Rutgers Business School
Rutgers Business School
TEN Arquitectos - Enrique Norten
ARCHITECT
Ten Arquitectos - Enrique Norten
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Century 21construction
IT ENGINEER
Wsp Flack + Kurtz
VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION
Vda
PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT
Structure Tone
MANUFACTURERS
Metalwërks, Unilock, Vetrotech Saint-gobain
ROOF SAFETY ACCESS
Wiss Janney Elstner Associates
MEP ENGINEER
Wsp Flack + Kurtz
COST ESTIMATOR
Davis Langdon
ACOUSTICS
Lally Acoustical Consulting
SITE / CIVIL ENGINEER
Langan Engineering
GEOTHERMAL
Concord Engineering
LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
W Architecture And Landscape Architecture
ROOFING
Wiss Janney Elstner Associates
MEP/IT/LV ENGINEER
Wsp Flack + Kurtz
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT
Richard Bienenfeld Architect
DESIGN TEAM
Enrique Norten, James Carse
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services
LV ENGINEER
Wsp Flack + Kurtz
SITE ENGINEERING
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services
EXTERIOR WALL
Front Inc
LOCATION
Piscataway Township, United States
CATEGORY
Schools
Text description provided by architect.
The 150,000 square foot Rutgers Business School is the gateway to Rutgers University’s Livingston Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey as envisioned by the campus master plan.
The L-shaped form of the building spans 60 feet above Rockafeller Road becoming the physical gate through which most campus traffic passes.
The building is part of a push, in keeping with the goals of the master plan towards a high density campus development complete with urban facilities, shared amenities, and a walkable campus.
Similarly this building reflects the ongoing shift in higher education away from a focus on classroom-oriented organization and towards a focus on collaboration spaces.
This shift is especially present in contemporary business where the cross collaboration of ideas, cultures, and concepts is necessary to create, evaluate, and market the next big idea.
The building organizes itself as three bands: classroom, office, public connected vertically by an atrium and horizontally stitched by a variety of scales of communal spaces ranging from the personal nook, to the collaboration zone, to the collective space.
Circulation spaces engage, rather than separate the different building programs and to this end we celebrate the level of interaction of spaces within the building.
Professors are located at the heart of the school within reach of their students becoming both resources and collaborators for the dynamic evolution of ideas happening within the school.
The Business School, like every new construction at Rutgers University, is LEED Silver equivalent. The building is powered by solar panels and the neighboring geothermal borefield built below the quad.
All storm water is managed through bioswales and retention ponds on site. The atrium provides high levels of day-lighting into the building and the mechanical system is optimized for lower energy usage.
Low VOC materials and specialized carpet tiles enhance the air quality, as well.
