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St. Joseph’s Preparatory School Jesuit Hall and Sauter Dining Hall

Owner/User: St. Joseph’s Preparatory School founder, Ignatius of Loyola; a multi-lingual metal frieze is
inscribed with the Jesuit motto in four languages; and a
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
40-foot diameter tiled floor map indicates all of the
Design Statement: The challenge was to repurpose an world’s Jesuit secondary schools.
early 1900s, five-story Jesuit residence hall into a new
academic center. The renovation created a new academic An existing multi-purpose building was transformed into
center and multi-level dining hall, while establishing a the bi-level Sauter Dining Hall, with a reconfigured
new second-story organizing link for the north portion of kitchen and ancillary space. A curving path unites the re-
campus. purposed facilities with the rest of campus, alluding to the
path of Ignatius toward enlightenment through learning.
In addition to renovating the building for academic use, The design team navigated through complex building code
the design examined and integrated adjacent facilities to conditions when faced with renovating the historic
improve circulation and connectivity among buildings structures and successfully obtained over a dozen special
within the core of campus for long-term viability. The code variances.
84,000 SF of improvements feature components that
convey to students their place in the world’s Jesuit
community: bronze medallions describe the life of Jesuit Architect of Record: Lee A. Casaccio, AIA

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