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Paris Junior College’s Greenville, Texas, campus was built in collaboration with the city and other public entities for commercial growth, a gateway to the city and future community projects.
The $13 million, 42,000-square-foot multipurpose academic building is the first facility in the college’s multi-phase campus plan, sited on a 172-acre tract recently retired from the agricultural business and adjacent to several community amenities. SHW Group developed the campus’ master plan and designed the new two-story facility that serves up to 2,500 students and contains flexible, technology-enabled classrooms, a science lab, a computer lab, a library, administrative offices, and a large meeting room that can also be used as a classroom.
The siting of the campus’ master plan considered identity and sense of place for the first building and subsequent buildings, providing a visual gateway to Greenville from the neighboring freeway. The main goal was to provide a long-range, sustainable plan for a campus of up to 7,000 students while ensuring the short-term goal of developing a multipurpose educational building to meet current needs. The master plan helped the college locate this first building, designed to be converted to a classroom building once support functions are located in new facilities.
Additional planning and design goals include:
- Restoration of the site to a more natural state, including integration of an existing flood plain and reintroduction of native plant species.
- Incorporation of indoor and outdoor learning environments to enhance the landscape and provide a more dynamic beginning to the campus.
- Planning of the flexible, technology-enabled classroom building on a classroom-sized module to allow easy, inexpensive conversion to a classroom building in later phases of the plan.
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Facility
Paris Junior College Greenville,
Texas Campus
Client
Paris Junior College
Completion Date
June 2009
Size
42,000 square feet
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