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THE GATHERING SPOT
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE. The expanded role of today’s student center sees these facilities incorporating a variety of different functions and activities. Visual appeal is important; it invites people to approach, visit and engage in the spaces offered, both inside and outside. Inviting, attractive, functional and open are crucial design elements for these facilities.
is a glass fiber reinforced concrete, and there is floor-to- ceiling glass curtain wall.
LED outdoor lighting casts programmable, multi-color light against the façade, il- luminating the masonry with colors based on occasions at hand: school colors during orientation, or red and green during the holiday season, for example. It’s all part of an ex- terior of a revitalized building that the facilities director says has “changed the culture of our campus.”
The right façade and exterior glass systems, lighting, furnishings, paving systems and more can be marshaled at student, university and campus centers toward broader ideas. As Stebar adds of student cen- ters: they are “critical to creat- ing a vital campus community and have an important role in recruiting future students and retaining current students.” CPM
Scott Berman is a freelance writer with experience in educa- tional topics.
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