Academic Innovation Building Pre-Design, University of Washington, Tacoma
I believe we owe much of the project’s success to Hacker’s collaborative approach to problem solving and their willingness to listen and respond to our needs. I personally appreciated the team’s contagious enthusiasm and optimism demonstrated throughout the project.
Elizabeth Hyun
Space Planning Manager, University of Washington Tacoma
Academic Innovation Building (Pre-Design), University of Washington, Tacoma
Tacoma, Washington
Pre-Design
Completed 2018
Client Notes
Support growth and talent recruitment for increasingly popular business and engineering programs. Provide flexible spaces that can serve multiple disciplines and enable collaboration. Exemplify the University's connections to the regional tech industry. Prioritize sustainability.
Designer Notes
This Pre-Design creates the framework for a one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary academic building to serve the needs of business and engineering students. It showcases mass timber's beauty and sustainability benefits, and identifies a path forward to accommodate vibration-critical labs within a mass timber building.
People
Rachel Schopmeyer / Caitie Vanhauer / Scott Barton-Smith
Stefee Knudsen, Project Manager
