The design provides flexible and varied types of student areas for study and connection, from small personal nooks to large group meeting rooms. Exterior renovations will connect passersby with the dynamic interior spaces by transforming the opaque, stoic facade of the Link. Underutilized stack space will be repurposed into varied formal and informal collaborative learning spaces, classrooms, and specialty departments. Open light shafts bring in much-needed natural light, and way-finding visually connects the first and second floors in order to improve user experience and ease building navigation.