EDAD605 Community Build Studio 12cr

This studio is a design/build intensive focusing on a design problem with a community partner to provide the opportunity for students to design and construct a project as a full time experience in a single summer. This includes developing empathy for and sensitivity to the requirements of a community client through interviews, site observation, and measuring, programming, and presentation, while being exposed to specifications, budgeting, cost-control strategies, scheduling of a project from design through construction, and developing construction documents. The studio is set up as a collaborative experience in which the students direct a design and construction process with engineers, landscape architects, and other professionals in the community. Students design systems of assembly in wood, metal, and concrete, in a context that encourages a thoughtful approach to sustainable materials selection and reuse. As the work progresses through construction, students develop design and artisanry skills and are exposed to community building and leadership, with the hands-on experience of engineering and building systems.