© MCH
© MCH
© MCH
Multi-Disciplinary Building M, Liberal Arts Campus
Long Beach City College
LBCC's new 3-story Multi-Disciplinary building, "Building M", features a tiered 63-seat film studies classroom, a 80-seat lecture hall, DSPS (Disabled Students Programs & Services) wing, main study area with breakout rooms, cyber security lab, makerspace, numerous computer labs, foreign language labs, and faculty offices.
Within the DSPS wing are two testing centers, a meeting room, and faculty offices. Due to speech privacy concerns within this wing, walls and doors were designed for a moderately high level of sound isolation and the mechanical sytem was designed to minimize unwanted crosstalk between spaces. A relatively noisy braille embosser was located within one of the testing centers, so a dedicated room was outfitted for that machine to minimize distractions to the students during testing.
The tiered film studies classroom features a very short reverberation time and an especially quiet background noise level (below NC-20) for optimum film-viewing.
MCH provided full-scope acoustical consulting.
HPI Architecture
Architect:
97,000
Square ft:
$50M
Cost:
2022
Completed:
Long Beach, CA
Location: