As a growing city with ever-expanding infrastructure needs, Jacksonville offers an ideal study site for future architects. With the help of the city’s chapter of the American Institute of Architecture, some FAMU students got to take full advantage of that opportunity.
The FAMU Jacksonville Studio began ten years as an opportunity for FAMU architecture students to tour the city and visualize projects that meet the community’s needs. Months later, the students present their designs before a jury of Jacksonville AIA members.
FAMU Architecture Professor Michael Alfano, who has advised the Studio students ever since the program began, said: “The challenge for the students is for the design to be an iconic architectural landmark. My challenge as a professor is to let the students have their space. They are doing their building, not my building. I know I have been successful when the designs are all different.”
According to the Jacksonville Daily Record, this year’s project focused on “a health and fitness facility that included a natatorium, a facility dedicated to swimming and diving, that would be located on the Southbank near the Duval County School Board Building.”
Read more here.
The FAMU Jacksonville Studio began ten years as an opportunity for FAMU architecture students to tour the city and visualize projects that meet the community’s needs. Months later, the students present their designs before a jury of Jacksonville AIA members.
FAMU Architecture Professor Michael Alfano, who has advised the Studio students ever since the program began, said: “The challenge for the students is for the design to be an iconic architectural landmark. My challenge as a professor is to let the students have their space. They are doing their building, not my building. I know I have been successful when the designs are all different.”
According to the Jacksonville Daily Record, this year’s project focused on “a health and fitness facility that included a natatorium, a facility dedicated to swimming and diving, that would be located on the Southbank near the Duval County School Board Building.”
Read more here.
This is great. Exactly what I like to learn about regularly. It is high time we highlight all of our positives.
ReplyDelete