2020 Fall – Third Place in Greenville NC

This Fall the sophomore class returns to using flue-cured tobacco barns to create a Third Place here in Greenville NC.  This hypothetical gathering space would be located within the area designated for ECU’s Millenial Campus. Portfolio 1 contains students’ preliminary research and design sketches. Portfolio 2 follows the students’ work in AutoCAD as they define … Read more

2019 Fall – Retail Incubator Space in Greenville NC

This semester, students are designing a product display/presentation space in the historic Hughes Tobacco Warehouse in Greenville.  This space is designed to offer students and professors a place to meet with business people, to discuss ideas for product development. Portfolio 1 includes preliminary Quick Sketch Competency exercises, Music as Design Inspiration, Activity Space Studies, and … Read more

2018 Fall – Third Place – Prototyping and Testing

In this phase the students moved from hand process to digital.  They created schematic layout options, reviewed locations and configurations for stairs, and assembled a 3D model with walkthrough video, to test out their ideas.  Please click on the link below each thumbnail to access the students’ slideshows.  Click on the vimeo links to connect … Read more

2017 Fall – Schematic Design

The students completed preliminary schematic design, using hand sketching, AutoCAD, and SketchUp softwares. Section 001       Johnson-2102-P2        Coughlin-2102-P2          Hill-2102-P2       Fox-2102-P2        Giddings-2102-P2       Russell-2102-P2         Austin-2102-P2          Rossi-2102-P2         Reynolds-2102-P2       Nichols-2102-P2    … Read more

2017 Spring – AutoCAD

As we do each year, the sophomore class has completed a design charrette of a double-height reception space, and then drafted an abbreviated set of construction drawings for the space.  Below are some of the best drawing sets from the class.       Craze-2281-1       Culvahouse-2281-1       Cunningham-2281-1       Jimenez-2281-1     … Read more

2015 – AutoCAD

Sophomore level construction drawings in CAD.       Duerr                                      Jenkins      Skala                                  Smith

2014 – AutoCAD

For the final series of assignments this semester, the students created an abbreviated set of construction drawings for the space that they had designed.  The sets shown here were selected as being the most complete and accurate of those submitted.  Each link will take you to a slideshow of the student’s drawing set.  (Please note … Read more