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The Law School's main entrance to the new building on Sansom Street. |
Golkin Hall
Facts, Figures & Features
| Name: |
Golkin Hall, in honor of Perry Golkin, W'74, WG'74, L'78 and Donna Golkin, WG'77, lead donors to the project |
| Location: |
3400 Block of Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Cost: |
approximately $33.5 million |
| Size: |
40,000 square feet |
| Stories: |
2-story west wing; 3-story east wing |
| Architect: |
Kennedy & Violich Architecture |
| Design Strategy: |
Golkin Hall will promote the collegial and collaborative environment that supports the educational mission of Penn Law. A key architectural goal for the complex is to enhance existing interactions and facilitate new ones between and among faculty, students and staff. The new building will be respectful of the existing facility, particularly historic Silverman Hall, and of the interior Courtyard. Golkin Hall also will celebrate the presence of the Law School in its urban setting and symbolize Penn's commitment to the community. |
| Features: |
- State-of-the-art court room
- 350-seat auditorium
- Faculty and administration offices
- Flexible, state-of-the-art seminar and collaboration spaces
- The Sidebar Café
- Roof-top garden and walkway
- Extensive use of natural light via skylights
- Expansive stairways and interior glass walls
- LEED Certifiable building, one of the first law schools so designated in the United States
- Designed for energy efficiency and quality of interior daylighting.
- Bridge link to faculty offices of Silverman Hall
- Transformative renovation of the Goat Lounge, improving connections between Silverman Hall and the Law School Courtyard
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| Special Exterior
Considerations: |
Golkin Hall connects the Georgian-style Silverman Hall (built in 1900) to its east with the modern Tanenbaum hall (built in 1994) to its west. Three key exterior architectural concepts will help Golkin Hall complement its neighbors.
- The massing of the new building will give it a cornice height to the east matching Silverman Hall, while the building’s two-story profile on the west will match the height of Tanenbaum Hall and the urban scale of the Sansom Street rowhouses. The building’s profile steps back in sections on the north, creating an intimate garden scale that will allow the Law School Courtyard to continue to be awash in sunlight.
- The stone and Flemish-bond brick finishes will match those used to build Silverman Hall and are designed to create a changing play of light and shadow.
- The windows will match the proportions of the Silverman Hall windows and undulated bricks and stone surrounds and will create additional depth at the building’s windows, referencing the functional shading and spatial depth of the late-1800s construction of windows with 30-inch sills.
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