1. How many individual study rooms?
22 closed study rooms and 2 open study spaces
2. How many students per study room?
12 rooms with 4 people, 6 rooms with 12 people, 4 rooms with 25 people
3. How much open study space versus open social space?
Equal space for café and lounge, about twice as much space for study spaces.
4. What kind of reception is necessary?
Security, reception, and bag and coat check
5. How large should the reception desk/area be?
About 2300 sq. ft. It includes a reception desk, booth for coat/bag check, reception lounge.
6. Should a ballroom be included? Should it convert into a lecture hall? Convertible auditorium with large storage room so that it can convert from ballroom to lecture to event space. 7. Should a cafe be included? Should it be full service or grab n’ go?
Full service café as well as grab n’ go snack/drink bars in the lounge spaces.
8. Should a library outpost be included? Should there be a pickup desk or only a returns bin?
Yes, a small pickup and drop off booth (with storage).
9. Should there be a post office of some kind? Should it be associated with Amazon, USPS, UPS, FedEx?
Postal/package outpost with pickup and returns (with storage).
10. How many bathrooms are necessary? What size?
20 individual unisex restrooms plus 2 restrooms for the administrative wing.
11. How many elevators are necessary?
4 passenger elevators and 1 freight elevator
12. How big should it be overall? How many different functions should the space include? Should it be focused on study spaces or should it include other functions such as banking, post office, events, cafe etc. About 33,000 sq. ft. (excluding the core) plus almost 7,000 sq. ft. of outdoor space. It includes reception/security, lounge, café, study space, library outpost, postal outpost, technology outpost and an auditorium. 74