The glass façade provides a high performance building envelope that
reduces solar gain and heat load while allowing the benefits of natural
views and daylight into creative spaces. The glass walls provide a visual
exchange between indoors and out allowing students and teachers to
experience the building, the surrounding landscape and the interior
plaza as fluid spaces. Diffused natural daylight is abundant throughout
studios and classrooms, filtered through the surrounding foliage.

The curving green roofs distinguish the building from among the other
structures on campus but the line between landscape and building is
blurred. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear
ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the
building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping
irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the
building and bond it to the setting.

Finishes are intentionally raw to act as a backdrop for the art, media and
design projects. Concrete walls and columns, cement-sand screeded floors,
timber railings and a neutral palette define the interior spaces which vary in
shape and size. This amazing design seems to offer a new experience at
every elevation or perspective fulfilling the intent that a school for art should
inspire creativity.

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