LIBRARY LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE
Location: San Jose, CA
Project Description: The Library Learning Resource Center serves as a gateway to the college campus. SFA provided interior design services as the associate architect with tBP/Architecture serving as the principal architect-of-record. This 55,000 sq. ft. educational facility consists of three levels for an “interdisciplinary” learning resource center available to the campus students twenty-four hours a day. It also includes a central computer plaza station surrounded by math, reading, writing labs, academic tutoring and a self-paced learning lab. The upper two levels is the library, which houses 75,000 volumes and a computer carrel mezzanine. The dynamic design forms of this facility are intended to shelter the quite interior from the adjacent freeways and orient views into a quite garden positioned between the Library Learning Resource Center and the Student Services Career Center buildings. The center was completed is in 2003, with a construction cost estimated at $14 million.
Project Description: The Library Learning Resource Center serves as a gateway to the college campus. SFA provided interior design services as the associate architect with tBP/Architecture serving as the principal architect-of-record. This 55,000 sq. ft. educational facility consists of three levels for an “interdisciplinary” learning resource center available to the campus students twenty-four hours a day. It also includes a central computer plaza station surrounded by math, reading, writing labs, academic tutoring and a self-paced learning lab. The upper two levels is the library, which houses 75,000 volumes and a computer carrel mezzanine. The dynamic design forms of this facility are intended to shelter the quite interior from the adjacent freeways and orient views into a quite garden positioned between the Library Learning Resource Center and the Student Services Career Center buildings. The center was completed is in 2003, with a construction cost estimated at $14 million.
