ENR Southeast has selected Roper Hall as the Best Higher Education/Research Project in the 2024 Regional Best Projects contest. Flad served as design architect of record for the project, designing the new home for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Creatively designed to fit in a tight footprint among three existing school of medicine and health science buildings, the nine-story facility exemplifies growth, innovation, and community integration in its mission to improve the experience and lives of medical students and the populations they will serve across the state.
The medical education building creates a campus crossroads, supporting group instruction and team-based learning. It includes a 400-seat Active Learning Theater, two floors dedicated to clinical skills and simulated learning, and flexible labs as well as classroom, study, and collaboration spaces. In addition, the new facility integrates the medical school with the university-affiliated healthcare system, housing both the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Health Care leadership administrations.
ENR Southeast Best Project Winners 
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Roper Hall
Flad Architects (architect of record, design architect, co-interior architect)
The SLAM Collaborative (medical education planner, co-interior design architect)
August 15, 2024