College of Architecture Spring 2024 Newsletter

Curt Bright Author

06/05/2024 Added

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Architecture students help the town of Fremont, reimagine the Lincoln Indian Center, learn ways to incorporate textiles into interiors and build a micro dwelling in central Nebraska.

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[00:00:05.010]Welcome to the College of Architecture
[00:00:07.020]Spring Video Newsletter.
[00:00:09.990]A local cultural center has partnered
[00:00:11.880]with the College of Architecture.
[00:00:13.920]The Lincoln Indian Center has served
[00:00:15.780]the indigenous populations of Lincoln, Nebraska since 1969.
[00:00:20.370]The Indian Center collaborated with students to find ways
[00:00:23.550]to enhance the aging building and surrounding grounds.
[00:00:27.420]At a community engagement event,
[00:00:29.250]teams of architecture and landscape architecture students,
[00:00:32.370]led by visiting professor Monique Bassey,
[00:00:35.370]shared design opportunities with community members.
[00:00:39.030]The Indian Center community wants us to really think
[00:00:42.120]about the opportunities to expand the programming
[00:00:46.170]within the building, as well as the site,
[00:00:49.110]to also look at opportunities to renovate the building
[00:00:53.700]for better use for the community,
[00:00:55.830]and not only thinking about the present time,
[00:00:58.260]but thinking longevity for several years to come.
[00:01:02.010]We are working closely with the community.
[00:01:04.980]We are hosting a lot of community engagement events,
[00:01:07.920]where we are asking very specific questions
[00:01:10.830]regarding values, history, traditions,
[00:01:13.710]the general journey of the site and of the building,
[00:01:16.410]just so that we can get a better understanding
[00:01:18.120]of how they already use it and to identify opportunity
[00:01:21.420]for further expansion and programming.
[00:01:24.360]It's the most community engagement
[00:01:25.680]we've ever had in a project,
[00:01:26.970]and being able to come and visit the Indian Center here
[00:01:29.970]has been really insightful,
[00:01:31.950]and getting to meet with the whole community,
[00:01:34.530]so that's been definitely
[00:01:35.790]the most unique part of the project.
[00:01:38.220]I'm awestruck in a lot of the ways
[00:01:39.600]in how much effort they really put into it,
[00:01:41.730]the research that they put into it, little details,
[00:01:44.280]like how there's a renovation that they want to put
[00:01:46.710]a balcony on here, and they used the concept
[00:01:48.810]of the tepee poles and the circle,
[00:01:52.800]and they incorporated that into the balcony,
[00:01:54.870]things like that, like little details that they put into it
[00:01:56.940]that shows that they've put a lot of research
[00:01:59.160]and a lot of thought and a lot of learning,
[00:02:01.350]getting the input from our elders,
[00:02:02.790]and other people that have come in.
[00:02:04.140]They've really done a great job, so I'm very impressed.
[00:02:07.200]I would love to keep working with them.
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[00:02:13.650]A Nebraska town hit hard by historic flooding
[00:02:17.100]gets help from the College of Architecture.
[00:02:19.710]Extreme flooding in 2019 cut off all roadways to Fremont,
[00:02:24.090]turning the town into an island.
[00:02:26.430]Community and regional planning students
[00:02:28.470]presented their flood hazard mitigation studies
[00:02:31.530]to the citizens of Fremont at an open house.
[00:02:34.890]The class developed strategies to reduce flood risk
[00:02:38.010]and increase public awareness.
[00:02:40.380]So we had engaged the university
[00:02:43.530]to work on a risk awareness project
[00:02:45.990]following the 2019 flooding event
[00:02:49.230]to look at what we knew we didn't know.
[00:02:54.000]We've worked with them to provide information
[00:02:57.870]on floodplain awareness, and it'll help us with credits
[00:03:01.770]for the community rating system,
[00:03:03.600]and the more credits you have
[00:03:04.920]with the community rating system,
[00:03:06.780]the bigger discounts we're able to provide
[00:03:09.030]on flood insurance for our area residents.
[00:03:11.820]It feels good knowing that the work you're doing
[00:03:14.190]actually contributes back to the local economy,
[00:03:16.800]whether you're a resident or not of that community.
[00:03:19.080]You are having a direct impact into these people's lives,
[00:03:21.540]not just for today, but for the decades to come,
[00:03:23.460]the years to come.
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[00:03:29.730]Interior design and Master of Architecture students
[00:03:32.550]explored textiles at Nebraska Innovation Studio.
[00:03:36.210]The workshop, led by Professor Nate Bicak
[00:03:39.180]and visiting professor Felicia Dean, applies techniques
[00:03:42.930]from the fashion world to the world of interior spaces.
[00:03:46.710]Students learned firsthand about the qualities
[00:03:49.350]and uses of several textiles and materials.
[00:03:53.250]I hope students come out of this
[00:03:55.470]with a better understanding of how to use a sewing machine,
[00:03:58.800]how to use some stitching techniques
[00:04:03.090]that can manipulate material in such a way that they start
[00:04:07.200]to think about its use in interior space beyond,
[00:04:11.280]say, upholstery or the scale of the body,
[00:04:13.560]but the ways we can think about using
[00:04:17.017]material manipulation techniques
[00:04:19.470]to create habitable scale
[00:04:22.410]kinds of material experiences in space.
[00:04:26.460]So what we're doing in the workshop is we're looking
[00:04:28.830]at different techniques that are taken
[00:04:30.450]from fashion apparel usually, they're called
[00:04:33.600]three dimensional fabric manipulation techniques,
[00:04:37.470]and we're applying them
[00:04:38.580]in more of a spatial project, ultimately,
[00:04:41.010]so we're looking beyond the human scale and the body
[00:04:44.430]like fashion would do, and we're thinking of interior space
[00:04:48.150]and surroundings.
[00:04:50.130]Manipulating textiles in the 3D
[00:04:52.620]is something that I had never really heard of,
[00:04:54.780]and so it being a whole new field was something
[00:04:58.230]that really intrigued me about the workshop,
[00:05:00.030]because I'm already a textile artist,
[00:05:02.010]so getting another tool to put in my toolbox
[00:05:04.350]is really interesting.
[00:05:06.000]The Textiles Exploration is the first
[00:05:08.250]of three workshops over the next three years,
[00:05:10.770]which are made possible
[00:05:11.880]by an Angelo Donghia Foundation grant
[00:05:14.610]that was awarded to the interior design program.
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[00:05:23.130]Architecture students developed a 200-square foot structure
[00:05:26.250]through Design Build Studios,
[00:05:27.930]led by Professor Jason Griffiths.
[00:05:30.810]The micro-dwelling, called Mizer's Ruin,
[00:05:33.540]stands at Cedar Point Biological Station
[00:05:36.210]outside of Ogallala, Nebraska.
[00:05:38.760]Over 90% of it was built with materials
[00:05:41.520]that came from within one mile of the site,
[00:05:44.490]and what that does is help reduce
[00:05:46.170]what we call the embodied energy of the building.
[00:05:48.870]So we've managed to calculate in this building
[00:05:51.450]that we're actually sequestering,
[00:05:53.190]or pulling outta the atmosphere, 1.4 tons of carbon.
[00:05:57.570]Now, if you took a building of an equivalent size
[00:06:00.960]built in conventional construction,
[00:06:02.880]we'd probably be putting about seven tons
[00:06:05.220]of carbon into the atmosphere.
[00:06:07.122](chains rattling)
[00:06:09.383](engine rumbling)
[00:06:10.680]Well, you sit in the classroom and you do designs,
[00:06:12.870]and you have papers and you, you do crits, right?
[00:06:14.940]And they stand there and they look at it
[00:06:16.800]and say well, this can happen, this can happen,
[00:06:18.240]this can happen.
[00:06:19.080]Here, we come out here
[00:06:20.880]and we can physically touch what we built.
[00:06:23.490]It's no longer a concept. It's a reality.
[00:06:25.920]In Nebraska and the Great Plains region,
[00:06:27.660]there's a deep tradition of people
[00:06:29.970]knowing how to build their own buildings
[00:06:32.130]and a strong connection between the land and architecture.
[00:06:35.910]After four years of designing and building,
[00:06:38.700]Mizer's Ruin will soon be available
[00:06:40.980]for guests and faculty.
[00:06:43.050]Thanks for watching some of the highlights
[00:06:44.730]of our Spring 2024 semester,
[00:06:47.280]and if you joined us for our 50th gala,
[00:06:49.320]thanks for celebrating.
[00:06:50.700]If you missed it, check out the link in the description.
[00:06:53.580]Have a great summer.
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