CONTEXT

The New School Student Center forms the center of the 13th street campus. To collect
the student body around one place, its intrinsic function are the individual workspaces for
the students and a subsidiary function as a black box containing library, cafeteria, student
art shop and exhibition space.

A membrane facade, representing the common image of the New School, is primilary
directed to the plaza at 5th Avenue and 13th Street but has also elements for the long
distance perception from Union Square and 14th Street.