RESTORED AND REHABILITATED
"The challenge … was to take a 1950sera dormitory and retrofit it into a modern
living environment with all of the amenities of a 21st-century residence hall," McConnell says. "The floor-to-ceiling height
was extremely limited, so the building
didn't easily lend itself to transforma-
tion. LAS had to fi nd creative ways to fit
modern building systems (air conditioning, life safety, electrical, plumbing, and
data) into a structure that really wasn't
designed for that and, more importantly,
to make it an elegant solution."
"Our goal was to sensitively retrofit
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Gaillard to be consistent with the newly
constructed military housing on campus
while maintaining as much of the interior
and exterior historic fabric as possible,"
says Ross Davis, who served as LAS' Gaillard project architect.
To that end, the design team devised
a strategy to leave intact the signature
ceramic glazed terracotta corridor walls
and existing door locations by converting
every other room into a shared adjoining
bathroom — but otherwise retaining the
basic building organization.
The fi nal plan essentially took three
existing double-occupancy units and
turned the center one into a shared
bathroom and separate mechanical room
that served the suite. Each semi-suite has
an entry door for each of the bedrooms
and a middle door that provides corridor
access to the mechanical room, enabling
the semi-suites to be serviced without
disturbing the residents.
At the end of each corridor in the
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STANDING THE TEST OF TIME. A goal of the Gaillard
Hall renovation was to maintain as much of the interior
and exterior historic fabric as possible, so the building's
signature ceramic glazed terracotta corridor walls and
existing door locations were left intact while the bulk of
the renovation took place behind the doors.
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