural engineer of record and provided structural design and full envelope consultation for the project for all design phases and construction.

Project data

Client The Johns Hopkins University

Architect Bjarke Ingels Group, Shepley Bulfinch

Services structural engineering, facade design, special structures