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around 70,000 ft2 T
he Business Innovation Hub is the latest addition to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, adding
of “hyper collaborative”
study and social space with a ‘domino- effect’ copper and glass facade. This extension has been constructed as though it were a large amphitheatre – surrounded by copper pillars that appear to fall on to one another, connected together across the facade by a glass curtain. The project, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group with Goody Clancy, involved the expansion and partial renovation of an existing facility, effectively doubling the school’s space in order to accommodate its growth in the last decade.
Among the large and multi-faceted group of collaborating firms on the project were
Richmond So Engineers, Arup, Big Ideas, Nitsch, VAV, Towers Golde, Haley & Aldrich, Acentech, HLB, SGH, PEER, WIL-SPEC, VGA, Lerch Bates, LN Consulting and Mohar Designs.
Flexible academic design UMass Amherst is the main campus of the University of Massachusetts, and as such hosts a wide variety of buildings stretching back to the 1960s. The business school is one of the top 30 in the United States, and its expansion has provided facilities for more than 150 staff and 5,000 students in undergraduate, masters and PhD programmes.
The Isenberg School of Management moved to this site in 1964, initially taking form as a large rectilinear, three-storey
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