This new addition to NCSU College of Design was to house studio and exhibition spaces and a new design library. The program is divided in two masses.

A monolithic cube holding up the street face contains studio spaces and gives a nod to the modernist origins of the school. The cube is clad in precast concrete panels that are formed through different groupings of smaller repetitive cassettes, creating the illusion of a continuous surface.

The cube opens up on the southern and western faces and connects to the library mass that unravels behind it in the form of a folded plane. The folded roof of the library is designed in reversed gable precast panels that vary in width by inserting movable dams in the molds.

An exterior deck ties back the volume of the cube to the existing college buildings and a monumental ramp connects the upper level of the old courtyard to the lower extension courtyard where an outdoor exhibition space, walkways and a reflecting pool are incorporated.