This course focused on the reuse and superuse of found materials as a means of considering Contemporary Ecological Design.  Notions of renovation and retrofit formed the foundation for the semester work. Discussions brought about through the critical reading of texts on theory and practice generated the primary impulses for formal exploration.

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The studio is designed for students entering the school of architecture from the pre-architecture program. The studio focuses on issues of foundation design such as Basic Ideation, Composition, Representation, Etc. with a special concern on the importance of  context and site design.

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Course Description

Didactic Sketching will attempt to enable each student. It is a course about seeing and making seen, the intention is to pass along a way of visualization that not only informs the viewer of the subject but also the intent behind the making of the subject. This is to say, you will not draw postcard images of the great building of Italy you will learn to draw diagrams and directions for someone to understand the design intent of these buildings. This course is as much about reading architecture and it is about writing architecture though the architect’s language of drawing.

Techniques of orthographic project will be explored in free hand sketching. All work will be done in a travel sketchbook and every sketch is to be accompanied by a photo of the subject of your sketch. This will force a measurement of value, if the sketch does (looks) the way your picture does, it’s not right!

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This studio followed-up on a Funded Rural Transit Study performed by Prof. Herrmann in association with the Carl Small Town Center at MSU. The studio was funded to construct a prototype rural bus shelter / pavilion. 2 units were built one on campus at Mississippi State University and one in the Choctaw town of Bogue Chitto, MS

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The project received the Mississippi State University Diversity Award (Team Category) granted by the President’s Commission on the Status of Minorities.

http://www.committees.msstate.edu/pcsm/Awards/10Team_Carl.php

The Hive Project: a semester long investigation on the poetics and power of accountable design. This studio built the Hive structure as an armature to foster a kind of architectural accretion. The studio studied the potentials of adjacency in design as each student worked to consider their individual project assignments in close consideration with their Hive neighbors. Project included Structural Design studies, Sand vessels, Tool Repositories, and concluded with a brief design charette for the Starkville Community Market venue.

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This work was focused on the generative capacity of architectural adjacency. Students built spans that interconnected their individual projects sites to form a network of public private and semi public spaces.

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