Core Classroom Modernization to Enrich the Student Experience
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA October 2022– Prioritizing the need to provide the best in-person educational environment for future leaders today, Stanford Law School leads the way with the start of a multiphase renovation of its core facilities.
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Led by a prescient academic leadership team, Stanford Law School knew its strength reside in its purpose to educate through a physical place that transcends recent campus disruptions induced by the pandemic. This involves investing in their campus to best serve a global and highly diverse legal education community and create a healthy on-campus environment that also reaches globally. This means substantially renovating the 45-year-old 80,000 SF Crown Quad, three connected buildings for another era's pedagogy that must align more with the law school's vision and needs.
The approach will be a multiphase renovation and possible addition to achieve programmatic goals in an environment that priorities health and sensory alignment with contemporary education needs with a special emphasis on ethical material sourcing and construction practices.
The first part of construction has commenced, with renovated rooms coming online in January 2023. The focus of this early stage is to promptly provide improved facilities for entering and current students and make way for future improvements.
Highlights include a dynamic tiered seat room for 300 participants that converts among modes as a 300-seat presentation theater, a classroom for 72 students, and a breakout space for users between 30 – 300 participants.
This is made possible by custom design seat developed in collaboration with the Law School, MKThink designers and Figueras seating.
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