Shelter for Two

AP118: Design Build Project

First year Norwich University architectural design students got a hands-on lesson in tension, compression, and lateral bracing. Using recycled materials including cardboard tubes, wood palettes, twine, branches, plastic bottles, and tarps they constructed temporary shelters for two. Inspired by the Doctors without Borders refugee-camp installation project planned for this Fall 2006 in NYC, the students studied forms of temporary shelter design from around the world. They investigated structural ideas about structure and skin and programmatic ideas about public and private space. They generated digital models of proposed designs and built structural models of their proposals. Finally they tested their ideas ‘in the field’ while exploring team work, power tools, gravity, rain and wind.

This was a three part project: design/build/present which lasted 7 weeks.

The instructors were Eleanor D’Aponte, Assistant Professor and Thomas Leytham, Adjunct Professor

The student participants were:
Maureen Hassett
Andrew Howard
Jefferey Camuda
Ashley Kellog
Phillip Marcotta
James Pfiefer
Brian Riopelle
Arthur Santos
Jillian Stafford
Candice Vreeman Alinovich
Robert Begin
Joe Britton
Jeff Cooper
Quinn McCormic
John Carchedi
Todd Allenspach
Michael Bonk
Rudy Caron
Jessica Conley
Caitlin Davis
Meredith Hankins
Kerri Ingraham
Jeff Kamuda
Matthew Mangaudis
Michael Monaghan
Ashley Partridge
Melanie Perkins
Erica Racine
Andrea Wilson