Program Statement

Goals
To design a higher quality Eppler Center that provides great services and classroom time to students on campus. Goals also include making the building visually appealing to students and visitors to the campus.
Objectives
• Create an easily navigated layout of the building for all users
• Add a computer lab for students who use the building on a regular basis (SMRT students)
• Update the classrooms with latest technology and provide more lecture style classrooms and smaller classrooms
• Create one centralized administrative office area and divide that one area into different sections for different majors
• Update the gym areas in the building by adding new flooring, better lighting all throughout, wider track/new track flooring, create seating areas in gym areas so the space can potentially be used for other events (club, intramural, even rent out to high schools)
Trends of the Facility
• Making the rooms in the building able to support multiple different types of users. (Multi-purpose rooms)
• Trying to eliminate the amount of energy the facility uses by choosing eco-friendly options when possible and using natural lighting.
• Choosing handicap accessible options instead of choosing just to meet the expected requirements.
• Even though Eppler has somewhat of an athletic feel to the building instead of academic, adding a computer lab to the facility seems to be a trend that all other buildings on campus have done besides the SRC.
User Characteristics
• Students in Sports Management and Recreation/ Tourism and Foreign Language
• Teachers in Sports Management and Recreation/ Tourism and Foreign Language
• Fencing
• Dance
• Gymnastics
Projected Space Use/ Needs
• Classrooms will be the main focus. Classrooms will be used by the above stated student groups
• An area strictly designed for administrative offices for the professors/advisors of students in the above stated groups. This will be all in one, but separate from classroom/gym areas. Will have one or two meeting rooms for all of the faculty to have necessary meetings
• Gym strictly designed for gymnastics
• Gym strictly designed for dance students/can also be used for outside users
• Large sports gym for sports such as basketball and volleyball with space for spectator seating
• Computer lab for students who are continually using the building so they do not have to travel elsewhere
• Instead of separate locker rooms and gyms the locker rooms will connect two of the gyms, the larger gym and one of the other two most likely to be the gymnastics gym. These will also all be on the same floor of the building (all gyms).
• Almost all aspects of the building will be able to be used by outside users that are either on campus or off
Program Statements are crucial for facilities for numerous reasons. They help you to better understand what the facility may or may not currently have and what it will need. You get a sense of who your audience will be and what will accommodate their needs the best. A program statement helps designers to recognize what their goals and objectives are for a facility. This a great building block for a successful and useful facility of any kind. A program statement is like an outline to a paper. It’s not all exactly there and precise, but it’s a good guide for what you expect to happen throughout the entire thing.

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