Student Services Building
Student Services Building (SSB) designed by CO Architects, the 140,000?square?foot, as a new gateway to the California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) Pomona campus, roughly 30 miles east of Los Angeles. As the gateway building, SSB welcomes matriculating students who register for classes and apply for financial aid, prospective students and their families who meet at the site for campus tours, and alumni actively involved in the campus community.
Photography by © Bill Timmerman
CO Architects topped the SSB with an undulating, standing?seam aluminum roof that spans over two separate structures. The shape and orientation of this distinguishing feature is driven purely by performance and function with the aims to optimize energy management, maximize daylight, and offer views to the surroundings. The architects devised the roof as the primary performance driver for the curving building to achieve an advantageous Energy Use Intensity (EUI) of 31 (average is 65). Photography by © Bill Timmerman
It further ties the building to its context by creating a memorable introduction to the university that references the topography of the campus, the foothills, and nearby San Gabriel Mountains. To mitigate the desert climate, the two?acre roof acts as the main shading device. The architects used extensive daylight, glare, and solar heat?gain analysis modeling to optimize the roof geometry, minimize energy loads for lighting and cooling, and increase us...