Curved Drywall Soffits Bounce Natural Light Into Student Center
Drywall Grid System Helps Shape Design Of Light Well.
When designing the newly renovated and expanded Adron Doran University Center at Morehead State University in Kentucky, Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects, Lexington, Ky., wanted to find a way to infuse the existing student center with natural light.
“The old building, because of its structure and design, didn’t let light into the building,” explains project architect Michael Leland Smith. “When adding on to the building, we would create even larger floor plates, which would make the building even darker. So, what we wanted to do was insert something between the new and old building that would bring a lot of natural light deep into the building.”