Planning for Flexibility
“The new facility seems to inspire professors to try new methods of instruction.” Travis Laurance, Lab Coordinator, Department of Physics & Astronomy
Laboratories in the building are highly flexible. Each laboratory is sized according to a 10’-8” wide planning module, and building services are planned on this same module so that in the future, laboratories can grow or shrink within the modular plan in a relatively painless manner. But laboratories are also planned to be flexible, where possible, on a day-to-day basis. In the majority of the labs, fixed casework is relegated to the perimeter and benches in the middle of the room are moveable so that instructors can arrange the rooms to fit different pedagogical styles.
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