Floor 1

Floor 2

Floor 3

Floor 4

Site Plan

South facade before and after, showing the new transparency and activity within.

South facade before and after, note the new shading devices including external fin overhangs fritted and colored glass types.

New entry plaza and landscape with rain garden.

South facade detail showing various shading solutions.

First floor showing 24-hour reading room (left), Technology Service Center (beyond), and main stair with luminous Lightwall. New floor openings connect floors one and two.

View from second floor Hub to 24-hour reading room and cafe below with semi-enclosed study booth above. New floor openings connect floors one and two.

Second floor Hub collaborative study area, showing connection to Naismith Green and campus beyond.

Third floor collaborative study corner. Furniture varies throughout the facility in support of social, formal, active, and project-based learning, as well as individual quiet study.

Second floor Hub lounge for informal student study gatherings with library research consultation offices beyond.

Third floor open study space with several online reservable group study rooms along the right side.

Third floor open group study spaces. All open and enclosed group study spaces are provided with infrastructure for audiovisual technologies.

Fourth floor Karpovich Reading Room, a traditional library environment housing books and artifacts from the Dr. Peter Karpovich exercise physiology research collection.

The first group breaks the ground, including President Mary-Beth Cooper (center), Library Director Andrea Taupier (third from right) and Architect Ned Collier (far right)

President Mary-Beth Cooper officially welcomes the campus community to the Harold C. Smith Learning Commons. (https://springfield.edu/news/springfield-college-hosts-dedication-ceremony-harold-c-smith-learning-commons)