Piedmont Virginia Community College’s new Advanced Technology and Student Success Center is a vibrant hub for academic life that welcomes students to the Charlottesville campus. The new Bolick Center creates a campus destination that showcases PVCC’s comprehensive commitment to workforce training and career development.

The Bolick Center is composed of three interconnected volumes: the pavilion, the portal, and the academic/advising wing. The exterior palette is a collage of both solid and visually transparent assemblies that react to views, solar orientation, and adjacent landscape spaces that support the various programs within. The portal serves as the primary vertical circulation space for the building and provides clear visual wayfinding landmarks to aid navigation to the various parts of the building. A two-story cylindrical tower acts as a focal point within the space and houses student support specialists that will guide new and enrolled students to their destinations.

The pavilion houses a large multi-purpose event space, café, student lounge spaces, student organization offices, and quiet study spaces. The two-story north bar of the Center houses the academic/advising wing, which includes manufacturing and robotics spaces, instructional spaces, study areas, and the On-Boarding Center. The On-Boarding Center provides everything a new student needs to begin their journey at PVCC and is organized into suites of rooms that integrate related personnel and functions around common resources and shared circulation.