In 2014, design architect, HOK of Columbus, OH, completed a $2.2 million renovation of the Ohio State University (OSU) football team’s locker room at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on an accelerated seven-month schedule. The firm worked with the team to completely restructure the 9,000-square-footspace in order to provide better adjacencies and separation between the locker room entries, the equipment room, the lockers and other surrounding areas.
“The overall design goal was to create a locker room that is commensurate with the success of the OSU football program’s accomplishments on the field,” said Chris King, senior project architect at HOK. “This is the locker room at the training facility where the players spend most of their time. Elite college football programs want and need to have a locker room that causes a recruit’s jaw to drop when they first see it. The rooms become a small, but important, part of the recruiting process.”
Caesarstone quartz, supplied directly from the company, in Piatra Grey, factory finished and fabricated by Sims-Lohman in Columbus, OH, was chosen as the material for the custom trough sink and countertops in the grooming area, in approximately 25-foot-long pieces. It was also used for two wide drink rail/countertops with waterfall ends, which each measure approximately 3 x 14 feet.