O'Leary Learning Center
An interior precedent for a modern higher-education learning center, combining a sweeping acoustic wood slat ceiling with flexible modular soft seating and continuous ribbon glazing.
- What we like about this project
- The slatted wood ceiling gracefully curves upward near the perimeter windows to maximize ceiling height and light penetration.
Materials
- wood-slats
- carpet-tile
- vinyl
- glass
- fabric
- laminate
Visual identifiers
- slat-wood-ceiling
- orange-swivel-chairs
- ribbon-windows
- open-learning-lounge
Style tags
- contemporary
- institutional
- functional
Visual tags
- academic
- open-plan
- flexible-learning
- collaborative-space
- warm-materials
- Geometry
- Open-plan rectangular floor plate featuring a continuous dropped slatted-wood ceiling plane that curves upward toward the window zone, integrating recessed downlights and a projector.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with suspended acoustical and wood-slat ceiling systems
- Spatial scale
- Expansive single-story open-plan multi-use academic lounge, approximately ten feet in clear ceiling height.
- Lighting
- Soft ambient overhead recessed lighting combined with generous lateral daylight washing across the floor plate from the extensive window wall.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting, professional, and bright academic atmosphere energized by warm wood tones and vibrant orange seating accents.
- Environmental context
- Interior institutional learning center overlooking an exterior landscaped campus lawn and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- From the darker foreground lounge area, the space expands horizontally toward a panoramic ribbon window wall overlooking green campus lawns.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular intervals of the linear wood slats create a strong longitudinal rhythm overhead, counterbalanced by vertical window mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional interior
- Program
- Academic learning center and student lounge
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- wood-slats, carpet-tile, vinyl, glass, fabric, laminate
- Visual identifiers
- slat-wood-ceiling, orange-swivel-chairs, ribbon-windows, open-learning-lounge
- Style tags
- contemporary, institutional, functional
- Visual tags
- academic, open-plan, flexible-learning, collaborative-space, warm-materials
- Geometry
- Open-plan rectangular floor plate featuring a continuous dropped slatted-wood ceiling plane that curves upward toward the window zone, integrating recessed downlights and a projector.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with suspended acoustical and wood-slat ceiling systems
- Spatial scale
- Expansive single-story open-plan multi-use academic lounge, approximately ten feet in clear ceiling height.
- Lighting
- Soft ambient overhead recessed lighting combined with generous lateral daylight washing across the floor plate from the extensive window wall.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting, professional, and bright academic atmosphere energized by warm wood tones and vibrant orange seating accents.
- Environmental context
- Interior institutional learning center overlooking an exterior landscaped campus lawn and mature trees.
- Spatial experience
- From the darker foreground lounge area, the space expands horizontally toward a panoramic ribbon window wall overlooking green campus lawns.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular intervals of the linear wood slats create a strong longitudinal rhythm overhead, counterbalanced by vertical window mullions.
- Style reading
- Contemporary institutional interior
- Program
- Academic learning center and student lounge
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior