Location: San Jose, CA

Project Description: The Library Learning Resource Center at San Jose City College reflects the vibrant high tech nature of the Silicon Valley and also serves as a gateway to the San Jose City College Campus. Finney Architects provided interior design services as the associate architect in association with tBP/Architecture serving as the principal architect-of record for this project. This 55,000 sq. ft. educational facility consists of three levels for an “interdisciplinary” learning resource center that is available to the campus students twenty-four hours. This also includes a central computer plaza station surrounded by math, reading, writing labs, academic tutoring and a self-paced learning lab. The upper two levels is the Library, which houses 75,000 volumes and a computer carrel mezzanine. The dynamic design forms of this facility are intended to shelter the quite interior from the adjacent freeways and have the facility oriented to view into a quite garden wedged between the Library Learning Resource Center and the Student Services Career Center buildings. The building was completed is in 2003, with a construction cost estimated at $14 million.