Penn State University Sparks Building Language Learning Center
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	A dropped bulkhead with custom designed barrel soffits around impressive columns defines an open corridor. The soffits are designed to visually shield an inexpensive acrylic wall sconce. Illuminating the soffits and washing the columns helps to reinforce the corridor boundary and allows the columns to "vanish" into the ceiling plane. Orienting the VDT screens in the interactive audiovisual area away from the more playful scenes and toward the evenly illuminated wall and ceiling planes helps to minimize distracting reflections. Downlights in a curved pattern add light to the workspace and help define the curving ceiling. A lighting density of 0.81 watts per square foot was achieved by targeting specific tasks and utilizing the spill light elsewhere. The University stocks all five lamp types used on this project.