DESCRIPTION

Over the years, a push for a more collaborative relationship between the two disciplines of art and science has slowly taken root in academics and the professional world. This design attempts produce an academic institution to act as an intersection between art and science.

Located on a hill, this art and science center takes shape by peeling up the existing landscape to cover the learning and lab “pods” that straddle and openly flow into the 24’ wide grand stair. This stair, filled with seating, platforms, and cut-outs for informal meeting and presentation spaces, all stand for the center of the design: a grand stair to blur the lines of art and science. The stair is completely enclosed in varying translucent and transparent glazing supported by a truss structure. This idea of the grand stair is to place the focus around the user and their integration into a social mixing and circulation space.