The revitalization of Downtown Sudbury can be assisted by the introduction of an architecture school that facilitates a wide range of urban techniques. Parks are placed along residential districts that border downtown to facilitate ease of entry and create a sense of place when arriving in the district. Nodes such as City Hall, Sudbury Arena and post secondary education centers are recognized in order facilitate proper tactics of connection. Evenly spaced folly conditions are artificially excavated around downtown relative to the historic settlement patterns of the city, which leads to greater depth in the planning and future development. The school strengthens the notion of a University Park located on the North Side of downtown, where the Secondary School, Marymount University and NOSOA are ail located. The district is realized through a series of thresholds and a vast path system that creates continuity between the schools, as well as secondary connections back into the heart of the city. The school is treated as a threshold along a major pathway which filters into a large urban room, flanked by retail space utilized by University and independent tenants. The campus consists of several buildings that are connected by highly articulated circulation systems. The main hall is composed a long wall building consisting of several armatures containing individual programmatic elements. Upon the approach of the wall building, the façade utilizes lightweight steel and glass construction, as well as a section projection of the studio space located within where the hierarchy of the studios can be read from the exterior. The ground floor consists of the library, graduate studio and graduate offices, creating a charged environment between the zones. The theatre is suspended at the terminus of the second floor, free of inhabitable space above and below. Studios are stacked from the second floor to the fourth floor facing the west façade in order to receive the maximum amount of nature light during studio sessions. Professors' offices are cantilevered on the east façade, which is prone to receiving the greatest amount of cold air, thus the placement is rationalized in order for professors to be able to be in the studios during the coldest and darkest parts of the day. Construction space and material labs are located in the annex building in low relief of the wall building in order to preserve a quiet and serene work space. NOSOA has the potential if properly planned to be considered a vibrant node and destination point, and The School of Architecture is an integral part in the renaissance of Downtown Sudbury, due to the potential influx of creative individuals into the downtown district.
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