The goal for the Koury Center project was to create a new home for Elon University’s growing business program with a design that supports the Elon’s student-focused approach to education. Spillman Farmer Architects’ challenge was to create energizing spaces that promoted the program’s mission of student engagement within a traditional shell.
Spillman Farmer Architects has worked with Elon University since the early 1990s and has completed more than 25 successful projects on campus, including several master plans. Throughout the master planning process, Spillman Farmer Architects collaborated with the University to develop concepts for a new location for their growing new business school. As part of the master plan, Spillman Farmer explored both short- and long-term solutions, as well as options and presented sketch concepts for the…
Spillman Farmer Architects has worked with Elon University since the early 1990s and has completed more than 25 successful projects on campus, including several master plans. Throughout the master planning process, Spillman Farmer Architects collaborated with the University to develop concepts for a new location for their growing new business school. As part of the master plan, Spillman Farmer explored both short- and long-term solutions, as well as options and presented sketch concepts for the eventual new building.
As the University moved forward with the project, these concepts were refined through more extensive studies. The design team developed renderings and a 3D model for building conensus and fundraising purposes. The goal for this project was to create the new home for Elon University’s growing business program with a design that supports the Elon’s student-focused approach to education. Spillman Farmer Architects’ challenge was to create energizing spaces that promoted the program’s goal of “student engagement” within a traditional shell.
The exterior of the new business school is inspired by the Georgian/Federal architecture of the surrounding campus buildings and continues the “Jeffersonian” design of the Academic Village of which it is part. Inside, the three-story, 60,000-square-foot facility is anything but traditional. State-of-the-art technology is a major component of the building. Some of the unique spaces within Koury include:
Name Dr. John Burbridge
Title former Dean, Love School of Business at Elon University
One of our objectives was to design a facility that would allow student engagement – the hallmark of an Elon education – to flourish. As a dutiful committee, we decided to visit about 10 other new business school buildings, but did not see any facility where student engagement was a primary design consideration…[Spillman Farmer] was responsible for designing a unique structure that would do for student engagement what was not evident elsewhere. And boy, did they succeed. There is no other business school building that rivals what we have here, not in the United States, or the world.
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