Lewis & Clark

Facilities

Templeton Student Center

MEETING NOTES

March 11, 2004

Present: Robbie Fung, Lauren Synker, Ian Evans, Maura Ross, Frazer Lanier (3/4 only),

Based on input received from the student and administration for a, the committee continued its work on formulating project Goals and Actions as follows:

· Identify ways to enhance opportunities for community interaction.
·Identify ways that students can feel greater “ownership” of the building and involvement in activities in the building. 		- Provide area to display more student art
- Zone the main floor for student groups
- improve existing student lounge (possibly with the Coop Store)
- Student music in the building.
- Ian and Robbie will be working on the technical aspects to see if this will work. I.e. Money, equip., etc.
- Consider installing a climbing boulder
· Provide a comprehensive Way Finding system that includes an information desk, room identification and building orientation signs. - Short term signage (specify certain areas of concern to deal with)Areas of concern: health center, downstairs to student services)
· Provide well organized, adequate and easily accessible student organization office, meeting and work areas. - Zone the building vertically with administrative functions on the ground floors, student focused activities on the main floor and food services on the top floor.
- Main office for smaller student groups to have access to phone, filing cabinets, office space.
- Strong student activities resource room that can provide supplies, networking.
- Rearranging (downstairs moving to Howard, others moving in???) (Jan. 2005)
- Create arrangement of student group offices to foster connections between them.
· Identify food service programs and delivery methods that allow opportunities for interaction among all students, faculty and employees. - Bring in someone who specializes in kitchen design
- Create a recycling room
· Identify ways to use space efficiently - Zone the building vertically.
- Enclose the atrium- Create glass walls to open up areas and make things look bigger
- Better identify entries
- Improve interior lighting
- Simplify/clarify circulation patterns
- Put magnetic hold-opens on the doors leading to the bottom floor (Student Service)
- Create a 3 story stair to connect all levels
· Improve the interior and exterior public appearance by improved lighting, (natural and artificial) , painting and finishes upgrades, etc. - Identify and improve major entrances
- More student art
- Staffed Info desk
- Entry ties in with motifs around campus
· Rental Income - Keep this in mind as the process continues
· Provide improved facilities for storage of media and events management equipment and custodial and maintenance operations equipment and supplies. - TAB should asses student offices and storage space
- TAB looks into lockers and determines how many we need
- Resource room – asses the needs of students, create a more efficient use of the space. Ventilated area for sign making. Phone and voice mail available to student groups.
- Financial aid storage
- Storage for books (receiving/ mail room)
- Create a task force to check space allocation info.
· Evaluate the service and support areas of the building and ensure that they are adequately sized and located to service building uses. - Bring someone to check out the loading dock issue.
· Improve the green building characteristics of Templeton by maximizing sustainable building strategies. - Eco-roofing, photo voltaics, etc.
- Look at techniques used in Howard
- Consider using LEED for existing buildings

Next steps:

  • Develop a series of improvement options, based on the above lists of goals and action statements.
  • These may take two forms: short term actions and improvements that we may be able to implement this summer or early next fall and longer term improvements that may be implemented over several years.
  • Review these options by holding another open planning forum like those previously held.
  • Review these options with the Board of Trustees at the May 2004 meeting.
  • Engage a architect to prepared preliminary designs based on the improvement options over the summer
  • Review the results of the architectural effort with students next fall

Next meeting: 4/7/04 , Geary, 12:45 – 2pm

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