Third-Year Collaborative Studio by year
Spring 2024
Thirteen teams of Mississippi State students in the College of Architecture, Art and Design’s innovative Collaborative Studio worked on a hypothetical master plan for a cultural campus including the design of a freestanding museum for the campus, which would hold the university’s collections currently housed at the Cobb Institute Museum, Dunn-Seiler Museum and Department of Art galleries. Located adjacent to The Mill Conference Center, the cultural campus would also include the new Grant Library.
Spring 2023
The spring 2023 collaborative studio, the PCI Foundation Studio, worked on the design of a precast parking garage for the MSU Innovation Hub in downtown Starkville. The project included not only a parking garage for the Hub and downtown Starkville but also street-level retail and street improvements along Jackson Street and a public "connector" space between the existing Hub building and the new parking garage building. Some of the collaborative teams chose to create a public gathering space on the roof to provide much-needed event space in downtown Starkville. Students were required to develop sustainable strategies including rainwater collection and treatment, wastewater recycling and treatment, and renewable energy along with passive design strategies using solar and wind orientation and integration.
Spring 2022
Professors:
Architecture
- Ryan Ashford, studio assistant
- Associate Professor Alexis Gregory, coordinator
- Professor John Poros
Building Construction Science
- Assistant Professor Mohsen Garshasby, Ph.D.
- Briar Jones, instructor
The spring 2022 collaborative studio, the PCI Foundation Studio, worked this semester to develop a design for a Habitat for Humanity house that can be repeated on an existing site owned by the Starkville Area Habitat for Humanity.
Sixteen teams each made up of two building construction science students and two or three architecture students developed designs for a three-bedroom house meeting all the Habitat for Humanity requirements using precast concrete as the primary architectural cladding material. Students were challenged to design exterior walls taking into account durability, tornado resistance, structural loading, thermal performance, cost, assembly by non-professional labor, time and aesthetics using precast concrete.
Spring 2021
Professors:
Architecture
- Associate Professor Alexis Gregory
- Associate Professor Hans Herrmann
- Ryan Ashford, studio assistant
Building Construction Science
- Assistant Professor Mohsen Garshasby, Ph.D.
- Briar Jones, lecturer
The spring 2021 Collaborative Studio worked on the collaborative development of the architectural and construction aspects of using precast concrete for the design of a building addition to the Cadence Building in downtown Starkville, Mississippi.