Missouri Hall Renovations
Anticipated Re-Opening August 2007
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Gallery/Renovation Journal
Missouri Hall built in 1965, has 117,000 total square feet and houses up to 620 in doubled and tripled rooms. The building renovations are in Phase 2 of the Auxiliary Facilities Initiative and will involve interior renovations, exterior building repairs, and several additions. Upon completion the building will house 520 students in single and double rooms.
The main costs involved in this project will be applied to building shell updates; replacement of the environmental systems, the addition of a sprinkler system building wide and programmatic revision to the floor plan to provide more appropriate support and common areas for the residents.
The programmatic revisions related to building wide support require that a 2,500-square foot addition be made on the west side of the first floor at the central entry location. This addition will provide for a new private dining room for up to 30 that will be accessible from either the cafeteria or the public hallway. This addition effectively adds 30 seats of capacity to the current 200 seats available in the dining hall. Also added is a.50 seat multi-purpose space. This room will also be accessible from the main dining room, the private dining room and the public hallway. A new enlarged hall desk area, new public restrooms, and a new entry to the dining hall will also be developed. The seating area of main dining room will receive upgrades and space dividers. The kitchen and serving areas will not be renovated at this time.
Throughout the front area there will be some lounge seating areas. The two east wings on each side of the first floor will remain as student rooms. The two south and two north wings will each have a modest addition built between them. At both areas, this addition combined with a part of the current main hallway and one room in each wing will provide a dedicated lounge, laundry, kitchen and study space for each area. Also in these areas the restrooms will be fully renovated and made accessible. These facilities will serve 15 two person and 1 one person room, (31 beds) in each of the north and south groups.
On the second level the north and south end of the building will each have 3 student wings with 25 two person rooms (50 beds). Each group will have a lounge, laundry room, kitchenette, and study space. All restrooms will be fully renovated and reconfigured to be fully accessible.
On the third to fifth floor the three end wings north and south will be given added lounge space (rendering, floor plan) from the central connector student rooms. The remaining central wing rooms will relate to the north or south commons areas and restrooms. Each group of rooms will have 30 two person rooms and one single room (61 beds). There is an enlarged lounge area, a dedicated study area and three separate accessible restrooms for each group. On theses floors the two groups share one kitchen per floor and one laundry per floor. This equals the support facilities provided at the new residence hall for the number of residents served. There is a greater amount of public lounge and study space than provided in the hall as would be appropriate for a non-apartment facility. All triple rooms are eliminated while maintaining the capacity goals for the project.
The typical sleeping room will retain its current walls while existing entry doors and wood trim will be retained. Rooms and halls will be re-carpeted. Hallways will receive new cei1ings and lights. General building work will include the installation of sprinkler and fire detection systems, throughout the building. The hot water heating system will be replaced with electric heating and cooling independent thru-the-wall fan coil units in each room. These will provide heating or cooling on demand as well as fresh air venting. A cost analysis was performed to review electric through-wall units versus in-room units using circulating hot and chilled water. The installation for electric units and operating costs are projected to be more cost effective. Ongoing maintenance tasks would be comparable as both types of installations involve filters and fans to maintain each room. The additional requirement that a corner of a student room be committed to house the non-electric unit, impacting the livability of the residents' rooms and placing the units service points in difficult to access locations, favors the use of the all electric units. All domestic water piping and soil piping will be replaced as the bathrooms are reworked. Sprinkler piping systems with emergency generator will be added. The fire alarm system will be upgraded as required building wide. Room wiring will be re-run to provide additional electrical capacity in each student room. Lounge areas will be served by wireless systems.
Revisions to the building shell will include the replacement of all of the existing non-insulated windows which are original to the building with units having thermal pane glass and thermally insulated frame.
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