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Design Guidelines for Seminar Rooms

  • Characteristics - <20 students, encourages face-to-face discussion
  • Acoustics
    • Carpeting and drapes can improve acoustic problems in rooms with hard surfaces
  • Lighting
    • Fluorescent on zones
    • Manual controls
  • Furnishings
    • Rectangular or trapezoidal tables easily moved/reconfigured
    • Portable lectern
  • Instructional Media
    • One projection screen that is a minimum of 70"x70" in size, placed to allow some simultaneous access to blackboard
    • Overhead projector cart w/fold-up shelves
    • Display computer and video images with a computer/video monitor or data/video projector that are located in a corner closet or on mobile carts
  • Telecommunications
    • Network connections at front of room


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Last updated: January 8, 1998