{"id":378577,"date":"2025-12-30T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378577\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:32:12","slug":"payette-designs-engineering-building-with-a-folded-form-at-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378577\/","title":{"rendered":"Payette designs engineering building with a “folded form” at Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston architecture studio Payette has completed an academic building<\/a> in central Pennsylvania<\/a> called ECoRE, which features a sculptural form and facades wrapped in reddish brick and metal fins.<\/p>\n

The Engineering Collaborative Research and Education Building, called ECoRE for short, is located on the university’s campus in the town of State College.<\/p>\n

\"Ecore\"Payette has completed an engineering building at Penn State University<\/p>\n

It sits within a new engineering precinct that was master planned by Payette<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to the master plan, the studio has designed two buildings for the precinct \u2013 the Engineering Design and Innovation Building, completed in 2023, and the ECoRe facility.<\/p>\n

\"Ecore\"The building is wrapped in reddish brick and metal fins<\/p>\n

The latter serves as the main hub for the College of Engineering.<\/p>\n

Totalling 280,000 square feet (26,013 square meters), the building has five levels above grade and one below.<\/p>\n

\"Ecore\"The building contains labs and social spaces<\/p>\n

The building\u00a0features a range of functions, including high-tech\u00a0laboratories,<\/a> classrooms, offices, and social spaces. There is also a library and cafe.<\/p>\n

The subterranean level holds speciality research spaces, such as anechoic chambers, wind tunnels, flight simulators and a roto-craft ice-testing facility.<\/p>\n

\"PennThe building is roughly L-shaped in plan<\/p>\n

Roughly L-shaped in plan, the building is shaped with various cuts and folds, resulting in a dynamic appearance.<\/p>\n

The structural frame is a combination of steel and concrete.<\/p>\n

\"PennIt is organised around a central atrium<\/p>\n

Facades are mostly clad in iron-spot brick<\/a>, although the southeast side, which faces the main campus, is glazed and lined with copper-anodised aluminium fins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“With its folded form and articulated facade, the ECoRE Building defines the arrival to the new engineering campus,” the team said.<\/p>\n

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The southeast elevation overlooks a plaza and serves as the main entrance. Inside, there is an area called the Vertical Commons \u2013 a multi-level atrium<\/a> surrounded by spaces for studying and gathering.<\/p>\n

“Anchoring the project is the Vertical Commons, a dynamic study hall that showcases the precinct’s social energy and establishes a vibrant new identity for the College of Engineering,” said Payette.<\/p>\n

\"PennIt was designed to foster collaboration among different departments<\/p>\n

The building accommodates five engineering departments and was designed to foster collaboration among the different fields.<\/p>\n

“The ECoRE Building realigns research into thematic groupings and emphasizes shared use and space optimisation \u2013\u00a0an approach that will reshape the college’s culture for decades,” the team said.<\/p>\n

\"PennThe interior palette is made up of white oak wall panels, concrete flooring and metal panels<\/p>\n

Because spaces had differing height requirements \u2013 for instance, labs needed to be taller than offices \u2013 the team used a “skip-stop” strategy for the layout.<\/p>\n

Interior finishes include white oak<\/a> wall panels, concrete flooring and metal railings.<\/p>\n

Other projects by Payette include a Boston academic building wrapped in ribbons of steel<\/a>, and a V-shaped building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with green roofs and a doughnut-shaped terrace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Warren Jagger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston architecture studio Payette has completed an academic building in central Pennsylvania called ECoRE, which features a sculptural…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,84335,229,88,3234,64879,64880,8596,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-378577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-campuses","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-sectionall","16":"tag-sectionarchitecture","17":"tag-universities","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}