Project Spotlight: GOAT Brings New Construction to Tulane's Uptown Campus
Situated just a stone’s throw away from Tulane University’s Uptown campus sits the newly constructed and recently completed GOAT project, the operations center and office space for the Tulane Police Department (TUPD).
GOAT collaborated with Tulane to bring this long-planned campus patrol station for the university’s police department into reality. Given its prominent location and surrounding structures, the massing was developed to relate directly to the project’s immediate residential context: on the front elevation, the simplified, enlarged gable form relates to the scale and silhouette of the adjacent three-story homes. On the side elevation, the gable falls away to a flat roof, relating more directly to the one-story, single-family shotgun homes behind it.
Inside the new station includes multi-purpose space, private offices mixed with semi-private workstations, a conference room, and utility space, and more.
GOAT’s team, comprised of Associate Designer Paula Bechara along with company co-founders and co-principals Peter Spera III and Colin VanWingen, worked alongside collaborators including Batture LLC, Synergy Consulting Engineers, and Pangea Construction to bring the project to life.
This particular project was completed during a volatile time in the design and construction industries, and GOAT worked with the client to streamline the design as well as simplifying the massing to ensure that the building communicated the quality, thoughtfulness, and longevity that Tulane has fostered with its on-campus architecture, while controlling its complexity and cost.
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