Gelerson Design
Why is it that the engineering building is the most illogically designed building on campus? Is it because the awkwardest people on campus need to be in an awkwardly designed building?
There are several issues with the layout of the building; the most baffling is the bathroom locations. The main bathrooms are in a logical location down the front hallways. The men and women’s are located right next to each other. After that it really doesn’t make any sense. Upstairs is home to a men’s bathroom and woman’s bathroom, located on opposite ends of the building. The woman’s bathroom is located by the back stairwell and the men’s is buried in a side hallway by faculty offices. The men’s bathroom is only convenient to faculty, as the downstairs bathroom is just as close in distance to any classroom upstairs anyways. Downstairs there’s a men’s bathroom down the hallway of the seldom used mechanical labs. The hallway with the computer labs and senior design labs lacks a bathroom, which would be a logical location for a bathroom.
The bathrooms itself are horrendous. The men’s requires opening two doors to get inside. People entering and exiting at the same time creates a very awkward situation because the little hallway room in between doors is too small for two people. More problems exist in the placement of urinals, which are basically on top of each other, which is bound to violate the men’s code from time to time. The bathroom itself is not pleasing and has grimy floors and dim yellow lighting.
Another terrible issue Gelerson has is the width of the stairwells. They are both at least a foot too narrow. The breaks between 9:05 and 10:10 classes attract high amounts of traffic in the front stairwell. It is very hard to walk down the stairs when a single person is walking up the stairs at the same time. Now add about twenty students to the mix. Now add gelerson engineering students.
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