UTK CoAD Partnership The Nashville Civic Design Center maintains a strong partnership with the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Architecture + Design (UTK CoAD).Through this partnership, NCDC conducts various studies throughout the year that allow UT architecture students to study potential “real world� projects in Nashville. As a part of this collaborative effort, NCDC partnered with UTK CoAD, students were asked to analyze a potential site for new downtown elementary school.
Student Vision of Sobro Elementary School Christina Clouthier The existing structures became repurposed into a complex of community buildings that interacted with the new school on several levels. The buildings shared by the school and the community, like the public library or the gym, blended the languages of the old and new accentuated by material and structure. It is important that the two systems met and integrated inspecific places in order to maximize or minimize interaction and observation. The design decisions were centered on creating a space that made tangible relationships between old+new, urban+residential, and community+school. Such an awareness is extremely important to the creation of an identity whether personal or cultural. Sobro Elementary Plan
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