Responding to the College?s focus on the designer as an instrument for positive change in the world, the building design creates a sense of place for APDesign and supports a new curriculum that trains future leaders to reconnect the act of design to making through inter-disciplinary collaboration and a focus on direct fabrication.

The design maximizes opportunities for communication and cross-fertilization of ideas between APDesign Departments ? Architecture, Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning, Interior Architecture and Product Design ? and related disciplines.
Photography: Timothy Hursley
The building is a didactic tool to showcase the fabrication-based research of the school?s design community. Studios, crit spaces, exhibition areas, collaboration pods, and faculty offices are arranged around an axial three-story atrium, the ?collaboration corridor,? to foster rapid exchange of intellectual and technical knowledge.
The project also introduces new research laboratories and vertically-integrated studios that comprise a 24-hour ?Design Information Commons,? a new feature to a reconfigured Weigel Library.
Photography: Timothy Hursley
Project Info:

Architects: BNIM, Ennead Architects

Location: Manhattan, KS, United States

Area: 186111.0 ft2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Timothy Hursley

Project Name: Kansas State University – College of Architecture, Planning, and Design
Photography: Timothy Hursley
Photography: Timothy Hursley
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