The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Transforms the Daytona State College campus, Florida architecture images

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center in Daytona

July 12, 2023

Design: ikon.5 architects

Location: Daytona State College, Florida, USA

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Daytona Florida

Photos by Brad Feinknopf

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center, USA

ikon.5 architects proudly introduce the 74,000-square-foot The L Gale Lemerand Student Center at Daytona State College, establishing an iconic presence to the campus along International Speedway Boulevard, connecting its famed beachfront with the rest of Florida.

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Daytona Florida

Solving a campus planning dilemma of ubiquitous parking lots and background buildings facing the public way, an organically curving stone and bronze wall now faces the boulevard, embracing visitors like two outreached arms creating a landscaped welcome lawn, and defining a clear point of campus entry.

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Daytona FL

Rising from the center of the gently curving wall is an iconic bronze portal framing the opening to the student center and giving passage to the campus quadrangle beyond. Internally, a three-story commons overlooks the quadrangle and serves as the campus living room. Dining, a coffee shop, a gaming lounge, and group study rooms ring the student center commons.

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Daytona

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Daytona

An amphitheater on the second and third floors cantilevers into the commons and looks out onto the campus quadrangle. The amphitheater provides a theatrical experience giving students the ability to see and be seen, thereby reinforcing a sense of community and belonging.

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Daytona FL

The center is sustainably designed as a high-performance Green Globe certified facility. Custom bronze perforated solar screens are veiled over large, glazed areas on the south and west facades to limit heat gain and glare, while allowing views outward. A ventilated bronze rain screen at the portal tower reduces heat gain in the harsh Florida sun.

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The L Gale Lemerand Student Center, Daytona in Florida, USA – Building Information

Designers: ikon.5 architects – https://www.ikon5architects.com/
Official Project Name: L. Gale Lemerand Student Center
Location: Daytona Beach, FL
Client: Daytona State College

Architect: ikon.5 architects – New York, NY
Structural Engineer: BBM Structural Engineers, Inc. – Longwood, FL
Civil Engineer: Parker Mychenberg & Associates, Inc. – Holly Hill, FL
MEP/FP Engineer: OCI Associates – Maitland, FL
Landscape Architect: Prosser – Jacksonville, FL
Lighting Designer: S+S Lighting Design – Summit, NJ
AV/IT/Security: TLC Engineering for Architecture – Orlando, FL
Contractor: Perry-McCall Construction, Inc. – Orlando, FL

Completion: 2020
Building Area: 74,000 sf

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About ikon.5 architects
ikon.5 architects is a design-focused practice that provides its clients with innovative design solutions that exhibit a high level of craft, are aesthetically refined and carefully detailed, and achieve design excellence. Practicing nationally, the firm’s clients include colleges and universities, non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, governmental bodies, and global corporations.

Ikon.5 architects design approach distills an architecture that responds to a broad constituency, uniquely tailored to its setting and connecting people with places and activities in meaningful ways. The firm has earned over 100 global design awards, multiple nominations for the National Design Award by the Cooper Hewitt Museum, and recognition as one of the top design firms in the United States by Architect magazine over the last decade.

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Daytona Florida

About Daytona State College
Daytona State College, a comprehensive public college, provides access to a range of flexible programs from community enrichment to the baccalaureate degree, emphasizing student success, embracing excellence and diversity, as well as fostering innovation to enhance teaching and learning. DSC is the highest ranked public state college in Florida according to U.S. News & World Report rankings for Best Online Bachelor’s Degree Programs.

The L Gale Lemerand Student Center Daytona Florida

Photographers: Brad Feinknopf

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The L Gale Lemerand Student Center, Daytona, Florida information / images received 110723 from The Urban Conga

Location: Bay Park, Sarasota, Florida, USA

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