FACILITIES

LABS+CENTERS

Center for Integrated Design: Housed in The Bullitt Center, the greenest commercial building in the world, the Center works to advance knowledge and policies that support healthy, high performing buildings and cities. Fabrication Lab: Provides students with the space and equipment needed to design and build models, furniture, and small-scale building components.

Carbon Leadership Forum: Acts as an industryacademic collaborative working to close the gap between Life Cycle Assessment based Carbon Accounting and industry best practices.

Material & Daylighting Lab: The Materials Library houses samples to allow students in our department to design with an intimate understanding of physical materials and their properties. The Daylighting Lab provides access to a heliodon for examining daylight design, an Overcast Sky Simulator, and a Mock-up Room for testing electrical lighting ideas. Both are staffed by students in our department.

UW Rome Center: The UWRC hosts a diversity of faculty-led study abroad programs in a wide range of disciplines. A short walk from the Vatican the center houses a beautiful studio for an immersive architecture experience.

Resources

BE Library: The University of Washington libraries comprise one of the largest research library systems in North America. The Built Environments Library in Gould Hall holds the primary collection of materials on the subjects of architecture, construction management, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning. It includes more than forty thousand books and bound periodicals, over three hundred currently received serial titles and almost eight thousand items in microform and other formats.