A LEARNING RESOURCE
CENTER AND COMMUNITY
LIVING ROOM AT THE
HEART OF CAMPUS
IKON.5 ARCHITECTS
The Learning Resource Center, an innovative state-of-the-
art library that provides a vibrant collection of study spaces
organized around a dramatic social stair on the Michael J. Grant
Campus of Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood,
New York, takes its place at the center of the campus, at the
confluence of major pedestrian pathways between the Caumsett
Student Center and the Health/Sports/Education Center, and
between the major parking lots for this commuter college. A
simple mass of nine cubes arranged in a three-by-three grid
accommodates the library program on two floors.