A map showing the project’s location in the heart of downtown Phoenix, reinforcing ASU’s role as a key anchor in the city’s creative economy and the building as a magnet for revitalizing the city’s cultural district, serving 2,000+ students and professionals daily. Image Credit: Studio Ma

Aerial photo of Fusion on First, which is positioned harmoniously within the existing urban fabric and includes a pocket park, or paseo, which will be preserved when the planned second phase is constructed. Image Credit: Capstone Development Partners

Site plan of the Herberger Institute, relocated downtown to expand the academic depth of ASU’s Phoenix campus, serving as a new magnet for revitalizing the city’s cultural district. Image Credit: Studio Ma

Located in the heart of Phoenix, the prominent residential college, arts incubator and creative hub fosters career success while booting the city’s cultural district’s revitalization. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

At street level, the building reactivates downtown with a vibrant educational and professional streetscape and interior, helping to ensure Phoenix’s ongoing future is sustainable as a workable, livable city. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

The urban landscape is maximized by planters along First Avenue, breaking up the urban heat island effect with trees and xeriscape plantings. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

Storefront displays along the street exhibit studio work, engaging the city at the sidewalk. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

Exhibition and performance spaces in a low-rise wing connected to the public paseo, an interface between emerging entrepreneurs and the public realm. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

Fashion students benefit from spacious areas for fashion shows and storefront displays, engaging the public with their work. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

The project’s open, collaborative design encourages interdisciplinary connections between students, faculty, and local creative professionals. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

An open central stair court forms the center of the innovation hub, while students live in the adjoining high-rise tower. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

Program is organized around a vertical, daylit circulation space and an open plan with a series of collaboration “pods” to optimize natural daylight and enhances functionality. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

Flexible, movable furniture is set up around the central atrium for collaborating, studying, and socializing. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

The academic and studio areas, which see constant use by ASU’s programs throughout the academic year, were designed to maximize versatility. Adaptable workspaces, recording studios, fashion studios, and performance areas provide students with hands-on experience in their fields. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

Transferring ASU’s growing fashion program and new popular music program downtown enables students to engage directly with the city’s creative industry networks and gain early exposure to professional career pathways. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

The Popular Music program offers studios, rehearsal and production spaces plus live event production and support from the building. Two recording studios with state-of-the-art and purpose built recording spaces support the program. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

Accessed from a separate lobby, the 207,000sf residential program consists of thirteen floors and houses 530 undergraduate students in a mix of studio, two, and four bedroom apartment style units. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

The fully-furnished, apartment style units feature a light-filled common area and full kitchen for socializing with roommates and guests. Image Credit: Capstone Development Partners

Each student has an individual bedroom within the unit, with floor to ceiling glass windows with views out to the city. The windows have a custom frit pattern to reduce glare inside, while maintaining visibility. Image Credit: Capstone Development Partners

The structure is wrapped in a bioclimatic façade designed to minimize heat gain and reduce glare from the desert environment. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

The façade design reduces heat gain by 17%, and the building is expected to operate with a 50% reduction of energy use from its benchmarks. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

The team employed measures that promote biodiversity (despite an urban site) by using native and desert-adapted planting, site lighting that gives off minimal light pollution, and birdsafe glazing. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc

Caption: The building has exhibition and performance spaces in a 3-story low rise building connected to a public paseo while housing and studio spaces are concentrated in the 16-story high rise tower. Image Credit: Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc