Project Name: Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Year: Fall 2018

Professor: Joris Komen


Arcus Center

A summer long software focused project based on the modeling of a precedent project using Revit.

Location: Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Date of Construction: 2014

Size: 10,000 sqft, one-story

Type: Cultural, Educational, Office

Architect: Studio Gang Architects, founded by Jeanne Gang


Mission: “To develop and sustain leaders in human rights and social justice through education and capacity-building.”

Design Concepts:

- Visually open and activated by daylight

- Frequent informal meetings and casual, chance encounters

- High-performance facade

- Dynamic form: three low arcing walls, three large rectangular windows

- Echo the residential scale of the area

- Expansive ceilings (as high as 18ft) with a domestic feel