A stepped facade and a level almost completely wrapped in glass feature in the design of an arts and technology centre in New Mexico by architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
The Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology (CCAT) at the University of New Mexico will contain performance halls, labs, gallery space and classrooms.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has designed an arts centre in New Mexico
Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) designed a long building to be clad in a plaster-like material with three rectilinear volumes set on top of a glass band that in turn rests on a plinth.
The three boxy masses that make up the most visible part of the structure will have edges that curve into tapered slopes, forming courtyards among the volumes.
It will have a monumental volume suspended above a glass level set on a plinth Monumental in proportion, DS+R said that the boxy forms in the design were informed by the local landscape.
"Rather than alluding to any specific style, the design of CCAT was more directly shaped by the surrounding geology," DS+R partner-in-charge Ben Gilmartin told Dezeen.
"We wanted the building to call out to the Sandia mountain range, with the formal erosion of the building mass sculpting outdoor terraces."
The glass level will form a "super lobby" according to the studio
The plinth will have a similar material to the top-most volumes ? its tapered slope will function as a staircase for the structure ? and is separated from th...