DESIGN STUDIO REVIEW SCHEDULE AND OVERVIEW OF STUDIOS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Fluid
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24
3530
MONDAY, APRIL 29
World Design Studio 9:00 a.m. -
REVIEW SCHEDULE
APRIL 30
3520
8520
LARC 4540 LARC 8520
8960 Studio U: Clogston
Studio U: Watson 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Studio V: Pastre
Studio U: Jennings 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1
ARCH 3520 ARCH 8520
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4
Design Studio II
All Day
Architecture + Health Studio 1:00 p.m. -
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FRIDAY, MAY 3
ARCH 3520 ARCH 8520
ARCH
LARC 1510
CLEAN UP
All day
ARCH 8920
ARCH 2510
S tudio Description: The Spring 2024 Barcelona Design Studio project proposes the students to work on the reactivation of the Barcelona Waterfront areas of the Port to design the new central Base and viewpoint for the America’s Cup International Sailing Competition that will be held in Barcelona in 2024. A site in between the urban component of the City and the geographical condition of the Sea, that should be transformed from its infrastructural use into a public space. A Urban Design to make possible that the culture of the Mediterranean public space, the most valuable condition of our Mediterranean identity, could be preserved and reviewed. A challenge extendible to all over the world, with other cities including the transformation of the waterfront on their agendas.
The Barcelona Design Studio is an opportunity to work on a real site proposal that demands an understanding of the design as a process of place-making. This procedure implies a comprehension of the geographic conditions, including orientation and views, but also an understanding of the cultural context, with the pre-existences and past layers. The design will therefore have a multiscale sense, from the level of the city, with its urban and landscape conditions, to the level of the building. The process is understood and developed as a comprehensive studio, where multiple complexities intervene, including an intuitive notion of materiality, structure and construction. Developing the design work from a conceptual point of view, but always with the complexity that demands a multiple-layer reading.
The program, within a simulation of a competition, is a chance to test the role of the professional practice with compact and brief documentation. Students develop the ability to understand and interpret the complexities as part of the design studio work, giving a response from the urban landscape condition of the city to the building scale level. Throughout the design process, students interact with a complex urban reality and a cultural context different from their own. A travel to get something but to come back to their place and to see the common things from another perspective. And from this perspective understanding where they are. With this process, students feel they are architects and landscape architects from the first day, building their own voice, not becoming Barcelonan but at least imagining that they belong to the site.
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ARCH 3530/8520 | LARC 3550 | FLUID STUDIO: GENOA
S tudio Description: ‘Genoa Collections’ looks to explore cultural significance through the analysis of a narrowly focused set of items to find subtle differences, deeper meaning, or characteristics that may provide important tangential links. It is about looking deeper. Not about finding a single thing to glorify, but about comparisons and discoveries; a starting point for critical inquiry.
As a part of their Field Studies seminar, students were asked to identify and collect many instances of an item of interest - simply something that caught their attention during their time exploring Genoa. The item should begin as an ordinary or perhaps mundane object, one that would typically be overlooked yet have the potential to reveal stories of the culture they have immersed themselves in.
Museums are collections of things, typically highly specialized in scope and carefully curated to present a clear account of their focus area. In their studio design project students’ collections are used to form a temporary exhibit within a Museum of the Image of Genoa which they have designed to also hold a permanent collection of important historical paintings and drawings of Genoa. Genoa’s rich history is told through stories found in these important works of art which present an ‘image’ of the heritage of the city.
Students worked in teams to design this museum on a complex site within the historical center of the city, to detail its assembly, and to design the exhibition of every artwork within the museum.
LARC 1520 | BASIC DESIGN II
Studio Description: In LARC 1520, Spring 2024 final project, students are challenged by the design of an amenity garden situated within Clemson Downs, SC. Serving as Clemson's exclusive privately owned continuing care retirement community, Clemson Downs provides a range of care options from Independent Living apartments to Skilled Health Care. The chosen site is nestled alongside the Independent Living apartments, bordered by two roads, Downs Blvd and Downs Loop, as well as the staff parking lot. The site features a moderate slope from north to south, adding an additional dimension to the design considerations. A butterfly garden is a key feature of the site, which the community expressed a strong intention to keep. The goal is to explore inventive design solutions that cater to the community's needs and preferences.
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ARCH 2520 | SYNTHESIS STUDIO
Cayce Arts Center
S tudio Description: The ARCH 2520 studio aims to teach the fundamentals of building design by integrating precedent analysis with local site dynamics.
The studio collaborates with the city of Cayce, SC, a post-industrial suburban town currently undergoing revitalization through art. Historically, the city was near brick industries, with several still-active kilns nearby. Today, the city’s main industry collaborator is the Martin Marietta quarry, operating with quarry pits on both sides of the Congaree River (Cayce and Columbia). Given this context, brick, stone, and concrete constitute the local resources that students consider in their building design.
The project brief is to design the “Cayce Arts Center,” a 35,000 sqft. public building encompassing exhibition spaces, classrooms, art studios, and a multi-purpose hall with outdoor spaces serving the community's needs and attracting tourists during art festivals and other events. The project site is adjacent to the quarry, where students briefly address the current or future conditions of the quarry in their design proposals.
Students develop their conceptual designs through a series of precedent analyses. They are introduced to a diverse list of cultural center projects similar in scale and program, along with museum buildings visited during their field trip to Washington, DC, and spatially significant buildings from the Clemson campus. Students combine phenomenological and formal analyses of these buildings, resulting in diagram models that they adapt to the site conditions for the “Cayce Arts Center.”
LARC 8020 | ORIENTATION II Clemson Downs Green Space
S tudio Description: The Clemson Downs Green Space project designs a future amenity for the retirement community.
‘Located in the magnificent Upcountry of South Carolina, Clemson Downs is Clemson’s only privately owned continuing care retirement community. We offer multiple care options from Independent Living apartments to Skilled Health Care to enrich your unique experience so you can delight in life’s journey without having to leave our pastoral campus for additional care.’ Adapted from Clemson Downs | Retire Well
For this project students will establish a project concept, site opportunities, site constraints, and measurable project goals. Using an engagement workshop, site inventory, research, analysis, and activities research, and in-class readings, students will develop defensible designs with concept compatible programs. The design should provide a well-defined and functional entry sequence, accessible and intuitive circulation, purposefully located comfort amenities, and concept compatible programs. The design should create programs that are appropriately dimensioned to accommodate the desired activity and create a comfortable, functional, and memorable experience for the Clemson Downs Community.
Faculty:
Faculty:
Clarissa Mendez Senior Lecturer
LARC 2550 | COMMUNITY DESIGN STUDIO
Baruch Institute Student Community
Guest Critics: Amy Scaroni, PhD (BICEFS) | Samuel Downs, Operations Manager (BICEFS)
Studio Description: The Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science (BICEFS)is located in Georgetown, South Carolina on Hobcaw Barony, a 16,000-acre tract of undeveloped land owned by the Belle W. Baruch Foundation, a non-profit organization. The coastal environment of Hobcaw offers a diversity of ecosystems including estuaries, tidal marshes, and freshwater swamps, coastal forests, and streams and rivers. Topics of research at BICEFS address critical environmental issues including climate and land-use change, coastal science, water quality and quantity, biodiversity loss, and forest and watershed ecology and management.
Using the rich ecology of the Institute as inspiration, the studio was tasked with designing an ecologically sensitive campus plan that will guide the Institute in preserving the existing natural communities and facilitate the rich, human community of students and faculty that inhabit the space during research seasons.
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIOS: BROWN + STEVENS + HECKER
Los Angeles Housing Studio: Additive Manufacturing at the Residential Scale
S tudio Description: Additive manufacturing technology is revolutionizing the field of architecture by offering innovative solutions to traditional construction methods. This technology utilizes a variety of 3D printing methods to create entire structures layer by layer, using materials ranging from concrete to recycled plastics.
Through the utilization of digital design software, architects can design a large variety of building forms that are now obtainable due to advancements in 3D concrete printing technology. Additionally, 3D printed housing can significantly reduce construction time and labor costs while minimizing material waste, making it a sustainable and economically viable option for addressing housing shortages worldwide. This growing technology is not only redefining the way we build homes but also challenging conventional notions of architecture and design.
Focused in Los Angeles, California this studio aims to establish a framework for leveraging contemporary additive manufacturing techniques, not only for innovative building methods but also for fostering new ways of living that is shaped by 3D printed residential housing. In this course, students will extensively utilize the 3D printers available in the Digital Design Shop, alongside the clay printing equipment in the Materials Lab, to gain insight into real-world techniques and processes.
Faculty:
Faculty:
Jim Stevens Director of the School of Architecture
Joel Brown Lecturer, Digital Design Shop and Materials Lab Manager
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIOS: DORSEY
"It Takes a Village"
Guest Critics: The Village Group
S tudio Description: Rooted in the belief that collective efforts foster community resilience and growth, this studio is situated on a 10-acre site in the rural landscape of the Plantersville region of Georgetown, South Carolina. The site is placed among the cultural enclave of several Gullah Geechee villages along the Pee Dee River, once the center of “Carolina Gold” rice plantations.
“It Takes a Village” is an immersive architecture studio that delves deep into the ethos of rural community-centric design. Through the phrase “It Takes a Village,” this studio will speculate creative strategies that can underscore the importance of cooperation, shared responsibility, and a sense of interconnectedness supporting rural society. Drawing from this proverb, students will explore how architecture accentuating 3rd space ideology, can strengthen communal ties, support local economies, and provide sustainable solutions to rural disparities such as infrastructure, food, housing, healthcare, and public space. By the end of this studio, students will have gained a profound understanding of community-driven design, rural development challenges, and the transformative potential that design can have on rural communities.
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIO: KLEISS Morphology Research Studio
S tudio Description: The Morphology Research Studio is a research-based design experience that focuses on the generative principles of form and structure and how they have become central to our understanding of the diverse structures we encounter in nature and man-made constructs, both physical and conceptual. This process is enabled by computation, fabrication, construction, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence in generative design. Our studio presents a research-based inquiry into grammars of design with an emphasis on structural form and performance. The studio leverages the long history of formal studies with a focus on exploring the relations between geometry and topology (form and space), morphology and performance, (form and force), dynamic morphology (time-based design), and morphology and kinetics (kinetic systems). The main purpose is to use morphological research to unveil the fundamental rules that govern the design of selected structures and to use this knowledge for the creation of new designs. The studio will present four different projects that students developed in teams in four distinct phases: Research, Discovery, Innovation, and Synthesis. Through each phase students and teams used knowledge and tools to develop a unique design grammar to be applied to a design setting of their choice.
Faculty:
Michael Carlos Kleiss Associate Professor
What is required for us to sustainably inhabit the Peninsula of Charleston?
S tudio Description: The BHT studio will embrace the all-inclusive design of the BHT project on each of its three approved sites (Clemson University, the City of Clemson, and the City of Seneca). It will require students to work individually and collaboratively in a coordinated manner to achieve its goals. The studio's work will be comprehensive in every aspect of design, construction, architecture, landscape architecture, art, planning, community engagement, and project management. The BHT studio will work in concert with all the BHT team members, its associated vendors, consultants, community partners/leaders, and the Community Research + Design Center. The Community Research + Design Center is essential in the project design, construction, and community engagement phases. Notably, the studio will be responsible for producing deliverables in the spectrum, from design graphics (including maps, presentation material, and wayfinding devices) to schematic design, design development, construction documents, and full-scale prototyping of key built attributes associated with each of the three BHT project sites. The studio will focus its design and prototyping activities on Corten steel and concrete. However, other materials will be investigated based on project needs. The studio will embrace the means and methods of digital/advanced fabrication. The breadth of the studio's approach will provide members with an experiential learning experience rich in tectonic, cultural, contextual, and design thinking outcomes. The BHT studio will perform its work in and out of Lee Hall. It will be imperative to work between the various project sites (context and community engagement), Lee Hall (collaborative design thinking and ideation), and the Built Environment Lab (tectonics, craft, and construction logistics). The dynamic nature of this project and its community partners will require the studio and its members to embrace empathy, flexibility, mobility, and, at times, ambiguity. Most importantly, the studio will be a consistent and constant collaborator with all the BHT teams from Clemson University, the City of Clemson, and the City of Seneca. The studio will maintain an open and assessable posture that supports collective excellence and critical design thinking. BHT team members will be frequent visitors and participants in the studio and the design process. The spectrum of activities presented by the project and the necessity to perform them at a high level are imperative to the project's health and the success of the BHT project. This spring is an essential moment in the BHT project timeline, and this studio will play an important role in advocating for the power of design and leveraging its capacity to help form and amplify the voices of many.
Dan Harding Director, Community Research and Design Center (CR+DC) and Professor of Architecture
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIO: NEWMAN + SUTHERLAND
Moon to Mars: MARS2024 eXploration Systems and Habitation (X-Hab)
S tudio Description: The studio focuses on habitat components in relationship to their systematic applications as part of a Martian colony. We emphasize adaptation to extreme environments, biomimetics, and system design. This interdisciplinary studio confronts the interface of humans, the environment, and human-machine hybrid systems. We adapted the NASA eXploration Systems and Habitation (X-Hab) 2019 Academic Innovation Challenge to help bridge strategic knowledge gaps and increase knowledge in capabilities and technology risk reduction related to NASA’s vision and missions. In 2016, the X-Hab Challenge scope was formally extended to include other areas of Exploration Systems and habitation topics. This project links senior- and graduate-level design curricula emphasizing hands-on design, research, development, and manufacturing of functional prototypical subsystems that enable functionality for space habitats and deep-space exploration missions. NASA benefits from these challenges by sponsoring the development of innovative concepts and technologies from universities, resulting in novel ideas and solutions that could be applied to exploration.
ARCH 3510/8520 | FLUID STUDIOS: WERSINGER
Big Box Transformation
S tudio Description:
A current trend around the country, many big-box stores are closing their doors. This has an impact not only on the consumer but is causing economic blight with the closure of the smaller stores that depend on the traffic generated from the anchor tenant. These abandoned boxes provide an unprecedented opportunity for retrofitting architecture and re-imagining the commercial strip and the suburban landscape of the United States.
This project focused on studying opportunities for placemaking and community building, utilizing an underused commercial site located in Easley, SC along the 123 corridor. Students were tasked with analysing issues surrounding big box development, such as effects on the environment, and developing strategies to respond to these problems. The city of Easley was engaged during the design process and Easley's city planner attended one of the interim reviews where students were able to receive direct feedback on how well their proposals fit within the context of Easley and the city's vision outlined in their comprehensive plan. During the first part of the semester and before engaging in this project, students developed two smaller projects that re-imagined an adjacent suburban tract neighborhood. Students further developed the themes and ideas that emerged during those smaller scale projects and applied them to this commercial site. Students have re-imagined the commercial single-use development into mixuse development, including various programs such as housing, retail, and businesses. Many of the projects recycled the existing structures, taking an adaptive re-use approach instead of simply demolishing the structures.
Faculty:
Winifred E Newman
Mickel Professor of Architecture, Assoc. Dean of Research and Faculty Affairs | CAAC, Director, Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments (CU-iMSE) Shan Sutherland Lecturer
Faculty:
JP Wersinger Lecturer
ARCH 4520 | SYNTHESIS STUDIO
Living and Learning: Investigations in Public Education
Guest Critics: Kevin Rice, AIA, Principal, Diller Scofidio + Renfro | Inés Martín-Robles, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Architecture UVA, Co-director UVA Spain J-Term Program, Co-director UVA Vicenza Summer Program | Hans E. Butzer Architect, FAIA, LEED AP, Dean and A. Blaine Imel, Jr. Professor, Mabrey Presidential Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Recipient of the American Institute of Architects Award for Public Architecture
S tudio Description: Public education is and has been facing a crisis in the United States. The National Center for Education Statistics School Pulse Panel report from February 2023 shows that 49% of students are performing below grade level in at least one academic subject, which is up from the 36% average prior to the pandemic. Low funding per student capita across many states correlates strongly to low student performance. Some critics suggest that these issues are compounded by outdated educational models and teaching methods, as well as the national teacher shortage. Though new schools are being designed and constructed throughout the country, few challenge the notion of what a school can do or what it should be. Can architecture and design thinking be utilized to reimagine the potential of public education in urban centers in the United States? What kind of innovative proposals related to public education can architects imagine beyond typical classroom-based models or architecture solely focused on construction or economic efficiency?
In this year's Synthesis Studio, teams of two students organized across five sections have developed proposals for public boarding high schools in one of four cities across the United States: Las Cruces, New Mexico; Anchorage, Alaska; Jackson, Mississippi; and Charleston, West Virginia. Students used contextual research to develop narratives and decide a specialty focus or field of study for their schools that would benefit students and the surrounding context. After writing the program that would support their speciality focus, students designed live/study boarding high schools for 120-240 traditionally underserved high school age students.
LARC 4550 | EXIT STUDIO: PADUA
Senior Capstone Project
Guest Critics: Eric Bosman, Kimley Horn, Atlanta, GA | David Cosslett, RVi, Asheville, NC | Brad Turcotte, Bolton & Menk, Inc, Greenville, SC | Michael Ethridge, Davis & Floyd, Greenville, SC
S tudio Description: This final semester-long project allows each student to demonstrate they are prepared to enter the professional work force. The learning goal is for students to undergo a rigorous research-based design process while expanding independent interests and talents, refining your decision-making abilities, and sharpening professional skills. This semester-long investigation involves a thorough process of completing a well-rounded, comprehensive individual project. This final studio in the professionally accredited BLA 4 yr. program emphasizes independent learning within the context of a collaborative design studio environment in Lee Hall.
Faculty:
Faculty:
Mary G. Padua, PhD, RLA Professor
TAs: Jiachun Yao Jie Kong
Amy Trick Studio Level Coordinator & Assistant Professor Brandon Pass Lecturer Kendall Roberts Lecturer Julie Wilkerson Senior LecturerLARC 4550 | EXIT STUDIO: RUSSEL
Senior Capstone Project
Guest Critics: Chelsea Preciado, David Pearson
S tudio Description: Students in the 4th year LA Capstone Studio will be presenting individual projects based on various Southeastern Landscape Interventions. This years projects range from brownfield remediation of historic mill sites, to a series or Upstate Projects focusing on our local lake communities.
LARC 8920 | TERMINAL STUDIO
Landscape Architecture Terminal Project
S tudio Description: Graduate students complete a complex and sophisticated independent project in landscape architectural research and/or advanced design.
LARC 4540/8520 | WORLD DESIGN STUDIO
Aswan, Egypt: Resilient Community, Landscape and Development
S tudio Description: This studio will take place in the Arab Republic of Egypt, to lead the charge on an extensive urban development project within the bounds of Aswan, heralding a paradigm shift in the city’s potential. Studio members (teamwork is essential) will work on one macro vision for the Aswan area, then the studio will be divided into sub-groups that works simultaneously on micro visions for different sub zones, in order to fulfil the wider vision.
The primary objective of the studio is to present a comprehensive, flexible, environmentallyconscious, and sustainable vision for the area's development. This vision takes into careful account the prevailing heritage, cultural, and folkloric elements that define the location. Moreover, it aligns seamlessly with the city's overarching aspiration to become the epicenter of African economics and culture.
LARC 2550 | COMMUNITY DESIGN STUDIO
A Park-Like Setting for the Seneca Residential Care Center in Seneca, South Carlina
Guest Critics: Casey Smithling, AIA Case by Case Design | Keegan Bodford, Clemson Campus Arborist | Tamie Sanford, Assistant Administrator Seneca Residential Care Center
Studio Description: As a facet of a Creative Inquiry involving the BLA Community Design Studio, the Clemson Institute for Engaged Aging, the NGO Trees Upstate, and Clemson Forestry this project addresses the benefits of exposure to nature for residents of a Medicaid assisted living facility.
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ARCH 3520/8520 | STUDIO U: CLOGSTON
M.A.R.S.H. PROJECT ECOLOGICAL CORRIDOR: CIVIC BUILDING
Guest Critics: Simons Young | Diego Gonzalez | Tom Wales
S tudio Description: Our studio is a comprehensive exploration of urban and architectural dynamics with a dedicated focus on community and ecology. The intricate interplay between civic architecture and city planning has a pivotal role in sustaining cultural and environmental systems, and will be at the forefront of our discussions. We grapple with the responsibility that architecture bears, whether it involves perpetuating an antiquated status quo or failing to align with the evolving needs and values of communities in terms of infrastructure and visual language. Civic architecture signals the virtues and ethos of a community, we are looking at how can we leverage that to more accurately reflect the community around us, and to steer the ship towards a more sustainable and tolerant future.
ARCH 3520/8520 | STUDIO U: JENNINGS REUSE + INTERVENTION OF A NEW ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEM
Guest Critics: Becky Fenno, Principal, Fenno Architects
S tudio Description: A place contains, but is also defined and differentiated by, its physical, cultural, and evocative context. An intervention to an existing site certainly transforms, re-frames and ultimately re-defines that place. How might we adopt a design strategy that accommodates contemporary culture and equitable use, responds to climate with resilience, yet embodies the unique scale, living patterns, and customs of an historic Charleston neighborhood?
STUDIO IV will focus on an adaptive re-use project in Charleston’s historic district; creating an intervention of a new architectural system into an existing structure and site. We will explore the physical meaning of a structure and how that meaning changes with re-use. Topics of study will include:
• Investigation into the physical, cultural, and evocative aspects of a specific site
• Condition assessment of an historic structure
• Design departure in an historic context, both adaptive reuse and addition
• Integration of stormwater and flood plain management strategies
• Engaging community stakeholders in a design dialogue
• Zoning and Code Compliance within the City of Charleston
The iterative process, while not linear, will progress in a series of four phases of design. Each phase will have an associated assignment listed in CANVAS. The intent is to develop the design at each stage, to define the intervention’s impact on and re-framing of the original place, to explore the design through detailing and modeling, and to develop a creative yet clear method of presenting ideas. Each phase will culminate in a review, and the work will be evaluated for concept/content, execution, craft and completion.
Faculty:
Schuyler Clogston Lecturer
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Guest Critics: Rick del Monte, Giùdita Poletti, Luca Rocco, Danilo Vespier, Maurya McClintock
S tudio Description: As part of this conceptual framework, this year’s Graduate Comprehensive Studio will look at the design of specialized public education facilities in the context of South Carolina. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (https://nces.ed.gov), South Carolina consistently ranks among the lowest on metrics like academic performance or academic investment compared to most other states. However, there is an advanced learning program called South Carolina Governor Schools, which has achieved very good education outcomes within the state public education system. We will use this program as the main programmatic and conceptual framework to explore architectural ideas in public residential education. To do that, we envision an expansion that doubles the current size of the program, which currently has only three schools distributed across the state.
South Carolina currently has three Governor’s Schools, one emphasizing arts and humanities (Greenville, SC), a second one for science and mathematics (Hartsville, SC), and another one for Agriculture (McCormick, SC). Although they also offer summer programs, the main component of these three schools is a year-long residential program for high schoolers from 10th to 12th grade. The schools offer free-tuition advanced learning focused on each of their specialization areas. Due to their specific foci—arts and humanities, math and science, and agriculture—, these three schools have put in practice project-based, collaborative and interdisciplinary learning. These strategies have also determined the complex spatial organization of their campuses, which, besides dorms, classrooms and dining areas that resemble a college more than a high school, also include spaces like studios, rehearsal rooms, black-box theaters, laboratories, greenhouses, etc.
The main design objective of this studio will be the design of three new Governor’s Schools that echo and complement the three current schools:
Site 1. New Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Charleston, SC (Marion Square area)
Site 2. NEW Governor’s School for Math and Science. Spartanburg, SC (East Main Street)
Site 3. NEW Governor School for Agriculture Columbia, SC (Rosewood neighborhood, Airport Drive)
Faculty:
Architectural problems related to urban contexts. Faculty:
Guest Critics: David Franco | Andreea Mihalache | Oleg Drozdov, Founder Drozdov & Partners, Co-Founder Kharkiv School of Architecture | Nathan Hudson, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of North Texas, Consultant, World Bank | Victoria Baltser, Voznesens’k City Council Member | Olena Biela, Voznesens’k City Planner
S tudio Description: This studio is structured sequentially in five parts with each part
Lyndsey Deaton Assistant Professor building on the next. The final proposal shall demonstrate iterative progression and may include work from all parts. Within each part, assignments are provided--more frequently at the beginning of the studio and then tapering off-to structure studio discourse and alignment with community needs. However, the assignments are considered supportive tools and should not be viewed as the primary driver of a student’s design inquiry. As a graduate studio, students are expected to use this project as an opportunity to test and refine their personal design process. They should independently advance their projects through reserach, testing, and iteration; student’s design process should reflect their experience and design perspective.
• In part 1, students investigate the theoretical constructs of war on Ukrainian society, the economy, and the environmentthrough archival research, literature, and precedent studies. They will contextualize Vosnesensk in relation to the traditionsand heritage of the region and nation. They will analyze the morphology of the city, the flows of people and goods, andthe geographic and climactic conditions. Then, they will zoom into the site scale and conduct a thorough evaluation ofthe site culminating in a proposed development area. During this part, they will coordinate with a Ukrainian urbandesign firm actively working in Vosnesensk to represent community needs, collect data, and understand cultural context.Simultaneously, students will learn about environmental design to support pediatric neuro-divergent and disabledpopulations.
• In part 2, students apply theory to architecture. They will design a parti that represents a clear and cohesive concept builton research and reflecting a relationship with the local context. They will spatialize their concept by proposing a buildingprogram and form adhering to the minimum studio requirements. They will ground their concept by carefully preparing asite design that engages three dimensions and focuses on the user experience. During this phase, students will work with anexpert in planning for Ukrainian IDPs especially addressing children with neurodivergence and physical impairments.
• In part 3, students will iteratively develop and refine their design. They will prepare logic statements leveragingcontemporary design theory (e.g., environment-behavior relations, traditional identity, place attachment, affordance, etc.)and reflect these statements in their proposal’s interior design, form, and environmental design. They will proof their workwith invited healthcare consultants.
• In part 4, students finalize the techtonics of their proposals. At the building scale they will resolve the structure, enclosure,and environmental control systems at minimum. Given the importance of constructibility in a conflict environment,students will demonstrate understanding of logistics, materials and equipment procurement, safety, and staffing. Whilethe project will use the latest published edition of the International Building Code, students will also address any specificplanning or architecture codes relevant to the local area.
• In part 5, students will develop comprehensive graphics that communicate their key ideas. Graphics, in this part, are toolsfor communication and shall convey visual hierarchy, balance, and cohesion. They shall capture attention while succinctlycommunicating the main ideas.
The requirements for the final review will result from discussinos with the community, jury, and instructor. Essential components include 2D and 3D drawings at a variety of scales, renderings, and essential text/graphs as needed to convey research. In addition to developing final presentation materials, students will compile key information (such as theory, history, inclusive design, and their proposals, etc.) into a studio booklet that will be translated into Ukrainian. This book will beshared with Vosnesensk residents, RO3VIT Urban Coalition for Ukraine, and the American Planning Association’s Ukrainian Reconstruction Action Group (URAG).
ARCH 3520/8520 | STUDIO U: WATSON
Gadsden Green Housing
Guest Critics: George Schafer, RA, Ph.D., Architect at BOUDREAUX
S tudio Description: This project starts with the following questions: What is required for us to sustainably inhabit the Peninsula of Charleston? As our anthropocentric actions have a global impact, can we move beyond site net zero towards a new model where our built environment is carbon negative?
How do we provide housing and support for those without housing who do not have the financial means to afford housing in the rapidly growing Historic Charleston? The goal of this project is to critically examine how we build, live and work in a way that is holistically sustainable. Projects should seek to leverage opportunities within existing systems to propose an architecture of triple bottom line sustainability. The project is located in the West Side Neighborhood of Charleston at the Gadsden Green Homes. The project will address the critical needs of housing through density that builds on the community and culture of Charleston and responds to the ever increasing impacts of climate change working with ecology and not against it.
ARCH 1510 | ARCHITECTURE COMMUNICATIONS
Opening the Wall: A Wall Design for the Lee/Lowry Courtyard
S tudio Description: The ARCH 1510 studio is structured around a series of exercises (1), that culminates into a final design project (2).
1. The students started with an analysis of a hand-held object, learning how to create drawings orthographically. these orthographic drawings progressed to an axonometric study, in which students were challenged to articulate their objects appearance, assembly, and function, through drawings. These 3D drawings were then translated to 3D models. Through physical model making they further explored the object in terms of space, through a solid-void analysis, which was also translated into a digital model using Rhino3D. In Rhino, the students analyzed the solid-void relationships in a series of sectional figure-ground diagrams. These diagrams were used to develop a wall design. Finally, the students analyzed the movement of the object and further developed their wall design, with attention to moving wall elements, tectonics, structural stability, and craft.
2. For the final project, students were asked to manipulate/adapt/ adjust their wall for a specific site, which is the courtyard between Lowry and Lee Hall at Clemson University. In addition to addressing the human scale, they were challenged to respond to the site. Site strategy / site design was considered as a design parameter in the final wall iteration.
Students will be presenting 2 boards (1st one corresponding to analysis, 2nd one corresponds to their wall design), and physical models they made during the process (optional).
Faculty:
Faculty:
Sallie Hambright-Belue Director of Undergraduate Architecture Harrison Floyd Lecturer
Brandon Pass Lecturer Sara Kenedy Ph.D. Candidate
Marianne Herr Glaser Lecturer
Graduate Assistants:
• Malaysia Barr
• Laurel Getty
• Paige Kooyenga
• Austin Lemere
• Kelsey Piotrowski
• Kayla Pratt
• Anna Rowell
• Natalie Wade
ARCH 8420 | DESIGN STUDIO II
Fabrics, textures, materials, threads, patterns…
S tudio Description: Textiles are metaphorically woven through everyday language and there are equally many ways that textiles and architecture are tied together, literally and figuratively. This studio explores these overlaps through the design of a textile center sited in Asheville at the corner of Patton Avenue and N. Ann Street. In addition to the exploration of textile inspirations in design, the project emphasizes urban design for this gateway site; the provision of space for manufacturing, retail, display, and workforce housing; and the social life of employees and residents.
ARCH 8920 | ARCHITECTURE + HEALTH COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO
A Critical Access Hospital for Ely, Minnesota
Guest Critics: Tom Tenolone, HDR Omaha Nebraska | Annette Himelick, HDR Omaha Nebraska | Ryan Turner, DWGR Duluth MN | Amy Douma, HGA Minneapolis MN | Maury McClintock
S tudio Description: The studio this semester will be concerned with the design of a Critical Access Hospital [CAH] for a rural medically underserved community – Ely, Minnesota. Ely is a small town with a population of 3,268 permanent residents as of the 2020 census. It also attracts significant numbers of transient visitors year-round, especially in the summer as it an important entry point to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It is a destination for outdoor recreation including hiking, camping, canoeing, and kayaking in the summer along with snowmobiling, ice fishing and cross-country skiing in the winter. It is situated in the Vermilion iron range, and iron ore mining and timber were historically significant industries. However retail and other services related to recreation and tourism now serve as significant economic drivers in the community. This also contributes to variability in healthcare needs due to the ebb and flow of recreational visitors.
Ely is a relatively isolated community as it is bounded by the Superior National Forest and the myriad of lakes and wetlands in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It is 16 miles from the Canadian Border with limited vehicular access to the north, east and west. Its existing critical access hospital, the Ely Bloomenson Community Hospital, needs replacement. It currently maintains 16 staffed inpatient beds with an average inpatient length of stay of 4.58 days. The nearest hospitals are a community hospital 31.3 miles away in Aurora and another critical access hospital 37.6 miles away in Cook, MN.
The temperature in Ely can range from the upper 70s to low 80s in July to well below freezing and as low as minus 20 or lower in the winter. Snow can occur beginning in mid-October through early May. Weather in the winter impacts access, construction, foundation design and snow loading on roofs. The facility should be resilient and sustainable in these conditions.
Faculty:
Faculty:
David Allison Director of Graduate Studies in Architecture + Health and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Architecture
KEVIN RICE, AIA
Principal, Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Kevin Rice is a principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York with more than 25 years of experience in the design and management of cultural, educational and public space projects.
After receiving a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University in 1991 and a Masters of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School Design in 1996, he led a wide range of academic projects for Perkins & Will Architects and Polshek Partnership Architects in New York including the Smith College Fine Arts Center; the Visual Art Center at Sarah Lawrence College and the International School of Beijing Shunyi.
Since joining DS+R in 2005 Kevin has led some of the highest profile projects for the studio. He was Project Director for the Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion in New York City, a project which expands MoMA’s gallery space by 33% and creates a more generous and fluid lobby and circulation for the museum. Similarly, he led the design and construction of The Broad Contemporary Art Museum and its associated public spaces in downtown Los Angeles. The Broad is the 120,000 square foot home of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Foundation which, in its first year, saw an attendance of more than 820,000 visitors. Kevin was recently the Principal in Charge for the restoration and expansion master plan for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas, Wright’s only completed theater.
Previously, Kevin led the design team for the $1.2 billion Lincoln Center 65th street / Public Spaces redevelopment and provided management oversight for many of the 30 sub-projects across this cultural campus. Major features of the work at Lincoln Center includes the redesign of the 1100 seat Alice Tully Hall, the Hypar Pavilion and Lincoln Restaurant at north plaza, and the 65th Street Streetscape and Pedestrian Bridge.
Currently Kevin is the Principal in Charge for the Broad Museum Expansion, and is working with the US Department of State to plan and design Embassies around the world. Kevin sits on the Historic Preservation Committee of the Municipal Arts Society in New York and has lectured on the integration of public space and architecture at UCLA, USC, Cal Poly SLO, Woodbury University, Columbia University, Rice University and at The Center for Architecture, NY
INÉS MARTÍN-ROBLES, PH.D.
Associate Professor School of Architecture UVA | Co-director UVA Spain J-Term Program | Co-director UVA Vicenza Summer Program
Inés Martín-Robles (Salamanca, 1976) holds a bachelor and a master’s degree in architecture from ETSA Madrid-UPM (2002), and a Ph.D from the Institute of Technology-CEU San Pablo University (2017, international mention). She is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture of the University of Virginia (2015). Her research interests focus on the survival of the past through tradition, and on the role of memory for architectural design methodology. She has widely published in peer review journals as Constelaciones (2014, 2018), Ra (2014, 2020), Zarch (2014, 2015), REIA (2014), RITA (2014, 2018), Informes de la Construcción (2020), Bac (2015, 2017), VLC (2014, 2016, 2020), Cuaderno de Notas (2016), Arquitetura Revista (2016), Cuadernos de Proyectos Arquitectónicos (2016), Revista Urbano (2015); book chapters for Routledge (2022), Ediciones Asimetricas (2016, 2020), Nobuko (2014); She is co-author of the book “Tradition in Julio Cano Lasso.” (2020) Editorial Rueda.
UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN PRIZE JURORS
PROF. HANS E. BUTZER, ARCHITECT, FAIA, LEED AP
Director, Partner , Butzer Architects and Urbanism
Hans is an architect, educator, urban designer, and developer who exercises his passion for crafting places for people through teaching and practice. Hans is Dean of the University of Oklahoma’s Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture where he has taught since 1999 as Professor of Architecture and Urban Design. He holds the A. Blaine Imel, Jr. Professorship and the Mabrey Presidential Professorship, and has twice been recognized amongst the Top 30 Educators by Design Intelligence. Alongside his academic efforts, Hans is the co-founder of Butzer Architects and Urbanism (BAU) with Torrey A. Butzer, with whom he has designed notable projects such as the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Skydance Bridge, and the pavilions of Scissortail Park. Their built works have received numerous awards and helped earn him the American Institute of Architecture’s Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. He was recently inducted into the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.
OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS
GIÙDITTA POLETTI
Adjunct Professor, Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies
Giuditta Poletti is a registered architect with over ten years of professional experience in design, renovation and interior design. Born in Genova, Giuditta studied at the IUAV Istituto Universitario di Architettura Venezia, and graduated in 2004. Since 2005, after getting her professional license, Giuditta is registered at "Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori della Provincia di Genova". After collaborating with some architectural offices in Genova in historical research connected to urban analysis and collaborations with the Univsity of Genova, Faculty of Architecture, she began her professional career at Studio Montolivo Poletti, where she is currently working as yourn partner architect. Her work as architect focuses on design, renovation and interior design, with the intention of combining traditional architecture with modern technologies and new materials.
Since fall 2006, Giuditta has been working at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Studied in Genova and is in charge of conducting Field Studies in Architecture and Related Arts/ Off-Campus Field Study
LUCA ROCO
Adjunct Professor, Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies
Luca Rocco Casareto dal Verme, born in Genova, Italy graduated with the highest marks at the Faculty of Architecture at Genova Universityin 1987. He is a freelance architect and since 1988 registered at the "Ordine degli Architetti di Genova".
Since 1990 Luca has been sharing his firm with Architect Anna Pellegrino in Genova: their practice is relative to restoration of ancient buildings and architectural design in Genova, Milano, Rome, London, Paris and Bordeaux.
He is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Genova, and an Adjunct Professor at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research & Urban Design.
Luca Rocco is a member of Administrative Committee of GOG "Giovine Orchestra Genovese", and historical society that organizes the chamber music season in Genova, and he is also a movie cricic for several Italian and Hungarian magazines.
DANILO VESPIER
Adjunct Professor, Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies
Danilo Vespier studied at “Università Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria (Italy) and at “Katholieke Universiteit” of Leuven (Belgium), graduating in architecture in 1998. In that same year he started his professional practice in Paris, working with MCA - Mario Cucinella Architects giving his contribution to various international competitions and research projects, especially oriented towards sustainability and energetic efficiency. In 2000 he joined Renzo Piano Building Workshop becoming an Associate architect. During 16 years in RPBW he has managed various teams and has been in charge of different prestigious projects in Europe, US, Asia and Australia. He was responsible for the MUSE (Science Museum) and the mix use development of “Le Albere Area” project in Trento (Italy), being the associate in charge throughout the entire process, from the concept to the final completion. In 2016 He founded the Studio Vespier Architects in Genoa. In 2017 He won the design competition for a Campus for University “La Sapienza” in Rome. In the same year he won another competition for a new building with classrooms and didactic services for the University of Bergamo. Beside his activity in design, he likes to share his experiences and insight with the academic and professional communities. In 2014 he was invited in Marseille by the president of the National Order of Architects of France, to lecture at the seminar “Clouture des Universites d’été de l’Architecture”. In 2016 he was Keynote speaker at the “EURAU – European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Dersign”.
LAURA PEDATA
Lecturer in Environmental Architecture, Sheffield Hallam University
Laura Pedata is an Architect and a researcher. Her past and current research and interests lie in architectural, ecological, and social sustainability. She graduated in 2005 from "La Sapienza" University in Rome, where she earned her BSc in Architecture and MArch degrees, specializing in Environmental Design. In 2007 she won a Fulbright Scholarship and attended a MArchII Program at UCLA in Los Angeles. In 2018 she earned her PhD degree in Landscape Architecture at the "International Doctorate in Architecture and Urban Planning" IDAUP XXX cycle, University of Ferrara – POLIS University. She is a Licensed Architect in Italy and the UK.
Registered Architect ARB- Registered Architect - “Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori di Roma e Provincia” (IT) - SITdA Member, Società Italiana della Tecnologia dell'Architettura (Italian Society of Architecture Technology) - Project proposal Evaluator for MIUR (the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research) for Calls to fund fundamental research projects.
LORIS ROSSI
MA Architecture and Urbanism Programme Leader, Manchester School of Architecture
Graduated in architecture in 2004 at “La Sapienza” University in Rome, Master degree in Architecture. He was awarded a PhD scholarship in Architecture and Theory at “La Sapienza” and he developed part of his PhD dissertation research at the UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design, in Los Angeles (CA).
He was an Adjunct professor at the EU Five Year Master course in Architecture of “La Sapienza”, in Rome. Between 2005 and 2011 he was co-founder of the ‘ungroup’ Architecture office based in Rome; during this period he took part in numerous national and international competitions some of which were awarded prizes and shown in international exhibitions.
From October 2011 until April 2020 he was a full-time Lecturer at POLIS University in Tirana (AL), where he was Dean of the School of Planning and Urban Design. At POLIS University he was also PhD programme supervisor for the International Joint PhD Program in Architecture and Urban Planning with Ferrara University and POLIS University and Head of the Applied Research Unit Observatory of the Mediterranean Basin (OMB). In January 2015 he was Visiting Faculty Member at UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design, in Los Angeles (CA).
Currently he is Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) and BA Studio Skills, coordinator. His research is focused on Architecture and Urban Design, especially in the relationship between architecture and interrupted urban processes.