STLCC Advanced Manufacturing Center

The 96,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Center at STLCC-Florissant Valley combines short-term career training and degree and certificate programs in STEM and advanced manufacturing. Students receive hands-on training in state-of-the-art labs, preparing them for careers in manufacturing, engineering, technology, and technical trades.

Before completion, the Advanced Manufacturing Center site was an underused parking lot for the College. This campus area now provides an entry plaza, two accessible roof terraces, and over 5,000 sf of vegetated green roofs. The entry plaza offers seating opportunities and collaboration with an arrangement of custom precast benches as well as places for individual study before or after classes. The entry plaza was designed to be flexible, allowing events and other school activities to have a home on campus. The two roof terraces provide outdoor classrooms for students with the same custom precast benches and landscape to complement the entry plaza. Several classroom and laboratory spaces will benefit from the natural beauty and seasonality of the native landscape of the green roofs outside of their windows. The green roofs are also functional, as they reduce the below-ground infrastructure needed to support a more sustainable approach to stormwater management.

The landscape palette primarily comprises a native, low-maintenance planting matrix that provides seasonal interest. Over 15 different native species of trees have been added to the campus, along with existing mature trees.