Project
Features
Artist studios
Offices
Visual arts laboratories
Fume hoods
Interdisciplinary labs
Materials sciences
Services Provided
Architectural lighting design
Electrical
Size
165,000 sf
Images courtsey of Miller Hull Partnership
In 2003, UCSD began evaluating the need for space for the Structural
Engineering and Visual Arts departments and the Materials Engineering
program. The Structural Engineering department is currently dispersed
between four different facilities on campus and the Visual Arts
department needs space to accommodate updated technologies. Several
interviews and potential designs were studied to determine the
best solution to the need for space. The University concluded
that all groups would be best served in a building where these
disciplines were integrated to foster interdisciplinary collaboration
and innovation; similar to a Bauhaus school.
The building's program requires high lighting levels in the laboratories
and power intensive equipment in the engineering, digital imaging
and robotics laboratory, as well as the film editing suites. Designing
systems that achieve the project and the State and University's
energy efficiency goals have required intensive collaboration
and ingenuity from all disciplines. Syska has worked closely with
the design team and University to evaluate potential solutions
to these challenges.
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