The program plan for the building calls for a separate and secure access point in the parking garage for parents and customers of the preschool lab. The project team challenged the architects to create a lobby in the parking garage that would "speak" to children - it should be interesting, fun and inviting. Boy did they deliver - the results will blow you away. Affectionately called the "peanut" (because on the drawings and construction documents it is actually shaped like a circus peanut) the preschool lobby has curved walls, energy efficient LED lighting and features to make the parking garage more friendly.
I walked through the parking garage this morning and holy cats, the lighting is the most SPECTACULAR thing I've seen in any building on this campus, let alone in a parking garage!
Who would have imagined the parking garage as an opportunity for interest?
