As the primary constructing on our campus, Stevenson Corridor has at all times been central to the Sonoma State group. Whether or not you’re an alum who spent many hours studying and learning in Stevenson, college and workers who loved careers there, or a campus customer to the various workplaces or lecture areas in Stevenson Corridor, this iconic constructing has formed your SSU reminiscences.
Now, after a surprising $90-million renovation, Stevenson Corridor will proceed to rework the expertise of many new generations.
For the most recent Story from Sonoma, we dive into how our group got here collectively for this new period at SSU.
Final month, there was a palpable and optimistic vitality within the air as lots of of scholars, alumni, college, workers and group companions gathered in awe for the ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the reopening of the utterly reworked tutorial constructing.
“Stevenson Corridor is and can at all times be a real hub for dialogue and tutorial endeavors,” mentioned Interim President Mike Lee, elevating a pair of large scissors within the air as the group roared with appreciation. With the 8-year, $90-million renovation from loveable concrete bunker to state-of-the artwork and shortly to be first LEED-certified constructing on campus full, courses are actually set to be in session. The Noma Nation couldn’t be extra impressed – and so they tell us on social media:
carmen_m_valverde: Can’t wait to go to Stevenson Corridor. Most of my undergrad and all my grad courses had been in Stevenson. #icon
plantopia21: Yay!!!!! So pleased cannot wait to go to once more! C/O 2004
guyfoxco: Want it was renovated once we went there seems to be superior! #GoSeawolves
Leigh-Anne Flores Mateyka: Wow! Stunning rework. I bear in mind working out of Stevenson Corridor throughout the Loma Prieta earthquake in 89!
Galaxia Conrad: What a change!
Pure gentle fills the hallways.
A view of the atrium trying south towards Nichols Corridor.
Inbuilt 1967, Stevenson Corridor was the very first – and largest – tutorial constructing constructed on the Sonoma State campus. Named for American politician and diplomat Adlai Stevenson II, and homes the Faculties of Schooling, Social Sciences, and Enterprise and Economics. Over the many years, tutorial accolades and nostalgia apart, Stevenson Corridor rapidly earned the notorious repute for being the large bunker on campus. An trustworthy and earnest soul-searching SSU inner report acknowledged that the uninviting Stevenson Corridor had just a few issues and was “performing poorly from an vitality, lighting, exiting, plumbing, consolation, acoustics and air flow standpoint.”
Clearly, it was time for a makeover. After 10 years of considerate and clear planning, SSU broke floor on the $90 million renovation in November of 2020. The renovation was deliberately designed to be the college’s first LEED Gold sustainability commonplace constructing, profiting from pure daylight all through, utilizing inexperienced supplies and enhancing vitality effectivity.
Critics have taken be aware: “Now, the constructing is a technologically and acoustically state-of the-art construction, huge on sustainability… and awash in accessible gentle that penetrates deep into its 130,000 sq. ft,” reported the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in December, noting Stevenson Corridor’s options of inclusivity resembling gender-neutral restrooms and lactation areas.
Divided into three flooring, the New Stevenson Corridor now homes 22 basic function instruction classroom and lecture areas. Seven of the classroom areas have HyFlex expertise designed to maximise high quality for each in-person and on-line studying experiences. Artwork lovers will benefit from the Mischief Makers exhibition on the primary ground which welcomes guests on their solution to interdisciplinary lecture rooms and College of Schooling specialty lecture rooms.
Stevenson Corridor is the college’s first constructing to fulfill the LEED Gold sustainability commonplace.
Items from the “Mischief Makers” assortment by Joan Baez are on show.
An City Design studio is housed on the second ground, alongside a Bodily Geography educating lab and shared workrooms, kitchenette and printing facilities. And on the highest third ground the place the College of Social Sciences college and workers have their model new workplaces, there are counseling labs, a publication studio, extra printing facilities and convention rooms that may accommodate massive suppose tank teams or extra conversational one-on-one brainstorms.
A scholar visiting from out of state to attend the Oxford Consortium For Human Rights co-hosted by SSU at Stevenson Corridor mentioned it finest, whereas taking a brief break from a workshop.
“Wow, there’s one thing about this constructing that actually makes it straightforward to seek out focus.”