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Four decades into educating college students on its Fort Worth, Texas campus, an intense windstorm damaged Tarrant County College’s Northwest branch in 2016.
Though challenging at the time, the weather event ended up serving as the catalyst the campus needed to move beyond its dated 1970s concrete brutalist architectural style.
Embarking upon a large campus development program, the architect of record, Gensler, with assistance from Huckabee, chose metal, brick and glass for two new buildings to present a modern, sculpted and high-tech façade.
The new buildings in this first phase of the college’s revitalization efforts house a cafeteria, multipurpose spaces, flex classrooms and spaces for administrative functions.
Featuring modern lines and a variety of three-dimensional façade elements, the architects were seeking one metal façade manufacturer capable of providing all the components needed to realize their multi-faceted design. Between the two buildings, this included flat and 3D-shaped rainscreen panels, projecting fins, soffit panels and perforated wall features.
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