ATRiuM is a campus of the University of Glamorgan

University of Glamorgan

The University of Glamorgan is a university based in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales with campuses in Treforest, Glyntaff, Merthyr Tydfil, Tyn y Wern and Cardiff...

, in Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

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Opened on 29 November 2007, it is home to one of the University's five faculties, CCI (the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries). The building is located on Adam Street, near Cardiff Queen Street railway station

Cardiff Queen Street railway station

Cardiff Queen Street railway station is Wales' second busiest railway station in Cardiff, Wales. It is one of 20 stations in the city and two in the city centre, the other being Cardiff Central...

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The building comprises a refurbished former BT office block and a newly-built extension, linked by a glass atrium

Atrium (architecture)

In modern architecture, an atrium is a large open space, often several stories high and having a glazed roof and/or large windows, often situated within a larger multistory building and often located immediately beyond the main entrance doors...

. It houses many of the facilities which were formerly based at Glamorgan's main campus in Trefforest

Trefforest

Treforest is a village in the south-east of Pontypridd in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales situated in the Treforest electoral ward along with the village of Glyntaff , being part of the Pontypridd Community...

. These include a television studio, two tiered theatre, auditoriums, sound studios, learning resource centre and gallery.

ATRiuM's official launch was compered by actress Siân Phillips

Siân Phillips

Jane Elizabeth Ailwên "Siân" Phillips, CBE, is a Welsh actress.-Early life:Phillips was born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, the daughter of Sally , a teacher, and David Phillips, a steelworker-turned-policeman...

 and TV presenter Rhodri Owen

Rhodri Owen

Rhodri Owen is a Welsh born and Welsh speaking radio and television presenter.-Biography:Owen was brought up in Gower, Swansea in a Welsh language speaking family, which is his first language...

 and there were performances from harpist Catrin Finch

Catrin Finch

Catrin Anna Finch is a Welsh harpist born in Llanon, Ceredigion, Wales. She was the Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales from 2000 to 2004 and is Visiting Professor at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and the Royal Academy of Music...

 and singers Elin Manahan Thomas

Elin Manahan Thomas

-Biography:Thomas was born in 1977 in Gorseinon near Swansea, the daughter of M. Wynn Thomas OBE, a Professor of Literature at Swansea University, and Karen Thomas. She was educated at the Welsh-speaking Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr in Gowerton near Swansea, and by the time she was fifteen was singing in the...

 and Daisy Blue, who was accompanied on the piano by her father Mal Pope

Mal Pope

Mal Pope , is a Welsh musician and composer, who is especially notable for his contribution to music theatre portraying Welsh national identities and themes...

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A Students Union building is located at the back of the building and was open and functional from September 2009.

Visiting professors

Like many creative arts schools and colleges, the school has a series of visiting professional professors. These currently include:

• Terry Hands CBE
  Terry Hands
  Terence David Hands is an English theatre director. He ran the Royal Shakespeare Company for 20 years during one of its most successful periods.-Early years:...
  
   - Award-winning British stage director and producer, who founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in 1964
• Dr Karl Jenkins
  Karl Jenkins
  -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...
  
   - Successful Welsh composer and musician
• Daniel Evans
  Daniel Evans (actor)
  -Background:Evans started acting early in life, going to the Urdd Eisteddfod, and beginning to compete there from the age of 5 or 6, as well as going to many amateur productions. He realised it was what he wanted to do aged 8, and aged 17, he won the Richard Burton Memorial Prize at the National...
  
   - Welsh actor, who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal National Theatre
• Marc Evans
  Marc Evans
  Marc Evans is a Welsh-born film director, whose credits include the films House of America, Resurrection Man and My Little Eye.-Biography:Evans was born in 1963 in Carmarthen, Wales...
  
   - Award winning film director
• Robin Lyons - Writer, musician and actor
• Máire Messenger Davies - Author, academic and former journalist.

Facilities

Amongst the key ATRiuM facilities are:

Design

• Design studios and associated resource and support spaces
• Dedicating computing facilities, including a number of mac-labs

Media & Communications

• TV studio and associated control room
• Photography facilities including darkroom and production space for film photography, digital studio and associated editing studio
• Broadcast and print, multimedia journalism facilities
• Radio studio, and associated control room
• 180-seat digital and 16mm cinema space

Drama & Music

• 180-seat theatre space for drama production and performance, teaching, and associated control room
• Double height theatre practice space, and associated control room
• Single height theatre practice space, and associated control facilities
• 6 music and sound studios, and associated control rooms
• 16 acoustically protected multimedia practice rooms

General Purpose Teaching Spaces

• 180 seat main lecture theatre
• 140 Seat Cinema and Auditorium
• Multiple general purpose teaching spaces fitted out with integrated instructional technology facilities and control systems
• All teaching spaces interlinked enabling the ATRiuM to stream content from any teaching and learning space to all other teaching and learning spaces

Computing Facilities

• Multiple subject-specific and multidisciplinary computing labs
• 64 individual flexible workspaces in LRC, including 32 PC-equipped workspaces
• Loan laptops for use throughout facility (principally LRC), access via wireless networking

Interaction Spaces

• ATRiuM street, including exhibitional spaces and facilities
• Café
• Learning resource centre, including book-stock and journal collection, individual study spaces and book browsing
• 24 seat main meeting room featuring latest interactive and multimedia technology
• Leading edge and mobile IP-based video conferencing facilities
• Multifunction space

Support Services

• Faculty advice shop
• Student support services
• Disability support services
• Student careers service
• Equipment loan store

Accommodation

Tŷ Pont Haearn

Tŷ Pont Haearn

Tŷ Pont Haearn is a tall residential building in Cardiff, Wales. The 21-storey building comprises 17 floors of 144 student flats on top of a four storey public car park. Tŷ Pont Haearn is the joint-fifth tallest building in Cardiff.-Construction:...

 is the most popular halls of residence for Atrium

Atrium (Cardiff)

ATRiuM is a campus of the University of Glamorgan, in Cardiff, Wales.Opened on 29 November 2007, it is home to one of the University's five faculties, CCI...

students due to its location directly opposite the Atrium building. 350 bedrooms are specifically reserved for Atrium Students,.