AIA Indiana

Office Location:
50 South Meridian,
Suite 302
Indianapolis, IN
46204

Phone:
317 634-6993

Executive Director
Jason Shelley [email]

Bookstore Location
50 South Meridian,
Suite 100
Indianapolis, IN
46204

Phone:
317-634-3871

Bookstore Manager
Nancy Grounds [email]

Architect:
RATIO Architects Inc,
Indianapolis, Indiana

Project:
Butler University Health & Recreation Complex and
Student Housing Village

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Project Description:
Butler University’s mission is to provide the highest quality of liberal and professional education by creating and fostering a stimulating intellectual community built upon interactive dialogue and inquiry among faculty, staff and students.

The Health and Recreation Complex, located to the west of Hinkle Fieldhouse, is carefully nestled in a hillside surrounded by a wooded area. In utilizing the hillside, the project team was able to create a pass-through connector for students between the main campus and the new Student Housing Village.

Further east along the Promenade, carefully woven onto the long hill that borders the west length of Boulevard Place, the new Student Housing Village overlooks the Butler Bowl to the west and the historic Butler/Tarkington neighborhood to the east. The student housing village is comprised of six apartment buildings made up of 126 total four-bedroom units and four single units.

The Village also features a village center, the Dawg-House, named after the university mascot. The Dawg-House serves as a community center where residents can gather to watch their favorite show on the flat screen TV, play a game of pool or simply hang out. A small convenience store and outdoor seating are the perfect solution for students’ mid-afternoon snack cravings and study breaks.

Jury Comments:
“The program is evocative and complex and the architecture responds to it….”

“We like the continuity of materials…there is a residential quality to the residential center and something different to the rec center that has been properly done and which is so often not the case in university residential….”

“It has to deal with the larger scale of the composition of buildings but they also did a nice job of detailing each building.”

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About The AIA Indiana
Architectural Design Awards

Excellence in Design Awards are presented by AIA Indiana as follows:

For Excellence in Architectural Design, buildings and structures, architects and owners are presented with awards. Honor being the most prestigious, Merit the second most prestigious, and Citation the third most prestigious category. Entries are accepted from architects throughout Indiana, and award winners are selected by an independent jury.