4B: Fourth-Year Mass Timber Capstone Studio

ARC 4546 | Fourth-Year, Spring Semester

Faculty:

  • Hans Herrmann, professor
  • Jacob Gines, associate professor

This Integrative Design Studio serves as a test of each student’s cumulative design thinking and design communication skills. Students are asked to demonstrate their ability to develop a concept, imagine the physical manifestation of said concept in material and spatial form(s), visually delineate and communicate the concept(s) from early/basic notions through study and iteration to arrive at advanced and fully resolved constructable buildings using drawings, models, images, and/or video as directed. The building each student designs will be required to meet industry standards for life safety, building thermal comfort/performance, constructability, accessibility; along with other such typical professional criteria of sustainability and context sensitive design and material application/specification.

The studio is sponsored by the Mississippi Forestry Association (MFA).

Read about the spring 2022 studio

A collage of eight different photos. Most of them being gray, white, and navy blueprints of the building. A few of them being mock-reality photos of the building if it were real. Part of the building is on a dock over the water, and includes a boat in the photo. There is a tower sticking out of the building. It is an irregular shaped building with many levels and layers. The inside includes light wood designs with box-like wooden ceiling. A collage of seven photos. Three of them being blueprints of the building. The other four are mock-reality photos of what the design would look like in real life. The building is an oddly shaped structure with many different connecting substructures. The building is a white tone with many glass windows throughout. The front of the building is a black tinted glass, with words reading "The New Blue". A collage of six different photos. Most of them black and white blueprints of a building. Two of them are mock-reality photos. One shows the inside with lots of bookshelves, a wooden ceiling, and fully glass walls. The other mock-reality photo shows the outside. The building is surrounded by glass walls on the first two floors, then there is a light tan tint to the walls on the upper levels. A collage of 6 different photos. Most of them gray and white blueprints. One of them is a mock-reality photo of what the building would look like. It is a glass ground level building, with an upper level completely surrounded by wood. Over the door is a sign that says "Memphis Blackbox" in black capital letters. A person is standing at the door, people are walking around inside. A collage of 6 different photos. Most of them white and gray blueprint designs. Some of them mock-reality photos of a long gray building. The outside material of the buildings is hundreds of thin strips of material all pushed close together, giving the building lots of texture externally. A collage of twelve different photos. Most of them are gray and black blueprints of an architectural design. A few are colored sketches of what the building would look like in reality. A brown walled design, surrounded by green grass and built with a small connecting bridge over a stream of water. A collage of six different blueprints. The top left and bottom middle photos are gray and white blueprints of the buildings design. The bottom left photo is a gray and white blueprint with a lavender background. And the top middle and bottom right phots are white blueprints with a navy blue backdrop. The top left image is a real photo of a wooden interior. There are thin strips of wood running across the ceiling, and people walking around the room. A collage with fourteen different photos. Most of them blueprints, but four contain mock-animations of what the buildings would look like. The building is light colored with three different sections. The section to the far right is rectangular with thin rectangular windows. The middle section is mostly glass. The left section is a longer stretch of building with small square windows. A collage of eleven different pictures of this particular design. The design is a light colored rectangular building, with checkered rectangular windows across the sides. Many of the rest of the photos in the collage are blueprints. There is one photo in the collage of the interior. The inside is open with ascending balconies, and shows people walking around the balconies. A collage of eight different angles of a rectangular building. The building is very open in the sense that it is covered in nothing but glass windows and small strips of white metallic pieces structuring it. The building's side angle shows that it is made at a descending slant. A collage filled with five different architectural blueprints, a pallet of 6 different types of bricks is showcased, and a photo of a room with wooden flooring, wooden benches, white brick walls, and a big window.

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