This is a comprehensive design proposal for a new Material Library at the University of Cincinnati's college of Design Art Architecture and Planning. This design was carried out professionally with the intention of revamping an unused space to offer students a rich material based education.
Material parameters are where design opportunity exists. A material’s inherent qualities should not be seen as limitations but as design parameters. The known properties of materials offer endless design opportunity and we have only begun to unlock the numerous latent properties stored within the matter around us. This Material Library was intended to exhibit samples, sculpt the space and, above all, express the unending potential of simple materials to perplex and amaze.
