I spend a lot of time at PSU's Native American Student and Community Center (NASCC) so I thought I would take some photos around the center. They building is beautiful inside and out with artwork everywhere you look. The inside of the center has a large gathering room with a professional kitchen to the side. In the other parts of the building there is a reception area with several offices, a computer lab with several computers for students and community to use, three classrooms/meeting rooms, a sunken children's play area, and a lobby area with art, comfortable chairs and tables surrounding a fireplace. Then outside there are two gardens on the first floor and a gorgeous roof stop garden area that is breath taking. Here are a few places around the building.
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The large gathering room where lectures, dinners, and other gatherings are held.
Window seats in the drumming area in the gathering room.
One of four or five fused art glass panels way up in the vaulted ceiling. I've never noticed them before because you really have to stop and look up.
Now we go outside and up to the roof top garden space. Oh, another awesome thing about the NASCC is that all gardens and the roof are fully and completely wheelchair accessible.
This is a wood and mental sculpture piece in the west garden of the NASCC.
I really like the different natural and man-made materials they put together in the architecture of the building. Here we see the rough stone wall juxtaposed against the smooth metal sided roof peak.
This is the part of the roof that is right over the gathering area and the wooden poles of the gathering room are continued through the roof as metal poles. You can see the prism shaped ceiling "window" that throws light into the very center of the gathering room.
More of the roof top metal poles and glass prism.
A garden metal sculpture on the roof. I'm pretty sure the artist is Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs), but I will make sure.
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