| Sarah Lawrence College By the mid-1980s, the College's visual arts program had outgrown the building in which it had historically been housed and was dispersed throughout the campus in makeshift spaces. The design for the Heimbold Visual Arts Center unifies the visual arts department under one roof, accommodating its various space needs while meeting safety and environmental standards that make the new Visual Arts Center LEED compliant. The new Center has six studio spaces to be used interchangeably for sculpture, painting and visual fundamentals. Other program elements include faculty offices, general teaching classrooms, soundstage, darkroom, printmaking facilities, visual resources library, and a 200-seat auditorium. The building is integrated into the landscape and the surrounding campus through a design that is sensitive to the undulating topography of the campus and the scale of surrounding structures. Entrances and exits to the Center are designed to encourage students and faculty to use the building as a passageway through the campus so that the visual arts can be integrated with daily academic and student life. The use of skylights and open spaces between levels reinforces a sense of transparency, allows sunlight to permeate throughout the building and provides a view of artists at work. Awards |
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