A two-block-long
chiller plant is a not self-evident way to say, "Welcome to the University of Pennsylvania!" But in the hands of architects Leers Weinzapfel, the plant has become an elegant urban gateway for an increasingly busy side of the campus. The university recognized that a new chiller facility could more reliably and economically serve its growing medical and reseacrh complex, but also saw that the best site for it was too prominent for such a large, utilitarian structure to be built undisguised. The architect won a competition for the structure, sponsored by Penn, with the deceptively simple strategy of wrapping the plant in an oblong scrim of perforated, corrugated metal panels. A running track encircling the enclosure and baseball field to one side restored athletic fields displaced by the plant.
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