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Gates Center. Faculty Meeting: Nov. 3, 2004. Outline. Preliminary designs Process/Timeline Other buildings What we need to think about. Preliminary Designs. Almost nothing set in stone Just to give you a sense of the range of possibilities

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Gates Center

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  1. Gates Center Faculty Meeting: Nov. 3, 2004

  2. Outline • Preliminary designs • Process/Timeline • Other buildings • What we need to think about

  3. Preliminary Designs • Almost nothing set in stone • Just to give you a sense of the range of possibilities • Bowlin Cywinsky and Jackson (BCJ) were the architects. • BCJ did Bill Gate’s house, UCSD CS building, UIUC CS building, Pixar Headquarters • Not necessarily final architect

  4. Design I

  5. Design II

  6. Design III

  7. Proposed Costs ($50M total) • $33M building construction • $220/sqft * 150,000sqft • $3M underground parking (150 cars @20K) • $3M architect • $2M landscaping development • $2M Project management • $2M Furnishing • $5M Other (demolition, …)

  8. Proposed Sources • $20M Gates Foundation • $8M Other gifts (fundaraising) • Remaining : Financing (Public Bonds)

  9. Process • Warner Hall picks construction management company (DONE, Oxford) • University committee selects architect (representatives from SCS, FMS, (DRC) Design Review Committee., Warner Hall, trustees) • Architects works with us on design (especially the interior). Also can bring in consultants on particular aspects (e.g. lighting, wireless). • Many levels of design.

  10. Process II • Different parts are put out for bid (concrete, electricity, heating, • Construction starts…we have to be diligent about quality…many decisions have to made on the fly.

  11. Timeline Jan 05 Jan 06 Jan 07 Jan 08 Jan 09 architect selected schematic design completion construction docs groundbreaking our input into the design fundraising

  12. Process within SCS • Small committee • Guy Blelloch • Sharon Burks • Peter Lee • Manuela Veloso • ??? • Randy Bryant + Jim Skees (Ex.officio) • Everyone is encouraged to give input.

  13. Other recent CS buildings • Stata Center, MIT (2004) • Allen Center, UW (2003) • Seibel Center, UIUC (2004) • EBU3B, UCSD (2004-2005) • ACES building, UT Austin (2001) • Klaus building, Georgia Tech (2006) • Maxwell-Dworkin, Harvard (1999)

  14. MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center Space: 420K sqft (+ 280K garage) Cost: $350 Million (approximately) Architect: Frank Gehry Major Donors: $25M Ray Stata, $15M Alexander Dreyfoos, $20M William Gates

  15. The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering Space: 168K + 22K sqft Cost: $72M Architect: LMN Architects (local) Major donations: $7.2M Microsoft, $14M Paul Allen, $6.5M Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 7 other $1M+ gifts

  16. A great opportunity to rethink how we organize ourselves • Need to open our minds • What would improve your quality of life • What is most important to us • The devil is in the details

  17. Issues • How to organize research groups • students mixed with faculty or separate • students with their faculty • groups are localized • How to organize labs • individual or group labs • people in labs, or just equipment • labs next to faculty

  18. Issues II • Types of common spaces • informal sitting areas • reading room • food services/café • atrium • Connectivity and traffic flow • bridge to NSH? • bridge to cut?

  19. Issues III • Privacy vs. Openness • glass windows on labs • glass windows on offices • open space desks (students, staff?) • Boldness of architecture • vanilla functional building • make a statement about SCS

  20. Issues IV • What space gets windows • offices, conference rooms, common spaces • Number and sizes of conference rooms • 7220 (500sqft) • 4623 (900sqft) • Classroom space • Any special teaching labs? • Any special classrooms?

  21. Issues V • Office space for undergraduates • Office sizes for graduate students • 3 students, 4, 5, ? • Noise • Individual heat/air control • Opening windows

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