John Rossi Company

Building community by design™

Guiding your way

We build community while others build buildings.

John Rossi Company helps clients form the essential underpinnings and vision for building projects. We shepherd a mindful process where people are 'truly' engaged to define project intent and design criteria to strengthen lives and create sustainable, authentic communities by intentional design—not by chance.

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Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

Member of the design team and facilitator of visioning sessions with campus community to develop program plan for the $9 million, 70,000 s.f. renovations and addition to the Sarratt Student Center. Rossi’s focus group workshops with students, faculty and staff — along with open public forums helped advance a completely stalled project. The process served to catalyze the campus community to proceed with the project in a productive and cooperative way. Issues were identified and the limitations of the underused existing facility were documented. Space programming objectives were identified for a revitalized Sarratt Student Center that houses the main dining hall, bookstore, mail room, cinema, pub, study and meeting rooms, administrative offices, and fifty student organizations.

Scope of project: Student Center master plan, addition and renovation
Scale of project:                                70,000 sf
Construction cost:                             $9M
Completion date:                               1996

Image credits: Bruner Cott

NOTE: Work by Rossi completed while with another firm.