Academics and training are the focus of the new Stark Performance Center at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The 111,000-square-foot facility expands upon the existing Bergstrom Football Complex, creating a single, 250,000-square-foot training center with multiple spaces for student-athletes to enhance their athletic and academic practices.
New college training center focuses on student athletes
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The state-of-the-art center serves ISU’s football, soccer, softball, golf and tennis teams, and features brand-new locker rooms, a player’s lounge, nutrition center, sports medicine center, like skills center, academic center, dining hall and staff offices.
Designed by Substance Architecture, Des Moines, Iowa, the Stark Performance Center was conceived as a simple, precast box that connects to the existing building. The box maximizes the 20,000 square feet available, and contains the programmatic elements associated with each of the team organized on three levels: two above grade and one below. An academic and dining bar cantilevers to the north, south and east via a two-story truss, and is expressed as a simple curtainwall form with glazing on the north, south and east, and metal panels on the west.
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CENTRIA, Moon Township, Pa., supplied 11,700 square feet of its Versawall insulated metal panels, and Poway, Calif.-based Hunter Douglas Architectural supplied 15,800 square feet of its Multi-Box Continuous in Cotton White. The Multi-Box panels are perforated at the interior and come in a custom pattern of 2-inch and 4-inch formed panels with 3/4-inch spacers.
Made up of 15 phases, the project also included a renovation of the north end zone and the Albaugh Family Plaza.