Moraine Valley Classroom Building
Palos Hills, Illinois
2000
Booth Hansen collaborated with Moraine Valley Community College to design a 60,000 SF building which accommodates seminar rooms, faculty offices, a bookstore, administrative offices, and thirty-two classrooms. The soil conditions of the site, at the edge of a wetland prairie, challenged the team to design a structure which minimizes foundations and where long-span structural steel trusses support a second level.
The arrangement of the classrooms and offices encloses an open-air bookstore and cyber cafe, creating a social center for the school. Simple materials and efficient structural systems resulted in a cost-efficient construction.
