166 · Representative Documents: Planning and Assessment
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Program Goals
REGENSTEIN LIBRARY ‘A’ LEVEL PROGRAMMING AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN: EVALUATION OF INITIAL CONCEPT PRESENTATIONS -April 2014
3
Program Goals
Introduction
As a center of intense intellectual inquiry, the University of Chicago Library shares with the University the aspiration to
be the most dynamic learning environment in the world. It continues to embrace change and align itself to thrive on
diversity, to support professional growth and opportunity, and to reward flexibility and innovation.
Libraries today are more than repositories for books and quiet study. They are transforming into active community spaces
that encourage interaction and collaborative learning, showcase the rise of new technologies, and adapt to the needs of
their patrons. Sometimes, creating a library to embrace these changes requires constructing a new building or making
major modifications to an existing facility.
The Regenstein Library has identified a part of Level ‘A’ as a potential location for a collaborative learning environment.
Level ‘A’ covers about 83,200 GSF out of which about 20,000 GSF (18,000 NSF) has been allocated to this study.
Project Goals/ Vision
Create an attractive and inviting ‘destination’ space for students, faculty, academic technologists, and library staff
Encourage an open collaborative environment that becomes a destination to study and collaborate in a creative and
scholarly environment
Encourage and foster scholarly interaction, group work, and collaborative learning
Facilitate scholarly engagement in groups and create zones for teaching and workshops
Facilitate understanding of opportunities and research skills the Library offers
Maintain visibility, access to natural light, and create a comfortable moderately quiet setting that both creates and
sustains an environment supportive of scholarship
Incorporate flexibility for a variety of uses for small to medium group sizes as well as individual study
Allow for flexibility and adaptability to meet Library’s future needs
Project Scope
Level ‘A’ Floor Plan
Analysis of what space is occupied
now and what will it take for its
optimal conversion to a collaborative
student learning space
Opportunities to improve
functionality of the space and aid in a
suitable environment for active
learning
Important working adjacencies that
either exist now or might be
promulgated in the new space
Technology, equipment, or
special/non-standard furniture
considerations including MEP or
Voice/Data support requirements
Incorporate studio space producing
MOOCs, creating web tutorials,
webinars, etc. and delivering online
instruction
Support functions such as
administration, storage, waiting areas,
etc.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Program Goals
REGENSTEIN LIBRARY ‘A’ LEVEL PROGRAMMING AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN: EVALUATION OF INITIAL CONCEPT PRESENTATIONS -April 2014
3
Program Goals
Introduction
As a center of intense intellectual inquiry, the University of Chicago Library shares with the University the aspiration to
be the most dynamic learning environment in the world. It continues to embrace change and align itself to thrive on
diversity, to support professional growth and opportunity, and to reward flexibility and innovation.
Libraries today are more than repositories for books and quiet study. They are transforming into active community spaces
that encourage interaction and collaborative learning, showcase the rise of new technologies, and adapt to the needs of
their patrons. Sometimes, creating a library to embrace these changes requires constructing a new building or making
major modifications to an existing facility.
The Regenstein Library has identified a part of Level ‘A’ as a potential location for a collaborative learning environment.
Level ‘A’ covers about 83,200 GSF out of which about 20,000 GSF (18,000 NSF) has been allocated to this study.
Project Goals/ Vision
Create an attractive and inviting ‘destination’ space for students, faculty, academic technologists, and library staff
Encourage an open collaborative environment that becomes a destination to study and collaborate in a creative and
scholarly environment
Encourage and foster scholarly interaction, group work, and collaborative learning
Facilitate scholarly engagement in groups and create zones for teaching and workshops
Facilitate understanding of opportunities and research skills the Library offers
Maintain visibility, access to natural light, and create a comfortable moderately quiet setting that both creates and
sustains an environment supportive of scholarship
Incorporate flexibility for a variety of uses for small to medium group sizes as well as individual study
Allow for flexibility and adaptability to meet Library’s future needs
Project Scope
Level ‘A’ Floor Plan
Analysis of what space is occupied
now and what will it take for its
optimal conversion to a collaborative
student learning space
Opportunities to improve
functionality of the space and aid in a
suitable environment for active
learning
Important working adjacencies that
either exist now or might be
promulgated in the new space
Technology, equipment, or
special/non-standard furniture
considerations including MEP or
Voice/Data support requirements
Incorporate studio space producing
MOOCs, creating web tutorials,
webinars, etc. and delivering online
instruction
Support functions such as
administration, storage, waiting areas,
etc.
