Role
Co-Design Lead
LA Project Manager
Graphics & Visualization
Cost Estimation
Concept Development
Schematic Design

Awards & Certifications
ASLA Central States
Design Merit Award

DBIA Rocky Mountain Region Education Project Award

LEED Gold (anticipated)

The William J. Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center at UCCS will transform education, research and healthcare for athletes of all levels. This first-of-its-kind facility will integrate undergraduate and graduate education with clinical practice and research in a sports medicine and performance environment.

Located at the edge of the southern Rocky Mountains, where the western plains meet the mountains, the UCCS campus is one of unrelenting and unparalleled magnificence. Yet, the site for the new Hybl Center is predominantly composed of compacted soil and non-native grasses with existing parking lots covering half of the area. The design intends to transform this 2.86-acre, urban site, into a sustainable beacon that is endemic to its place and that will become the standard for all future campus buildings.

The design team focused on environmental stewardship and native restoration as the backbone of the design effort. The design sought to attain a subtle balance between the urbanity of the campus and the bionetwork of the Front Range Foothills. To this end, a significant design and research effort took place to understand the ecology, geology, and hydrology of the region. Furthermore, an in depth context appraisal of the site and campus was performed to understand the distinctive behavior habits of the four users groups that were to occupy the facility; Students, Faculty, Patients, and Staff.

The unique aspects of the project were analyzed and juxtaposed to form the complex network of physiographic and social values that helped to shape the project and fundamentally tie it to the region

A watershed scale stormwater management approach was designed for the project using a multi-BMP approach to manage the quantity and quality of stormwater runoff. This treatment train, starting at the northwestern corner of the site, not only handles all on-site stormwater, but also has been designed to manage the stormwater of the developed campus sites upstream from the new facility. Additionally, the project would restore over 1.5 acres of native prairie; forma a harmonious and subtle balance between the urbanity of the campus and the unique ecology of the Front Range foothills.