unless|design collaborative is proud to bring the exhibit to Northern Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. As part of our ongoing design for High Plains Environmental Center, we have pursued this opportunity to educate communities about the need for better classrooms, sustainability, and the power of student involvement in design. Through participatory design with students, the exhibit and installation have become a physical embodiment of the ideals and processes represented in the work displayed.
In seven class-periods, students at Centennial High School, in Fort Collins, CO, have worked together to design and build the installation displaying the exhibit posters. The students considered issues of scale, movement, viewer comfort, and how spaces will affect the display and experience of the content. Using salvaged 2x material (from the National Center for Craftsmanship's educational DeConstruct projects) they addressed many technical construction and portability issues.
Student Design and Construction Considerations:
-Honor salvaged 2x4's through raw finish and 'framed wall' look
-Define spaces to allow viewers to pause
-Flexible in size to fit multiple venues
-Installation height=6'0" Optimum poster height=5'7" Minimum spacing=6'0"
-Panelize for portability
-Add simple details (bolts, laser etching, etc.)
-Exhibit posters to be organized by categories: rural, urban, modular, information
-Flexible exhibit content to appropriately fit venue, audience, and spaces created
Measure of Success: 160 fingers in-tact and accounted for (despite 4,126 inexplicably evil, stinging splinters)
The exhibit and installation are being made available, free of charge, to regional schools and nonprofits. Please contact us to bring these wonderful projects to your community.
Centennial H.S. Design Team:
Zach Ainsworth, Cody Beaver, Colby Collins, Schuyler Kohler, Joseph Lucero, Bradley McConnell, Caitlyn Robinson, Drew Rothleitner, Kaycee Simmons, Quinn Slevin, Kaylynn Tsuyama
Mountain View H.S. Model Builder:
Eric Sorensen
Centennial H.S. Build Team:
Kayla Archuleta, Marisol Bocanegra, Merissa Channel, Brett Franklin, Alexander Gitler, Dmitri Heller, Cody Jennings, Sasa Kavanaugh, Anthony Lozano, Moriah Lozano, Kira Skoviak, Ian Stimely, Colton Young
Venues:
Rocky Mountain Green 2010 – Denver, CO April 21&22 - Hosted by the USGBC Colorado Chapter
Sponsors and Partners:
Centennial High School - Student designers and craftsman of exhibit installation
High Plains Environmental Center – Primary sponsor of exhibit and workshops
Institute for the Built Environment – Advocacy and sponsorship of building workshops
National Center For Craftsmanship
Bloedorn Lumber
Hoff Construction
Mail ‘n’ Copy
Mugs Coffee Lounge
Featured Projects:
High Plains Environmental Center -Featuring unless founders N. Gray, D. Kalanick and J. Kalanick
Connect and Extend - The New Jiya Community School
Justified Architecture - Waldorf Educational and Social Corporation
Library Classroom - Bak Touk H.S.
Limitless Boundaries - The Project School
The Living Classroom - Canossa Convent Primary School
Reaching for the Light - Benito Juarez Community Academy H.S.
School of Light
Salt Pan School
Hillside Classroom
Teton Valley Community School -Competition Winner, featuring Unless founders N. Gray and D. Kalanick
Extending the Classroom - Northwestern University Settlement House
Modular Relocatable Classroom for Napa New Tech Highschool
Woodbox Classroom
Flex Module
A Flexible Schoolhouse - Malawi
We appreciate the extraordinary insights, efforts and talents of instructor Jerry Kreisher and the student design/build teams at the Centennial High School Building Trades Lab.
Thank you to Architecture for Humanity, and all the competition designers and students for creating and providing the beautiful and moving competition entries
