Gates Center

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Gates Center

• Faculty Meeting Nov. 3, 2004

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Outline

• Preliminary designs
• Process/Timeline
• Other buildings
• What we need to think about

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Preliminary Designs

• Almost nothing set in stone
• Just to give you a sense of the range of
  possibilities
• Bowlin Cywinsky and Jackson (BCJ) were the
  architects.
• BCJ did Bill Gates house, UCSD CS building, UIUC
  CS building, Pixar Headquarters
• Not necessarily final architect

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Design I
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Design II
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Design III
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Proposed Costs (50M total)

• 33M building construction
• 220/sqft 150,000sqft
• 3M underground parking (150 cars _at_20K)
• 3M architect
• 2M landscaping development
• 2M Project management
• 2M Furnishing
• 5M Other (demolition, )

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Proposed Sources

• 20M Gates Foundation
• 8M Other gifts (fundaraising)
• Remaining Financing (Public Bonds)

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Process

• Warner Hall picks construction management company
  (DONE, Oxford)
• University committee selects architect
  (representatives from SCS, FMS, (DRC) Design
  Review Committee., Warner Hall, trustees)
• Architects works with us on design (especially
  the interior). Also can bring in consultants on
  particular aspects (e.g. lighting, wireless).
• Many levels of design.

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Process II

• Different parts are put out for bid (concrete,
  electricity, heating,
• Construction startswe have to be diligent about
  qualitymany decisions have to made on the fly.

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Timeline
Jan 05
Jan 06
Jan 07
Jan 08
Jan 09
architect selected
schematic design
construction docs
completion
groundbreaking
our input into the design
fundraising
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Process within SCS

• Small committee
• Guy Blelloch
• Sharon Burks
• Peter Lee
• Manuela Veloso
• ???
• Randy Bryant Jim Skees (Ex.officio)
• Everyone is encouraged to give input.

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Other recent CS buildings

• Stata Center, MIT (2004)
• Allen Center, UW (2003)
• Seibel Center, UIUC (2004)
• EBU3B, UCSD (2004-2005)
• ACES building, UT Austin (2001)
• Klaus building, Georgia Tech (2006)
• Maxwell-Dworkin, Harvard (1999)

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MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center

• Space 420K sqft ( 280K garage)
• Cost 350 Million (approximately)
• Architect Frank Gehry
• Major Donors 25M Ray Stata, 15M Alexander
  Dreyfoos, 20M William Gates

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• The Paul G. Allen Center for
• Computer Science Engineering
• Space 168K 22K sqft
• Cost 72M
• Architect LMN Architects (local)
• Major donations 7.2M Microsoft, 14M Paul
  Allen, 6.5M Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 7
  other 1M gifts

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A great opportunity to rethink how we organize
ourselves

• Need to open our minds
• What would improve your quality of life
• What is most important to us
• The devil is in the details

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Issues

• How to organize research groups
• students mixed with faculty or separate
• students with their faculty
• groups are localized
• How to organize labs
• individual or group labs
• people in labs, or just equipment
• labs next to faculty

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Issues II

• Types of common spaces
• informal sitting areas
• reading room
• food services/café
• atrium
• Connectivity and traffic flow
• bridge to NSH?
• bridge to cut?

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Issues III

• Privacy vs. Openness
• glass windows on labs
• glass windows on offices
• open space desks (students, staff?)
• Boldness of architecture
• vanilla functional building
• make a statement about SCS

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Issues IV

• What space gets windows
• offices, conference rooms, common spaces
• Number and sizes of conference rooms
• 7220 (500sqft)
• 4623 (900sqft)
• Classroom space
• Any special teaching labs?
• Any special classrooms?

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Issues V

• Office space for undergraduates
• Office sizes for graduate students
• 3 students, 4, 5, ?
• Noise
• Individual heat/air control
• Opening windows