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San Marcos, California
With its official opening on August 26, 2019, Cal State San Marcos' Extended Learning building moved from first shovel to first class in just 16 months. As the largest academic building on campus, the six-story, 135,000-square-foot EL building (ELB) brings all Extended Learning operations under one roof for the first time and becomes home to student support centers, lab and research facilities, select CSUSM academic departments, administrative offices such as CSUSM Corporation, and inventive learning spaces such as the CSUSM Corp Innovation Hub.
With every college at CSUSM represented in the building and programs serving individuals from first-year undergraduates to lifelong learners, the ELB is a comprehensive education center designed to bridge disciplines and inspire innovation. The facility includes 19 new classroom and lab spaces equipped with technology-rich features such as 4K projectors and mobile instructor stations with touchscreen displays and digital pens for annotation. Open floor plans with flexible configurations not only encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration but enable the programs in the building to meet the educational needs of an expanding campus and community for many years.
"This multifunction space creates opportunities for the campus to grow programs," said Bella Newberg, executive director of CSUSM Corporation. "This is a great space for interdisciplinary activity. We are always going to have specialized buildings, but having flexible space is an asset to the campus as a whole. This model really is the future."
Located in the North City development in San Marcos, the project - which includes a 709-space parking structure - expands the campus footprint by two acres and serves as a gateway between university and community. A...