architecture + design

ROOFSCAPE

Typology: Campus Planning, Mixed Use; Multi-Family Housing, Institutional
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Course: ARCH 471 - Integrations Studio
Instructor: Hansjörg Göritz
Semester: Fall 2025

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Roofscape is a renovation and expansion proposal for the Art and Architecture Building ['A+A'] at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The project reclaims underutilized spaces within the Art and Architecture Building to better support its current and future academic community. The design responds to the needs of growing student and faculty populations by introducing additional faculty offices, exhibition spaces, visiting scholar residences, meeting rooms, garden rooms, and expanded parking facilities. Beyond accommodating programmatic growth, the proposal prioritizes a climate-responsive agenda towards updating and adding to the existing building.

At the campus scale, the project introduces a speculative volume east of the A+A for a future school of Art containing classrooms, exhibition spaces, dining facilities, and a daycare to support visiting scholars and faculty. This structure, in combination with the existing A+A, unify a new, consolidated parking system, and support the roofscape expansion above. The new parking structure connects to the existing McClung Plaza Garage (G1/G2) to form a unified parking system with access to ventilation, natural light, and greenspace.

On the roof, a series of lightweight glass pavilions sit beneath a filigree metal canopy. The lightweight additions minimize added structural load and activate the building's responsiveness to natural daylighting, ventilation, and stormwater management. The new A+A Hall could be concieved as an open, flexible system capable of responding to East Tennessee’s variable climate and ongoing campus growth.






Collaborators: Ofmia Gobran, Grant Petschauer