Completed in 2018, the new wing of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning is a 3-story, 36,000-square-foot addition that includes studios, faculty offices and collaborative learning space. The interior space of the addition is organized by a series of spiral-like stairs and ramps that help create connections and encounters between faculty and students. Each of these areas is interconnected by pathways that needed a way to be separated to create a clear, functional egress path without taking away from the striking design or the open-learning environment. By using a four-sided Smoke Guard M4000 perimeter curtain around the staircase, designers were able to surround the top of the convenience stairs and connect two floors of the area.
