Patterson Hall Renovation - NAC Architecture

Learning / Higher Education

Eastern Washington University Patterson Hall Renovation

Cheney, Washington

In the heart of Eastern Washington University’s campus located on EWU’s central gathering lawn is NAC Architecture’s renovated Patterson Hall, the university’s largest general classroom building. The original 105,000 square-foot, 3-story building constructed in the early 1960s has been renovated and wrapped with a 30,000 square-foot, 2-story addition. The renovated building provides renewed, inviting, comfortable general instruction space with state-of-the-art teaching technology in a multitude of classroom sizes and configurations. It also incorporates much needed study spaces designed for individual and collaborative study. The study spaces and their locations promote student-faculty interaction.

Introducing daylight into the formerly dark, bulky building mass was a priority of EWU. Student lounges, study spaces and stairs were relocated to the corners of the building and have access to generous daylight and views. An internal, day lit, 3-story atrium was introduced into one of the main circulation corridors. Patterson Hall, which is expecting LEED Gold certification, contains 48 academic instructional spaces, a forensics lab and 200 work spaces for faculty and staff including 140 private offices that all have exterior windows.