The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved plans for the University’s new $38 million North Quad dormitory complex last month.
The complex will have an academic tower facing Washington and State streets. That building will house the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, the Department of Communication Studies, the Language Resource Center and the Sweetland Writing Center (all components of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts) along with the School of Information.
Information, communication and media will be major themes for the building, which will house three TV studios, a media gateway, a cyber cafe, media intensive classrooms and research areas, exhibit space. Faculty offices, academic administration space and graduate student workspace will also be housed in the building.
The residence hall will face East Huron Street and offer two configurations. The first includes suites containing two double rooms, a living room and a bathroom. The second features arrangements of four single rooms sharing a bathroom. Each residence hall floor houses lounges. The building also will offer a community learning center with additional small group study areas.
North Quad’s design focuses on combining living space, classrooms and public gathering spaces across campus to create neighborhoods built on the premise that learning and discovery occur everywhere, according to the university.
North Quad is the first new residence hall constructed on campus in about 40 years.
Source: The University of Michigan.
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