Tangen Hall's official address is 115 S 40th Street, Philadelphia PA, 19104. The building's main entrance is on 40th Street, between Sansom and Chestnut Street.

Business hours are 7am-10pm from Monday to Friday.

After hours are 10pm-2am from Monday to Friday and 7am-2am on Saturday and Sunday.

Tangen is a "student entrepreneurship first" building and priority access is given to Penn students who have a need to use Tangen's facilities, pending their successful application for a Venture Lab membership and compliance with all University COVID-19 measures.

Building access is controlled for safety and operations reasons:

• Tangen is located off-campus
• Studios and labs require training and supervision in order to use the equipment. Noncompliance with government regulations can result in the loss of ability to operate spaces like the Food Innovation Lab.

The Venture Lab membership program is for all currently enrolled Penn students with a valid PennKey. Apply here.

When approved, your Venture Lab membership benefits include:

• Access to Tangen Hall on weekdays from 7AM to 10PM ET, excluding holidays and during suspension of normal operations by Penn (subject to change)
• Access to the Spaces app to reserve rooms available to Venture Lab members in Tangen Hall on Floors 1 through 4 and 7
• Access to the Canvas site for the Studios and Labs
• Invitation to the Venture Lab Slack community
• Enrollment in the Venture Lab Weekly Newsletter

Venture Lab Membership benefits are processed within 3 days of application submission. Building access to Tangen Hall and the ability to reserve rooms via the Spaces App are granted within 15 business days of membership approval. 

Tangen Hall houses Venture Lab which is a partnership by the Wharton School and Penn Engineering to consolidate Penn’s startup ecosystem and to provide experiential learning to all Penn students.

Other organizations located in Tangen Hall include the Integrated Product Design master’s level program, the Jay H. Baker Retail Center and Wharton Computing and Information Technology.

During business hours, Floors 1 to 4 and 7 are accessible to all visitors inside Tangen. Unrestricted spaces include:

• Lobby (Room 100)
• Colloquium (Room 204)
• VIP Suite (3rd floor open area)
• Ideas Forum (Rooms 402 and 410)
• Summit (7th floor open area)

Team rooms on floors 2, 3, and 4 are reservable only by Venture Lab student members.

Small group meeting rooms are available on Venture Lab floors 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 and are reservable through the Wharton Spaces system.  The ability to book rooms is granted automatically in Spaces to the following groups:

• During business hours, students successfully enrolled in the Venture Lab membership program may reserve the following rooms: 101, 203, 213, 323, 325, 336, 338, and 340, 316, 318, 320, 702B, and 702C.

Venture Lab owns and operates the following innovation spaces as a collaboration between the Wharton School and Penn Engineering:

• Engineering Studios (Rooms 108, 109, 113, 401, 416)
• Retail Lab (Room 107)
• Food Lab (Room 228) 
• Digital Design Studio (Room 404) 
• Digital Media Lab (Room 422)

Upon successful enrollment into Venture Lab’s membership program, Penn students will receive access to the Studios Canvas site, where they can apply to any and all of the innovation spaces to use their equipment and participate in their programming.  Except for the Retail Lab, all of these spaces require successful completion of space-specific training.

Questions or issues with booking these spaces may be directed to tangenhall@venturelab.upenn.edu.

Tangen Hall event spaces include the Colloquium, 7th floor Active Learning Rooms, and the Summit. Please submit event space requests here.  Event space may only be requested by members of the Penn community. Tangen Hall is not available for use by non-Penn members and organizations.

The Tangen security desk is located in the first floor lobby and can be reached at 215-898-2811.

For emergencies, call the University line at 215-573-3333 or 511 from any campus phone.

Official Penn Public Safety emergency procedures for Tangen Hall are located here. Additional helpful tips from Wharton Operations are here.

The Penn Division of Public Safety provides walking escorts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for more information on this program please visit their website.  To request a walking escort call 215-898-WALK.

Penn Transit Services offers a variety of shuttle service options for the Penn community including an on-call shuttle service.  Please visit their website to learn about shuttle and bus service options that are available to you.  To request an on-call shuttle call  215-898-RIDE.

Only Penn students, faculty, and staff who are approved to access Tangen will have the ability to swipe into the building with their PennCards.  See above instructions to request access.

If you have been granted PennCard access to Tangen and your PennCard does not work, please email tangenhall@venturelab.upenn.edu with your PennID, failed swipe access point (e.g., main entrance, elevator to 7th floor, etc) and date/time of failed swipe.

All members of the Penn community and guests can connect any device wirelessly through the University's AirPennNet system. Instructions are here.

All Tangen room are set up for self service and instructions for using room equipment are printed and visible.  Tangen is not a Penn-designated academic building and does not have immediate, onsite tech support.  Questions can be submitted to tangenhall@venturelab.upenn.edu.

Facility issues and maintenance requests may be submitted to the Tangen front desk staff or emailed to tangenhall@venturelab.upenn.edu.

Tangen staff can work with their department's administrative point of contact to submit issues through JLL's 360 Facility portal.