The new $26 million four-story facility will be designed to accommodate RIT’s new chemical and biomedical engineering departments. The state-of-the-art building will complete the science quadrangle on the campus.
The building will also house the chemistry department, wet research labs and facilities related to the RIT-Rochester General Health System Alliance. It will feature a number of shared spaces designed to enhance the synergistic quality of various departments.
The Institute Hall will be designed as a contrast to the original campus design, which follows a Modernist style. The campus features buildings that are solid red brick masses sporting dark glass. The new structure will also feature a transparent, glazed core that is wrapped in a red brick shell.
The design will allow for refined connections to the campus via a newly created science quad that will function as the meeting point between several existing science and technology buildings.
RIT boasts a portfolio of existing buildings which have been designed by notable architects, including Hugh Stubbins & Associates, Roche Dinkeloo and Associates, Edward Larabee Barnes, and Harry Weese and Associates.
The campus has eco-friendly buildings which are certified with LEED Platinum and Gold certification. The new facility will be designed by incorporating environmentally responsible building materials. Institute Hall will be designed to function as a multi-use facility and RIT is aiming for LEED certification for the building.
Construction is expected to begin in late 2010, with an expected completion by late 2012.
