BRUCE EDWARD SCHMIT

Colorado Springs, CO

617 Beds - 210,000 SF Student Housing - 31,500 SF Dining Hall/Commons.  The residence halls include a mix of suite types favoring 4 bedroom/1 bath suites and 3 bedroom/1 bath suites.  The residence halls include several open lounges/study areas as well as an Academic Village/Conference Center that includes five classrooms.  The dining hall  is part of a  four building project which has transformed the Alpine Valley residential complex into a complete student life centered village.   [with PAGE]  

A 200,000 SF National Advanced Chemical Sciences Laboratory for NIST.  Private offices/studies are provided for the research scientists while the labs and a large service corridor occupy the center of the bar plan.  Two conference rooms sit above the entry porch on the south end of the facility.  The National Capitol Planning Commission stipulated that the new building had to share architectural vocabulary with several adjacent research facilities constructed in the early to late 1960's. [with Jacobs]

The 45,000 SF Administration/Student Services Building brought several related functions together for the first time in the University's history.  Prominently located at the main campus entrance, the building is scaled boldly on the facing facade to address the scale and speed of the adjacent highway.  The opposite campus facade is scaled to the adjacent human activity.  The building site was selected during a preceding Master Plan project which also replaced a campus road with a pedestrian mall.  The entry Tower/Porch are placed on axis with the new mall.  [with H2L2]

Situated at the main pedestrian entry to campus, Elm Hall (207 beds) and Mines Market Dining (620 seats) complete a major full-block campus   quadrangle.  This project has significantly elevated the Master Plan concept of a residential precinct on the Colorado School of Mines campus, a safe and supportive student-community that is integral to an expansive social, educational, and recreational experience.  The building is LEED Gold. (with PAGE)

The Cleve J Fredricksen Public Library was designed in close collaboration with not only theLibrary  Building Committee, but also concerned neighbors.  The chosen site was an existing playground surrounded on three sides by residential streets.  From across these streets, a collection of 1920's Arts and Crafts Bungalows overlooked the site.  This existing Arts and Crafts vocabulary led to the adoption of the same vocabulary for the Library design.  Highly successful as a public library, the building has also become the site of frequent concerts, lectures, and other civic events.  {with H2L2]

Shippensburg UniversityTypi non habent claritatem insitam; est usus legentis in iis qui facit eorum claritatem. Investigationes demonstraverunt lectores legere me lius quod ii legunt saepius. Claritas est etiam processus dynamicus, qui sequitur mutationem consuetudium lectorum.

Shocker Residence Hall provides 784 beds for new Freshmen and Upper Class first year housing (Honors College).  In addition, WSU gained its first new on-campus (all you can eat) 450 seat dining facility.  Features include  multiple dining venues offering fresh farm to table produce, late night grill/pizza, heart/deli combination, a set-up for live music/poetry performance, a retail C store, recreation and game rooms,lounges, offices, multi-purpose classrooms, and the Honors College Dean's suite.  [with PAGE]

Delbarton School is a college predatory school for boys in grades seven through twelve operated by the Benedictine Monks of St. Mary's Abbey.  The new Science Pavilion (40,000 SF) includes six labs/clasrooms, lecture hall, faculty offices, display spaces, a two level greenhouse, and a featured Foucault Pendulum.  The new building houses all the schools science and math needs and thus freed up space in the original building for reprograming/refinishing.  [with H2L2]

This project was an invited completion in which four European firms and one American firm participated.  The brief was for an all new K-12 International School that would have a population of 800 students.  The site is on the banks of the Rhine River in the neighborhood of Hochkreuz, immediately adjacent to Plittersdorf.

The older students and the communal spaces are located in the "Drum", while the younger students are located in the "Tail" with immediate access to outdoor play areas.  The "Tail" also features a curved display-wall designed to teach the natural history of the Rhine.

A tiered "theatre" features a full height glass wall at the rear of the stage that can be covered (to avoid :distraction" or open to allow dramatic audience views of the Rhine.  [with H2L2]

The University of Houston is pursuing a vision that would have 25% of its students living on campus.  The 800 bed Cougar Place Sophomore Housing is bold first move toward this goal.  Great emphasis was placed upon the leading concepts of Community, Flexibility, Sustainability, and Technology.  The suite-style living areas  are broken into small neighborhoods and a generous Commons Area provides for social, and academic needs.  Three classrooms are provided and the plan configuration  allows for two enclosed/landscaped courtyards.  [with PAGE]

The Yocum Library is the first purpose built building for the college.  Located on the banks of the flood-prone Schuylkill River, the project takes its inspiration from the Wren Library of Trinity College in Cambridge, England.  The Sir Christopher Wren designed library meets the ground as an open colonnade to deal with the frequent flooding of the adjacent River Cam.  The Reading project meets the ground with a similar colonnade, stairs, elevators and a small all glass "break-away" entry.  The buildings second floor contains faculty offices and classrooms while the library occupies the third and fourth floors.  [withH2L2]  

Campus master planning embraces an intense effort to strengthen learning and community through poetically inspired campus design. The ultimate goal is not just to create an ideal community, but to create a society of spaces that create an empowering sense of PLACE. A place everyone wants to occupy whether classes are in session or not. A place where interactions with friends, fellow students and faculty are the common condition. Every institution nurtures an integrated mission and the goal of any master plan is the full integration of mission and place.

The fully renovated Borland Building provides a new collaborative environment for the College of Arts Architecture's departments of Art History, Research in the Arts and Design, Integrated Arts, and the Institute for e-learning and includes new college administrative offices and other central services.

Two additions were removed from the building envelope which were subsequently cleaned and restored.  New windows to match the original profiles were meticulously researched and detailed.  The project received a LEED Gold certificate.  [with BLT]

McDonnell Hall (304 beds) offers mixed class housing by floors, including Foundation Seminars and Residential Colleges for Freshmen.  Two four-story wings are connected to a two-story central that element contains offices, laundry, seminar rooms and lounges.  each four-story wing contains two "neighborhoods" consisting of a single (RA) and 9 doubles, with private lounge, kitchen and bathrooms.  The building plan embraces two outdoor courtyards.  The eastern entry courtyard also includes an amphitheater.  The Bucknell campus is predominantly Georgian in architectural vocabulary as is this addition to the campus.  [with H2L2]

Sketches at various levels of "finish" which enhance and advance exploration and communication between client, colleagues, and self.