Bloomberg Center at Johns Hopkins University

This world-class student center serves as a social engagement hub for the university community. Featuring a food hall, studio theater, multi-purpose rooms, and open lounge areas, the facility provides enhanced spaces for student engagement, connection, and community enrichment.

The design emerged from an international design competition. The building features a series of 29 cascading, stepped roof planes framed with mass timber panels supported by glue-laminated timber beams and columns. Key design elements include extensive two-way cantilevered roof planes, timber panels with integrated acoustic treatment, and a transparent façade wrapping around the structure. Lateral forces are resisted by a mixture of concrete shear walls, cable-braced frames, and cross-laminated timber shear walls.

One of the most complex mass timber projects completed in the eastern United States, the center establishes a new standard for student experience in higher education facilities.