On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:21:13 -0500, Mitch Cohen wrote:

>I'm chair of my town's School Committee, and we're in the process of
>designing a new High School. Within the school we wish to place a small
>public access studio which will also be used for basic video production
>classes.
>
>We're in a small town (about 7500 people). The school is for 700 students.
>The town has no public access studio at this time.
>
>I'm looking for guidance on sizing and designing the studio area. The
>architect gave us a preliminary plan that had 500sf allocated to the studio
>(including any edit rooms). I'm no expert but that seemed laughably small.
>I am not looking for a pro-grade studio. My gut feeling is one open studio
>space, one control room, and one editing room. We may also wish to have a
>small office for a part-time public access director.
>
>If anyone has any input on size and layout of the space I'd be very
>appreciative. If there are any sites that provide such recommendations,
>please let me know.
>
>At this point I'm not interested in coming up with an equipment list - that
>will come later. But the building's design does need to be finalized and
>I'd hate to have an inadequate studio included.

No advice here other than to do it yourself...
I taught photography at a small central NYS
college a few years back while a new art building
was being planned (by a VERY famous large architectural
firm). The students had built a crude darkroom in
a tiny dorm basement room around a chimney (this was
an "old-style" dark, dirty, REALLY-grungy-type
basement...;-). Much to my surprise, the architect
had dropped a copy of this nearly unworkable
darkroom into the new building design! I sketched out
a basic design, with three small film-loading
booths off a film-processing area, a finish-work
area, a B&W printing room with light-blocking maze
entrance, and a small color-printing room - all
based on a larger arrangement that worked well
in the San Francisco public darkroom facility
I was familiar with - and gave it to the architect...
I was again surprised when my sketch was dropped
whole, without changes, into the new facility - and
at that time I actually had to argue *against*
excesses that were not cost-effective...!
Moral of the tale: unles you speak up, your area
will occupy the "SLOIP" (the "space left over
in planning" [having been an architecture
student...;-]); but if you do speak up, make it
the way you want it since it may appear in the
building exactly in the form you suggest...!;-)