DANIEL GAULT | STUDIO
INSTRUCTOR: DARREN PETRUCCI YEAR COMPLETED: FALL 2013 PROJECT NAME: EDUCATION + ADAPTIVE RE-USE: FARMER EDUCATION BUILDING
The existing, introverted farmer education building is outdated within the context of ASU’s thriving campus. This adaptation seeks to bring the building and its educational function into the 21st century.
Using ASU’s stated design Aspirations for a ‘New American University,’ the program was reconfigured to increase collaboration and transformation in education. Further consideration of the adaptation of the building was made using the biological concepts of Life’s Principles for natural resiliency. The reorganization consisted of programmatic strips based on the smallest module in the existing building. The new program blurs the boundary with the activity on the high energy malls of the campus. The result is a series of infrastructural voids that enable interdisciplinary cross-pollination, natural light/ventilation, and space for landscape planting at multiple levels. A more porous, useful, and extroverted building emerges for the New American University.
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SPRING 2015
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