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ERIC Number: EJ1152682
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-2158-6195
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Building of Requirement: Liberating Academic Interior Architecture
McLane, Yelena; Dawkins, Jim
Journal of Learning Spaces, v3 n1 2014
The authors focus on the strategies employed in the recent renovation of the William Johnston Building at Florida State University, in which the historical exterior was preserved, while the interiors were adapted to new functions as classrooms, study centers, and common spaces with intentionally undefined purposes. The building's various use capacities, together with the flexibility of its interior environments, makes it a "building of requirement." The paper reveals how the building's historical interior layouts and architectural elements defined the approach to realizing a postmodern and future-oriented building while fostering new encounters and forming new user familiarities, thereby contributing to the evolution of the structure as living history.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
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