The Joseph J. and Violet J. Jacobs Academic Building

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The Addition will be a new eight-story structure that abuts Rogers Hall, the primary academic building on Polytechnic's Brooklyn campus. It will be situated on land already owned by the university, hence will require no new real estate transactions.

The Addition, adding approximately 68,000 gross square feet, will provide an entirely new facade to the university's main entrance. As such, it is likely to become the architecturally dominant feature of the south side of the campus.

The basement and most of the lower three floors will be devoted to a new gymnasium and supporting athletic facilities, while part of the third floor, and all of floors four through eight, will be devoted to academic functions.

The northern side of the Addition will adjoin Rogers Hall, which will undergo extensive renovation. Upon completion, the two structures will exhibit seamless floor-to-floor continuity, with the facilities within the Addition being fully integrated-both spatially and functionally-with facilities in the renovated Rogers Hall. The academic floors of the Addition and corresponding floors of Rogers Hall will conform to the following general pattern on each floor level: undergraduate design and innovation facilities will be located in the Addition; classrooms, upper division laboratories, and student departmental activities will be concentrated in the central core of Rogers Hall, near the elevator bank; research labs and offices will be primarily located in the southern portion of the Addition.