The School of Visuals Arts engaged Spacesmith to renovate their popular MFA Photography program which occupies the 6,000 sf ground floor of a former warehouse building. The project was divided into two phases: the first addressing all classroom, studio, faculty, and common spaces; the second a new multi-purpose area connecting the façade to the interior.
Our challenge was to marry high traffic student areas with accessible, yet private faculty offices, focusing on air, light, and sound control. Our team reorganized the program by creating a circulation path that intuitively flows in and out of student hubs and faculty spaces.