LMN Architects
Higher Education Center
Highline Community College
The Higher Education Center embraces its location on the campus periphery, reversing the previous development pattern of inward-looking buildings wrapped in expanses of parking by directly engaging the surrounding neighborhood and landscape.
The joint facility for Central Washington University and Highline Community College includes lecture halls, distance learning classrooms, science laboratories, computer classrooms, and faculty administration offices for both colleges. Both functional organization and architectural expression emphasize the unique institutional partnership while providing clear, separate identities that focus on respective institutional needs.
The “U-shaped” plan anchors the classroom block into the sloping site and orients office functions in extending wings that provide expansive views over wooded landscape to the Puget Sound and Olympic mountains. A diagonal circulation spine overlays the orthogonal plan geometry, forming an interactive study area and connecting link between the central campus, parking and surrounding neighborhood.
Location
Des Moines, Washington
Status
Completed 2004
Size
83,900 sf
Seattle, Washington 98104
T 206 682 3460
F 206 343 9388
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