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The University of Kansas (KU) Medical Center Health Education Building (HEB) in Kansas City, Kansas, balanced the use of glass, metal, and brick to create an iconic presence on campus.<\/span>
Photo \u00a9 Tom Kessler. Photo courtesy Vitro Glass<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the University of Kansas (KU) Medical Center Health Education Building<\/a> (HEB), an interdisciplinary, multipurpose academic facility in Kansas City, Kansas, solar control, low-emissivity (low-e), and low-iron glass are key components of the structure’s design.<\/p>\n

Designed through a partnership between Helix Architecture + Design<\/a> and CO Architects<\/a>, the five-story, 15,886-m2<\/sup> (171,000-sf) facility creates an \u2018educational zone,\u2019 serving as the primary teaching facility to support inter-professional learning for the schools of medicine, nursing, and health.<\/p>\n

Balancing the use of glass, metal, and brick to create an iconic presence on campus, the building features a four-story glass \u2018lantern\u2019 box design glazed with high-performance glass. Flexible learning studios and state-of-the-art clinical skills labs \u2018float\u2019 within the box to show off the core of the building\u2019s curriculum.<\/p>\n

A 76-m (250-ft) long bridge featuring ultra-transparent glass passes through the center of the structure and connects it to adjacent buildings, providing 557 m2<\/sup> (6000 sf) of lounge, meeting, and student-activity space. The clarity of the glass met the architects\u2019 design requirements for transparency, connectivity, and identity.<\/p>\n

A three-story skylight system that allows ventilation between floors is supplemented by an energy-efficient glass configuration, featuring triple-silver-coated low\u2011e glass, which limits heat gain while enhancing occupant comfort. A large cantilevered glass \u2018cube\u2019 highlights the medical simulation and clinical skills floors as the \u2018heart\u2019 of the building. Decorative wooden slats encase the inside of the third and fourth floors, folding in to form a \u2018rib cage.\u2019<\/p>\n

HEB supplants aging infrastructure on the medical school and KU Hospital campus. The project design also accommodates a 25 percent increase in class sizes to help meet the growing demand for healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n

With center-of-glass visible light transmittance (VLT) of 64 percent and a solar heat gain coefficient (SHGC) of 0.27 in a standard 25-mm (1-in.) insulating glass unit (IGU), triple-silver-coated low\u2011e glass helped deliver natural daylight, provided exterior views, and fostered a sense of openness to the education process that the architect was seeking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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