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New Dalton Student Architecture Exhibit at 89th Street
A new Architecture Exhibit is up in the lobby at 89th Street – presenting the work of the Dalton Architecture students from last year. Dalton Architecture teacher Emily Piatt Wilson, AIA, offers both Beginning Architecture and Advanced Architecture. On display are renderings and animations of two major projects:
- The Ebola Treatment Center Project
- The ECO Residence/Green Design Project
Ebola Treatment Center: The architecture students each studied and designed their concept of an ideal Ebola Treatment Center in response to the epidemic in West Africa last year. The students first researched and studied disaster relief structures, West African housing types, Emory University Laboratory Design and Personal Protection Equipment divergent recommendations and design strategies. The students then designed their single patient unit and multiple patient unit and various urban design organizational systems. The students finalized their thoughtful and comprehensive projects with a master plan of an ideal Ebola Treatment Center that could be sited in different locations.
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The Ebola Treatment Center project allowed the students to explore through critical thinking and critical making complex organizational systems and master planning strategies to solve this pressing, complicated human problem in an effective and compassionate way.
ECO Residence / Green Design: The Architecture students studied and designed a private residence for themselves that constituted several environmental design strategies. The green design strategies included green materials, passive heating and cooling systems and green building siting approaches in the landscape. The students built 3D models and created renderings and animations of their projects for their final projects.
The ECO Residence/Green design project introduced the students to natural green design strategies through green, sustainable materials, building orientation, passive ventilation, and heating systems. The students tackled the project with passion and enthusiasm as they embraced the equally pressing need to migrate towards sustainable design. The work demonstrated mindfulness for an environment that reduces carbon emissions, waste whilst dreaming of a space unique to their visions.
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