Becton Dickinson Campus Center By RMJM in Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA

Becton Dickinson Campus Center By RMJM

Becton Dickinson Campus Center exterior facade

Becton Dickinson Campus Center interior food table

Becton Dickinson Campus Center interior kitchen

Becton Dickinson Campus Center interior wall

This building was designed to be a virtual and literal bridge between two pre-existing building AIA National Honor Award-winning campus designed by Kallman McKinnell BD Wood in the late Eighties and early Nineties. Campus Center is located in the “Great Lawn” between the two buildings and allow the two cultures to come together for the purpose of sharing the food. This is to accommodate as many as 500 people and includes several places to eat, multi-station servery, kitchen, retail shops, coffee bars and cafes, banks, dry cleaners, and support area including loading dock and mechanical mezzanine level area. There is exterior dining terrace, and the areas within the building can be divided into intimate dining or meeting area. The building plan is provided through the spatial volume form attached to the main intersection in the center spline wall. This primary wall and stretching program to determine the area outside their cage building at the north-south axis to negotiate a graceful grade.A change in total 5246 cubic meters of concrete placed for the Campus Center. Self Consolidation of Concrete (SCC), more widely used in Europe but are used with increasing frequency in the U.S., more flowable than conventional concrete, but can be as cohesive and achieve the same durability and strength. SCC was chosen for the project because of design complications and the Campus Center to accommodate the vision of exposed concrete surfaces. The flowability increased SCC concrete formwork allowed to charge more complete, without segregation and with fewer cavities, and without any mechanical vibrations which can damage the surface shape.

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