[from the Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.; by Aaron Lee, Staff Writer]

Two additions to Campbell Hall ? home to the University of Virginia?s School of Architecture ? are being dedicated today, more than two years after the project broke ground.

In the close to 40 years since Campbell opened, the number of students enrolled in UVa?s architecture programs has more than doubled. And at the same time the faculty has close to tripled, making space tight, officials said.

At a cost of $15.6 million, the additions have added 12,000 square feet of space, including 26 new faculty offices and three additional review rooms where students can have their work critiqued.

?The building is meant to exhibit what we do in the school,? W.G. Clark, UVa professor of architecture, said of the design of the east wing, which is almost completely encased on three sides by clear and translucent glass.

Two university professors were involved in designing the additions to the east and south ends of Campbell, which

before the additions topped out at 80,000 square feet.

Clark designed the east wing and said the review rooms it houses trump the former review rooms that lacked natural light.

?People don?t feel so trapped in there,? Clark said of the new rooms. In addition, the design sought ?to make that [review] process more visible to the campus community.?

William Sherman, an associate professor of architecture, designed the south-facing facade with computer-controlled louvered windows. Those windows adjust during the day and through each season to help control the temperature of the building.

The windows are also designed so they can be retrofitted with photovoltaic panels that capture sunlight to use as energy for Campbell, Sherman said.

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