Learning Space Developments
This summer the following developments are taking place:
- Development
of D003 which is where ELSU were located in the “D wing” of
the James France Building.
This will be a space which may be booked as a whole or in three
“zones”. It could be used for formal sessions but is being
designed primarily for student use. The location means it will only be
available from 0900-1800. The zones are:
- Individual
working zone with PCs and spaces for individual use.
- Group
study area with students able to gather round a table.
- Comfy
zone with easy chairs for more relaxed discussion.
The design has been developed in
conjunction with Sophie Driscoll, VP Education and the detailed specification
emerged from a meeting to look at spaces to support the student experience
reported to the last Learning and Teaching Committee.
- Opening
of the Health Exercise and Biosciences
Building and four
lecture rooms within the building (one tiered for 100 plus 3 flat-floor
rooms) and some casual seating areas suitable for student groupwork.
- Investigation
of options for the development of the James France
Building in 2009 to
include:
- Refurbishment
of CC011, CC012, CC013, CC014.
- Combining
of rooms CC109 and CC110 to create a larger room to meet the requirement
for larger flat floor rooms.
- Removing
the wall in the area above the café to create a first floor balconied
area with informal furniture to create a student learning area with a
teaching room off this area created by knocking together rooms CC111 and
CC113.
- This
project may be further enhanced by the creation of teaching facilities in
the area of the current Muslim Prayer Room should the project to develop
a Faith Centre be sufficiently progressed at the time the other work is
undertaken (this could be a second phase).
This is a very exciting project
which will make a further significant enhancement to both formal and informal
learning spaces.
Dr Anne Mumford
22nd May
2008.
