In addition to the library, the building houses an Educational Technology Center that includes an Instructional Technology Unit, a Center for Teaching, Learning and Faculty Development, and a Center for Distributed Learning. The design facilitates personal assistance with information needs and helps with finding, assessing, creating and using expanded resources.

The programmed 440,000-volume print collection of monographs, periodicals and documents are housed in standard open shelving and compact shelving. This area are interspersed with computer facilities and electronically equipped study, teaching and meeting rooms, allowing electronic access from homes, laboratories, residence halls and offices. Electronic flexibility is a major design requirement.

FLITE’s function extends beyond its services. The siting of the new facility became the impetus for a complete reconsideration of campus circulation systems, the organization of public arrival and the spatial relationships among the University’s component parts. Also part of this rethinking was the conversion of the centrally located parking lot to a campus green as part of the new “heart” of the university.

Associate Architect: Neumann Smith & Associates

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Its design responds to a number of unique site conditions, including the adjacent Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Le Corbusier, an existing subterranean library by Jose Luis Sert and a required three level connection to the Fogg Museum.

The building establishes a primary two-story facade facing the street and integrates a new exterior stair, plaza and ramp at the library entry. Behind it, the building rises to three stories, complementing the Carpenter Center as a distinct yet related object perceived from all angles.

The fine-arts library has a separate entrance from the gallery, thus resolving a security problem when the library and museum hours are different. With its high ceilings, tall windows, and visible reference stacks, the reading room conveys the stature associated with such spaces.

Existing streetscape and scale relationships had to be addressed, and constraints imposed by building above an existing underground library structure with limited load-bearing capacity had to be accommodated.

The solution also resolves Le Corbusier’s compelling site circulation idea. The Carpenter Center ramp, which was intended to provide a public mid-block walkway from Quincy Street to Prescott Street through the building, ended in the Fogg’s rear yard without a connection to the sidewalk. The design extends the ramp onto a new plaza from which one can either enter the library or descend a new exterior stair to the street.

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The complex offers comprehensive facilities for learning in an electronic environment with fully wired classrooms, a virtual reality lab, an advanced graphic lab, a lighting lab, electrical engineering and computer labs, a photography studio, and TV production and broadcasting studios with double-height ceilings. It also offers galleries and lecture rooms, an office of the future, a resource center with a 15,000-volume library, conference rooms and office spaces.

The four-story, 135,000-square-foot building extends between the one-story Architecture and Engineering Buildings, its length interrupted by a grand three-story portal that acts as the school’s formal entrance and leads to the campus quadrangle. The ground floor lobby announces the building’s focus on technology with an information commons featuring computer stations available for campus information, group teaching and individual research.

White ceramic tile has been used to clad the facade’s base, with ribbed steel panels painted metallic silver for siding. Zinc shingles were selected to clad the special facilities that extend from the exterior walls as rectangular objects.

The initial analysis of the building site also resulted in a complete reconsideration of the campus plan. Formerly, the main road to the campus continued through the middle of the central campus quadrangle, impeding pedestrian flow among the main academic buildings. The road now circles the campus perimeter, and the parking lot previously on the site has been relocated to an edge of the campus. The result is a pedestrian quadrangle, with the Technology and Learning Complex completing its architectural frame. A new landscape plan features tree-lined paths connecting the buildings that border the quadrangle.

Associate Architect: Neumann Smith & Associates

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The three-story, 143,000-square-foot facility accommodates the increasing use of technology in teaching and research. It also provides expansion space for the College’s growing collection of printed materials to support evolving curriculum needs.

The library is architecturally consistent with the other buildings on the historic front quadrangle in both its materials—limestone, granite and marble—and its scale. The project reconfigures a composition of existing roadways, buildings and prominent public spaces, establishing a new campus center that fits into existing view corridors and pedestrian circulation routes.

Library interiors provide efficient and flexible space that will serve the College’s needs well into the next century. This includes increased seating to accommodate planned growth in the student body. Because of the importance of interactive and collaborative learning in the residential liberal arts environment, most seating is in group study and meeting rooms.

In keeping with Middlebury College’s overall concern for contextual and environmentally sensitive design, the project is designed to meet a high rating for the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard for environmental efficiency.

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Supporting common facilities include a 140,000-square-foot, 50,000-volume library, a 1,200-seat auditorium, a sports center, a student center, student dining facilities, a cultural center, and a 105-unit faculty housing structure. Nanyang’s mission is to bring over 12,000 students together with faculty, business and industry leaders in an interactive educational community.

The campus is a state-of-the-art facility with the latest communication infrastructure of multimedia video, voice, data and telecommunication links and a comprehensive building automation system.

The campus design carefully separates pedestrian and vehicle circulation. A central building with common facilities (Library, Auditorium, Student Activity Center, Lecture Theaters, Canteens, Child Care and Staff Centers) is connected to individual Schools by a system of gardens, terraces and covered walkways. A loop road system provides parking and service to each individual building.

The Northern Campus includes The School of Engineering and Information Technology. The Southern Campus includes The School of Business, School of Health Science, Student Activity and Sport’s Facilities.

All main facades and window areas have external sun control overhangs and are oriented to the north and south to minimize solar heat gain.

Associate Architect: DP Architects

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The new Campus Center contains a cafeteria, ballroom, meeting rooms, student lounge, game rooms, student offices, faculty dining and a pub. Spatially, the gentle curve of the new Campus Center facade projects into the Green and creates a new and dynamic presence, encouraging students to either enter the building or flow around it.

The new Academic Building houses administrative offices, classrooms and computer labs in a highly flexible loft space. The Academic Building extends the campus image to MLK Boulevard and forms a backdrop for Eberhardt Hall.

Associate Architect: Cody Eckert & Associates Architects

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The site is adjacent to both institutional buildings and typical Oberlin houses, which are three-story structures with front porches. The massing of the facility reconciles the divergent scales by reinterpreting the porch-house prototype into an institutional model. Smaller scaled, separate “house” functions are located on the ground level, and the shared public spaces are on the second floor.

The 48,000-square-foot facility has three separate entries each accessing a student lounge, which also accommodates a study space, kitchenette and dining space, plus an administrative suite, mail room, coat room and stair to the dining halls and servery. An entry plaza offers access to the three house entries, lounges, and administrative offices. On the second level, the facility serves 800 students in three main dining halls.

The facility is articulated by three identical, pyramidal skylit dining halls, or houses, on the second level. A continuous linear element unites the three volumes, providing outdoor dining terraces on the upper level and a street-front porch on the lower level. The inverted organization provides natural light from above in a typically gray climate zone, and allows three separate dining halls with common service and kitchen to be organized in one structure.

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The Edythe and Eli Broad Center creates a new entry/gateway to the campus and becomes the initial architectural experience for visitors and students The 13,000-square-foot program includes an art gallery, a musical performance and lecture space, classrooms, seminar rooms, admission offices, faculty offices and the President’s office. The diversity of the program reinforces the Pitzer College philosophy of open dialogue and continuous interaction.

The 14,500-square-foot Broad Hall, houses classrooms, faculty offices, a language center, a computer center, and psychology and anthropology laboratories.

The third building is Gold Student Activity Center, a 12,000-square-foot two-story structure. It establishes a second major outdoor cross axis on the campus. The program includes a new snack bar and pool/garden terrace, as well as a sub-dividable assembly space, student offices, post office, lounges, lockers and an active two-story high active recreation room. New open air facilities accommodate an extensive outdoor athletic program, including swimming, basketball, softball, sand volleyball and an ultimate frisbee field.

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