SCCC Montaukett Learning Resource Center

With a campus dominated by 1960s brick structures with punched windows, the MLRC was designed to create a campus focal point; to establish a northern edge to what had been an unfinished quadrangle; and, establish areas for potential future development. The campus had constraints including a protected pine barrens to the north and an underground utilities system running through the center of campus.

The building design and location created a cohesive new identity for the campus – contextual without being derivative – and set a clear aesthetic direction for future campus expansions. The MLRC is now the most heavily utilized building on the campus. The MLRC is geared to meet the needs of all learners and includes variety of spaces – conventional study tables and carrels, study rooms to accommodate groups of students, lounge seating and booth seating for informal study.

The building includes a café, gallery and multipurpose room. The MLRC has gone further with the addition of unique learning settings for Information Literacy, Distance Learning, Academic Skills and ESL.

Classrooms have peripheral computer stations for independent work, a video projection system and center tables where the students gather for lectures. Fixed furniture has been limited so the space can be used flexibly.