Seton Hill University’s beautiful hilltop campus holds a circa. 1929 castle-like building known as Sullivan Hall. The new recreation center was created adjacent to and is connected with Sullivan Hall and Bayley Hall. These two buildings today are open to a common lawn but the new building encloses a quadrangle with a loggia that ties them together.
The program includes a 1,500-seat gymnasium, lobbies and support spaces for the gymnasium, as well as the new men’s and women’s locker rooms, a health and fitness center and a dance/aerobics studio. Level with the quadrangle is the gymnasium playing surface with locker rooms, dance and aerobic space tucked underneath the gymnasium floor. This takes advantage of the sloping site and allows bus and ADA access from vehicles while completing a true ring road – Something that was always a part of the master plan developed many, many years ago.
