Designed by architects Tillmann Ruth Robinson, The new Academic Building on Western University?s main campus will be the home for the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing (JLFSN) and Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS). Located on a significant site at the entrance to an area of the campus that is under major redevelopment, the Academic Building responds to the importance of a strong international presence in learning and research-intensive universities. In pursuit of this, JLFSN and FIMS will make available a range of environments; flexible instructional spaces, action learning labs, clinical training and computer laboratories, media studies studios, library science facilities, faculty/staff offices, research spaces, and student spaces. Photography: Lisa Logan
Four components will converge on this site to provide a range of learning and social environments. Two, the ALFSN and FIMS are co-locating programs here with the goal of encouraging boundary-crossing in the Academic Building as well as across campus and into the global academic community. The third, general use classrooms (GU), will be available for use by the JLFSN and FIMS as well other campus faculties and will offer a number of instruction spaces, from 48-seat Active Learning Classrooms, to 60-seat flexible general purpose rooms and 130-seat formal lecture rooms. It is centrally located within the first three floors to acts as expansion space for both Nursing and FIMS. The fourth component, a key in...