Wichita, KS
25,035 square feet free standing building
Construction time August 2002 to September 2003
The new facility is located in Wichita, Kansas. ILRC functions as a not-for-profit organization assisting people with disabilities to live outside of institutions and full-time care facilities.
This single story building is designed for durability and low maintenance. The walls are load-bearing concrete masonry with brick veneer and Kynar coated extruded aluminum windows.
The 2,000 s.f. conference room also serves as a safe room with heavily reinforced masonry walls, heavy-gauge doors and a composite concrete roof deck.
Visual interest is added with serpentine building and site walls and clerestories at the reception area and the major corridor intersection.
An undulating brick garden wall is located at the back of the property, to screen an adjacent residential neighborhood. The garden wall is single-wythe radial brick, construction in twenty foot segments.
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