State College of Florida’s new Library and Learning Center is a transformational active hub that combines print collections and services of a typical library with state-of-the-art amenities typically found at four-year research universities. Designed to serve as a "Third Place", the Library and Learning Center has become the heart of the campus, providing not only a strong library structure, but also creating a place where students may study, interact and relax.
By providing social places such as a café, exhibit gallery, 300-seat dividable meeting room, indoor stepped seating amphitheater space, outdoor patios and exterior balconies; commuter college and on-site middle and high school students, faculty, and community members are all brought together in a collaborative, inviting place rich with technology, audio/visual and multi-media capabilities.
The facility is equipped with raised access flooring to allow flexible rearranging of adaptive, moveable furnishings and features multiple collaborative group study rooms, presentation spaces, maker/creative labs, audio visual recording/editing studios, a television/film production studio, active learning/multi-media classrooms as well as a visualization room equipped with five ceiling mounted projectors for 180 degree immersive viewing. Enhanced with vibrant interiors and plentiful daylight, the new facility has become the popular epicenter on campus for living and learning.
State College of Florida Library & Learning Center
Category
College/University
Description
Project Location:
Bradenton, Florida
Architecture Firm
Williamson Dacar Associates, Inc.
Clearwater, Florida
www.williamsondacar.com
Photography By:
@2018 Rich Montalbano/RiMO PHOTO, LLC
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