Construction Cost: $3,724,000
Completion Date: 2008.11

Cockrill Design & Planning is currently in the design phase of a new 20,000 s.f. Teaching & Outreach Greenhouse located adjacent to the University of Tennessee’s well-visited Trial Gardens. In addition to the research activities common in other greenhouses, this facility will feature a large teaching component housed in two state-of-the-art classrooms. The large classroom will have abundant natural light and views of the Trial Gardens. The internal circulation is arranged for maximum efficiency to allow the passage of both people and agriculture machinery. Large banks of windows along the primary student corridor visually connect the theory taught in the classrooms with the hands-on experiments taking place in the working glasshouses. Exterior materials have been chosen to harmonize with the surrounding structures, while allowing the unique program of this building to have a presence of its own.