The critique room is located on the fourth floor of the Gatewood Studio Arts Building and is primarily used as a public, multi-use space for Interior Architecture classes, meetings, presentations, critique evaluations, etc. The room is adorned with white tack-board walls, track lighting that is situated along the perimeter of the room, and window slits that appear behind columns in the four corners of the room, allowing you to view the fourth year’s space surrounding the critique room. An open ceiling plane gives the critic room its distinctive and serene quality. Natural light floods the space through translucent windows on the roof allowing for general lighting during the day. However, the lack of consistent daylight throughout each day sometimes poses an issue, especially when using the space for drawing classes. The dark polished concrete floors of the room help to contain the light and prevent glaring in the space. The layout of the critique room is flexible considering it is an open space with easily rearranged chairs to face any direction. The only stationary aspect of the space is the chalkboard, which is seldom used. The critique room is large enough to comfortably contain each year of the IARC students (first year, second year, third year, or fourth year) at a time, and the size of the space is rarely brought up as an area of concern. An overall impression of the critique room is that it is an open, airy, important, and inviting space due to the simplistic features, location, and natural lighting.
