Lebanon Valley College
Project Overview
This renovated facility is the home for the new Speech Language Pathology Center program for Lebanon Valley College. The program’s purpose provides a community clinic for outside client/patient interaction with students majoring in speech and hearing disorders. The project consisted of interior demolition of the existing physical therapy facilities (since moved to another campus facility) within the existing Heilman Center. The subsequent renovation of 8,900 square feet is transformed into classrooms, student facilities and clinic hearing testing rooms.
Project Details
Facility: Renovation for the New Speech & Language Pathology Program
Size: 8,900 SF
Location: Annville, PA
Services/Scope Provided: Architectural Design
Greenfield Architect’s involvement began Spring of 2018, when we were contracted to create a spatial programming document. This ambitious program blueprint involved campus programs other than just SLP. We created several conceptual design schemes that solved myriad problems the college encounters in the existing facility. The built work prioritizes the new program to the exclusion of all secondary and ancillary programs.
Outside clients are directed from the existing building entrance and the prominent relocated front desk to the SLP suite through the former therapy pool entrance. The new Waiting Area and receptionist greets and seats them. A common conference room with kitchenette, small toilet room and secure Files room are directly accessed from this Waiting Area. Double doors separate this more public arrangement from the rest of the suite.
The clinic-oriented spaces include eleven cloistered, sound-isolated Clinic Rooms and one faculty office utilized for testing. Four of these serve children-only. Separate Faculty Viewing and Parent Viewing rooms provide space for test observation. A pre-fabricated Audio Booth with control room is inserted in the midst of these clinic-oriented rooms.
The program repurposes two large classrooms used by the athletic department into academic use-only classrooms, smaller than the originals but capable of handling over twenty Covid-era student desk layouts with appropriate separation distance.
Students spend an extensive amount of time in the buildings that house their major, thus student-oriented academic facilities are placed central to the suite.
A spacious thirty-student Clinical Speech Lab, Lab Workroom, two group Study Rooms and a Lounge area provide ample resource areas and include windows to keep students connected to the natural world.
Click here for more information on Lebanon Valley College's Speech Language Pathology Program Speech-language Pathology 3+2 (lvc.edu)
