Clark Nexsen 

Location: Midlothian, VA

Buildings on college campuses differ from buildings elsewhere as they are called upon to work in a collective way, achieving objectives beyond themselves.  The new Academic Building at John Tyler Community College is sited and organized so that it defines one edge of a newly formed campus quad and creates a small courtyard for itself.  This building is programmatically diverse: it contains classrooms, faculty offices, a small café, student study spaces, and a 180 seat studio theater and support spaces, rooms designed for music instruction and practice, a dance studio, a classroom for physical education/fitness, and a rooftop teaching space.