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Facts About the Jim Cherry Learning Resources Center
- Year of Construction: 1993
- Depth of Excavation: 12 feet.
- Total Space: 107,000 square feet.
- Construction Costs: Approxiatmately $77 per square foot.
- Exterior Materials: brick, precast, green tinted glass, and aluminum panels.
- Interior Statistics: 10 miles of data cable, 57 miles of wiring, over 3,000 light fixtures.
- Number of Floors: Four plus a "fifth floor" mechanical penthouse,
which resembles a giant book lying on its side.
- Parallelogram footprint in a different axis with the campus
as chosen to emphasize he importance of the Learning Resources Center, and
to permit saving a maximum number of grand oak trees.
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- Portholes on the ground floor acknowledge intrinsic ship-like form.
The railings around the second and third floor terraces and the roll
of the grade enhance the effect.
- Four-story rotunda, constructed with 10,276 glass blocks,
centered over existing walkway accentuates the fact that the building
was designed to be the "living room of the campus."
- Eighty-five foot tilted column resembles a "giant pencil"
appearing to rest against the side of a opening in the roof, but the pencil
both supports and is supported by the roof.
- Interior wood sunscreens placed on the south elevation
for energy conservation add visual interest and variation to the façade.
From outside the screens give the appearance of stacked books.
