WDC 2239

Room 2239 is in the Charles R Walgreen Jr. Drama Center is designed by KPMB Architects of Toronto (a company known for designing many great theaters). This room specifically is used to teach design. With long rows of wooden tables students have ample space to lay out their work for what must be hands on classes. Above the tables, a hanging grid is lined with soft florescent tubes with spot lights spaced between them giving the room ample brightness and the ability to focus light on whatever is being worked on. Up front the professor sits at a similar wooden table doing away with the expected hierarchy of lectures as well as that format of class. And, tucked in a corner is a single computer on a rolling stand, no projector, no accessories, just the computer feeling as though it is only there for the rare occasion it is needed. This room does not fit the typical classroom format (of a lecturer up front speaking at students up in seats) in favor of a more open environment that may have some similarities to an architectural studio.

This room, which must be a space for creative learning is designed with many hard lines and sharp edges- which is maybe not what I would expect to find in a creative space. However The large windows with a few do seem to compliment the creativity that is likely present. The ample light, large amounts of space, and open, non-hierarchical, environment, i think, must make for a good creative environment.