ARCHITECTURE | HONOR  

Entry Name: Northeast Iowa Community College Industrial Technologies Building
Firm: INVISION Architecture
Project Location: Peosta, IA
Owner: Northeast Iowa Community College
Photographer: Integrated Studio Arts – Cameron Campbell

As a result of master planning efforts, the first step in the realization of a fresh campus vision is a new 54,000-gross-square-foot Industrial Technologies Building commissioned for a community college, on their Peosta campus. A unifying precept of the campus plan and the building design is the development of a pedestrian courtyard that employs the building as a mediator between vehicular activity and the pedestrian campus. Nestling the building into a hillside aided program placement by assigning the large shops to the lower level of the facility, hidden from public view. Clad in corrugated metal siding that draws from the surrounding rural environment, the laboratories for CNC machining, welding and HVAC instruction occupy the north end of the upper level while classrooms, offices and a student lounge complete the program to the south. This glazed southern half serves as a beacon to the public, appearing as a floating lantern at night.