01 01 college of the built environment college of the built environment

this project was a proposal for a new college of the built environment for texas tech university. this new college includes architecture, landscape architecture, urban and community design, and urban and regional planning. the site is in downtown lubbock near urbantech (a ttu organization that serves as a lab for community needs) and across from the art district. this allows the new college to be incorporated into lubbock's first friday art trail (an art tour that takes place every first friday of the month) and will also allow students to be more engaged within the community. The use of green roofs is used as an environmental control system in order to help reduce the heat from entering the building. Throughout the entire college, a shading façade system is used to deal with the solar heat in hopes of increasing the building performance. Since most of the buildings at TTU are made of bricks, this façade system also mimics that same materiality, but in a non-traditional way. Each corner of the brick is at a different elevation, which allows the façade system to have a texture to it. Each brick also has two voids to allow sunlight to enter the building, concluding to textured shadows in the interior.

goals massing site void subtract void shift 2 overhang