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Johnson County Community College

Fine Arts + Design Studios

A studio creating new synergies across disciplines that were previously dispersed across campus

Fine Arts + Design Studios

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The Fine Arts + Design Studios (FADS) building brings together the disciplines of graphic design, sculpture, ceramics, metals, painting, drawing, photography, and filmmaking into a single, carefully crafted facility. The building includes classrooms and studio space, material storage, multi-use common spaces, as well as display and collaboration spaces throughout building corridors. The building provides flexible and vibrant maker spaces and supports various scales of work in light-filled teaching and learning environments. The design leverages every inch of the building for display and critique. In addition to providing flexible and vibrant interior studios, the building is thoughtfully sited to provide intimately scaled exterior spaces for the creation and display of art.

Impact + Innovation

The Fine Arts + Design Studios and its spaces exemplify the notion of learning by doing, providing a framework for new synergies and enhanced collaboration across artistic disciplines that were previously dispersed across campus. This design integrates and strengthens student connections while anchoring a new arts neighborhood on Johnson County Community College campus, adjacent to the successful Wylie Hospitality and Culinary Academy Building, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Designed with flexibility in mind, FADS enables interdisciplinary learning, encourages artistic expression, and provides a “complementary contrast” with existing buildings, respecting the past while pivoting to the future and positioning JCCC for the 21st century and beyond.

Fine Arts + Design Studios

People

Team

Client

Johnson County Community College

Collaborators

The Clark Enersen Partners Inc.
JE Dunn Construction
SK Design

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Fine Arts + Design Studios

Awards

LEED
Silver Certification
2021

AIA Kansas City
Merit Award
2019

AIA Kansas
Merit Award, Architecture
2019

AIA Central States Region
Honor Award, Architecture
2019

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