This project is not meant to entirely re-design the art building, but to re-face the facade and create more of a sense of entry. When re-designing the facade it is important to take into account its function. The spaces serve as classrooms, art galleries, etc.  Daylighting without glare, while retaining wall space, is accomplished by creating a facade that dissentigrates at the corners and uses light shelves and louvers to bounce light into the spaces without creating glare. The best kind of light for art galleries is northern light. No light shelves or louvers are used on the northern facing facades so that maximum northern light can be used in the galleries.

Sustainable Strategies Used:

The main entry to the art building is revised to create a better sense of entry.  A wall is placed at the entry on the 2nd floor which seperates visual connection to the 1st floor entry. This wall acts as an art wall or graffiti wall. Students and faculty can create new works of art on the wall at their own discretion. It can take on various forms of media. This ties the adjacent esplanade of the campus to the art building with an interactive and creative wall. The wall will be integrated into the structure of the building in order to make it part of the art building experience rather than something seperate.