Concealment

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Project type: Multi-purpose

Nominated: 2025 Design Excellence Award

Date: Fall 2025

Area: 8,000 sq ft / Location: South side of Bauer Wurster Hall

Course: ARCH 100A / Studio: Adam Miller

Concealment is an 8000 square foot detached addition to Bauer Wurster Hall on the south side. Programmatically, this project features a four-story structure containing enfilades of a public lobby, auditorium, office core, and pin-up space. The central design concept explores how a simple rectangular envelope conceals a complex interior through multi-heighted spaces and arcs.

Concealment's plans are an evolution of the first floor plan. The first floor plan is an abstract representation of the surrounding site structures. This is visible through the vertical bar on the left, connected to the horizontal bar at the top, and the rectangular volume at the bottom right with a curve (this curve demonstrates the Law building's curved patio).

On each subsequent floor, one of these three aspects are exemplified to take over the entire floor. This is seen on the second floor emphasizing the curve into a full semi-circle for the auditorium. The third floor replicates the horizontal bar to form office spaces. Finally, the fourth floor uses the vertical bar to create the pin-up zones.

To interconnect the varying floors, Concealment uses volumetric curves in plan and section as demonstrated by the curved public stairway that wraps around the first to third floors, curved ceilings, and curved mezzanines.