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Sacred Heart University Chapel

Sasaki provided architectural design services for a new chapel for the university, located on a new quadrangle in the heart of the campus. It serves as a beacon for spiritual life on campus and is important crossroads between the academic core and the athletic and residential life facilities.

Sacred Heart University Gallery

The Gallery Student Life Facility is located in between the upper and lower campuses of Sacred Heart University to capture student pedestrian traffic. The program elements include a mix of dining, lounge space, the IT Factory where students can have their laptops repaired while being entertained. The central location of the facility intends to engage with the campus core, student residents and athletics.

St. George's School Drury Grosvenor Center for the Arts

The Drury Grosvenor Center for the Arts at St. George's School in Middletown, RI. is an adaptive reuse and addition to an outmoded gymnasium. Sasaki Associates was initially hired to do feasibility and siting studies for the Arts Center. After raising the estimated funds, the school extended the assignment to provide landscape, architectural and interior design services for the project. The Center provides facilities for all aspects the arts, including sculpture, painting, music, and drama.

St. Olaf College Buntrock Commons

The new 180,000 square foot Buntrock Commons campus center, physically linking the library and the chapel, was designed around St. Olaf College’s central dining room. In addition to the campus dining room, the building includes a student-run nightclub and music club, executive dining and meeting rooms, recreation and game rooms, the crossroads and fireside lounges, offices for student organizations, the student health center, and the offices for campus life.

Trinity College Koeppel Community Sports Center

The Koeppel Community Sports Center enhances both Trinity College and the surrounding community by transforming a section of the Broad Street/New Britain Avenue neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, into a shared recreational sports facility. The site is envisioned as an extension of both the athletic precinct of Trinity College and the Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance’s Learning Corridor along Broad Street. As a symbol of the partnership between Trinity and SINA, the building provides a collegiate ice hockey rink for the varsity programs at the college and community recreation space for the city of Hartford.

University of Arizona Student Recreation Center Expansion

Designed to be the first LEED® certified building on campus, the 54,000 square foot expansion of the existing student recreation center provides much needed additional space for fitness and indoor sport activities as well as expands the center’s recreational program offerings to include new activities, such as outdoor fitness, volleyball and bouldering.

University of Balamand Library/Learning Center

As part of the implementation of the master plan for the University of Balamand in Lebanon, Sasaki provided architecture and landscape architecture concept design services for the Library Learning Center.

Located at the center of the campus, the building completes an open wing of the larger existing academic and administrative building complex. In this location, the Library Learning Center is steps away from the University's student center, and surrounded by the main pedestrian promenade at the core of the campus.

University of California, Berkeley Underhill Parking Garage and Recreation Field

The Underhill Parking Facility and Recreation Field is one of the largest open spaces in Berkeley's Southside neighborhood. It is conceived as a "park in a city", in which the structure is integrated with the adjacent landscape. Programmatic elements include 1,000 structured parking spaces to serve adjacent student housing and campus special events, as well as a recreational field and civic open space for the surrounding neighborhood.

University of California, Irvine Gillespie Neurosciences Research Facility

The first phase of a 1.5 million square foot Health Sciences Center and is a prototype for future buildings. The building is 76,000 square feet with two main areas - the laboratory block and the atrium/commons.

University of California, Riverside Student Services Building

The Student Services Building embodies a recent trend - consolidating services to maximize efficiency, improve customer (student) support, and to foster staff development and interaction. The three-story, 58,140 gross square foot building brings together the student academic support services currently scattered throughout the campus in four different buildings.

Campus Architecture and Interiors
At the core of Sasaki’s approach is the recognition that the physical campus can significantly affect an institution’s ability to achieve its mission and strategic objectives. In support of an institutions mission, the campus must express it’s individual uniqueness; it’s place, region, and culture. In an increasingly competitive environment, a successful campus environment must integrate existing campus resources, learning environments, and campus life into a seamless long-term vision. To ensure long-term implementation success we believe the institutional leadership must be engaged in a rigorous, interactive process.

The outcome of this approach is a dynamic master plan, architecture and landscapes of enduring beauty and vitality.