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Lorain County Community College iLoft
Lorain County Community College iLoft
Elyria, OH, United States
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Lorain County Community College iLoft
Elyria, OH, United States
Project Featured on Feb 24, 2014
The design team undertook a major renovation of former community college library, transforming it into a dynamic and innovative teaching and learning environment.
"Personal interaction with faculty members strengthens students' connections to the college and helps them focus on their academic progress." Taking this into account, the team surveyed the latest innovations in instructional spaces and worked extensively with LCCC to examine efficient and effective ways for students and faculty to interact. The team kept the old library’s exterior skin, roof, and columns, but gutted the rest of the two-story building. For each floor, two rows of classrooms that flank the north and south sides were designed. Adjacent to those classrooms are glass-fronted study rooms. Outside the classrooms, students can work at study counters that flip down into benches or within niches carved into walls. A suite of faculty offices and adjunct faculty workstations anchors one end of the building and a student lounge anchors the other.
The building is a celebration of community. There is no hallway where things happen behind closed doors, glass walls, windows, and skylights are strategically placed so that the sky is visible from most locations inside. The palette—a sea of white with accents of happy hues and pale woods—is uplifting, as are the curvilinear lines. It is an optimistic space that supports the notion that opportunities are endless.
The resultant design arranges the classrooms, or studios, flanking both sides of the building along a flexible bar. This bar of space allows the walls dividing the rooms to be easily relocated, enabling the college to resize classrooms during the semester break. Directly outside these classrooms are a variety of open and enclosed group study rooms that can either be used by students as informal study spaces or by instructors for breakout discussion groups during class time.
"Personal interaction with faculty members strengthens students' connections to the college and helps them focus on their academic progress." Taking this into account, the team surveyed the latest innovations in instructional spaces and worked extensively with LCCC to examine efficient and effective ways for students and faculty to interact. The team kept the old library’s exterior skin, roof, and columns, but gutted the rest of the two-story building. For each floor, two rows of classrooms that flank the north and south sides were designed. Adjacent to those classrooms are glass-fronted study rooms. Outside the classrooms, students can work at study counters that flip down into benches or within niches carved into walls. A suite of faculty offices and adjunct faculty workstations anchors one end of the building and a student lounge anchors the other.
The building is a celebration of community. There is no hallway where things happen behind closed doors, glass walls, windows, and skylights are strategically placed so that the sky is visible from most locations inside. The palette—a sea of white with accents of happy hues and pale woods—is uplifting, as are the curvilinear lines. It is an optimistic space that supports the notion that opportunities are endless.
The resultant design arranges the classrooms, or studios, flanking both sides of the building along a flexible bar. This bar of space allows the walls dividing the rooms to be easily relocated, enabling the college to resize classrooms during the semester break. Directly outside these classrooms are a variety of open and enclosed group study rooms that can either be used by students as informal study spaces or by instructors for breakout discussion groups during class time.
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