Designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, The Gates Center for Computer Science will complete a computer science complex on Carnegie Mellon University?s west campus. The building will house the three departments of the School of Computer Science providing offices, conference rooms, open collaborative spaces, closed project rooms and a reading room for more than one hundred and twenty faculties, three hundred and fifty graduate students, one hundred researchers or postdoctoral fellows and fifty administrative staff members along with a more public component of ten University classrooms, a two hundred and fifty seat auditorium, a café and two University computer clusters.
Photography: Timothy Hursley
The following design principles have been used to guide the project conceptually:
The empowerment of the individual is fundamental to the mission of an academic institution.

Intelligent, creative people possess an innate desire for the freedom of choice. They privilege order over the systematic and demand the maintenance of individuality within a respected collective.

Architecture and Landscape Architecture have the capacity to sponsor the uncompromised coexistence of seemingly irreconcilable differences.

At Carnegie Mellon, interdisciplinary and collaborative work between both its academic units and its faculty has been and continues to be one of its defining strengths.
Photography: Timothy Hursley
As the School of Computer Science grows in size and diversity, its ph...