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Missouri Innovation Campus Site Plan
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MIC Floor 1 Plan
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MIC Floor 2 Plan
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A welcoming front entrance greets students and staff.
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The aluminum panels change character with varying reflectance of light. Windows are clean punctures within this skin; it is highly systematic yet beautifully simple.
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MIC has been a successful catalyst for bringing together the K-12, community college, and university communities; all three education sectors partner in the MIC program.
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A two-story Atrium Commons connect the program elements within each building quadrant, both vertically and horizontally.
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Learning spaces that had originally been programmed as individual classrooms were opened up into large flex studios, more closely approximating real-world workplace experiences.
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Operable glass walls allow hands-on learning activities to spill into the commons, becoming the social hub—where camaraderie is built and collaboration is best exemplified.
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The building is highly transparent and offers a wide variety of unscheduled spaces for students to extend learning beyond the labs and classrooms.
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The daylight transmitted through the atrium commons spaces allows the large, flexible floor plates to feel highly connected to the exterior environment.
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Multiple strategies were employed to optimize flexibility and a true-to-life workplace experience. The learning spaces supports a lot of movement and tasks with appropriate space.
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The Digital Media Suite features professional performance-quality spaces, including a recording studio that rivals the best professional studios in the region, ensuring transferrable workplace competencies.
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Design inspiration was driven by the design team’s experience in the workplace sector—translating these work spaces into hypothetical learning environments.
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MIC has been a successful catalyst for bringing together the K-12, community college, and university communities; all three education sectors partner in the MIC program. Michael Robinson Photography
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A two-story Atrium Commons connect the program elements within each building quadrant, both vertically and horizontally. Michael Robinson Photography
A progressive partnership between Lee’s Summit R-7 School District, Metropolitan Community College, and the University of Central Missouri is reshaping the way students experience education at the new Missouri Innovation Campus (MIC). The 2 + 2 program, which is a collaboration between both industry and academic partners, focuses on learner outcomes in an immersive and rich real-life workplace experience. Students from 16 to 30 are working in a classroom and workplace towards the same degree. DLR Group and design partner Gould Evans have designed a facility that supports a diverse and flexible program to evolve as future careers are invented. The programs, which include networking, engineering, medical, biomedical, graphics, hospitality, and cybersecurity, within the building are segregated into quadrants and split on two floors for ease of wayfinding. Throughout the building its character takes on a sense of Academia meets Google with a commitment to create incidental contact that results in collaboration between students, teachers and higher education faculty. Learning and teaching happens everywhere. The unique feature of this facility is its intentional design of spaces to be used by all disciplines and programs, in that nature it will be programmed like a higher education facility. There are dedicated labs for specific programs and adjacencies to flexible spaces for a changing curricula. Industry partners are encouraged to use hoteling spaces and the conference center to see and be seen by students of the facility. Industry leaders in the hi-tech medical records field, logistics experts and global engineering firms are a part of the day-to-day in this building.
MIC is setting the benchmark for the next generation model for education. This high-tech, STEM-focused facility serves 600 Lee’s Summit R-7 School District students and 1,200 University of Central Missouri students. High school graduates can earn an associate’s degree, followed by a bachelor’s degree two years later. These benefits translate into earlier graduation, less college debt and higher job placement. Bachelor degree programs include, Systems Engineering Technology, Design and Drafting Technology, Computer Science and Cybersecurity. DLR Group is the Architect of Record and provided architecture, structural engineering, and branding in collaboration with our design partner Gould Evans.
The Missouri Innovation Campus
Category
Combined-Level School
Description
Grand Prize
Project Location:
Lee's Summit, Missouri
Architecture Firm
DLR Group
Overland Park, Kansas
www.dlrgroup.com
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Photography By:
Michael Robinson Photography
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