The Heimhold Visual Arts Center establishes a dynamic interdisciplinary environment for the visual arts - a truly unified environment that inspires creativity, fosters an intensive dialogue between students and faculty, and breaks down barriers between arts disciplines. The structure provides a flexible framework for an intensive and creative world, one that can transform to provide for a wide variety of approaches, personalities and teaching methodologies over time. The building is integrated into the topography of its hilltop site adjacent the two-story, fieldstone President's house: on the south a stepped grass-covered rooftop reduces the overall impact of the building on the natural environment and creates a new outdoor public focal point for the campus.