Solution
FG Library used Reflection shelving to create the main Education Library on the ground floor, accommodating approx. 33,000 books as well as a ‘resources collection room’ holding items used as teaching aids in the classroom. By the main entrance is a vibrant study café with a mixture of comfortable café seating, laptop bars and tables.
On the first floor the aim was to provide a technology rich space for both trainee teachers and other students/staff. The area that the students migrate to first is a large comfy seating zone, which provides space to work either alone or collaboratively, with plenty of charging points built into the furniture. The silent study rooms have individual acoustically divided spaces, each workspace complete with ‘on desk’ pixel units so that students can charge their devices.
The Technology Enhanced Learning Suite has 31 Apple iMacs - this space with its full height glass walls is perfect for teaching and training. In addition a Library Seminar Space has flexible desks and mobile curved room divider screens so it can be easily reconfigured depending on teaching needs. Also on this floor there is a group study room, 3 one-to-one study rooms, laptop bars, and plenty of comfortable seating and tables.
DDA needs have been considered throughout the whole building, with height adjustable PC tables, wide walkways and a choice of working heights.
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