The new Hasley Hall at the College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, Calif., was part of the Santa Clarita Community College District’s 2001 Master Plan. The building features 30,000 square feet (2,787 m2) of computer labs, fi ve general classrooms, a 120-seat movie theater, the college’s board of trustees’ conference room/suite and 30 top-fl oor faculty offi ces. The overall structure forms a two-winged building connected by a cast-in-place concrete/ steel/glass truncated cone-shaped tower, which acts as the circulation core. The plan for the threestory building was to fi ll an under-utilized space between the existing Student Center and Physical Education buildings. Integrating Hasley Hall into the sloped site created a three-story structure accessible at each level. The top fl oor is connected to the Student Center by a suspended walkway leading to the main entry. Hasley Hall’s shape and placement on the site creates a variety of small and large active and passive exterior spaces. The central core is a three-story atrium containing niches of off-circulation space that serve as study areas with data and power ports for laptops. The atrium’s large glass walls bring in abundant natural light and provide a feeling of openness, as well as views of exterior landscaped terraces, exterior plazas and fl oors above and below. The building’s transparency is achieved through the use of articulated glass curtainwalls as the primary exterior material. The weightlessness and mirror quality of the colored spandrel glazing contrasts effectively with the heavy solid concrete of the adjacent buildings. The cast-in-place concrete with a ship-lap pattern was selected to reinforce the articulation between the central core and the two-winged building, which also responds to the physical challenge of the sloped site. Approximately 30,000 square feet of Norcross, Ga.-based Kawneer’s 1600 wall system, 2-inch (51- mm) structural silicone glazed, with Kawneer 1600 sunshades with curved outrigger, circular louver and fascia was used for the project. PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, provided approximately 25,000 square feet (2,325 m2) of Azuria Glass (formerly Azurlite) glazing for the buildings and Solarban 80 glazing for the tower. Approximately 3,000 square feet (279 m2) of aluminum panels from Mapes Industries Inc., Lincoln, Neb., was used for cladding. Hasley Hall has sustainable building materials, such as single-ply PVC roofi ng, concrete fl ooring,recycled fl oor and wall coverings, sun control and shading devices. The building’s success is directly linked to the fl exibility and spaciousness of the various learning environments. The unifying architectural aesthetic has created dynamic physical spaces while at the same time ensuring user-friendliness through a simple and functional circulation design. Hasley Hall’s goal was to inject vitality to the central green space at the north end of campus, while the addition of indoor and outdoor gathering spaces around two key campus resources along with the conference room and movie theater have redefi ned and popularized the area. Santa Clarita Community College District is the owner; Kruger Bensen Ziemer Architects Inc., Santa Barbara, Calif., was the architect; Klassen Corp., Bakersfi eld, Calif., was the construction manager; and Santa Barbara Glass Co., Santa Barbara, was the contractor/installer.
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