Trinity University Dicke Hall + Business and Humanities District
An academic building precedent showcasing a structural glulam timber colonnade and extensive glazing designed by Lake Flato Architects.
- What we like about this project
- An open exterior steel stair clings to the end gable, integrated directly into the timber column grid.
Materials
- glulam-timber
- glass
- steel
- brick
Visual identifiers
- glulam-timber-columns
- curtain-wall
- external-stair
- overhanging-roof
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- timber-expression
Visual tags
- mass-timber
- higher-education
- campus
- dusk
- transparency
- colonnade
- Geometry
- Rectangular three-story volume featuring an expressed external colonnade and deep overhanging roof plane.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam timber exoskeleton framing large glazed curtain wall assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber post-and-beam structure with exterior braced frames and steel connections.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story academic building with grand double-to-triple height exterior structural bays.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with warm interior illumination spilling out through the full-height glazing and uplighting on timber columns.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and welcoming twilight ambiance balancing structural mass timber with transparent, glowing interiors.
- Environmental context
- Campus pedestrian walkway and native landscaping flanking a paved vehicular drop-off zone.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the campus path, the deep timber porch and illuminated interior create a warm, inviting threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical timber posts set a steady modular pace along the entire primary facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernist academic architecture with heavy mass timber expression
- Program
- University academic building / classrooms and offices
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glulam-timber, glass, steel, brick
- Visual identifiers
- glulam-timber-columns, curtain-wall, external-stair, overhanging-roof
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, timber-expression
- Visual tags
- mass-timber, higher-education, campus, dusk, transparency, colonnade
- Geometry
- Rectangular three-story volume featuring an expressed external colonnade and deep overhanging roof plane.
- Facade system
- Post-and-beam timber exoskeleton framing large glazed curtain wall assemblies.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber post-and-beam structure with exterior braced frames and steel connections.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story academic building with grand double-to-triple height exterior structural bays.
- Lighting
- Twilight sky with warm interior illumination spilling out through the full-height glazing and uplighting on timber columns.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and welcoming twilight ambiance balancing structural mass timber with transparent, glowing interiors.
- Environmental context
- Campus pedestrian walkway and native landscaping flanking a paved vehicular drop-off zone.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the campus path, the deep timber porch and illuminated interior create a warm, inviting threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical timber posts set a steady modular pace along the entire primary facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regional modernist academic architecture with heavy mass timber expression
- Program
- University academic building / classrooms and offices
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture