A new student center designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) will take the place of the Tod Williams and Billie Tsien-designed Mattin Center on the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Maryland! 
The latter was completed in 2001 and was originally designed with the aim to ?nurture the creative arts in a school where the primary focus has always been science and engineering.? as expressed by the architects. The university decided to demolish it to make space for BIG?s $250 million student center. 
Courtesy of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects and Partners
BIG collaborated with the award-winning New York-based architecture firm Rockwell Group and the international firm specialized in academic design Shepley Bulfinch to curate this project. The new student center features a dance studio, black box theater, art studios, and a cafe. The high-profile architecture firm has attempted to ?imagine and design the Campus Center like a village condensed from a plethora of different spaces and pavilions for the greatest possible diversity of activities, interests, and sub-cultures,? as told by Bjarke Ingels, the founder of BIG. 
Dubbed The Village Student Center, it will be a non-academic hub, as well. This is BIG?s winning scheme for an international competition to design a village-like student center for the Johns Hopkins research university in Baltimore. 
Courtesy of BIG
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