Gensler
Lynn University’s Mohammed Indimi International Business Center (IBC) functions as a site-sensitive nexus, a critical node that responds to a complex social and environmental network.
As a key component of our firm’s Lynn University campus master plan, the IBC embraces the plan’s themes of connectivity, efficiency, and growth potential to create synergies between education and business.
Designed to meet the changing needs of the business school, the building serves as a flexible framework of spaces. With a concept inspired by local banyan trees, the IBC’s program consists of faculty areas, classrooms, and collaboration spaces that effectively hang off a main trunk, or corridor, that encourages interactions and idea exchange between faculty and students. Entrepreneurs are woven into this mix via the Idea Lab, a start-up space for Lynn alumni who are launching new ventures.
The banyan tree concept extends to the exterior, where louvered shading alludes to the banyan’s connective networks of branches and aerial roots. The louvers, which reside on the east façade, not only reduce glare but also minimize solar gain in the summer and allow beneficial solar gain in the winter.
Additionally, the IBC’s siting as a campus gateway and its aesthetic, which is open and transparent, helps it draw in the campus and surrounding community of Boca Raton, thereby delivering on its promise to unite a variety of people and harmonize with nature.
