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Library Refurbishment Phase III and IV, Teesside University
Phases III & IV of the Teesside Library project focus on creating quiet individual areas and private silent study spaces for students.
The upper floors provide progressively private, individual study opportunities, with quiet study on level 2 and silent study on level 3.
Level 2 has a specialist ICT focus, with a significant number of hardwired computers with dual screen arrangements and curriculum-specific software to provide high-powered computational resource.
Communal furniture such as large layout tables were considered to suggest and encourage individual study. Lighting, placemats, dividers and other visual devices have been incorporated to focus attention.
Critically, the library has remained in use throughout the works and the design team worked closely with the university team to realise designs with minimum disruption to the ongoing activities in the building.