Come see our progress. We're on the ice rink in Kreitzberg Sports Auditorium.

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click to enlargeThe TBox is up for auction!

April 20th to 27th

Starting bid of $3750

Bids can be placed at NUDesignBuild@gmail.com or 802-485-2882.

Also, we would like to thank Foard Panel and Bates & Murray for their donations to the project.

Norwich Design Build Project:

The Design Build program consists of 3rd and 4th year students who work in groups to design and build a project in a local community. The course is lead by Danny Sagan and Daniel Johnson.

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How do we get people into Rouses Point as a destination, not as a bypass?

AUTONOMY AND COMPETENCY: This studio is concerned with early education spaces for young children. Thankfully, the knee-jerk reaction of a bland space brightened by primary colors is slowly being replaced by spaces which contribute to children's intellectual and emotional well-being.

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During the semester, we work with various centers in Vermont, participating in charrettes for their spaces and other small scale, actual client-involved moments. Alongside, there is a semester-long project to develop an early education facility here in the state.

For the opening exercises of the studio, students are asked to investigate the following architectural components, recognizing that sometimes it is difficult to look deeply into all aspects of a building once the design has begun. In this studio we investigated particular elements which have an impact on competent space for children.

This first assignment asks for an investigation of relational forms / light / color / materials.

In response, Sam Rank has natural sunlight pass over paint and form to create a play of color and light on surrounding walls.

The architect that fully identifies the constraints of a design objective is presented with the opportunity to accomplish something that often exceeds the initial design criteria.

Click to enlarge. For more images, see SLIDESHOWS.This studio course engages one in asking ‘what is possible, with what is available?’ In other words, one might say this studio focuses on ‘problem solving’. It challenges the designer to create an architecture beyond the parameters that unyielding design constraints often imply. Limited material resources, limited time, limited space, and limited programmatic scope present the designer with particular circumstances; this course will illuminate for the student how these circumstances can lead the designer into the situations (i.e. situ, or the site) that form architectures. Through the analysis of constraints, projects assigned in this course will focus on revealing the concealed dignity of a place.

Recognizing that analysis and interpretation are two essential things required for design to occur, this course involves students in a constant relay between investigative exercises, design charrettes, and reflective work that prompts new query. The major term project asks one to develop and manifest a design for a particular geographic region in the northeastern United States.

Assignment: make ten iterations of ten objects that handle light as a material.

Work by: Rudy Caron, Kayla Casperonis, Jason Olsen, Joe Britton, Robert Begin, Brian Tarbox, Christelle Joseph, Michael Bonk and Kerri Ingraham.