STATUS
IN CONSTRUCTION
Johns Hopkins Student Center
BALTIMORE, UNITED STATESCLIENT
Johns Hopkins University
TYPOLOGY
Education
SIZE M2/FT2
13,935 / 150,000
SHARE
The Hopkins Student Center will form a new social engagement hub for all members of the Johns Hopkins University community. The 143,000 sq ft building includes spaces for relaxation and socializing, student resources and support, a digital media center, performance space with seating for 200 people, and a dining hall.
Located at the intersection of 33rd and Charles Streets, the Hopkins Student Center will foster greater connectivity between the campus and the neighboring community by creating a prominent point of entry. As a natural gateway, the area will connect Charles Village and the 3,500+ Johns Hopkins students who live in the neighborhood to the heart of the Homewood campus.
EXISTING SITE
— The site is located on the hill of the Grove, next to the existing Homewood campus Beach at the main gateway between the City and the Campus.
INDOOR LANDSCAPE
— The indoor landscape - as vast as the 'Beach' next door - negotiates the grade of the site to allow direct entry from all four levels, while maintaining a friendly human scale.
GATHERING SPACES
— A true Village of student life, the student center is comprised of an array of spaces, including art studios, a music rehearsal room, a state-of-the-art performance space, job fairs, and a student engagement hub.
SITE CONNECTIONS
— The building is rotated to align with the historic Merrick Barn next door and improve site connectivity for greater pedestrian flows.
CAMPUS LIVING ROOM
— All spaces connect back to the Campus Living Room, an inclusive melting pot for student life, and a crossroad for campus connectivity.
PROGRAM DISPLAY
— The porosity and transparency of the student center places its activities and school spirit on display, expressing an ever-changing mosaic of the student body.
THE VILLAGE
— The Village is a vision for the new Hopkins Student Center, a physical expression of the student body diversity, and a welcoming new beacon for both Campus and Community.
The Hopkins Student Center is conceived as a central living room – a dynamic hub – surrounded by a collection of spaces tailored to the needs of the Hopkins community. The building negotiates the sloping grade of the site to allow direct entry from all four levels of the building, while maintaining a human scale and providing several accessible routes across the site. Arriving on Charles Street, students and visitors are greeted by an open building façade with dining areas spilling out onto a plaza.
The mass timber structure provides a warm and acoustically comfortable environment as light filters in through clerestory glazed windows. A circular staircase allows for a continuous connection to the building’s perimeter under 29 cantilevered roof planes, which provide shading for the building. The roofs are covered in photovoltaic panels that generate up to 40% of the building’s yearly energy consumption – a design strategy that contribute to the University’s larger sustainability goals, including LEED Platinum Certification.
The design transforms the landscape around the building to create outdoor spaces for student activities and events. A central plaza can host pop-up exhibits or performances, as well as vendors and food trucks to enliven the North Charles Street corridor.
Bjarke Ingels Leon Rost Jason Wu Elizabeth Mcdonald Jan Leenknegt Margaret Tyrpa Emily Chen Chia-Yu Liu Lawrence-Olivier Mahadoo Bryan Hardin Gabriel Jewell-Vitale Jialin Yuan Jakub Kulisa Tom Lasbrey Benjamin Caldwell Mike Munoz Mike Munoz Juan Diego Perez Diez Alan Maedo Ryan Henriksen Luca McLaughlin Cynthia Wang Matthew Lau
COLLABORATORS
Clark Construction
Lindner
StructureCraft
Shepley Bulfinch
Rockwell Group
MVVA
WSP-NYC
WRA
Knippers Helbig
Charcoal Blue
L’Observatoire
Point of Reference Studio/POR
Thornton Tomasetti
Acentech
Ricca
Code Red
Lerch Bates
WJE
Campbell-McCabe
Kalin Associates
Squint/Opera
