Through extensively exploring site opportunities and the relationship between landscape and architectural tectonics the studio arts building is a study of the inter-relationship between building-form and land-form.

Between the earthen upheavals that create a pleated horizontal landscape and the vertical continuation of folded metal forms lies the fissure. These cracks, opened though an internal process between the architectural forms, landscape elements and the artist reveals dynamic relationships in which flows the creative soul of the entire environment.