Thirteen teams of Mississippi State students in the College of Architecture, Art and Design’s innovative Collaborative Studio recently created a master plan for a hypothetical cultural campus. Students in the class include Rodney Morgan, an architecture major from Starkville, who served as a Project Architect, Anna Rives Gully, an architecture major from Starkville, who served as a Project Architect, Lizzie Gerzon, an architecture major from Starkville, who served as a Project Architect, Kyla Barton, an architecture major from Starkville, who served as a Project Architect, Paulina Fernandez, an architecture major from Starkville, who served as a Project Manager and Austin Trujillo, an architecture major from Starkville, who served as a Project Architect.
The plan included a freestanding museum, 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 also would include the new Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library.
Each student team consisted of architecture majors serving as project managers, architects and project designers. In addition, one or two building construction science students served on each team as construction managers. They presented their work on in April to professors and hypothetical clients.
Studio professors included Associate Professor of Architecture and Studio Coordinator Alexis Gregory; Building Construction Science Instructor Briar Jones; Architecture Studio Assistant Ryan Ashford; and Graduate Assistant Jacob Lindley.
The studio is funded by the PCI Foundation, and its projects are focused on the use of precast concrete for structure and cladding for museum designs.
MSU’s School of Architecture offers the state’s only professional architecture degree accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board. Learn more at caad.msstate.edu.
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