SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY
Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library
Santa Clara CA

Recognized by ProAV Magazine as "Best Education AV Project"

California’s oldest institution of higher learning sought an enlightened perspective to the design of the Library for the 21st Century at Santa Clara University. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the facility now known as Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library is the embodiment of a converged university information environment that enables the development of an integrated information organization and infrastructure. The building creates new capabilities for the university as well as an opportunity to restructure its organization to take advantage of synergies between information technology, instructional media and library resources.

Employing state-of-the-art wired and wireless network solutions, the design anticipates a media-rich information environment inhabited by a sophisticated, mobile user population. Technology systems both enable and enhance the development of collaborative learning and work styles through extensive deployment of video-conferencing and technology-enabled workrooms.

The Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library features a 3-story automated retrieval system with capacity of 900,000 volumes, changing what was once a silent library into a dynamic center of collaboration, group interaction and idea exchange.

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