Jon M. Huntsman Hall is a 330,000-sf mid-rise building containing classrooms, faculty offices, research space, and student lounges for the Wharton School of Business.
The building features an L-shaped structure with a four-story low-rise connected to a nine-story cylindrical tower. The lower portion of the building features an exterior second-level landscaped terrace. Keast & Hood engineered a structural steel frame that bears on a structural mat foundation to compensate for the presence of high ground water. Specially fabricated column transfer girders were designed to span large distances, while keeping normal bay sizes in the floors above. This permitted large, column-free spaces including auditoria and tiered interactive classrooms of 60+ seats. The building contains faculty offices for four academic departments, associated research centers, administrative spaces, student lounges and cafes, a 300-person lecture hall, and a colloquium space for special events. Tiered and flat floor interactive classrooms feature state-of-the-art technology and computer capability designed to accommodate Wharton’s “cohort and learning team” approach.
Jon M. Huntsman Hall is a 330,000-sf mid-rise building containing classrooms, faculty offices, research space, and student lounges for the Wharton School of Business.
The building features an L-shaped structure with a four-story low-rise connected to a nine-story cylindrical tower. The lower portion of the building features an exterior second-level landscaped terrace. Keast & Hood engineered a structural steel frame that bears on a structural mat foundation to compensate for the presence of high ground water. Specially fabricated column transfer girders were designed to span large distances, while keeping normal bay sizes in the floors above. This permitted large, column-free spaces including auditoria and tiered interactive classrooms of 60+ seats. The building contains faculty offices for four academic departments, associated research centers, administrative spaces, student lounges and cafes, a 300-person lecture hall, and a colloquium space for special events. Tiered and flat floor interactive classrooms feature state-of-the-art technology and computer capability designed to accommodate Wharton’s “cohort and learning team” approach.
CLIENT: Kohn Pederson Fox & Associates
LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA
TYPE: Academic, SERVICES: New Construction, MATERIALS: Concrete, Steel, SUSTAINABILITY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Completed project photography © Jeffrey Totaro
