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Architects: Woodhouse Tinucci Architects

Location: Chicago, IL, USA

Design Team: David Woodhouse, Andy Tinucci, Brian Foote, Ed Blumer

Year: 2011

Photographs: Christopher Barrett, Andy Tinucci

From the architect. The new Commons is a 15,500sf renovation that creates a vibrant

gateway, connecting campus and Library while emphasizing its importance as the

Universitys 24/7 heart. It provides an array of flexibly interconnected learning/living

environmentssingle-user tables, group workstations, deep lounge chairs, booths with

banquettes, high counters with stools, soft sofa modulesspread through a variety of

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social interaction and performances.

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and a printing center. From outside, students enter between two prisms of steel grating,brightly lit at night. From inside, entry is from the Librarys main lobby through a brilliant

yellow portal in an aluminum-clad wall (printed with students silhouettes composed of

ideograms representing UICs 72 fields of study).

Activities are contained in low-slung volumes (clad w ith w hiteboard panels and

translucently filmed glass, divided by curtains of steel mesh, and surrounded by the

buildings 16ft curtainwall to connect to the landscaped campus outdoors. Above, new

lighting, ductwork and aluminum panels showcase (and humanize) the bravura Piranesi-like

play of concrete structure of the original buildings classic Brutalist design (Walter Netsch,

SOM, 1965).
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