Location: Iowa State -USA-University campus in Ames, Iowa.

Client: University campus in Ames, Iowa.

Sector: Education, Landscape

Justification :Because of the function
Size: 16,059m²

Status : Completed 2014

 CONTEXT

As part of efforts to contribute to an industry that’s growing
significantly in prominence, Iowa State University in Ames,
Iowa, is developing a Biorenewables Complex to accommodate
the research and education needs for the Agriculture and
Biosystems Engineering Department.
‫كجزء من الجهود المبذولة للمساهمة في صناعة تزداد‬
ً
‫ تعمل جامعة والية أيوا في أميس‬، ‫بروزا بشكل ملحوظ‬
‫ بوالية آيوا على تطوير مجمع‬Biorenewables
‫الستيعاب احتياجات البحث والتعليم لقسم الزراعة وهندسة‬
‫النظم الحيوية‬.

DESIGN OBJECTIVE

• The old building had to be replaced.It was worn out in terms of leaky roofs and obsolete utility systems,
and it was not designed to meet the modern kinds of research and teaching programs we are doing.

• “Our Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering Department and the people connected with it are in a very old
building and are anxious to move into this complex,” Madden says. “I think that they are going to end up moving
from a pretty antiquated space to a modern, state-of the- art facility. We expect that it will increase productivity and
morale. Our hope is that it lets us attract some of the best teaching and research faculty in the country.

• Our goal is to certainly end up with a building that will achieve a minimum standard of Gold and to be sustainable.
 Activities

The project consists of two parts: New biorenewables Research Laboratory Department and Laboratories. And a
department that integrates the Agricultural Engineering Building and the Biosystems Engineering Building. The
department includes a facility that includes 50 research and development laboratories and a yard for agricultural works,
equipment and research. The three buildings are linked by a four-storey atrium.
SITE PLAN
 LOCATION

Iowa State University of Science

and Technology (Iowa State
Iowa is a state in the Midwestern
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as University, Iowa State, or ISU) is
region of the United States,
the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily a public land-grant research
bordered by the Mississippi River
located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, university in Ames, Iowa. It is
to the east and the Missouri River
five major unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and the largest university in the state
and Big Sioux River to the west.
some minor possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million of Iowa and the third largest
It is bordered by six states:
square kilometers), it is the world's third- or fourth-largest country university in the Big 12 athletic
Wisconsin to the northeast,
by total area.[e] The United States shares significant land borders conference. Iowa State is
Illinois to the east and southeast,
with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south as well as limited classified among "R1: Doctoral
Missouri to the south, Nebraska
maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, and Russia.[20] With a Universities – Very high research
to the west, South Dakota to the
population of more than 331 million people, it is the third most activity"[5] and is a member of
northwest, and Minnesota to the
populous country in the world. The national capital is Washington, the Association of American
north.
D.C., and the most populous city is New York City. Universities (AAU).
 CLIMATE

• The highest rainfall is in July and the lowest rainfall is in March and Jan

• Temperatures reach the highest levels of the year in July, and the lowest temperatures are in Jan.

• Snow falls in the first three months

 ‫‪CLIMATE‬‬

‫‪Noise‬‬
‫توجد هنا منطقه ازعاج‬ ‫تم تصميم المدخل الرئيسي للمبني كامال‬
‫ناتجة عن وجود ‪ 2‬باركنك‬ ‫بلزجاج‬
‫لذالك اضطر المصمم‬ ‫اوال ليعطي منظرا جماليا للمشروع‬
‫وضع المختبرات هنا‬ ‫ثانيا ليعطي اضائه طبيعيه للمشروع‬
‫‪.‬ووضع مدخليا فرعيا لهم‬ ‫ثالثا النه يتعرض الشعه الشمس‬
‫الصباحية (ليست ضاره وال حاره)‬

‫تم وضع المكاتب هنا لتكون بعيدا‬

‫عن مناطق الزعاج‬
 Context around the building:

• Solid and void : 70% solid 30% void • Heights around the building : Most of the buildings around the
project are from 5 to 6 floors
University's library

• Land mark

Gym • 362 m away

5m 8m
Students' Union

• 295 m away
750 m away
7m 2m 6m 14 m
Circulation and accessibility Topography

• The project land is

completely flat
SITE

PARKING
Main Street
bystreet
pedestrian street
 Formative idea
• Natural light
Glass ceiling

Glass elevatoin

• They used a giant glass facade in addition to the glass ceiling to bring sunlight into the inner courtyard
Massing
PLAN TO SECTION

FIRST FLOOR

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Symmetry and balance

• There are no symmetry

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Iowa State University
Department of Agricultural
and Biosystems Engineering

LOWER FLOOR

Bubble diagram

4 1
1 . Labs

2. Computer lab 2

3 . Auditorium
3
4 . Toilet
 FIRST FLOOR

1- labs
2- conference room
3- Student learning communities
4- Student help center
5- conference department
6- toilet
7- yard
Bubble diagram

1
3

7
2

6 5
SECOUND FLOOR

1- labs
2- Machine system classroom 3-
computer lab
4- classroom
5- graduate student’s office
6- faculty offices
7- conference room
8- toilet

Bubble diagram
2
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4
3 5

7
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THIRD FLOOR
1- labs
2- conference room
3- faculty offices
4- graduate students offices
5-graduate student interaction space
6- toilet

Bubble
diagram
3
1

2 6
4

5
FOURTH FLOOOR

1- labs
2- classroom
3- computer lab
4- meeting room
5- faculty offices
6- graduate student meeting room
7- graduate student interaction
space
8- toilet

Bubble diagram
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ELEVATION

- - - - -------------- - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - -
 Materials

• Glass
• Concreat
• Red break BASIC SHAPE

 Solid and void

• 60 % solid
40 % void. ELEVATION BY 3D SHOT
Symmetry
 ELEVATION

 There are no symmetry

 Materials

• Glass
• Concreat
• Red break BASIC SHAPE

 Solid and void

ELEVATION BY 3D SHOT
• 70 % solid 30
% void.
 ELEVATION

Materials

• Glass
• Concreat
• Red break

Solid and void

• 30 % solid ELEVATION BY 3D SHOT

70 % void.

 There are no symmetry

ELEVATION

 Materials

• Glass
• Concreat
• Red break

 Solid and void

ELEVATION BY 3D SHOT
• 60 % solid 40
% void.

 There are no symmetry

 Section

Details in section

• They used sustainable systems and Horizontal movement • Solution : Placing the stairs at
technologies in elements like huge the noisy areas and make labs as
Vertical movement
stainless steel and glass cylinders to far away as possible
display rainwater harvesting. Noise
ELEVATION BY 3D SHOT
 Sustainability and material

The building , meant as a model for sustainability

‫المقصود بالمبنى أن يكون نموذجًا لالستدامة‬

“Living walls” will show off sustainable systems and ‫ستُظهر "الجدران الحية" أنظمة وتقنيات مستدامة في عناصر مثل الفوالذ المقاوم‬
technologies in elements like huge stainless steel ‫ صممت‬.‫ للصدأ الضخم واألسطوانات الزجاجية لعرض حصاد مياه األمطار‬ZGF
and glass cylinders to display rainwater harvesting. ‫سقفًا مسننًا فوق الردهة لزيادة ضوء النهار إلى أقصى حد‬.
ZGF designed a sawtooth roof over the atrium to
maximize daylighting, and a sod-construction coffee
bar is a possibility for the atrium as well.

‫ يكشف أيضًا عن وجود‬، ‫ يمكن رؤيته من الردهة‬، ‫معمل تعليمي في الطابق األول‬
A first-floor teaching lab, visible from the ‫ ومزين‬، ‫يتميز التصميم الخارجي بطوب بلون الشوكوالتة‬.‫باحثين في العمل‬
lobby, also reveals researchers at work. ‫ وجدران معيشة‬، ‫ وألواح خشبية من الفوالذ المقاوم للصدأ‬، ‫بالزجاج‬.
The exterior design features chocolate-
colored brick, accented with glazing,
stainless steel shingles and living walls.
 function
The first, a new biorenewables research laboratory, will hold
teaching, microbiology and chemistry labs.
THE SECOUND will consolidate the Department of Agricultural
and Biosystems Engineering into two more buildings that will
include a central facility of 50 research and teaching labs, a
service yard for large equipment like tractors and rainfall
simulators, and offices.
A four-story atrium will connect the three buildings. A 120-seat
lecture hall and classroom underneath the atrium will connect
by spiral stair to the central space.
‫ مختبر أبحاث جديد للطاقة الحيوية مختبرات‬، ‫القسم االول‬
‫للتدريس وعلم األحياء الدقيقة والكيمياء‬.
‫القسم الثاني دمج قسم الهندسة الزراعية وهندسة النظم الحيوية‬
‫ مختبرًا‬50 ‫في مبنيين آخرين سيشمالن مرفقًا مركزيًا يضم‬
‫للبحث والتعليم وساحة خدمة للمعدات الكبيرة مثل الجرارات‬
‫وأجهزة محاكاة هطول األمطار والمكاتب‬.
.‫سوف يربط ردهة من أربعة طوابق المباني الثالثة‬
‫ مقع ًدا وفصل‬120 ‫ستتصل قاعة محاضرات تتسع لـ‬
‫دراسي أسفل الردهة عن طريق درج حلزوني بالمساحة‬
‫المركزية‬.