ERIC Number: ED018093
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1966-Aug
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PLANNING COLLEGE UNION FACILITIES FOR MULTIPLE-USE.
BUTTS, PORTER; AND OTHERS
THE COMBINATION OF TWO OR MORE ACTIVITIES INTO A MULTIPLE-USE SPACE WILL PROVIDE PROGRAMMING FLEXIBILITY FOR THE COLLEGE UNION WITH A CONCOMITANT SAVINGS IN CONSTRUCTED SPACE AND CONSTRUCTION COSTS. TO ILLUSTRATE THE POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS OF UNION FUNCTIONS WHICH CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED, TWENTY STUDIES EXAMINE SUCH COMBINATIONS AS UNION AND CONFERENCE CENTER, UNION AND FACULTY CENTER, MULTI-USE THEATER, AND OTHER FACILITIES. EACH STUDY DISCUSSES HOW MULTI-USE CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED, THE SPACE SAVED AND THE POSSIBLE SAVINGS IN COST. THE REPORT DISCUSSES FACILITIES WHICH LEND THEMSELVES TO FLEXIBLE USAGE, AND THOSE WHICH CANNOT BE ACCOMMODATED BY FUNCTIONAL COMBINATION. A SUMMARY IS INCLUDED ON THE SAVINGS ILLUSTRATED BY THE TWENTY STUDIES. A DISCUSSION OF OPERABLE PARTITIONS IN THE APPENDIX DISCUSSES BRIEFLY THE TYPES OF PARTITIONS AVAILABLE, COMMENTS ON SOUND ISOLATION AND GIVES GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR SELECTION. SINGLE COPIES OF THIS DOCUMENT ARE AVAILABLE BY WRITING THE EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS, ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE UNIONS-INTERNATIONAL, 770 LANGDON STREET, MADISON, WISCONSIN 53706. PRICE $3.00. (BH)
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Authoring Institution: Educational Facilities Labs., Inc., New York, NY.; Association of Coll. Unions-International, Madison, WI.
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