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