This was a project that I developed, with a teammate, for an architectural studio class at CU in the Fall of 2013. The context was to develop a conceptual architectural design for a library on the CU campus to serve the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The program called for a 10,387 square foot building with 3 to 4 stories, that complied with the University’s extensive architectural design guidelines.
Part of this project was to establish a formal design goal statement and ensure the final design stayed true to the original goal. My partner and I established that “The space shall be conceived as a spider web; a delicate environment that fosters creativity and collaboration through the crossing of paths.” As engineering students, we often felt isolated from the rest of the University and wanted to design a library that would mitigate that and foster collaboration between disciplines. We thought a spider web was a good metaphor for this and strove to ensure the form of our structure took this shape. I collaborated with Janay Griego on this with Professor Justin Bellucci as our advisor.
