Haverford College Visual Culture, Arts & Media (VCAM) Building

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Highly flexible, 24/7 learning environment of intersecting spaces designed for interpreting and making visual media

Haverford College’s new Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) building repurposes a gym built in 1900 into a vibrant 21st-century learning environment. The design preserves the old gym’s central, two-story vaulted space, while inserting a three-story, object study/media production classroom and creating a new living room for the campus. All primary program spaces open onto and animate the heart of the building—a three-story remnant of an indoor running track—that now functions as campus family room with kitchen, community table, display area, projection wall, and movable furniture. Classrooms, labs, offices, and presentation spaces encourage trans-disciplinary collaboration and experimentation in digital media, film, 3D fabrication, and material culture. 

Awards

AIA CAE Education Facility Design Award of Excellence


Contract Interiors Award in Education Category


AIA Minnesota Honor Award


 

IIDA Northland Chapter FAB Grand Award


IIDA Northland Chapter FAB Award for Education


 

Client

Haverford College

Location

Haverford, PA

Project Type

Educational Environment | Cultural Space

Size

25,000 SF

Certifications

Certified LEED-NC v. 3 Gold

Role

Architect | Interior Designer

Status

Complete

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“This is a building that is inherently about connection. It has a spatial richness that, while inserting a new series of program spaces within a historic building, retains the experience of a single unified space.”

—AIA CAE Education Facility Design Awards Jury