University of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

Firm

SSOE, Inc.

Client

Wolfe Hall

Area

175,000 sq.ft.

Total Cost

$27,800,000

Completion Date

11/1997

Collegiate Gothic architecture maintains the stone campus tradition and encloses a double-loaded corridor floor plan at an efficient 56 percent usability.
In addition to space for chemistry, biology and pharmacy research, the facility provides a sterile products lab, tissue culture rooms, cold rooms, environmental chambers, MRI lab, dark rooms, etc. A research greenhouse with a programmable environmental control system is located on the roof and a full function vivarium is included in the basement. Pharmacy accommodations include an interactive pharmacy practice lab, as well as distance-learning equipped recitation rooms. Lecture halls for 300 and 150 students also are included.
To address the need for reconfiguration of labs as research requirements change, the design incorporated an integration of 4-foot modular wall panels with 4-foot modular lab casework. Based on a 3- to 5-year reconfiguration cycle, the flexible lab is expected to yield a life-cycle cost of about one-third of other approaches.

Photographer: ©Mark Packo