Meeting Hall

Program: Auditorium
Where: Madison County, North Carolina
With: Cutler Anderson Architects

The Meeting Hall is the most complex building on the campus. An 8,500 square foot auditorium building with full back of house and lobby areas, as well as an outdoor deck leading to the central plaza that connects the “core” buildings: The Meeting Hall, Dining Hall, Event Center, and Fitness Center. The concept of this building at the core of the site, is a concrete “bowl” that holds the auditorium risers for seating. This system of concrete piers and slabs connect to form a bowl-like structure which supports the framing for the rest of the exoskeleton: the second floor and roof super structure from a composition of wood framing members and built up steel beams and columns. The result is a building with transparent envelopes towards the views of the pond, and solid envelopes at the back areas. This building is shown here from a mix of concept sketches, to drawings taken directly from the Construction Documentation package. The photos are all taken at midst of construction, as this is the current status of the building.