Arts & Allied Health - Pierce College Puyallup

Puyallup, Washington

The Arts and Allied Health Building combines a 300 person theater and blox box theater with diverse specialty classrooms including Nursing Education with a simulated hospital ward, fine art painting, graphic arts, music theory and keyboard, music practice rooms, a recording studio, and general classrooms.

The two wings of the building embrace a two story interior lobby with a second floor bridge joining both wings. Natural convective cooling and radiant in-floor heat combined with recyled and locally sourced materials and other sustainable features to achieve a GOLD LEED Certification from the US Green Building Council.

Design Architect: Opsis Architecture Photos: Doug J Scott Photography

a hands-on approach to creating beautiful, responsive, and sustainable architecture