The Northeast Tech Kansas Cosmetology & Multi-Purpose Building is a 1-story, 15,750 square foot new vocational facility that also houses a multi-purpose space used for graduations, assemblies, and public forums for the small town of 1,000 residents.

Northeast Tech's Cosmetology program was previously housed inside a typical, drop-ceiling classroom where they were finding the constraints of light and space not conducive to education for their fastest growing program. We were tasked with creating a light-filled space that would fit their program's projected growth as well as a space for more general, larger gatherings.

The design features clerestory light-filled lab space with various specialized classrooms surrounding it, with the clerestories and rooflines mimicking in form the vernacular, rural architecture of the surrounding area. The angle in the building form was the result of a constrained, sloped site that was the only available land to build on in the campus. The entry, which separates the two building functions, was not intended to be the entry into the campus. As such, it was designed to be an entry and not quite the entry.

• Concept Design
• Project Design
• Project Documentation
• Renderings
• Animations
• BIM Coordination
• Bidding
• Construction Administration