Inhabiting the Grid: MCAD in the Digital Age

The program of an art school carries an inherent tension: it must provide both a safe and ordered place to support its students, but it must also expose them to varied environments and push them out of their comfort zones to catalyze creativity.

This proposal for the expansion of MCAD combines the diverse physical order created by the repetition of "L" shaped buildings with a new way of using architecture through existing social media and apps that interface with a flow of building occupancy information.