NOW OPEN 8AM to MIDNIGHT
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THIS IS YOUR SPACE
Third Space is your home from home whilst on campus open during term time 7 days a week from 8am to Midnight. The upstairs of the Union is divided into 5 mains spaces:
The Function Rooms
Book a function room for your UPSU activities and meetings at the reception desk in Gun House. The rooms cater from groups of 8 through to 40 people with projectors, boardroom style seating (which can be re-arranged) and additional audio facilities may also be booked.
The Student Activities Centre
The Student Activities Centre replaces the old CO2 nightclub with a fresh set of offices, this room caters for all your activity needs. From Media and Marketing, Sports and Societies, through to an open access PC suite and brand new PureFM studios... also just installed - new photo and video studio!
The Third Space - Play Zone
The play zone is your area to relax with friends, have a chat and generally chill out without any pressures. It's got two pools tables, plenty of sofa and table space as well as a TV showing the latest music channels.
The Third Space - Eat Zone
The coffee shop serves hot and cold food and drinks from 10am until 3pm weekdays but also provides plenty of seating on benches and tables for eating your lunches and meeting up with friends.
The Third Space - Work Zone
Five inflatable pods fill the far end of Third Space which help reduce sound and allow you to do group work in privacy. The inflatable pods are well lit and have power and data sockets located in the floor. The whole of Third Space is covered by the University WiFi so getting online is not a problem.
INTRODUCTION
The Third Space Project is a joint venture lead by the University of Portsmouth with the assistance and guidance from the University of Portsmouth Students' Union aimed at providing a social learning space to help develop your student experience.
The project started back in 2007 based upon advice from the Sabbatical Team ,led by Elle Gray, to look at how the space occupied by the University Bars Lux and CO2 could be use more effectively and to benefit more students in Portsmouth than just those who occasionally visited the nightclubs.
Based upon inspiration from the Saltire Centre (shown in the video below) the project is now at the stage where building works are ready to start on a facility that will accomodate the need for group working space, eating and relaxing aswell as an increased space for the growth in student lead activities.
UNDERSTANDING THE PROJECT DELAYS
The University of Portsmouth Students' Union statement:
UPSU has been made aware that considerable delays are now inevitable to the University’s re-development of The Student Centre. The delays to the re-development of Lux and Co2 will cause real concern to the students of Portsmouth.
In June, the University proposed a timetable to The Student’s Union and the university Board of Governors that work would be completed by September 2009 - a date which was subsequently communicated to students, staff and local media. Significant delays appear to be caused by indecision and a lack of preparation by the University. Preview Days have also delayed the project and prevented current students from fully benefiting from the new facilities.
UPSU strongly encourages the University to focus on providing current students with the resources they need to develop as individuals and obtain the best grades possible. The learning space provided by this redevelopment is essential to the continued development of the student experience; the UPSU seeks reassurances on behalf of concerned students that the construction will be completed in a timely manner, and demands that the University provides a guaranteed completion date.
The University of Portsmouth statement:
The Vice Chancellor, Professor John Craven, would like to apologise to students for the delay in the construction of the Third Space.
Significant progress has already been achieved in the CO2 bar area and our efforts are currently concentrated here where work can be carried out without disrupting the preview days in the adjacent Lux nightclub.
Further work to strip out bar equipment has been carried out behind the shutters in the nightclub. Full work on the project will begin in early November and is anticipated to be completed by the start of the second semester in early 2010.
