DAS REQUIRES A SHIFT. A shift in pedagogy, a shift in community and student engagement, and a shift in its appearance, gesturing the campus and greater community. It shifts its narrative to more open architecture, through a gradation of public to private spaces, allowing the community and students to engage. By DAS isolating itself from the urban campus and urban city, students are not able to unleash their full potential. The shift will enable architecture to adapt and evolve, positioning the studios prominently to highlight their central role as the heart of both the building and the program. It becomes part of a piazza, blurring external and internal spaces allowing for flexibility. Allowing the steel columns to penetrate through the existing concrete building allows for the shift to be as evident as the exterior, differentiating itself by the contrast of colour and material capturing the new and old in a captivating way. The external mesh that wraps the building, drapes and pinches towards the entrances, creating an elegant veil that Softens the overhung edges, and brings people into the entrance.