Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building
GLADYS VALLEY MARINE STUDIES BUILDING
Yost Grube Hall Architecture
ARCHITECTS
Yost Grube Hall Architecture
MEP ENGINEERING
Pae
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Kpff Consulting Engineers
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS
Gri
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Andersen Construction Co.
ACOUSTICAL ENGINEERING
Listen Acoustics Inc.
LIGHTING DESIGN
Luma Lighting Design
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Mazzetti | Bhe Group
PRINCIPAL IN CHARGE
Tom Robbins
DESIGN PRINCIPAL
Jerry Waters
PROJECT MANAGER
Crystal Sanderson
PROJECT DESIGNER EXTERIOR
Tim Root
PROJECT DESIGNER INTERIOR
Alexandre Asselineau
PROJECT DESIGNER
Allison Miller
ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS
Knot
SPECIFICATIONS
M.thrailkill.architect.llc
OWNER
Oregon State University
DOOR HARDWARE
Allegion
INTERIOR DESIGNER
Ren Decheney
FURNITURE DESIGN
Bainbridge Design
MANUFACTURERS
Ann Sacks, Construction Specialties, Daltile, Kawneer, Landscape Forms, Nakamoto Forestry North America, Nora, Patcraft, Sedia Systems, Skyline Sheet Metal, Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Solutions, Davinci Custom Fireplaces, Epic Metal Corp, Jfec Usa Inc, Kirei, Milliken & Co, Rhinzink, Saxton & Bradley
AREA
72000 Ft²
YEAR
2020
LOCATION
Newport, United States
CATEGORY
University
This academic-research building on Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center campus in Newport is also the first tsunami vertical evacuation building in Oregon.
The building serves the Marine Studies Initiative, a new interdisciplinary program involving all 11 OSU colleges with a goal of providing access to the sea for OSU students, faculty, and staff.
The building has met unprecedented resilience goals with state-of-the-art architectural and engineering techniques to serve as one of the first vertical evacuation tsunami sites in the nation.
The building will withstand a 9.0 earthquake and an associated tsunami.
A ramp leads from ground level to the roof of the three-story structure, with the roof’s height determined by computer tsunami modeling to serve as a vertical evacuation site for more than 900 people.
The building has a three-story academic and research core, connected to a two-story wing that includes community space, an auditorium, and an innovation lab.
Collaborative labs support a new teaching and research model with a curriculum that blends natural and social science, providing a rich environment for cross-disciplinary discovery, collaboration, and expression.
The design connects users’ functional needs to Newport’s iconic Yaquina Bay Bridge and estuary through colors, textures, materiality, and art.
Exposed cast-in-place concrete conveys durability and strength, while shou sugi ban siding and zinc have been used for centuries in marine environments.
The landscape design is sensitive to the surrounding native coastal vegetation, and rainwater is integrated with the evacuation ramp and collected in open stormwater collection ponds.
As a lab building, the project also had high energy use requirements for fume hoods and outside air.
Heat recovery was incorporated to reduce EUI to 51% below baseline code for this building type.
The Gladys Valley Marine Studies building is the result of OSU’s determination to preserve its Hatfield campus as a place of innovation, research, and education.
A demonstration project for building responsibly in tsunami inundation zones, it is also firmly rooted in the region’s culture, history, and industry.
