Also, faculty from such areas as geography, engineering, public affairs, business, transportation, environmental studies, and fine arts collaborate with the faculty and graduate students of the college. Expanded facilities include the library, the shop, studios, faculty and administrative offices, and research facilities. Research and special project rooms include a high-bay research laboratory, a lighting laboratory, community outreach and design excellence studios, a materials resource center, as well as a solar instrumentation laboratory and a rooftop outdoor solar and daylighting testing area. The college is especially proud of its computer facilities and the faculty-graduate student computer research laboratory. The university also maintains a computer site in the building and there is a local area network that ties together faculty, studio, and library resources.
Emphasis is on mini- and microcomputer modeling, simulation, and design applications.
Teaching and research activities are also supported by a media center with photography and video services and a slide and media library. Individual studio workspace is available to graduate students and the expansion features extensive jury, review, and display space. As a branch of the university library, the college library is located in the expansion and provides easy access to books, periodicals, and reference materials for students and faculty. The collection includes approximately 35,000 volumes. Special research collections on the work of Paolo Soleri and Frank Lloyd Wright are located in an archival quality special collections suite.