Michigan State University Skandalaris Football Center, East Lansing, Mich.
by Jonathan McGaha | June 8, 2011 12:00 am
Located on Michigan State University’s East Lansing campus, the 28,000-square-foot athletic building is a bold architectural statement, both inside and out, and a representation of strength for a football program trying to reinvent itself. The
$17 million project features meeting rooms for coaches and players, and serves as a Hall of Fame for the Spartans’ storied history. The project’s theme was “Boldness by Design,” based on a strategic positioning statement launched by University President Lou Anna K. Simon in 2005.
To capture the strength and masculinity of the football program, the main exhibit area highlights exposed structural steel and bolds from Douglas Steel. To showcase the facility’s elegance, sharpness and professional atmosphere for the coaches, players, staff and public, while contrasting with the raw structure, Sobotec Ltd. supplied 6,000 square feet of smooth metal wall panels. Large enough to fit the entire football team and its coaches, the meeting room features 2,400 square feet of curved metal ceiling panels with a perforated wire mesh finish from Gordon Interior Specialties. Additional metal features include stair treads, a football-shaped elevator shaft, checker plate exhibit panels and cutouts for the Spartan logo and helmet. The exterior of the building draws inspiration from the imagery of Spartan warriors and the armor, with the front of the building coming to a very sharp point. Kawneer Co. Inc. supplied the aluminum curtainwall for the project.
Originally published: July 2009
Building owner: Michigan State University
Architect: Integrated Design Solutions LLC, Troy, Mich.
Exhibit designer: ZE Designs, Cincinnati Construction manager: Barton Malow Co., Southfield, Mich.
Structural steel fabricator: Douglas Steel, Lansing, Mich.
Curtainwall: Kawneer Co. Inc., Norcross, Ga., www.kawneer.com
Metal wall panels: Sobotec Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, www.sobotec.com
Metal ceiling panels: Gordon Interior Specialties, Bossier City, La., www.gordon-inc.com/Interiors/default.aspx
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