Project Tag: Indiana
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Roche Building W7 Warehouse Addition
The building entrance consists of a cantilevered, metal-clad canopy that provides protection from the elements and a welcoming and modern entrance expression
The main entrance affords immediate access to the employee amenity spaces, including the social hub, restrooms, locker rooms, and computer workstations.
All of the building’s glazing has been carefully designed to block direct rays of the sun, while admitting generous amounts of indirect, diffused natural light into the interior. The roof design incorporates carefully positioned light monitors, allowing diffused northern light to filter into the center of the space. The building’s design also incorporates floor-to-deck windows on the east elevation, which are also equipped with sun shading/diffusing louvers to admit additional diffused daylight into the work environment. The north-facing docks and the southwest mezzanine employ high bay windows, with exterior shading/diffusing devices, to admit diffused natural light into the work and amenity spaces.
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The Olivia on Main
A Welcoming Amenity Hub Designed for Every Level of Social Connection
Upon arrival to the amenity center and leasing offices, visitors and residents are welcomed by an open concept with views to multiple engagement spaces. The design team planned the amenity center to allow residents and visitors to choose their level of social interaction within the space. On axis with the entry is a beautiful stone island and hospitality center. Intentionally located as the heart of the space, much like today’s residential kitchens, it serves as an informal gathering space, a hospitality space, and meeting location. From this central location residents and visitors may choose to further explore the space. Upon exploration, they will find a private movie room, fitness center, conference space, business center, gaming lounge, and finally a private library lounge.
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306 Riverfront
This development will enhance economic growth in the area and will draw new residents to the city. We need diverse, unique housing to retain and attract residents. “
–Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight
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Hampton Inn & Suites – Keystone
Two-Story Double-Sided Fireplace Anchors the Lobby and Dining Area
The lobby of the hotel includes a two-story double-sided fireplace dividing the reception area and the dining area. The traditional interior finish of the lobby and lounge includes extensive use of wood finishes and detailing.
Spacious Rooms and Corridors
The guestrooms are a mix of prototypical and custom designs. Featured guestrooms and top floor guestrooms have balconies that provide views over Keystone Crossing and an adjacent lake. Ceiling heights throughout have been increased to create a more spacious feel to both guestrooms and corridors.
Indoor and Outdoor Amenities
The public amenities include a boardroom, meeting room, oversized fitness center, and a lap pool with splash area. An outdoor patio area has ample seating, and a large fire pit is easily accessible from the dining area.
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SpringHill Suites – Grand Park
Spacious Suites Designed for Groups and Families
Suites at the new hotel are larger than typical hotel rooms to accommodate larger groups and families. Separate living, working, and sleeping spaces provide guests with flexibility and functionality.
Flexible Meeting Space and a Warm, Modern Lobby Bar
The SpringHill Suites also offers 1,700 square feet of functional meeting space and the Oak Bar, located adjacent to the lobby, features a stylish space adorned with wood and other natural elements.
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The Commons
A New Vision for The Commons Focused on Performance, Play, and Community
Input revealed the following priorities for the new design:
- Creating a new and improved performance space
- Expanding and improving the indoor playground
- Adding more informal and formal public meeting spaces
- Including more food and restaurant opportunities
- Maintaining the sculpture, “Chaos 1,” by Jean Tinguely, which was a highlight of the development’s original interior
Selective Demolition Preserves Structure and Sculpture
Early in the design process, prior to demolition, it was determined that the new facility would pay tribute to the original by keeping the steel superstructure of the original building as well as leaving the beloved sculpture, Chaos 1, exactly where it has always stood. Consequently, demolition was very selective.
Designed for Performance, Events, and Everyday Gathering
The newly created main entrance to the building features zigzag windows that are acoustical as well as architectural, framing views down the main street. Escalators and stairs wrap around the Chaos 1 sculpture, in its original location, to create a commons space and draw people to second-floor activities.
A new second floor under the original building’s structure provides space for the multi-purpose performance and activity space. The upper-level space is designed for flexibility to accommodate public community events, performances, and private events.
Indoor Playground Framed by City Views
A corner glass pavilion is skewed and sloped, providing views of the corner courthouse tower while creating an intriguing space to house a new indoor playground featuring a custom designed interactive sculpture that serves as a “climber” for children.
Designed for Sustainability
Natural daylighting, energy efficient lighting and mechanical system, and a vegetated green roof on the new structure assist with making this a sustainable project.
CSO collaborated with Koetter Kim to complete this project.
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Union Associated Physicians Clinic
Community Connection
The clinic’s architecture reflects its role within the broader community. The building is intentionally scaled and detailed to feel integrated with its surroundings rather than isolated from them.
Approachable by Design
Rather than relying on overtly institutional cues, the design incorporates approachable forms, durable yet warm finishes, and a scale that feels familiar and community-oriented. These choices reflect the clinic’s commitment to long-term relationships and continuity of care.
Quietly Transparent
Sightlines, natural light, and material selections were carefully considered to reinforce a sense of calm and transparency throughout the facility
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Walmart eCommerce Fulfillment Centers
CSO’s ongoing work with Walmart includes the following services:
- Acting as Architect of Record on several simultaneous projects across the country.
- Determining preliminary project design criteria by integrating the compliance requirements of different Walmart departments into the final project design criteria.
- Developing, maintaining, and providing design criteria and bridging drawings, while communicating the project’s physical requirements to potential developers and evaluating how to adapt criteria to suit specific developer sites.
- Coordination with vendors to align material handling requirements with the automated building design.
- Working with general contractors and developers to ensure the final product aligns with the project requirements.
- Continual improvements and refinements of multiple distribution and fulfillment center facilities.
- Developing and maintaining prototype guidance for other designers working on Walmart Supply Chain facilities.
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GE Aerospace LEAP Engine Facility
Elevated Manufacturing Design Defined by Light, Structure, and Purpose
The 35’ clear height manufacturing space included 80’ structural spans with 12.5 ton beam cranes, 10” thick, ultra-flat, polished concrete floors and generous amounts of natural light provided by expansive clerestory windows. The tiered ceiling panels within the assembly space help humanize the scale. They serve as a space transition and a subtle representation of flight. The finishes are intentionally light, clean, and neutral. This notion relates directly to the GE brand and the idea of intentional design without compromise.
Aerodynamic Form and Composite Innovation Translated into Architectural Expression
The office/administrative portion of the building was designed to express the aerodynamic curvature and the composite construction techniques of the LEAP engine, most notably its fan blade, by dramatically incorporating several overlapping layers of sinuously curved metal, glass, and steel.
Immersive Entry Experience Reflects the Movement and Technology of the LEAP Engine
The interior design reinforces the intentional nature of the engine while embracing the technology. The central greeting point is a reception desk designed as a seamless, clean cone and constructed of solid surface. Beautifully crafted metal composite triangles are suspended above the reception desk representing the combustion technology present within the LEAP engine. In addition, this sculptural element contributes to the notion of movement so dominantly present within the architecture.
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America Place Phase IX
A Robust, Flexible Facility Designed for High‑Capacity Logistics Performance
Built with high-performance precast concrete walls and an 8” concrete slab floor with vapor barrier, the facility integrates durable materials and leading-edge infrastructure. Column spacing of 56’ x 60’, a 56’ x 70’ speed bay, ESFR fire protection, and 5,000 AMPs of electrical capacity ensure flexibility and safety across various tenant needs. Exterior amenities include a 185’ truck court, up to 127 trailer parking spots, and auto parking areas, all tailored for large-scale logistics use.
The building includes customizable office space with initial provisions for a shipping/receiving office and restroom core. Interior areas can be built to suit to support tenant-specific operational, administrative, or workforce needs.
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Cummins Seymour Technical Center
Architectural Expression Meets Solar Performance
The main entrances incorporate dramatically cantilevered steel canopies, which are reminiscent of Columbus, Indiana’s iconic red suspension bridge. The office building’s exterior was designed with an advanced engineered skin, incorporating an exterior daylighting and shading system. Each of the primary exterior façades has been purposefully designed to respond to its specific and unique solar orientation.
Design elements inspired by engine assembly reinforce the connection between plant and office.
Cummins wanted to “bring the office into the plant, and the plant into the office.” Highly durable and raw industrial materials such as corrugated steel panels, polished concrete, and wood slats fastened to exposed metal studs were incorporated throughout the office environment. These same materials can be found on the plant floor, and therefore subtly reinforce the connection. The engine assembly and finishing process was carefully examined early in the design process with the goal of informing the final design. Elements of the manufacturing process are on display in the office area through the incorporation of design features such as the compound curves and finish found on powder-coated steel benches which mimic the sleek lines of the engines.
Highly flexible, ergonomic workspace solutions and state-of-the-art audiovisual collaboration systems allow the engineers to tailor how and where they work.
Flexible Workspaces for Collaboration and Focus
A variety of flexible meeting rooms, focus booths, soft seating areas, and social hubs are available to accommodate the changing needs of their workforce and promote interaction, collaboration, and engineering innovation.
Spaces that Inspire and Uplift
The Cummins Seymour Technical Center does more than provide much needed space for engineering staff – it uplifts their work force in beautiful spaces and is an inspiring reflection of Cummins’ proud tradition of world-class engineering.
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The Palladium
The hall’s interior was influenced by the neoclassical designs of the
18th-century Scottish architect Robert Adam.The concert hall with high ceilings and massive, sound-reflecting walls. The room itself is symmetrical, from side to side and front to back, creating a central column that is topped with a cylindrical dome with an oculus in the middle. The two oval spaces that fuse into the central volume are also symmetrical from front to back with identical outermost walls and ceilings surrounding the half dome
Designing the Canopy
The outstanding technical feature of the Palladium is its adjustable-height
glass acoustic canopy, the result of an intense collaborative effort between
the acoustical designer, the architect, and and the rigging expert.The finished canopy is made up of multiple trapezoidal pieces of glass in
varying thicknesses, tilted to catch and reflect the sound frequencies and
mounted in four sections on a steel frame that is raised and lowered via
a dead-haul drum-and-winch system.
The exterior features a four-fronted symmetrical design.
A raised colonnade portico on the south façade faces Carmel City center’s village green and creates a grand entrance at the top of the orchestra level. The east and west facades provide ground-level entry vestibules, allowing barrier-free access to the lower orchestra level on each side.
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YMCA in Westfield
A Collaborative Vision Realized
The Westfield Aquatic Center was developed as a partnership between Westfield Washington Schools and the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis. The shared facility opened in 2021 and was designed by CSO with plans to add on a future YMCA addition.
The YMCA addition, which opened in 2025, features a new lobby area shown here.
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IU Health Bloomington Hospital
A Purpose-Built Setting
The new hospital goes beyond replacing an existing facility, offering an environment that supports practice, teaching, learning, and healing while elevating the quality of life for its community.
Designed for Experience
The result of a collaborative process with IU Health, project partners, and CSO, the new IU Health Bloomington Hospital provides a patient, family, physician and employee experience that is welcoming, intuitive, and serene.
CSO guided IU Health through a process for incorporating the work of regional artists.
Connecting the facility with its surroundings, art installations underscore IU Health’s commitment to cultivating community pride while enhancing the emotional wellbeing of those served by the facility.
Coordinating Finish, Form, and Art Into One Experience
With the budget in mind, designers combined building elements, finishes, and art in the form of unique mosaics in public spaces. Each mosaic was custom-designed using artwork submitted by local artists.
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MJ Insurance Corporate Headquarters
Redefining the Insurance Office Through Open, Collaborative Design
While many companies in the insurance industry build offices with high walls, MJ Insurance set out to buck norms. They moved to a highly collaborative open office environment unique to their industry. In order to support this culture-promoting design decision, the team included conference rooms, enclaves, and focus rooms of many shapes and sizes to ensure that both morale and productivity would increase in the new space.
Design and Leadership Alignment Reinforce a Balanced, Open Work Environment
Designers worked to provide the right furniture solutions to support an open work environment with a strong need for both collaboration and privacy. Company leadership showed their commitment to the design by joining the employees in open office workstations.
Translating Core Values into a Cohesive Workplace and Brand Identity
The culture at MJ Insurance centers around six core values: Passion, Leadership, Personal Development, Incremental Growth, Innovation, and Fun. These values drove the entire design – from the open office configuration to the centrally located social areas – but they are most evident in a consistent branding concept.
A Branded Art Installation That Visually Connects Leadership, Culture, and Growth
MJ’s boardroom connects to the lobby with a glass storefront, which allows a branded art installation to span the two spaces. At the far end of the conference room is a white grid with vibrant yellow plus signs at many of the intersections. That grid becomes a series of extruded white-and-yellow plus signs of various heights and sizes, suspended from the ceiling and streaming into the lobby until they end over the monumental stair. The grid represents the discipline required for leadership, personal development, and incremental growth while the shape and color of the plus signs connect to MJ’s values of passion and fun. The company instantly connected with the installation and used the concept to relaunch their national brand.
Strategic Use of Materials and Branding Adds Energy and Personality to the Space
MJ Insurance asked for an infusion of fun in their space. Sliding felt panels, a carpet pattern developed, and a unique series of branding elements did just that for this hard-working group.
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Wells Quadrangle Residence Halls and Dining Facility
A Seamless Addition to Goodbody Hall Enhances Dining and Outdoor Gathering at Wells Quad
The design of the addition to Goodbody Hall required a solution that integrated seamlessly into the architectural character of Wells Quadrangle. The 1-story addition emerges from the base of the existing Goodbody Hall, and houses a dining area with open views toward the quad. A roof terrace above is accessed from both the exterior grade and the second level. This elevated terrace provides options for outdoor seating and a sweeping overlook to the quad.
Coordinated Renovation Maximizes Space While Delivering Modern Systems and Student Housing
The overall project required careful coordination to maximize usable space while accommodating updated MEP systems and the technology infrastructure demanded by today’s residence halls.
The renovation created accommodations for 174 students. The room configuration is comprised of a mix of 2-bedroom apartments, 2-bedrooms suites, single rooms, and double rooms. A variety of restroom configurations are available depending on the room type.
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3rd & Union Student Apartments
3rd & Union Blends Classic Limestone Architecture with Modern Student Amenities
Located in Indiana University’s Southeast Neighborhood, 3rd & Union provides students with a low-cost on-campus apartment option. The design blends traditional Gothic features with state-of-the-art amenities and sustainable design. The building features a limestone façade, steep roof with slate-look shingles, and a tunnel-like breezeway between its south and north wings.
Private Apartments and Shared Spaces Support a Living-Learning Community
The facility houses a combination of 102 one-bedroom and studio apartments designed to attract and retain upperclassmen and graduate students on campus. Each unit features a full kitchen, living area, bedroom, and private bathroom. The programming for the facility is rounded out with multipurpose spaces, a technology center, and laundry facilities that allow the building to facilitate a true living-learning community. In addition, the facility has two storage areas tucked into the exterior walls of the building providing complete shelter for bikes hanging on wall-mounted racks and a spacious recycling room conveniently located next to the exit.
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Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology
Immersive Studios, Editing Suites, and Dedicated Offices for Indiana University Sports Media
The spaces that make up the Cuban Center include a virtual reality TV studio, video editing room, sound editing room, conference room, photography studio, media storage room, and offices for the Indiana University Sports Media Department. Court-level renovations were necessary to accommodate a supporting control room and server room.
A Transparent, Collaborative Environment with Sound‑Controlled Separation
The Center is designed to be very modern, open, visible, and collaborative while still maintaining sound control by utilizing sound-resistant glass walls to separate spaces.
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Read Hall
Teaching Kitchen Classroom Designed for Interactive Culinary-Style Instruction
Attached to the working kitchen, a student learning space with 5 team learning stations creates a classroom for approximately 20 to 25 students for demonstrations and hands on learning – similar to that found in a culinary program or school. All students can observe the work in the classroom, which is also equipped with video capabilities for recording and distance learning.
Team Collaboration Delivers Complex Kitchen Infrastructure Within a Historic Dormitory Framework
The design implementation challenges included the constraints of the space in a 1952 six-story residential dormitory building. Special skill was required to include seven exhaust hoods and make-up air equipment in an existing limited first floor space, with dormitory spaces above. The geometry of the available areas, a raised concrete floor area in the middle of the proposed kitchen, and the limits of the structural grid required a unique approach for the plan and equipment layouts. Through collaboration by team members and University staff, the project succeeded in meeting the working needs of the catering staff, despite the limits.
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Bartlett Reflection Center
A Glass-Walled Gathering Room Designed to Inspire Dialogue and Connection
The Center is anchored by a glass-walled gathering room featuring a towering limestone fireplace that serves as a backdrop to group discussions, lectures, sermons, and events.
Academic and Reflective Spaces Enhanced by Outdoor Decks and Natural Surroundings
The building also includes a theological library and extensive outdoor deck areas in order to enjoy the surrounding environment.
A Sustainably Designed Building Integrating Regional Materials, Ecological Restoration, and Daylit Interiors
The small structure was designed sustainably to minimize its impact on the environment and its immediate environs. The building was constructed with natural, regional, and recycled materials. The site and adjacent habitat were restored with native Indiana plants and incorporate a natural rainwater treatment pond. The interior environments were designed to maximize natural light, views, human comfort, and controllability. CSO completed this project in conjunction with Lake Flato.
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Marriott Hall
Student-Operated Restaurants Anchored by a Teaching Kitchen
The interior features a two-story dining space with a coffee bar and two student-operated restaurants: The John Purdue Room, a fine-dining restaurant in which students prepare and serve the food and manage the kitchen and dining room, and The Boiler Bistro, a quick-service restaurant where the food is cooked to order. These spaces are supported by the Teaching Kitchen, which functions as a lab as well as the main kitchen preparation area for the facility.
Culinary Instruction Anchored by a Live Teaching Kitchen
A 95-seat demonstration hall consists of a lecture room with a kitchen that is used to teach cooking classes.
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Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
An Iconic New Entry that Welcomes Fans and Elevates the Game-Day Experience
A new atrium space allows views between the entry and main concourse. This is the center of the new space and features a reinvented version of Athlete’s Hall and a panoramic window allowing views into the arena. The new arrival area supports existing traditions while offering a space for new traditions, events, and ceremonies to take place. The new entry is conveniently located, and visible escalators create a clear and efficient means for moving spectators through the space into the arena.
Premium Viewing Experience
A new Box Seat Club offers an exceptional viewing experience of events.
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Honors College and Residences
Where Research, Active Learning, and Innovation Converge
The academic spaces consist of approximately 40,000 square feet to accommodate faculty and staff offices, classrooms, innovation space, and study spaces. Learning and leadership opportunities include a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and agriculture, math) research lab, active learning studios, and an Innovation Forum – featuring an interactive, programmable floor – provides a showcase for student projects.
STEAM Research Lab
A dedicated STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and agriculture, math) research lab is thoughtfully designed to foster experiential learning, innovation, and leadership.
The Great Hall Stands at the Center of the Honors College Experience
The “Great Hall”, a flexible space that can be configured to seat more than 400 for lectures, presentations, and events, is the centerpiece of the Honors College. The space is located in the center of the community with access to a primary campus path and greenspace.
Living Learning Community Designed for Connection
The two buildings that make up the community – each with academic space and residential space – are located within the University’s “student success corridor.” Over 800 students live in clusters of roughly 24 students in pod configurations complemented by community and social areas designed to foster informal interaction and collaboration.
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Basketball Locker Room
Carefully Crafted Material Palette Reinforces IU Tradition and Iconic Branding While Creating an Energetic, Athlete-Focused Space
In order to meet the goals for the project, the design team incorporated wood, limestone, and back painted glass as the foundation of the finish palette. These finishes would serve as a clean backdrop to the iconic branding components found in the furnishings and implemented throughout the design. The overall composition created the motivational and energetic space required to attract new athletes, while reminding them of the honor involved in representing IU.
As a program we want our players to experience the best of the best, and as we took inventory on how we wanted to do things as a new staff, one of the things we really approached was a new area for our team and creating an environment that is cutting edge and second to none. I think that’s what we have been able to create here. “
–Coach Archie Miller
As quoted in IU Athletics’ Press Release
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Moravec Hall
Integrated Classrooms, Labs, and Student Support Spaces
In addition to classrooms and laboratories, this two-story facility contains a student commons, offices for enrollment and advising services, as well as administrative spaces.
Hands‑On Learning for Healthcare and Technical Fields
The academic courses at this campus focus on healthcare sectors, including nursing, dental assisting, medical assisting, phlebotomy, and surgical tech with labs for health science and visual communication programs as well as a flight simulator for the aviation program.
A Central Social Stair Connecting Learning and Collaboration
The building design revolves around a central, two-story spine that has a social stair as its focus. This is not only a communicating stair but provides intermediate landings for study and collaboration. Above the social stair are three large roof monitors which provide ample daylight to the center of the building.
Student Commons and Community Room Support Campus Events
The stair anchors a large Student Commons on the first floor, which is used for a variety of college events. Immediately adjacent to the Commons is a 156-seat Community Room, which has sliding doors on the corner allowing these spaces to be combined for larger events.
CSO collaborated with IwamotoScott Architecture on the design of this project. Design for the project started in February 2020 and continued uninterrupted through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Most of the design, approval and documentation was conducted remotely. Ivy Tech contracted directly with CSO for architect-of-record, engineering and furniture selection & procurement services then selected IwamotoScott Architecture via a design competition sponsored by the Cummins Foundation. This project was part of grant funded by the Cummins Foundation Architectural Program in 2019.
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Columbus North High School
Strategic Entry Designed for Safety and Flexibility
The main entrance, previously located on the south side of the building, was relocated to the north addition. The clearly identifiable, secure entry strategically creates a division between the new cafeteria and the administration area. This arrangement allows for secure, public access to the cafeteria in the evenings when needed.
Built for Teamwork, Connection, and Discovery
One of the primary goals identified was to create teacher and student areas that inspire creativity, collaboration, problem solving and innovation. This was achieved by designing Resource Areas located in the center of the Academic portions of the building along the main circulation spine. Flexible furniture within the classrooms provides additional opportunities for collaboration.
From the Classroom to Center Stage
New Performing Arts spaces offer much needed acoustics, storage, and larger classroom spaces to accommodate the popular show choir, orchestra, and jazz programs.
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Silver Creek High School
CTE Spaces Empower Real-World Learning
Capitalizing on a desire to expand elective course offerings, new specialty areas were added to accommodate TV/Radio, Project Lead the Way (PLTW), Culinary Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Art programs. These spaces offer crucial support for the Silver Creek Career Academy Program.
Culinary Arts
A new, state‑of‑the‑art culinary lab supports the high school’s robust Culinary Arts program, featuring Advanced Foods & Nutrition and a Culinary Arts/Hospitality pathway. These offerings provide essential life skills while preparing students for continued education and careers in the culinary field.
Project Lead the Way programs offer hands-on, real-world STEM learning.
New STEM labs help prepare students for careers in engineering, biomedical sciences, and computer science.
A Cohesive Design Supporting School Pride
The new addition stretches across the front of the building, establishing an inviting new entrance visible from the main road into town and proudly displaying Silver Creek’s blues and electric orange. These exterior colors and materials are repeated within the new main interior lobby, connecting the exterior and interior design.
Touches of orange and blue throughout the school create a unique sense of place and ensure there would be no question you were at Silver Creek High School.
Flexible Learning Spaces Designed to Promote Connection, Creativity, and Student Engagement
Collaborative flex spaces were located throughout the building to accommodate new learning styles. Adaptable furniture supports collaborative work, independent study, and social connection, while strategically placed study rooms and breakout spaces encourage small-group engagement and evolving teaching styles.
Athletic Improvements
The project included a brand new football stadium as well as new turf baseball and softball fields.
Theater and Performing Arts
The additions and renovations at Silver Creek expanded performing arts facilities to provide the first purpose-built band room, choir room, and state of the art auditorium.
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