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Designed in the modern style, the 4-story, 63,000 square foot reinforced concrete building is cut into the top of a hill along the northwest edge of campus. The symmetric omni facial facade works with cantilevered two-way open-floor slabs on a 32-foot bay column grid. Six foot wide precast wall panel and bronze aluminum window wall mullion spacing is a departure from the traditional campus architecture as is the moveable modular interior wall system. The first floor houses student shop and studio spaces surrounding vertical circulation and plumbing/mechanical cores. The second floor connects to a campus plaza by a bridge, which serves as the entrance to the lobby, administration offices, and college library overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. The top floors contain open studio and office space. The building employs a dual duct, high velocity mechanical system.