UIUC Siebel Center for Design

This campus hub for design-based learning features classrooms, design studios, collaboration spaces, and fabrication facilities. Other interior spaces include a gallery, a café, and an amphitheater. A central atrium and a sloping universally-accessible walkway facilitate circulation.

The building’s structural system is designed to complement its pavilion-like vision. Engineers used long structural spans and exposed structural steel framing throughout to create an open and flexible academic environment. Deep roof overhangs, including twin 30-foot cantilevered steel canopies that highlight the main entrances, suffuse the interior with natural light while mitigating solar heat gain.

Project Highlights: 

• The 60,000-square-foot Siebel Center is LEED Gold certified.

• The glass facade and open structure create a highly visible building that draws people in from across campus to this cross-disciplinary resource.

Image credit: Sam Fentress