Campbell Hall
Design+Build Projects

In 1999, Dean Karen Van Lengen chaired a team that produced a feasibility study for creating additions to Campbell Hall designed by several members of the School’s faculty. Since that time, several distinct projects have been developed by faculty members in collaboration with students, colleagues, and the architect of record, SMBW Architects.

Work Terrace - 1999-2001

An outdoor work terrace with storage/equipment enclosures adjacent to Campbell Hall. The terrace employed traditional as well as innovative masonry and concrete construction materials and methods. Five design schemes were completed during the summer of 1999. Detailing and material investigations were carried out during the fall semester 1999 on location at Allied Concrete. The development of a prototypical bay of construction from one of the design schemes occurred during the summer of 2000. Work completed over the summer accomplished the concrete work, stone terrace and placement of paralam beams. The design and construction team included: Derek West, David Herring, Luke Phinney, Pete Depesquale, Tim Bragan, Marcus Hurley, Sam Roberts, Brandon Joo, Pam Stevens, Patricia Kucker (faculty), John Maze (faculty). See http://www.arch.virginia.edu/build/.

Shure Terrace - 2001

The terrace is a product of the annual “Shure Studio,” an upper-level architectural design studio guided by leading visiting practitioners. The Fall 2001 studio was under the direction of Charles Wolf and Kathryn Dean of Dean/Wolf Architects. The project received the “Best in Show” award in the Student Awards category of the VSAIA’s annual INFORM magazine design awards competition in 2003. Concrete, steel, and wood furniture form an outdoor lounge that embodies the surrounding topographical features of the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains. The design team included: Andrew Burdick, Penley Chiang, Joshua Galloway, Anne James, Melanie Shields, Stephanie Giles, Leigh Herndon, Geetanjali Ranade and Aaron Weil.

Campbell Hall Entry - 2002

The new entry, designed in 2002 by Timothy Stenson with contributions from Jim Kovach, was named “Best in Show” overall in the VSAIA’s annual INFORM magazine design awards competition in 2003. The new insertions consist of two primary assemblies: a guardrail for the entrance terrace and an enclosing wall for the lobby gallery. The folded-steel guardrail funnels pedestrians toward the entry, then pierces the plane of the building’s exterior glass wall and continues into the lobby. There, the form-language of the guardrail is picked up in the steel gate that encloses the end of the gallery. A glass topped steel table in the foyer visually reinforces the connection between indoor and outdoor spaces, as articulated by the guardrail.

The Eric Goodwin Passage - 2004

A pair of outdoor classroom spaces designed and built by Professor of Architecture Peter Waldman and his students in collaboration with other faculty members was constructed in August, 2004. “The Eric Goodwin Passage” is located adjacent to the North Terrace, aligned on one side with an interior corridor of Campbell Hall and on the other with the tree memorializing Carlo Pelliccia, a much admired professor at the School. Eric Goodwin was a member of the Class of 2002 who passed away during his final year of study at the School of Architecture. In 2002, his classmates established the Eric Goodwin Memorial Fund to support Design/Build projects designed by faculty to be installed at Campbell Hall.

Read the Full Story - Outdoor Classrooms Take Shape at the School of Architecture - September 2004.