Informal seating areas near classrooms give teachers convenient places to provide timely feedback.

comfort

Connecting corridors with daylight-streaming windows are natural people attractors and can be easily equipped for study with tables, booths and comfortable seating.

Students fill booths first because they offer larger worksurfaces and privacy for users.

Power to the people: it’s almost impossible to provide too man power outlets for today’s techloving students.

COLLABORATION

Large, centrally located public spaces are a college’s public squares: they provide a sense of community, natural light and oftentimes convenient study locations near classrooms.

Whiteboards and lounge seating with tablet arms or small worksurfaces help define

smaller, intimate spaces within a larger environment.

Portable whiteboards are inexpensive yet helpful tools for groups creating and evaluating content.

Small project rooms located near open areas provide workspace for student teams.

Loungespaces.

These lounge space application ideas transcend the traditional, single-purpose

couch space. These are lounge areas that support resting, socializing, learning and working—true multipurpose spaces.

Comfortable seating is important, but so are worksurfaces, whiteboards and power

connections. Rethinking and reconfiguring lounge areas in hallways, atria and other

public spaces creates more learning spaces out of the same real estate footprint.

CO NTROL

This lounge space offers students both choice and control over their space. A majority of thespace can be rearranged by students in order to support various activities that take place in a student lounge.

CO MFORT Built for comfort, this lounge space offers a variety of spaces with soft lounge seating.

COLLABORATIO N

Spaces intentionally designed for collaboration make this student lounge an effective space for teams to meet in.

collaborative choices

From standing-height tables to collaborative seating, this lounge provides students a variety of spaces to choose from.

The Campfire Big Table can be used as a meeting place or a workstation for six people. It comes with a full top or is available with a technology tray and power for a great place to power up and study.

I2i seating is designed for collaboration, offering students the ability to orient themselves to their fellow collaborators without taking away their focus or sacrificing comfort.

The Campfire collection provides spaces with a wide range of private or open solutions. Here, a more private space offers students a getaway from the other, more public lounge spaces. The i2i chair with tablet arm provides students the ability to shift, focus and collaborate.

social space

A highly social lounge space where students can intentionally and by coincidence connect with faculty or fellow students.

The Bob lounge chair offers a more modern design, giving this lounge space aunique style of its own.

The i2i chair with tablet arm provides students the ability to shift, focus and collaborate.

open. connect. share.

This media:scape theater turns the traditional lounge into a hardworking, collaborative space where large groups can connect to discuss and plan important campus initiatives and activities.

media:scape lounge seating with ledge offers a second row for collaborators to participate.

The dual monitor media:scape is ideal for students to share and compare content.

table for 1, 2 or 3

Here is a unique lounge aisle with small collaborative tables on the left and soft seating with tables with power built in on the right.

A variety of spaces give students the ability to choose where and how they want to relax, study or socialize.

The Bix lounge offers comfortable seating in a booth-like setting. Its high back offers privacy from other nearby spaces.

Power in the Lottus tables offers students the ability to work in this area as long as they need to.

cafй: the campus crossroads.

what we observed

Students are as likely to use a café for relaxation, socializing and individual and group study as they are for dining.

Traditional dining halls with serving lines are being replaced by more open, interactive environments

that are more residential in scale.

Gen Y students tend to graze. They consume four smaller meals daily and at nontraditional times, so

café hours are longer.

Teaching assistants and adjunct faculty use cafés for class prep and office hours. Lack of power outlets is a common complaint.

Students work individually and in groups in cafés.

But when they want to eat or study alone, sitting at a large table makes them feel self-conscious.

Students enjoy using cafés as places to socialize and be entertained, to escape from the rigor of

their academic lives.

Cafés are often a focal point of environmental sustainability, with an emphasis on materials sorting and recycling.