The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., has opened a new academic building.
The $29 million, three-story, 70,000-square-foot facility, which sits on the east side of campus, will offer spaces for student collaboration and group studying, reports Tribune-Star.
The building provides a home for the college's new engineering design program and offers updated chemistry facilities.
The space includes design studios, fabrication areas and prototyping equipment on the first floor; flexible classrooms on the second floor; and chemistry, biochemistry and food science labs on the third floor.
Students will have access to 3D printers, machine tools and CNC machines.
The building has a central atrium with interior and exterior glass to safely give visitors, students a staff a look into the building.
Other building features include an atrium that has an interactive focal point “Depth of Field” artwork that stands 30 feet tall, 17 feet wide and has more than 13,000 programmable LEDs speckled throughout 360 custom-made components. It will continuously showcase different colors, reflecting changing conditions in the building.
The architect is RATIO Architects, and the construction manager is Garmong Construction Services.
