Integration should occur among students, faculty, communities, and k12. Participation actively with all communities. This building will provide a vehicle, which will show this. It will change the culture of the design process, in that education will occur in groups or as a college as whole not only a professor and two grads. These new spaces will change the behavior of research and provide a gateway to campus for us to show it off.
University is excited as a whole.
Remember campus values and architectural cohesiveness. This is a challenging and exciting project. Engineering education involves integration. Design of integration is constantly changing and therefore difficult to define. Labs may be vertically linked so that visually they are connected.