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.
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.
