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North Quad: SI's Future Home
Architect's rendering of the new North Quad building, as it will appear from the northwest corner of Huron and State. The tower at left will be U-M's newest housing facility. The tower at right will house several academic units, including SI. (Image courtesy of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott and Robert A.M. Stern.)
Interactive, inventive, immediate, and global are characteristics that describe the proposed North Quad living/learning complex that will house the School of Information beginning in fall 2010.
With residence space for 460 students, the North Quad Residential and Academic Complex will also provide classrooms, academic studios, and offices. Along with the School of Information, the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, the Department of Communication Studies, the Language Resource Center, and the Sweetland Writing Center will be housed there. For the first time in several years, SI will have all of its faculty members together in one building.
The architectural team of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott and Robert A.M. Stern Architects created a design that draws on classic features of academic architecture. On the ground level, the brick and stone building encloses one continuous interior. Above ground, the complex appears as two separate buildings -- an L-shaped, seven-story academic tower and a 10-story residential tower arranged around interlocking courtyards and connected by a cloister evocative of the Law Quad.
Demolition of the Frieze Building on the site has taken place and site preparation work will continue this spring and summer for the $175 million, 360,000-square-foot project. The current design was undertaken and the project budget increased after University leadership and the regents introduced a new goal in March 2006 to create a signature building appropriate for its prominent location on Central Campus.
"The School of Information is looking forward to new opportunities for intellectual engagement with our North Quad academic colleagues, and the potential to work together on research and instruction to explore multimedia approaches to learning and literacy," said Interim Dean C. Olivia Frost.
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Last updated: May 15, 2008
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