Graduate Center Studios.  A dilapidated 10,000 square foot, wood-framed warehouse is creatively and economically transformed into new facilities for the graduate  program.  A new skin of translucent polycarbonate wraps the entire building, filling the 32 individual 10 x 20 foot studios with natural light.  The facility also offers an outdoor workspace and two large meeting/installation areas.  Our mechanical design incorporates economical high-efficiency gas furnaces with outside air economizers for heating, and whole house fans for cooling without air conditioning.  New prefabricated restrooms are located within a mobile shipping container dropped into the exterior courtyard.  An aggressive eight-month design and  construction schedule allowed the center to open for the fall term. 

Graduate Center Phase II.  Design began in 2005 for a new two-story classroom and art studio building.

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