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Willard J. Walker Hall will accommodate both recent and future growth anticipated at the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. This 75,000 square foot building will showcase state-of-the-art teaching classrooms and student learning spaces, teaming rooms, spaces for industry partnering, and a financial markets trading room. With Walker Hall, the Walton College will build upon the increasingly important relationship between business research and graduate education by hosting the College's research centers. The building takes advantage of its hillside location to project a contemporary image visible from downtown Fayetteville.
Walker Hall, along with the adjacent Center for Academic Excellence building, frames a new 300- by 100-foot academic quadrangle. The strong massing, materials, and landscape of Walker Hall tie together the previously undefined campus precinct. Inside, a succession of double-height spaces organizes the main circulation of the building. Program elements are organized vertically to promote connections between undergraduates, graduate students, and the various research centers. The largest of these double-height volumes is the forum, which links together Shollmier Plaza, café seating areas, a 150-seat auditorium and the trading center. Other double-height spaces are adjacent to undergraduate classrooms, research center meeting rooms, and a graduate reading resource room. The undergraduate classrooms are located at the street and mezzanine levels, public gathering spaces and the career center on the plaza level, the financial trading center and graduate school of business administration on the second floor, graduate-level classrooms on the third floor, and research centers and the boardroom on the fourth floor. The integration of massing and landscape with the interior spaces allows the new building to represent the College's mission to balance between the business community and leadership in teaching, research, and service within academia.
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