Cooper Carry2015Connect ing people to place

2015The projects reflected in this book are the result of not only a talented team of designers, but clients who challenged those

teams to reach beyond the normal and expected and to truly

create spaces and places that connect with the people who

interact with them each day. On the following pages are projects

which opened this year. Each has its own story to tell and we

invite you to learn even more by visiting our website.

Connect ing people to place

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Cooper Carry

Cooper Carry

Focused on the innovative design of exceptional spaces and places, Cooper Carry is one of the nations most dynamic, context-driven design firms. Our projects are crafted to enrich the experience of the people who interact with them for a day or a lifetime.

An internationally recognized team of design professionals, with vast experience in a variety of project types, collaborate in the pursuit of excellence through the practice of connective design. Since our founding in 1960, we have steadily built a reputation for our attention to detail, thoughtful design and client service. Each project is a composition of imaginative connections amongst buildings and their components. But it doesnt stop there as we strive to incorporate our projects interaction with surrounding buildings, communities and the environment . . . all of which are impacted by the other.

Connecting people to place is the cor-nerstone of our design philosophy and it is that connectivity which anchors our architectural, planning and urban design approach. As an example, our design process treats landscape with equal importance to buildings and we pursue excellence in landscape design just as carefully as we do the design of the building itself. The net result then is that we combine architecture and landscape

design into a rich composition of func-tional, thoroughly connected spaces, formed to enhance the experience of the inhabitant, thus celebrating not only the interior, but exterior environment as well.

Almost since our founding, sustainabil-ity has served as the foundation of our connective design philosophy. The result is that our team is inspired by the inter-connections amongst natural systems which support our livesplants, animals and the physical world they inhabit. Consequently, we collaboratively pursue creative design solutions using nature as our model with the result being a more holistic project.

The connective design process simply assesses the sustainability of materials, the suitability of assembly methods, and the options for organizing buildings and landscapes into compositions which tend to maximize the advantages of solar orientation, weather, natural light, building conditioning, and other variables which affect the buildings environmental performance. In essence, we seek ways to optimize the human experience, thereby elevating the quality of life for all who come to live, work or play within the spaces and places we design.

Kennesaw State University, Student Recreation and Activities Center

North Carolina State UniversityTalley Student UnionRaleigh, North Carolina

The project provides the NC State community with approximately 290,000 gsf of improved and expanded space for student organiza-tions, meeting and event spaces, informal lounge and gathering areas, and retail venues. The existing 1972 structure was completely re-im-aged, with only the 800-seat performing arts theatre remaining intact. A new 4-story atrium was carved from the existing structure, linking all the major program areas in the building. Additions engage every face of the existing rectangular form, providing much-needed room for growth and strong connections to the surrounding campus from all sides. The building is home to most of the student organization and student government offices on campus, Arts NC State, Stewart The-atre, Student Affairs administration, 12 dining concepts on three floors, a 12,000-sf ballroom, 13 meeting rooms, the campus print/copy shop, and the NC State Bookstore.

North Carolina State UniversityTalley Student Union

The first phase of the building opened February 2014 and includes most of the dining venues, the ballroom, several meeting rooms, and the print/copy shop, with the remainder of the project opened in early 2015.

The project achieved LEED-NC Silver certification.

Duda|Paine Architects is the Architect in association with Cooper Carry as Interior Architect.

Bunche Middle SchoolAtlanta, Georgia

The original 100,000 SF Bunche Middle School was built in 1977 with tight triangular classrooms, confusing corridors and minimal natural light. Cooper Carry completely redesigned the school to provide up-dated, inviting learning spaces, simplified wayfinding and infused ample natural light in a manner that enables teachers the flexibility to employ todays 21st Century pedagogy. As the program called to increase the FTE to 975 students, the 63,652 SF addition provides proper sized core spaces such as a state-of-the-art auditorium with engineered acoustics and a generous gymnasium filled with natural light.

Bunche Middle School

Our interior designers introduced vibrant color and bold design features that provide interest and purpose. Spaces such as lobbies, the media center, and other core spaces were provided with various ceiling heights and volume to give a sense of rhythm to students. Consequently, a bright and inviting entrance with a new administration suite enabled the design team to allow for much needed security.

The building was redesigned in concert with the site to separate bus and auto traffic. The new site design included hundreds of new trees and shrubs to create an arboretum style learning experience for the students, emphasizing the change of seasons. New softball and football fields were included with a 400 meter track.

The project is pursuing LEED-Schools Silver certification.

Emory UniversityAtwood Hall, Chemistry Addition

Atlanta, Georgia

Cooper Carry began multi-phased renovations and additions to the Chemistry Center in 1996. This latest phase of this projecta 70,000 square foot addition and 40,000 square foot renovationcompleted Fall 2015. The building was designed to create a new front door for Emorys multidisciplinary chemistry based research programs. Teaching and research space are integrated with a shared focus on the buildings common space. Undergraduate students are connected to meaningfulactive research activities. Labs feature open plans, significant day light-ing and plug and play laboratory furniture to reduce the time and cost associated with reconfiguration as needs change.

Emory University, Atwood Hall Chemistry Addition

Emory UniversityAtwood Hall, Chemistry Addition

Research and classroom activities continued normal operations during construction. This required careful coordination with the engineering and construction management teams, to phase and execute with limited disruption of the ongoing activities.

The project achieved LEED-NC Gold.

Georgia TechEngineered Biosystems Building

Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia Techs Engineered Biosystems Building provides 218,880 square feet of flexible interdisciplinary laboratory space for researchers collaborating in the fields of Chemical Biology, Cell Therapies and Systems Biology. The project creates a unique environment that connects people from multiple disciplines and departments to focus on specific societal problems in a holistic manner. A principle goal of the design was to foster interaction between chemists, engineers, biologists and computational scientists from two separate Colleges, the College of Engineering and the College of Science.

Georgia Tech, Engineered Biosystems Building

Georgia TechEngineered Biosystems Building

The building was developed with a highly utilized equipment corridor securely linking vertical circulation to every laboratory and support space while allowing wide transparency into research labs. A special-ized research facility is located in the buildings basement, allowing for more transparent and publicly accessible spaces to occupy the ground level. Core facility access and expansion are critical to the success of interdisciplinary bioengineering facilities.

Cooper Carry is the architect of record for this project and is provid-ing full design services. Lake|Flato Architects joined our team as the design architect. The project is pursuing LEED-NC Gold certification.

Post Alexander IIAtlanta, Georgia

Post Alexander II consists of 340 apartment units and 458 structured parking spaces in a single reinforced concrete framed high-rise structure. The project is a 19 story residential building above a seven level parking structure. There are 14 typical unit plans with exterior balconies or terraces. The project includes a street level leasing office and a fitness center and community spaces at the elevated pool and sun deck level. The project also features a roof top sun deck and amenity spaces including an indoor/outdoor dining area and warming kitchen.

Post Alexander II

Post Alexander II is designed with an eclectic/transitional aesthetic to compliment the adjacent Post Alexander property. The building is a blend of architectural precast concrete, stucco, and a painted alumi-num and glass window-wall system. The project features landscaped roof decks, pool decks, sidewalks and street fronts.

Post Alexander II

Kennesaw State UniversityStudent Recreation and Activities Center

Kennesaw, Georgia

The 176,092 square foot facility was designed to accommodate the Universitys explosive enrollment growth to 20,000 students. The new facility and renovation was completed as a phased construction project, sequenced to keep the existing facility operational throughout the 18 month construction cycle.

The facility expansion abuts the existing recreation facility, creating a 300 foot long two (2) story fitness atrium and circulation spine that sits astride an existing main campus pedestrian pathway that energizes the facility, becoming the new recreational and social hub of the campus. The fitness atrium is glazed on three sides creating a dynamic day lit space during the day, and a transparent campus beacon at night.

Kennesaw State University, Student Recreation and Activities Center

Kennesaw State UniversityStudent Recreation and Activities Center

The existing facility gym, locker rooms and multipurpose rooms were renovated and the Health and Wellness Center services and facilities were expanded. The new facility has expanded free weight, cardio, fitness, and group exercise areas and new locker rooms. The new four (4) court gym has a jogging track looping around the upper level of the gym, fitness area, and two story climbing/bouldering wall. There is an eight lane indoor lap pool as well as an outdoor leisure pool. There is a bike shop with convenient equipment checkout area for outward bound equipment. The exterior recreation area includes sand volley-ball, basketball, and tennis courts.

The project is on-track to achieve LEED-NC Silver certification.

Southeastern Technical CollegeHealth Services Center

Swainsboro, Georgia

Cooper Carry provided architecture and landscape architecture services on this 40,000 sf, single-story, brick and glass structure located at the Southeastern Technical College campus in Swainsboro, Georgia. The new facility consists of various types of laboratory space including: a physical therapy lab, medical assistant lab, practical nursing lab, certified nursing lab, and a basic sciences lab. The project includes general science, medical, and classroom space.

Southeastern Technical CollegeHealth Services Center

HexagonNorcross, Georgia

Cooper Carry assisted Hexagon/Intergraph, an existing client, to set the vision for the renovation of their Norcross, Georgia office. The clients initial goal for the project was to consolidate two of Hexagons business entities from 90,000 SF in two separate suites to 62,000 SF of connected space. With a limited tenant allowance, Cooper Carry was able to transform the previously neutral and expected environ-ment into a visually stimulating environment that promotes productivity and collaboration. The redesigned entrance creates a strong reception presence and identity from the building atrium. A centralized confer-ence area connects the reception with the town center and adjacent fitness center. As well as providing alternate work spaces for the employees, the co-location of these gathering spaces encourages im-promptu meetings and conversations between co-workers and clients.

Cooper Carry provided visioning /programming services, interior design services, furniture consulting, and technology /consultant coordination of the design.

Hexagon

1522 K Street Hyatt PlaceWashington, DC

Cooper Carry was enlisted by Songy Partners to convert a 1960s era office building into an 11-story Hyatt Place hotel. The adaptive reuse project includes 164 keys, conferencing space, a roof-top terrace for private events, a fitness center, a small restaurant, and a bar. While, the linear floor plates of the existing office building lent themselves to typical guest room layouts, the narrow site necessitat-ed that Cooper Carry devise creative solutions to allow natural light into the public spaces.

The project includes one level of below-grade conference spaces as well as two levels of below-grade parking. Given its close proximity to the White House in Downtown DC, the hotels location will make it ideal for business, weekend, and SMERF (Social, Military, Educational, Religious, Fraternal) travel.

The Mill at 515 North Washington StreetAlexandria, Virginia

Cooper Carry was engaged by CAS Riegler to provide architecture and interior design services for the conversion of a 25,950 square-foot office building into residential units. The historic structure was built as a cotton factory in 1847. Since then, it has functioned as a Civil War prison, a bottling plant, a spark plug factory, residential apartments, and most recently, an office building. The adaptive reuse project resulted in the creation of 26 residential units over four stories with an additional loft level. The boutique units will vary in size from 450 square feet to 2,000 square feet. Construction of a 9,000 square-foot annex building on the site, currently occupied by a parking lot, will create eight additional boutique condominium units.

The Mill at 515 North Washington Street

The projects design respects and celebrates the historic nature of the site and structure. The entitlements and approval process involved collaboration with multiple agencies and committees including the Upper Old Town Design Advisory Committee; the Alexandria Board of Architectural Review; and the Historic Preservation and Washington Street Design Guidelines arms of the National Parks Service. The project was completed in the fall of 2015.

Georgia BioScience Training CenterSocial Circle, Georgia

The Georgia BioScience Training Center is a signature building that declares to a global audience Georgias commitment to supporting research, technology transfer, and providing the trained workforce critical to bioscience and biomanufacturing operations. A unique feature of this projectoperated by Georgia Quick Start, a division of the Technical College System of Georgiais that the Center is not only used for training Baxalta employees, but also serves as a highly visible component of Georgias strategic plan to brand the State as a global destination for bio-related industries, and to recruit new such industries to locate and create jobs in Georgia.

Georgia BioScience Training Center

This 43,000 square foot facility houses state-of-the-art laboratory spaces, classrooms, computer lab, meeting rooms, administrative spaces and all associated storage and functional spaces. The building also includes a large multi-purpose conference space, as well as a small general food service area.

Georgia BioScience Training Center

Halyard Health, Inc.Atlanta, Georgia

The new Halyard Health Corporate Headquarters houses all research and development laboratories for the entire enterprise. The project re-purposed a 1980s speculative office building into a high tech corporate headquarters. Cooper Carrys design team was able to create a 14,000 SF of state-of-the-art laboratory within the head-quarters, nurturing innovation through an inspiring and collaborative work environment. Careful attention to work flow and segregation of spaces was required, based on the product development process as well as FDA audit requirements. The signature laboratory is not only an invigorating work environment, but also a marketing tool for the corporation for both existing and prospective clients.

Halyard Health, Inc.

The facility includes product research labs, wet labs, preclinical testing labs, testing labs, validation and verification labs, a failure analysis lab, machine shop, prototype room, chemical and biological hazardous storage, pilot line, and a pilot finishing lab. Product designers and laboratory technicians analyze what products the market needs, develop prototypes of the products, test prototypes, create manufac-turing processes and equipment, test manufactured products, along with conducting quality reviews of products which are in the market but are thought to be defective.

Alpharetta Branch LibraryAlpharetta, Georgia

The new branch library in Alpharetta provides much-needed space for library services and community events. More than double the size of the existing branch library, the new facility features expanded collection and computer areas, a childrens program space, enclosed study rooms, and two connected meeting rooms and one 130-seat auditorium that can be reserved for community events. The two levels of the building both feature public entries, and are connected inter-nally by a large, open central stair. The building and site are designed to contribute to the adjacent Alpharetta City Center project and is located in a park setting next to the City Hall.

The project is pursuing LEED-NC Silver certification.

Alpharetta Branch Library

Edward Andrews Design CenterAlpharetta, Georgia

Edward Andrews Homes (EA Homes), an Atlanta-based custom builder turned to Cooper Carry to design their new 7,000 square foot design center. The company needed a fresh take on the typical builder showroom environment, foregoing the traditional kitchen and material vignettes for technology-based 3-D visualization. This allowed them to operate in a third of the traditional square footage. The tech-nology platform was being developed simultaneously, with the intent to streamline the decision making process. Flexibility was a big driver, as they wanted to use the main design space for receptions as well.

Edward Andrews Design Center

Hyatt Place Baltimore/Inner HarborBaltimore, Maryland

Cooper Carry provided full architectural and interior design services for the Hyatt Place Baltimore/Inner Harbor hotel. Located at the intersection of Fleet Street and South Central Avenue in Baltimore, the eight-story, 150,000 sf hotel includes structured parking for 60 cars and 14,000 square feet of retail space at its base. Amenities include a 100-seat dining room, indoor pool with a terrace, and fitness area. The 208-key hotel is anticipated to achieve LEED-NC silver certification and features a green roof. The project is part of the continued redevelopment of Baltimores Harbor East neighborhood.

Hyatt Place Baltimore/Inner Harbor

Berry College Valhalla StadiumMount Berry, Georgia

Valhalla Stadium is an open air stadium and field that accommodates competition football, lacrosse and track and field events. The field has a synthetic turf surface and synthetic track surface. The stadium structure is precast concrete with Home Team seating for 2,500 and Visitor Seating for 500 with expansion capability. A press box and field house is included as part of the structure to accommodate home and visiting teams. The Valhalla Gate provides access and presence for the game day procession, bringing spectators through a plaza space with concessions and restrooms followed by a sweeping ramp that ascends to the main bleachers.

University of GeorgiaSanford Stadium, Sky Club Renovation

Athens, Georgia

Cooper Carry provided architecture and interior design services to enhance the fan experience for both the entry level to the Sky Boxes and the entire Sky Club. The project consists of concept development for the renovation of Sky Box street entry at Level 200 and the Sky Club at Level 300 Level of Sanford Stadium at the University of Georgia. The Sky Club is comprised of a central serving area, two adjacent dining areas each containing a small serving area and 6 toilet rooms.

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