SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
STUDENT RECREATION CENTER ADDITION
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI

 

This 38,000 square foot addition to the Student Recreation Center is a brick veneer facility featuring a two-story circular curtain wall form at the front entry.  The exposed steel structure with multi-level ceilings allows for two-story views at the entrance.  The building interior includes a weight room, cardio machine areas, a dance studio and aerobics room.  The gymnasium contains three basketball/volleyball practice courts capable of hosting NCAA competition volleyball tournaments.  The addition also contains staff offices and a conference room.

Julia Oberheu Tritschler served as junior project architect while with Cannon Design.  She worked closely with the project architect from pre-design through construction documents and construction administration. The $5.3 million addition was completed in August 1999.

Julia Tritschler also served as project architect for the design and construction of several outdoor recreational facilities at Southeast Missouri State University.  The new facilities include a Women’s Competition Softball with underground irrigation system, permanent grandstand and press box, concrete masonry unit dugouts and an outdoor batting cage (1998); Intramural Soccer/Softball Fields with underground irrigation system and permanent chain link fence backstops and dugouts (1998); Competition Soccer Field Study for grading and layout of NCAA competition soccer field (1999); Competition Track Renovation including removal of 20-year-old track surface, repairing asphalt underlay, and new surfaces on running track, long jump, pole vault and javelin runways and high jump circle (2000); and Competition Tennis Courts featuring eight asphalt tennis courts with painted coating and studies for future center court with permanent grandstands (2000).  The total project cost for the outdoor facilities was $3 million.