Creating a Link Between Campuses

Student Center

The new Student Center encompasses 138,000 square feet and provides services including the main food service kitchen, retail and campus dining, pub, University Bookstore, atrium spaces, ballroom, and new offices for Student Life and Student Organizations.

It unites the links between the Campus Main Plaza, Euclid Avenue, and adjacent classroom buildings to the east and west. The campus “interlink” pedestrian system is inserted through the Student Center on the second floor, creating another major entry presence on a multi-level campus and strengthening connections to the urban campus.

The new building design and construction, along with the process of demolishing the existing building, achieved LEED Silver Certification from the United States Green Building Council.  This project also received a 2011 Excellence Design Award from the American Institute of Architects Akron Chapter.

138K square feet

2011 AIA design excellence award