West Engineering Room 210

I decided to write my post about a rom int  West Engineering. Room 210 is a small class space in the corner of West Engineering, Right above the Arch.
This building was complete in 1909 and ordered to be build be the regents of the University. It was commissioned by them and designed my architects George Mason, and Albert Kahn of Detroit. ( Mason also built the Grand Hotel  and other notably famous buildings around the state of Michigan.
The room is small and quaint. Normally the classrooms around campus are composed of cinderblock and drywall which adds to their impersonal and cold aesthetic, whereas Room 210 is much older and is decorated with a deeply colored wood paneling around the walls. This dark wood surrounds the table and chairs of the room, giving the student a closed off and surrounded feeling. Unlike that of other, more generic rooms across the campus, this room, because of the wood paneling, feels much more homey and personal.  A fireplace and a small closet for coats affirm this same idea while also acting as reminders of when this room as first under construction, and the change in learning styles that has followed in the last 106 years.
This room holds about twenty to thirty people; It is an ideal spot of a discussion section. The chairs surround a massive table that add to the soft feel of the room, by opening up the room for a "round table" like discussion.
Windows face the Diag, bringing in natural lighting as well as opening up the classroom to the rest of the campus. One watches the students pass through arch directly underneath and can feel the energy of the students. This sense of movement in contrast to the architecture of the room only accentuates its aesthetic, with its very closed of and personal feeling.
There is light in the classroom that is artificial but this is very unnoticeable

and blends into the room quite well.