Washburn University, Stauffer Commons

Central to the Washburn University Living Learning Center is Stauffer Commons, the primary food-service area for residents, staff and faculty. It has a seating capacity of 250 and provides three meals daily. The primary design goal was to create an aesthetically appealing, well-functioning and stimulating food-service area.
The result was a marketplace-style venue. Replacing an existing 1960s cafeteria-style eatery, the marketplace provides students with a variety of choices. The eatery includes five stations featuring pizza, deli, grill, homestyle and custom-prepared specials of the day. The space also serves as a gathering space for group meetings, band performances and studying.
While voluminous and dynamic, this space offers comfortable scale and interest with particular features. Ceiling textures use suspended wood ribs and a variety of lighting sources at different heights. The main wall at the food-service area is sculpted by tilting the wall in a pattern of different angles and rendered with a variety of color. The seating is organized with raised areas, different ceiling heights and metal awnings to define the various seating options.

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