A Gathering Place for Science
“Everybody wants to be here. You can try almost everything in here.” Larry Blake, Campus Architect
The project is organized around a central hall, dubbed the “hearth” because it is the gathering place for the building. The hearth is multi-story, connecting departments which reside on different floors. Some of the time, the space is used as a student study space where people work on problem sets together or catch up on reading before starting a lab. At other times, furniture is re-arranged to accommodate guest speakers or the University’s summer outreach science fair. Teams of students can cluster around glass marker boards to work on group projects. It is the heart of the facility.
Left Gathering Space
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