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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities about Associates, Building, Type with the genre: Arts & Photography, Architecture?
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conversations.value: Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities is a one-stop source for the essential information architects, engineers, and facility planners need to fast-start the design process. In this book, award-winning architect and planner David the author, along with an impressive list of industry-leading contributors, addresses a broad scope of essential issues concerning campus architecture, including such sweeping advancements as distance learning facilities, technology-driven research laboratories, and electronically enhanced dormitories. Dozens of successful projects by a variety of designers are showcased, bringing to life in-depth material on such topics as cultural centers (Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates); libraries and learning centers (Moore Ruble Yudell); teaching buildings and professional schools (Robert A.M. Stern Architects); science teaching and research buildings (Ellenzweig Associates); social and support facilities (Kieran Timberlake Associates); athletics and recreation facilities (Sasaki Associates); sustainability (Foster and Partners); and housing (Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis).
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conversations.value: Do you know the first four paragraphs for the book? Start with the sentence 'Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities
  Housing is typically a part of the original core of heritage campuses and close to the heart of newer campuses'.
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conversations.value: Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities
  Housing is typically a part of the original core of heritage campuses and close to the heart of newer campuses. But as institutions and facilities grow, campus housing tends to be pushed to the periphery. The quality of site planning can have enormous impact on the flow of student life from residence to academic, social, and recreational centers.
  Site planning is also central to the response to place. Conceptually, every campus housing complex is part of a larger whole; therefore, how the layout of buildings and site reinforces the defining qualities of campus character or, conversely, how it can introduce new forms are crucial questions. Often new housing intervenes in and around existing older fabric, and these issues are heightened.
  Students should be brought together in natural ways that appeal to basic human nature—comfort, natural light, generous spaces, and wide corridors.
  For residence halls, the basic unit of planning is the single- or double-occupancy room with approximately 100 sq ft per bed. For each student, the minimum furnishings are a single bed, a small desk and chair, and a closet or wardrobe with both hanging and drawer storage. Some institutions prefer wardrobes to built-in closets, allowing for more flexibility for the inhabitants, sometimes in combination with bunk beds or a system that allows a bed to be stacked over a desk. For upper-class and graduate students, larger single-occupancy rooms with private baths may be most ­appropriate.
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conversations.value: Do you know three more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Figure 9.10 Compelling connection between the renovated facility with the expansion, Price Center East, University of California, San Diego.
  At the core of nearly every program for campus centers is the concept of "hearthstone," a concept promulgated by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) in its statement of purpose.5 Loosely interpreted, the campus center is to the campus what the "great room" is to the house, a place of warmth, gathering, conversation, and ­sustenance.
  However, each institution is unique, and a well-orchestrated programming process is essential to creating a student life facility that is tailored to a specific campus culture and needs. What suits a 30,000-student urban research university with equal numbers of undergraduate residents, commuters, and graduate students may not suit a 5,000-student liberal arts college located in a rural community. Those that know this best are the people intimately involved with student life, student programs, and community-related programs on campus.
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conversations.value: Figure 9.10 Compelling connection between the renovated facility with the expansion, Price Center East, University of California, San Diego.
  At the core of nearly every program for campus centers is the concept of "hearthstone," a concept promulgated by the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) in its statement of purpose.5 Loosely interpreted, the campus center is to the campus what the "great room" is to the house, a place of warmth, gathering, conversation, and ­sustenance.
  However, each institution is unique, and a well-orchestrated programming process is essential to creating a student life facility that is tailored to a specific campus culture and needs. What suits a 30,000-student urban research university with equal numbers of undergraduate residents, commuters, and graduate students may not suit a 5,000-student liberal arts college located in a rural community.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last five paragraphs?
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conversations.value: What are appropriate systems for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) and plumbing? Vertical transportation? Fire and smoke protection? What factors affect preliminary selection?
  What are appropriate systems for electrical service and voice and data communications? What factors affect preliminary selection?
  What special considerations (scale, color, texture, finishes, furnishings, special features) affect the planning of interiors?
  What special considerations (historical authenticity, infrastructure retrofit) arise when renovating a facility of this type?
  On international projects, what special considerations influence marketing, design, presentations, document production, and field presence?