Marywood University
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Design team leader and facilitator for feasibility study to reposition Nazareth Hall Student Center, a 1950's building housing the main dining hall, study areas, and mixed-use performance spaces.
Designed exterior upgrades for the building to create a more dramatic day/night entry sequence incorporating a colored-glass canopy, dramatic lighting, and large window openings allowing views out to the arboretum and the historic main campus.
Met extensively with students, faculty and staff to understand programmatic needs as well as short-comings and opportunities for the building.
Developed interior renovations schemes and created a glassed-in mezzanine level study area/fireplace lounge above the mixed-use dining and performance space below.
Scope of project: repositioning study of a 1950's student center with upgrade to interior spaces, create glassed mezzanine study area/fireplace lounge with multi-purpose dining and performance space below
Scale of project: n/a
Estimated construction cost: $500K
Study Completed 2005
Construction completion date: 2006
NOTE: Additional work on campus entailed designing the museum quality lighting plan to properly illuminate the interior and exterior of the historic rotunda and its frescos and statuary.
Image credit: Michael Caronchi, John Rossi, Dan Raih
NOTE: Work by Rossi completed while with another firm.