Petal: Beauty
Imperative 20: Inspiration + Education

A Flexible Auditorium

The Kendeda Building is a multidisciplinary, non-departmental academic space. Rather than serving a single subject like architecture or civil engineering, it was intentionally designed to welcome a broad range of students and introduce them, through the built environment, to regenerative design in action.

At the core of the building is a flexible auditorium that seats 176 in a classroom layout. Large enough to host high-enrollment courses across disciplines, it also supports lectures, symposia, workshops, and major public events, for example an Atlanta mayoral debate, a town hall with the U.S. Secretary of Energy, and a tri-state governors' summit featuring Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia.

A large “garage door” at the auditorium’s entrance opens into the atrium, allowing events to spill into the shared space. While many gatherings center on sustainability, others embody the Equity Petal’s ethos by welcoming a diversity of perspectives and purposes.