The new Secchia Piazza at Grand Rapids Community College transforms an existing outdoor roof terrace into an enclosed, multi-use event space. The new room is part of the Secchia Culinary Institute and an extension of its teaching restaurant, whose renovation was also part of the project. The Piazza’s name honors the donor’s Italian heritage and indicates the room as a place for students and the community to gather in celebration—accompanied by views of the city and the kaleidoscopic patterns of light cast by the project’s principal feature, a conical, colored glass skylight.