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The Learning Commons opens up a world of new opportunities for learning and socializing for Kettering students, faculty and staff.
Abundant natural light and wide-open, technology-enriched spaces encourage collegiality, collaboration and innovation 鈥 attributes that are fundamental to our values and our cooperative learning model.
Rooftop Terrace
This 1,600-square-foot space features seating and green spaces, hammocks for relaxing, sunshine to help you recharge, fresh air to boost your creativity, and electrical outlets so you can keep working while enjoying the outdoors.
d.spaces
The Learning Commons features more than a dozen d.spaces. These spaces serve as听collaborative workspaces that provide comfortable and functional spaces for students,听faculty and staff to thrive. Lounge pieces including couches and chairs, tables for听collaboration, whiteboards for note-taking or brainstorming sessions encourage听collaboration, creativity and innovation.
Knowledge Bar
Two Knowledge Bars host our digital library in the Learning Commons. The library听holds over 900,000 e-books, 100,000 e-journals and 100+ databases. It鈥檚 a听continuous work in progress and just keeps getting bigger and easier to use. The digital听library is available well beyond the Knowledge Bars鈥攊t鈥檚 available anywhere our听students and faculty are studying, living and working鈥攐n campus and around the world.
鈥淭he Learning Commons is special because it鈥檚 a great spot for everyone to gather and come together.鈥
- Robin Pelayo CS, '22
Read more about how the Learning Commons is transforming learning.
听鈥淭he Learning Commons contains everything that the campus provided before in one location. 听It is cozy, and you could spend the entire day there between coffee, food, d.spaces as well as open concept spaces for easy collaboration and socializing."
- Hayden Neva ME, '22
听led the design team at the architectural firm Stantec. Sage and his听colleagues, in collaboration with President Robert K. McMahan and university staff,听designed the building to balance timelessness and permanence. A shining example of听architectural excellence, the design incorporates optimal flexibility for current and future听teaching and learning, collaborating, and socializing.听Power and technology are woven throughout so that the building can听easily transform to meet unforeseen program or space needs.
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Learning Commons Atrium Mobile
Marco Mahler,听Sculptor
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Artist Marco Mahler's sculpture, suspended from the fourth floor to the first floor atrium of the Learning Commons, is a visual representation of the building's interactive nature.听It听consists of two parts that visually correspond with each other and complete each other.听Each part measures 25 feet in height and 16 feet in diameter.
Mahler designed the sculpture with interconnected balance structures听throughout; the equilibrium of each part depends on the counterparts that are linked to it.听Just like the spaces in the Learning Commons, it can be freely interpreted and听reinterpreted.