Connecting ASU to Downtown Phx

Create a more transparent, dynamic connection between education and commerce.

Program: By using ASU’s mission in creating the new standard for tomorrow’s New American University, this student project re-defined a highly visible portion of it’s downtown Campus as a Skins related exercise. The premise for this project was to better understand the architect’s role in developing facades meant to function as a means of conveying a building’s purpose and enhance its function through façade design.

Solution: The surface of this student center running along Central Avenue was designed to become more transparent. By doing so it could illustrate the vibrant activity of it’s student population inside as well as around it. The new space plan inside also provided a correlating experience with its façade. For the students inside, they could now visually connect with the urban activity that surrounds this campus.