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EDUCATION DESIGN SHOWCASE • COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
PROJECT OF DISTINCTION
FACED WITH STUDENTS scattered in seven aging buildings across campus and a desire to increase collaboration, Appalachian State University recently completed the new Levine Hall of Health Sciences.
Levine Hall is the new home for the Beaver College of Health Sciences. The 203,000-square-foot, five- story facility brings together 12 disciplines within the college in a facility that is located adjacent to a com- munity hospital as part of a new “Wellness District” as a collaborative effort between the university, town, and hospital system.
The new facility provides a transformative experience with three floors of class- rooms, labs, and research spaces surrounding a sunny atrium that is the college’s “living room,” allowing stu- dents and faculty to gather with a healthy snack from the adjacent café. High- tech and innovative spaces include food innovation and exploration labs, exercise physiology labs and human performance labs, nurs-
ing simulation and clinical innovation labs, an interpro- fessional health clinic, and rehabilitative science labs. The fourth and fifth floors are offices grouped together to encourage communica- tion between disciplines.
The collaborative model of spaces and teaching
is particularly relevant
as the nation’s medical model for treatment is evolving into a team-based approach where healthcare professionals must have the skills and ability to coordinate between multiple disciplines.
LEON LEVINE HALL
OF HEALTH SCIENCES
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY BOONE, NC
ARCHITECT
LS3P Associates, Ltd.
SCOTT BAKER 704/333-6686
PROJECT INFORMATION
CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR
Paul Forte, Vice Chancellor
COMPLETION DATE
August 2018
GROSS AREA
203,000 sq. ft.
AREA PER STUDENT
118 sq. ft.
SITE SIZE
9 acres
CURRENT ENROLLMENT
19,000
CAPACITY
1,726
COST PER STUDENT
$39,976
COST PER SQ. FT.
$339
TOTAL COST
$69,000,000
JUDGES’ COMMENTS
This project is program- intensive. They did a lot of planning with the community. Floor plan is clean and neat. Materials selected match the activities taking place within.
I appreciate that views to the exterior have been provided in most of the spaces.
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