The Center for Student Life at Augustana has fused learning, dining and play while reinventing the Thomas Tredway Library to create a student hub that supports the College’s commitment to a well-rounded student experience.
The new dining center creates efficiencies and reduces core costs while providing students with a more enjoyable, contemporary, social dining experience.
The library has expanded areas for quiet study and improved group study spaces—with new opportunities for social collaboration through a “fused” fourth floor and concourse.
How do we create a travel corridor from lower to upper campus that helps the College bring visual awareness and access to Student Services on campus without inhibiting the essential function of the Library?
Instead of creating a travel path around the library, a travel corridor was created through the space. Along that path, the design team placed student service offices; creating a pathway for students to experience and begin utilizing the opportunities and activities already happening in the library as well as introducing them to student services.
- Dining Venues
- Updated Learning Environments
- Small and Large Gathering/Collaborative Spaces
"This building, with its various parts, provides spaces for study, nourishment, socializing and reflection. The building serves as a symbol of what it means to be a residential liberal arts college. Each day the building brings together people from all disciplines for a variety of functions and purposes and has truly become the campus hub."
The Music Education, Performance departments and Art History department at Augustana College had grown beyond the confines of their current spaces.
The new, 60,300-square-foot dedicated Center for Theatre and Dance brings students, staff, and faculty together, with performance and learning opportunities around every corner—and features rarely seen in campus theatre spaces.
BLDD served as Architect of Record for the University of Illinois' first newly constructed residence hall in approximately 30 years.