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New College Try: Fresh Design from Students
March 19, 2015
Model-making is all well and good, but there's no substitute for hands-on experience. These five architecture programs empowered students to design and build functional structures in their communities. What they came up with bodes well for the next generation of architecture.
A group of Parsons students gave an aging WPA-era recreation center in Manhattan a modern overhaul over the course of four years. The facility now features a wooden pavilion, expanded lobby, and upgraded lighting and HVAC systems.
Originally appeared in Parsons Students Transform an Aging Rec Center
Virginia Tech students designed and assembled this prefab fieldhouse in under a year. The architecture professors involved with the program feel "the most important thing is that a single group of students sees a project from beginning to fruition.”
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Jeff Goldberg
Originally appeared in Sharon Fieldhouse
On a budget of $112 per square foot, architecture students at Auckland's Unitec Institute of Technology helped design a compact prefab for a couple who thought they'd never be able to afford a home at their favorite vacation spot.
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Originally appeared in Students Pass Their Class by Building a House in New Zealand
For the 2014 Solar Decathlon Europe, students from Appalachian State University teamed up with peers from the Université d’Angers in France to design an ultra-green, market-ready prototype made of prefabricated modules. The model's heavily insulated frame and energy-efficient systems won the students the Electrical Energy Balance award.
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Jason Flakes
Originally appeared in Students Dream Up Off-the-Grid Prefab Housing
Upon learning there were as many as five parking spaces for every registered car in the United States, students at the Savannah College of Art and Design set out to design shelters to fill those spots. The experimental SCADpad is a micro-dwelling where hypothetical residents can use a 3-D printer to produce custom accessories for their home.
Originally appeared in The Parking Garage: The Next Frontier in Adaptive Reuse?
A group of Parsons students gave an aging WPA-era recreation center in Manhattan a modern overhaul over the course of four years. The facility now features a wooden pavilion, expanded lobby, and upgraded lighting and HVAC systems.
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