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The University of La Verne was determined in the early 2000?s that a new 40,000 square foot Campus Center would be built north of the existing gymnasium at the intersection of C and Second Streets near the center of the campus.

The Campus Center is viewed as instrumental in consolidating disparate student life activities across the campus, and equally key to increasing recruitment and retention of students and faculty on campus.
Render, Exterior Shot
Design Concept:
The narrow footprint of the site suggested, early on, that the facility program of 40,000 square foot would need to extend vertically to a mass which would have a significant portion at a three-story height.
There is significant vertical interpenetration in the Campus Center, the planning and the volume conceived very much in concert; according to the following strategies:

Identity , View, and Massing. The axis of C Street penetrates into the westerly third of the site, providing a dramatic view into the site from as far as Bonita Avenue, and providing an even more dramatic view out to the San Gabriel Mountains. The presence and force of this connective axis led to several early planning and massing decisions:

The main entrance to the building was planned at the termination of this axis. This entry consists of a linear, 2-story gallery of ?Mixing Hall?, off of which are immediately located Reception, Student Recreation, Student Life Offices, and Caf...