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Featured Project
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE – SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
ARCHITECT: RCG, INC., ARCHITECTS
ENGINEER: MUELLER ASSOCIATES |
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Corner windows offer views of the glowing interior brick walls.
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The signature 5-story tall Atrium embraces the urban environment with ample exterior views. Welcoming congregation areas and beautiful materials encourage gathering and conversation. Large-scale decorative fluorescent pendants attenuate the volume, provide scale, softly illuminate people and objects and help to visually anchor the human zone.
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Atrium corridors offer exterior views, a connection to other floors and a chance to communicate with colleagues. High color-rendering
medium-white light enhances the rich
natural wood walls and ceramic tile floors
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Windowed lounge spaces invite students and faculty to take a thoughtful break.
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Common Spaces serve multiple needs as lounge, congregation and study spaces. Decorative glass downlights provide general illumination and visual interest while the wall-wash, adjacent Atrium pendants and daylight provide an uplifting, energizing feeling.
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Patient interaction spaces provide real-world learning environments. Indirect pendants provide ample wide-distribution lighting for improved facial rendering and visual communication.
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Lighting for the large Lecture Halls supports alertness and memory retention using ceiling luminance and high color-rendering, cool-white light sources.
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Teaching Labs – General illumination provided by linear direct/indirect pendants. Under-shelf LED task lighting provides critical inspection lighting.
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