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Torgersen Hall |
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Location: |
VPI & State University, Blacksburg,
Virginia. |
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Program: |
New advanced communications technology and
laboratory building. |
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Budget: |
$21,000,000.00. |
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Schedule: |
Design completed 1998. Construction
completed 2001. |
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Acoustical Design Collaborative, Ltd
provided room acoustics, HVAC noise control,
and sound isolation design for a new 160,000
ft2 high technology educational
building. The program included classrooms,
multi-media laboratories, virtual effects
laboratory, 150-seat lecture hall, 300-seat
auditorium, reading room, three story
atrium, Board of Visitor’s room, and faculty
offices. Room acoustic design for the
lecture hall, auditorium, and Board of
Visitor’s room used a palette of acoustical
materials having a “high-tech” appearance.
Sound isolation was necessary for the
educational spaces and faculty offices
facing the atrium. Specially designed duct
liner with an anti-microbial and
erosion-resistant facing was used for the
HVAC systems. Of architectural note is the
reading room serves as a link between Torgersen Hall and the existing Newman
Library spanning the Mall and framing the
entrance to the Drill Field, a campus focal
point. |
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