ONEONTA, NY
ALUMNI HALL
IN DESIGN
Alumni Hall was built as the campus library in 1960 and converted into an office building in the mid-1970s. Since then, the three-story, 48,000 square foot building has had minor renovations. This project will be a complete building renovation to house the School of Economics and Business and the college’s Advancement and Alumni offices.
The design will feature “learning on display” with classrooms, small-group meeting rooms, an innovation center, and a Bloomberg trading room all positioned along a center core. Plenty of glass partitions will allow those that walk through the building; students, faculty, alumni, and donors, to see the wide variety of teaching and collaboration opportunities used on the campus.
The building core will also visually link access from the perimeter loop road to the residential quad on the other side of the building. Strategic improvements to the building’s exterior will highlight building entrances and create a recognizable and attractive terminus to the campus’s academic spine.