COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
ANNUAL REPORT
ACADEMIC YEAR 2007 – 2008
A College on the move….
It is a true pleasure to submit this annual report. During this
first year as Dean I have discovered that CAP is not only a
top-tier college, but that we are in fact an institution that is
ready to take things to the next level and become one of the
best colleges of architecture and planning in the world.
As we take things to the next level, this report has
abandoned the typical structure of reporting on each college
unit separately. It has been our choice to adopt the structure
of our University’s Strategic Plan and in such a way
promote integration and synergy through all our units. It has
been very rewarding for me, as I edited this report, to see
that we are well aligned with our strategic plan. We hope
that this report will provide abundant evidence of our high
value within the institution.
In addition to the many accomplishments that describe a
very successful year at CAP, I would like to call your
attention to the inclusion of an additional goal to the
original 4 goals of our strategic plan. CAP’s Goal “0” is
“to contribute to the distinctiveness of Ball State University,
and in that framework develop a unique identity among
schools of architecture and planning”. Seeking that
uniqueness, this report includes THE CAP GREEN
PAPER, an ever-changing and collaborative document that
serves as repository of our collective understanding of who
we are, our mission, vision, and plans.
We invite you to review this report and share in our
excitement and enthusiasm. This is a great time to be at
CAP.
Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco
Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning
Table of Contents
Faculty Accomplishments
Recognitions
Scholarship
R&D Funding
Faculty & Staff Appointments, Promotions, and Retirements
GOAL 0
The College of Architecture and Planning will contribute to the distinctiveness of Ball State
University, and develop a unique identity among schools of architecture and planning.
GOAL 1
The College of Architecture and Planning
will promote academic excellence among
undergraduate and graduate students
seeking a rigorous learning experience.
GOAL 2
The College of Architecture and Planning
will support and reward faculty and student
scholarship of discovery, integration,
application, and teaching.
GOAL 3
The College of Architecture and Planning
will address local, state, national, and
international needs through activities that
foster collaboration and mutually beneficial
relationships with its diverse constituents.
GOAL 4
The College of Architecture and Planning
will improve the university community’s
quality of life.
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
ANNUAL REPORT
ACADEMIC YEAR 2007 – 2008
Faculty Accomplishments (Recognitions)
Malcolm Cairns (LA) was inducted as a Fellow of the Council of Educators in
Landscape Architecture. He was also listed in the Almanac of Architecture and
Design as one of the country’s most influential educators, and was included in the list
of the 2008 Most Respected and Admired Educators by the 9th Annual Design
Intelligence Survey & Report.
Duncan Campbell (ARCH), Director of the Center for Historic Preservation (CHP),
Award of Merit to the CHP from the American Association for State and Local
History (AASLH) for “Muncie History: A Handbook for Fourth Grade Teachers
About Muncie’s History.”
Carol Flores (ARCH), named Ball State University’s Outstanding Faculty Member
2007-08. Dr. Flores will give the Ball State Summer commencement address at
Worhten Arena.
Walter Grondzik (ARCH), named a Fellow of the American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating And Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); and a fellow of the
American Solar Energy Society (ASES); awarded a BSU CERES Research
Fellowship 2008-09.
Wes Janz (ARCH), and Tim Gray (ARCH) & Thalia Mulvlhill, “A
New Village in Sri Lanka: Learning Lessons There, Sharing Lessons
Here”, refereed paper, International Conference on Building Education
and Research, Kandalama, Sri Lanka; recipient of one of four “Best
Paper Awards.”
Michel Mounayar (ARCH) was elected President of the Architecture Research
Center Consortium. Historically, ARCC's members have been schools of
architecture who have made substantial commitments to architectural research, often
by forming centers directed to research programs. A recent survey of members
identified over $21 million in funded research projects.
Les Smith (LA) was selected by one of the country’s largest landscape architecture
offices, and the ASLA ‘Firm of the Year’, DesignWorkshop, to serve in a semesterlong faculty-in-residence program as guest educator and practitioner. More recently,
Les has been appointed by Governor Daniels to the State Board of Registration for
Architects and Landscape Architects.
J. Rod Underwood (ARCH), selected by the Clavia (BSU) Chapter of Mortar
Board as an “outstanding Ball State faculty member.”
Faculty Accomplishments (Scholarship)
Antonieta Angulo (ARCH) was Guest Editor (with García R, and Spitz R) and
author of the editorial of IJAC: International journal of architectural computing.
Issue 04, Volume 04. September 2007. She also made other publications /
presentations as follows:
Refereed Journal Articles
Angulo A and Vásquez de Velasco G (2007) Digitally integrated practices: A new
paradigm in the teaching of digital media in architecture. In Arquitetura Revista
Online Journal Vol 3, #2. Jul-Dez 2007. ISSN 1808-5741.
http://www.arquiteturarevista.unisinos.br/index.php?e=6&s=9&=31.
Angulo A (2007) Digital media instruction in architecture education. In Open House
International Journal. Vol. 32, issue #2. 2007. ISSN: 0168-2601.
Peer Review Conference Papers
Angulo A (2007) Mobile Learning Applications Using Handheld Devices:
Ubiquitous training of visual-spatial skills. In Proceedings of SIGRADI 2007. Mexico
DF, Mexico. ISBN: 13 978-968-7451-15-2.
Angulo A (2007) Ubiquitous training of visual-spatial skills: on the development of
mobile learning applications using handheld devices. In Proceedings of ACADIA
2007. Halifax, Nova Scotia - Canada. ISBN 978-0-9780978-6-8.
Angulo A (2007) A technology enhanced metacognitive strategy: time-based media
in the documentation of the design process. In Proceedings of ECAADE 2007.
Frankfurt, Germany. ISBN: 978-0-9541183-6-5.
Angulo A (2007) On the cost of production and the value of learning outcomes in the
development of e-learning tutorials. In Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA 2007,
Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications.
Vancouver, Quebec. ISBN: 1-880094-62-2.
Rob Benson (LA), co-authored (with Dr. Cynthia Valk) the refereed paper; "A
Further Investigation into the Medieval Landscapes of Bram Stoker's Dracula” The
paper was presented last May at the International Congress on Medieval Studies held
each spring at Western Michigan University.
Joe Blalock (LA), Presented refereed papers at national conferences and an article on
the subject of Virtual Reality: Concepts and Applications. He has also contributed an
entry on LEED Guidelines for Site Planning for the most recent edition of Landscape
Architecture Graphic Standards.
Ana de Brea (ARCH) was an invited discussant for the panel on Contemporary
Architecture at the 2007 International Biannual Architecture Conference in Buenos
Aires; Exhibit Curator, “Contemporary Latin American Architects,” Buenos Aires
Cultural Center & International Biannual Architecture Conference in Buenos Aires.
Meg Calkins (LA), book in press, Materials for Sustainable Sites (Hoboken, NJ:
John Wiley & Sons). She served on the USGBC Sustainable Sites Technical
Advisory Committee. She also became a LEED accredited professional, had three
chapters in Landscape Architecture Graphic Standards, Student Edition, and
published an article in Landscape Architecture.
Michele Chiuini and J. Rod Underwood (ARCH), 2nd edition of
Structural Design (Published by: Wiley & Sons, 2007);
Carla Corbin (LA) had her “Indiana State Fairgrounds” exhibit shown at both the
Indiana State Library and State Archive. She also presented a refereed papers at a
national conferences
German Cruz (LA) serves as Book Review Editor for the Journal Open House
International. He also presented refereed papers at several professional meetings and
co-edited the 2007 Design Communications Association conference Book of
Proceedings (with M. Mounayar and C. Bove).
Harry Eggink (ARCH) co-directed, with Michel Mounayar and Eric Kelly the BBC
sponsored Reynolds / Biotown comprehensive plan project and participated in a
substantial number of community charrettes and CBP/BBC Projects.
George Elvin (ARCH), Integrated Practice in Architecture: Mastering DesignBuild, Fast-Track and Building Information Modeling (New York: AIA/John Wiley
& Sons, 2007); Editor-in-chief, the American Institute of Architects’s Report on
University Research.
Carol Flores (ARCH), provided a Book Review of Kathryn A. Morrison’s English
Shops and Shopping, published in Buildings and Landscapes (Journal of the
Vernacular Architecture Forum), Volume 14, Fall 2007.
She also authored the “Owen Jones” entry, Biographical Dictionary of Civil
Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2 – 1830-1890, London, ICE and
Thomas Telford Ltd., 2008, p. 436.
Tim Gray (ARCH), The Lightsail, An installation project executed with a group of
ten Dalhousie architecture students in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2006 was included in a
new publication by TUNS Press; Free Lab : Design-build projects from the School
of Architecture, Dalhousie University, 1991-2006, edited by Christine Macy.
Tim also co-authored (with John Motloch) the paper “FSEEC-LandLab as Resourcebalancing design campus”, for presentation at the BSU Greening of the Campus
Conference.
Walter Grondzik (ARCH) made the following publications/presentations:
Abstract-selected paper presented at Solar 2008 in San Diego (American Solar
Energy Society).
Co-presenter for international satellite broadcast/webcast on Integrated Building
Design, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
(ASHRAE); estimated viewership of 20,000 .
Co-presenter for Cool Tools for Building Performance workshop, New York City,
ASHRAE Learning Institute.
Co-presenter for Tool Day workshop at Solar 2008, San Diego, CA.
Co-presenter for Tool Day workshop conducted for architecture program at Parsons,
New York City.
Invited presenter for program on Building Commissioning presented at Integrated
Design Lab, Boise, ID.
Submitted manuscript for Building Commissioning book to John Wiley and Sons.
William Hill (UP), was invited to present the following:
“Improving the Energy Efficiency of the Nation’s Housing for National Security and
Economic Development,” briefing for Senator Richard Lugar and President Jo Ann
Gora, Ball State University, August 8, 2007.
“Why We Do Evaluations: A Look Back and a Look Ahead,” presentation to the
Indiana Low-Income Weatherization Managers Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.
September 6, 2007.
“Weatherization as Economic Development,” presentation at the Indiana Statewide
Conference on Housing & Community Economic Development Conference,
Indianapolis, IN, September 19, 2007.
“It Really Isn’t About the Windows, Stupid!: Improving Thermal Systems in Historic
Buildings,” presentation for the Historic Windows Workshop, Mississippi State
University College of Architecture, Art + Design, February 27. 2009.
“Whole House Audits, and Why They’re Not Sufficient,” presentation for the
Building Green Affordable Housing Conference, Indianapolis, IN, May 9, 2008.
Wes Janz (ARCH), was invited to participate in a panel organized by graduate
students at Pratt Institute and conducted at the Center for Architecture in lower
Manhattan; the subject of the panel was "socially responsible design."
Wes was also an invited juror for round-one of the AMD Open Architecture
Challenge, an international competition organized by Architecture for Humanity,
specific to the Nyaya telemedicine center site in, Sanfebagar, Nepal.
Jason Johnson (ARCH) and William Marquez (ARCH), received funding for an
Institute for Digital Fabrication Research Fellows project entitled "Catch and
Release". The projects were exhibited at the Aethesia Symposium at Southern
Illinois University, as well as, the SCRIPT/INE Exhibit held in Philadelphia's FUEL
collection Gallery.
Karen Keddy (ARCH) presented refereed papers at several professional meetings.
Eric Kelly (UP) served as editor of Zoning and Land Use Controls (New York:
Matthew Bender & Co.). Author for Updates, A Practical Guide to Winning Land
Use Approvals and Permits (New York: Matthew Bender & Co.) Contract for
Community Planning, Second Edition (Island Press, scheduled 2008), lead coauthor
with Barbara Becker. He was also one of four participants in an APA-sponsored
national audio conference on legal issues for planning commissioners.
Co-directed with Harry Eggink and Michel Mounayar the BBC sponsored Reynolds /
Biotown comprehensive plan project.
Stephen Kendall (ARCH), “Open Building: Healthcare Architecture on the Time
Axis,” Chapter in R. Guenther & G. Vittori (eds.), Sustainable Healthcare
Architecture (New York: Wiley & Sons, 2008); “Teaching Architecture Students to
Work with Distributed Design,” chapter in A. Salama & N. Wilkinson (eds.), Design
Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future (London: Urban International Press, 2007);
conference organizer and proceedings editor: Systems Separation: Open Building in
the Inselspital Bern (Bern, Switzerland: Zone Null Publishers, 2008); citation for
outstanding service in the last decade to the International Council for Research and
Innovation in Building and Construction. He also presented 2 refereed papers at
international conferences and made 3 invited presentation at a national conference.
Kevin Klinger (ARCH), co-authored and edited a book entitled
“Manufacturing Material Effects” (London: Routledge: Taylor
and Francis) based on the successful symposium of spring 2007.
The book, developed with partner Branko Kolarevic, will be
released late summer 2008.
Also, Professor Klinger delivered four invited lectures: the Architecture Record
2007 Innovation Conference: “Architecture in an Age of Transformation” (NY) .
Pratt Institute (NY), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
(Barcelona), Universidad Anahuac (Mexico City).
The latest Issue of Architectural Design Features the digital fabrication work of
Kevin R. Klinger and Ball State University students in an article entitled: “Affecting
Data” in AD: Interior Atmospheres, June 2008.
The Exhibition “Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in
Architecture” at the Indianapolis Museum of Art was opened to the public during
Spring and Summer of 2008.
Professor Klinger was the Keynote speaker for Architecture at the Kentucky
Governor's School for the Arts 2007, where he led a design charrette. The
presentation was entitled: “The digital future of architecture”.
Klinger delivered a paper entitled: “Information Exchange in Digitally Driven
Architecture” at the The Society Iberoamerican of Graphic Design (SIGraDi) XI
Congreso 2007 in Mexico City, MX.
For the ACSA Topic Groups for the Accreditation Review Conference, Klinger
participated in the development of a position paper with nine colleagues around the
country on the topic area: “Integrated Practice and Comprehensive Design”.
The “Digital X Change” Exhibit was on display in the CAP Gallery in the fall of
2007, which featured digital fabrication Immersion-based projects.
Robert Koester (ARCH), co-author with J. Eflin & J. Vann, “The Greening of Ball
State University: A Whole Systems Approach,” chapter in W. Simpson (ed.), The
Green Campus: Meeting the Challenge of Environmental Sustainability (APPA
Press, 2008). He also made a number of publications/presented as follows:
Paper:
“The DaylectricTM Lighting Design Studio” Teaching in Architecture (TIA)
Conference 2007; Danube University, Krems, Austria, September 2007
Articles and/or Citations:
Senator Richard G. Lugar Energy Patriot Award, BSU Council on the Environment
(COTE), August 2007
Kiwi Magazine. BSU as a top-50 Green School, September 2007
AASHE STARS Pilot Program, BSU as one of 90 Schools, February 2008
Presentations:
“Integrative Design and Green Engineering”, Sustainable Redevelopment in the Ohio
River Valley Conference, Louisville, Ky. October 2007
“An Academic Challenge: Working Across the Curriculum”, 2008 Sustainability
Summit for Indiana Colleges and Universities, Ball State University, February 2008
Panel Sessions:
“Ecological Literacy: Are Architecture Schools failing the Environment?”AIA
Annual Convention, San Antonio, May 2007
“A Primer on Green/Sustainable/Regenerative Buildings”, Senator Richard G. Lugar
Briefing, August 2007
“Institutional Immersive Learning: BSU and Sustainability”, Board of Trustees
Briefing, January 2008
“Inventive Laboratories for Greening the Curriculum and Community”, USGBC
Green-Build Convention, Chicago, November 2007
“Defining the Vision for Higher Education”“The Design of Centers for Regenerative
Studies”, CAP Symposium, April 2008
Chris Marlow (LA) presented a refereed paper at a national conference.
Michel Mounayar (ARCH) was Chair of the 20th Anniversary
Conference of the Design Communication Association (DCA) and
co-editor (with G. Cruz and C. Bove) of the book of conference
proceedings “Flow, Filter, Function, Feeling, and Focus”, 425
pages. ISBN: 978-0-6151-6881-4
Also, jury member and reviewer in the 2008 AIA national RFP
research grant program. Member of the NAAB accreditation team
visiting Southern Polytechnic University, Atlanta Georgia.
Member of the scientific committee of the joint international
EAAE/ARCC research conference in Copenhagen Denmark. Codirected with Harry Eggink and Eric Kelly the BBC sponsored
Reynolds / Bio-town comprehensive plan project.
John Motloch (LA) presented 4 papers at the 13th annual
sustainability research conference in Sweden and 2 papers at the
10th annual technology policy and innovation conference in
Norway.
Also this year, the second edition of his book “Introduction to
Landscape Design” was published in Chinese by John Wiley.
Francis Parker (UP) published a refereed article under the title; ”Iron Horses Relied
on Railroad Runts,” in Indiana Preservationist, December 2007.
Nihal Perera (UP), gave the Keynote address at the Asian Planning Schools
Association conference. He published a refereed paper, two refereed journal articles,
and a book chapter under the title “Rebuilding Lives, Undermining Oppositions:
Spaces of War and Peace in Sri Lanka” In Spatializing Politics, eds., Tariq Jazeel
and Cathrine Brun (Refereed Book Chapter, Sage, in Press) 2008 and co-edited New
Directions in Asian Urbanization: Place and People-Specific Urban and Planning
Practices, conference proceedings from the international conference on Asian
Urbanization and Planning that he co-organized in Hong Kong. He also
visited faculty at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He received a FulbrightHays award (third consecutive Fulbright) for Cap-Asia V which investigated the
people’s disaster recovery processes. He also made a substantial number (7+) of
presentations and lectures in international venues.
David Schoen (UP) completed a Gateway and corridor Analysis for Lebanon,
Indiana, and made a number of presentations in the use of GIS technology. He
currently he serves as interim chair for the Department of Urban Planning.
Andrew Seager (ARCH), served as member of the Indiana State Historic
Preservation Review Board. He was also curator and contributor to the exhibit,
“Images of Western Turkey,” in the College of Architecture and Planning gallery,
October 3-31, 2007.
Ron Spangler (LA) served as chair of the Muncie Community Foundation /
Environmental Enhancement Committee.
Jonathan Spodek (ARCH) made an invited presentation at a national conference
Brett Tippey (ARCH) presented a refereed paper at the National Conference on
Beginning Design Studio Education at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco (ARCH) presented a peer reviewed paper (with
Antonieta Angulo) at the Annual Conference of the Iberoamerican Society for Digital
Graphics (SIGRADI). Title: Digitally Integrated Practices, a new paradigm in the
teaching of digital media in Architecture. ISBN: 13 978-968-7451-15-2 Pp.-191-195.
Joshua Vermillion (ARCH), co-authored and presented a peer-reviewed paper at the
Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings X International
Conference entitled, "Enhanced Daylighting through Digital Fabrication". Also,
Vermillion's design and digital fabrication work was displayed in a curated exhibition
entitled "Systemic Formats" at the Catalan Architects Association in Barcelona
(COAC).
Edward W. Wolner (ARCH):, was offered a book contract from the University of
Chicago Press for his manuscript on Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago: Civic and Cultural
Institutions and the Making of an Early Modern City.
Faculty Accomplishments (R&D Funding)
Meg Calkins and Martha Hunt (LA) (with Biology professor Melanie
Bernot) were jointly awarded a Ball State Enhanced Provost initiative.
Michele Chiuini (ARCH), received a fellowship from the BSU Institute for Digital
Fabrication ($3000 & 2 research assistants) for work on digital reconstructions of
historic buildings.
Michael Gibson (ARCH), received an American Institute of Architects Research
Grant for “Integration of Solid-State, Solar-Powered Micro-Cooling Assemblies in
Building Skins” ($7000); BSU New Faculty Research Award ($1500); CERES
Research Fellowship 2008-09. Michael also received funding and support from the
Institute for Digital Fabrication as Research Fellow for his project entitled "Meta
Framing".
Tim Gray (ARCH), received $25,000 from the Indiana Department of Energy and
Defense for solar panels, solar hot water/warm-floor heating and a wind turbine for
BSU’s Straw Bale demonstration project at the LDI LandLab and $2200 from the
U.S. Green Building Council to pay for LEED Certification of the building. Tim also
received support and funding from Institute for Digital Fabrication as Research
Fellow for an immersive design/fabrication studio entitled "SuperShell".
John Motloch (LA) is in the3 process of securing a $220,000 grant from the U.S.
Department of Education to create the “US-Brazil Universities of the Future
Consortium”.
Nihal Perera (UP) together with Wes Janz, Olon Dotson and Tim Gray participated
in CAP-Asia-V in the spring of 2008. This immersive study abroad program was
possible thanks to a $75,000 Fulbright-Hays grant previously secured by Professor
Perera.
David Schoen (UP) is in the process of securing a $250,000 award from the State of
Indiana to build an economic development tool, using GIS, that will become one of
the major State tools (such as STATS from IU). When confirmed, this will be
initially a 18-months project, however the project is expected to continue for a
number of years.
Faculty & Staff Appointments, Promotions, and Retirements
Mahesh Senagala (ARCH) has been appointed Chair of the Department of
Architecture. He holds the Irving Professorship in Architecture and the inaugural
Fellowship at the Institute for Emerging Media. Previously, he had been the
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research at the College of Architecture,
University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include smart and
sustainable environments, fabric structures, digital fabrication, complex systems, and
academic management. He is the recipient of the President’s Award for
Distinguished Achievement for Creative Production at UTSA in 2007 and the 2007
IFAI Outstanding Achievement Award. He has been elected 2007-08 President of
Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, an international professional
organization. In addition to the Master of Architecture from Kansas State University
with John F. Helm Award, he holds the General Management Executive Certificate
from UT Austin McComb’s School of Business. As a recipient of a joint partial
fellowship from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of
Government in 2007, he has attended the Nonprofit Management executive education
program (PMNO) at Harvard University. Professor Senagala was the 1990 A.P.
Riding Club Gold Medalist from School of Planning and Architecture, JNTU
Hyderabad.
He is the author of over 65 research and creative works, including 45 refereed works
in the last eight years. He has won Best Publication and Best Presentation awards at
various international conferences. He has delivered over two-dozen invited lectures
and an equal number of technical presentations world-wide. He has raised grants,
gifts, in-kind donations, and sponsorships worth more than $645,000 for the college
and $650,000 for his individual research. He has raised funds worth $103,000 for
UTSA within four months to build two full-scale, well-published tensile fabric
structures, named UTenSAils. The project, designed and built by his design-build
research studio at UTSA in collaboration with 24 international industry partners, has
now been chosen as a Best Practice by American Institute of Architects.
Martha Hunt (LA) has been appointed Interim Chair of the Department of
Landscape Architecture. Martha holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in
Landscape Architecture from Iowa State University. Her area of scholarship resides
in the education of sustainable practices informed by nature.
Chris Baas (LA) has been appointed Assistant Professor in tenure track in the
Department of Landscape Architecture. Chris holds a BLA from Ball State
University in 1988 and MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996.
Scott Truex (UP) has been appointed Associate Professor with tenure in the
Department of Urban Planning. Scott holds a B.Arch. and a B.S. in Environmental
Design from Ball State University. His Master of Architecture degree is also from
Ball State University. Scott is the Director of the CAP Indianapolis Center and CAP
Community Based Projects Program. On an interim basis he is also the Director of
the Master of Urban Design Program.
Duncan Campbell (ARCH) has been appointed Associate Professor in a tenure
track position in the Department of Architecture. Duncan holds a B.A. and a M.S.
from Columbia University. Duncan is the Director of the Master of Historic
Preservation Program and the Center for Historic Preservation.
Visiting Professor Asghar Zarrabi (UP) holds a PHD in Town and Regional
Planning, from Sheffield University in UK. He is an Associate Profess in the
Department of Geography and Urban Planning at the University of Esfahan, Iran. Dr.
Zarrabi teaches masters and doctorate courses at Esfahan University
Joseph Blalock (LA) received tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate
Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Joe holds a B.L.A. from the
State University of New York, and a M.S. from Pratt Institute.
Tim Gray (ARCH) received tenure in the Department of Architecture. Tim holds a
B.Arch. and B.S. in Environmental Design from Ball State University. He also holds
a M.Arch. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Olon Dotson (ARCH) received tenure in the Department of Architecture. Olon holds
a B.Arch. and B.S. in Environmental Design from Ball State University. He also
holds a M.S. from Columbia University.
George Elvin (ARCH) received tenure in the Department of Architecture. George
holds a B.S.in Architecture from the University of Maryland, and a M.A. in
Architecture as well as a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkley.
Kevin Klinger (ARCH) received tenure in the Department of Architecture. Kevin
holds a B.A. from DePauw University and a M.Arch. from the University of Illinois.
Andrew Seager (ARCH) retired after 40 years of service in the Department of
Architecture, CAP, and BSU. Andy served CAP in a number of different capacities.
He will be specially remembered for his special contributions to the development of
the Drawings and Documents Archive of the College of Architecture and Planning.
Ronald Spangler (LA) retired after 27 years of service to the Department of
Landscape Architecture, CAP, and BSU. Ron served CAP in a number of different
capacities. He will be specially remembered for his contributions in the University
Senate.
Bob Githens (CAP) retired after 19 years of service to the College of Architecture
and Planning, and BSU. “Woodshop Bob” will be specially remembered for his
dedication to our students in the Woodshop, Metal shop, and Laser cutting areas.
Malcolm Cairns (LA), after seven years of service, Malcolm has completed his
second appointment as Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department. On July 1st
Malcolm has returned to full-time faculty appointment as Professor of Landscape
Architecture. The leadership provided by Professor Cairns has resulted in the
establishment of a very strong Landscape Architecture Department. His reputation as
one of the most respected educators in the nation makes us all very proud.
Edward Wolner (ARCH) has completed his one-year appointment as Interim Chair
of the Department of Architecture. On July 1st Ted has returned to full-time
appointment as Professor of Architecture. The College and the Department of
Architecture are grateful for his commitment to our institution.
Brenda Bergl (Director of Development) is a 1986 Ball State University graduate.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Miller College of Business. She
works as a Director of Development for the University, specifically assigned to the
College of Architecture and Planning. Brenda also holds a Chartered Life
Underwriter (CLU) professional designation.
GOAL 0
The College of Architecture and Planning will contribute to the distinctiveness of Ball State
University, and develop a unique identity among schools of architecture and planning.
-Collective Visioning and Production of CAP GREEN PAPER (Annex #1)
-Initial authorship of Draft
Informed by more than 70 meetings with faculty and staff in the fall semester, the Dean
drafted a Green Paper on the identity, mission, vision, and priorities of the College. The
CAP Green Paper is an open-ended ever-changing document that will serve as foundation
for the production of White Papers, Development Proposals, and plans for the future
development of the College.
-Review within College Leadership Council (CLC)
During the spring semester, the Green Paper draft was discussed in the context of the
College Leadership Council. The Associate Dean and all Department Chairs were invited
to contribute with additions and changes. Everyone made use of this opportunity.
-Set up of survey system for faculty feedback.
Following the review provided by the Department Chairs, the Green Paper draft was
reformatted into an on-line survey system and made public in order to gather the
feedback of the faculty. The statistical data we have extracted from the survey has
allowed us to confirm most statement and bring to the discussion table the topics that
appear to call for further elaboration.
Annex #1 provides a snap shot of the
CAP Green Paper at this point in
time (June 30, 2008). During the fall
semester 2008 we will conduct a
number of webcasts directed to our
alumni while conducting additional
on-line surveys that may allow us to
incorporate the feedback of our
current and former students. Our
objective is to continue to work in
making our Green Paper the
repository of our collective vision.
-Engaging our Alumni
-Visits to Alumni and Alumni Events.
The Dean and the Development Director of CAP made a number of individual visits to
firms in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Louisville. We also hosted a dinner for former
students in the Washington DC area (with the participation of President Jo Ann Gora)
and a reception for former students participating in the Annual AIA Convention in
Boston.
Dinner for Alumni in Washington DC (April 3, 2008)
Reception for AIA Members and Alumni in Boston. (May 16, 2008)
-Alumni Day 2007
Following the same format of previous years, on September 21, 2007, the College of
Architecture and Planning hosted Alumni Day. Within the program of the day-long
event, the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus , Douglas Reddington, AIA (BArch '78), Award
of Outstanding Achievement recipients, Alan Reed, AIA (BArch '86) and Jenelle
Smagala, AIA (BArch '88), made presentations on their work and trajectory to an
audience of colleagues, faculty, and students. Scott Truex was awarded the Charles M.
Sappenfield Award of Excellence. That evening, also within the program of Alumni
Day, we hosted an alumni and student awards banquet that was well attended.
Award of Outstanding Achievement recipients, Alan Reed, AIA (BArch '86) and Jenelle
Smagala, AIA (BArch '88), Distinguished Alumnus, Douglas Reddington, AIA (BArch
'78) and Charles M. Sappenfield Award of Excellence Recipient, Scott Truex.
-College Advisory Boards
The College Alumni Society Governing Board met three times during the 07-08
academic year. Minutes of the meetings of September 21, 2007, December 14, 2007 and
April 18, 2008 are available. In its second meeting of the year the group approved
changing its name to: Alumni Society Board of Directors. The following chart shows the
entering and continuing membership of this advisory group:
2007-08 Entering Membership
Karen Courtney, President
James Lake, Vice President
Dean Illingworth
Greg Jacoby
Deborah Luzier
Jeffrey Mader
Carol Ann Schweikert
Kato Smith
Adam Thies
Beth Wood
Malcolm Cairns, Faculty member
2008-09 Continuing Membership
James Lake, President
Karen Courtney, Past President
Dean Illingworth
Greg Jacoby
Deborah Luzier
Jeffrey Mader
Carol Ann Schweikert
Kato Smith
Trent Spence
Adam Thies
Beth Wood
Malcolm Cairns, Faculty member
In order to provide additional opportunities for alumni participation in the life of the
College we will facilitate the formation of Departmental Alumni Advisory Councils in
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. At the same time, the
College advisory group will be expanded to include external non-CAP advisory
members.
-CAP Alumni Symposium
Following on the success of the first CAP Faculty Symposium, we have initiated plans
for the implementation of an alumni-centered version of that event. On September 19 ,
2008, we will cancel classes and welcome our alumni back into our lecture halls for a
full day of presentations on the wonderful ways in which they are contributing to
expand/enhance our disciplines and professions.
GOAL 1
The College of Architecture and Planning will promote academic excellence among
undergraduate and graduate students seeking a rigorous learning experience.
A. Attract, enroll, retain, and graduate a more selective and diverse student body.
Objective
-Architecture and Landscape Architecture new recruiting poster/brochure for
undergraduate and graduate students;
Working with the office of University Relations, High school summer workshop, and
undergraduate posters were recently printed to further enhance our recruitment
activities. We also edited a Landscape Architecture graduate brochure that provides a
model for similar documentation on the other graduate programs of the College
-Architecture revised web site for recruiting graduate students.
Screen Captures of Upgraded Wed Site
-Record number of entering undergraduate students as sophomores (43) in Landscape
Architecture (from the pool of 1st year admissions). This provides evidence that our
multidisciplinary first year allows our students to make well informed decisions about
their academic options.
-At graduate level, the Master of Landscape Architecture Program shows 5.1% growth.
The presence of the Master of Landscape Architecture in national rankings (inaugural
presence in 07-08, placing # 5 in the nation) will most likely continue to promote a
higher number and quality of applicants for this program.
-Also at graduate level, the Master of
Architecture Program shows 88.5%
growth. This is largely due to our
recent curricular transformation going
from a 5-year professional B.Arch.
program to a 2-year professional
M.Arch. program. In 2007-08 we
achieved full implementation of the
M.Arch. professional curriculum and
graduate a first generation of M.Arch.
degree holders (24 graduates). Our
current population in the M.Arch.
Program is of 67 students. Our target
enrollment for the professional program
is of 122 students.
The thesis design projects of the first
generation of students of the M.Arch.
Program have been published and
distributed.
B. Provide each undergraduate with the opportunity to participate in an immersive learning experience.
Objective
-The Greenline Project.
The CAP Community-Based Projects Programs (CBP), in collaboration with the Land
Design Institute (LDI) led a new Eco-Economic Community Development Corridor
(EECDC) project, in partnership with the Center for Energy Research Education and
Service (CERES) and Building Futures Institute (BFI). It seeks to enhance ecoeconomic development of the multimodal transportation corridor (railroad and I-69)
from Indianapolis to Muncie. The EECDC seeks to be a catalyst that triggers
regeneration of prosperity with the Central and East Central Indiana region through
transit-oriented development (TOD) and eco-economic development that builds Indiana
prosperity in ways that sustain and enhance the health and productivity of the region’s
land-based resources and systems. This corridor could be powered by a regional
distributed energy network that produces energy, via clean technologies, from local or
regional energy resources (animal wastes, urban wastes, wind, solar and so on). All of
these efforts have, as a fundamental objective, a holistic approach to community
development that improves the overall quality of life.
During the fall semester the CAP academic departments agreed to coordinate efforts
under the umbrella of Transit Oriented Development (TOD). Using funding provided by
the Provost, CAP’s “Emen’s Distinguished Lecture Series” involved professionals with
experience in TOD and opportunities created by transit to improve the overall quality of
life of Indiana communities.
These speakers gave lectures as part of our traditional “Guest Lecture Series”.
Additionally, they served as studio critics, lectured in courses, and facilitated workshops
with students and faculty. In Indianapolis they met with State legislators, testified as
legislative hearings and met with alumni and professional organizations at CAP’s
Indianapolis Center.
BSU-CAP Student Working for the Greenline Project
-Navigating Nature.
A 12 student interdisciplinary team from landscape architecture, biology, natural
resources, telecommunications, computer science and English, won a 2007 American
Association of Landscape Architecture Student Award for creating “Navigating Nature”,
a video game that teaches elementary students to protect and reclaim natural
environments. The group was mentored by Martha Hunt, assistant professor of
landscape architecture. The students developed Navigating Nature through an immersive
learning experience at the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry.
Screen Capture of Program
Participating Students
- Charter Schools for Indiana.
Professor Harwood led a Business Fellows Project during 2007-2008 focused on
CHARTER SCHOOLS for Indiana. This multi-disciplinary effort involved the study of a
number of precedents, visits to state-wide schools and interviews with leading educators
and architects focused on new concepts and patterns for the design of facilities supportive
of Charter School goals and objectives. This work will be published in an international
peer reviewed journal (currently under peer review).
The Business Fellows team created a guidebook that includes four parts describing our
research: a series of charter school case study exemplars; nine case studies of profiled
Indiana charter schools; design projects for various charter schools; and a well-illustrated
pattern language and graphic vocabulary structured around six overarching design
principles.
- CAP-Asia.
Cap-Asia is a unique field-study semester which provides an extraordinary opportunity
for participants to experience the socially, culturally, and historically different South Asia
through a strategy of cultural immersion and collaborative projects with the help of a
network of scholars, professionals, and educators of planning and design in the region.
Catalyzing the Rebuilding Process
Completed Houses in Kalametiya
C
Objective
. Increase the number and quality of significant in- and out-of-classroom learning opportunities such
as experiential learning, international learning experiences, and service learning.
-The Council for Off-Campus Programs.
In the Spring of 2008, CAP created a new faculty committee (mainly composed by
coordinators of Study Abroad Programs) charged with the development of strategic plans,
tactical processes, and general coordination of our Off-Campus Programs. This group has
been meeting and will continue to do so during the 2008-09 academic year.
-The 4th annual Ball State Backyard
at the Indiana State Fair.
A faculty designed, student and facultyconstructed, 5000 sq.ft. interior garden
which serves as the Ball State Welcome
Center at the Fair.
Professor Malcolm Cairns welcomes
visitors to the Ball State Backyard
-ICMA Competition
The 40th consecutive ICMA project, a second year design competition which asks the
student to engage a "real" client in a public facility of significant contextual formal and
functional complexity. Sponsored by the Indiana Concrete Masonry Association.
Faculty and guest reviewers discuss the student’s work.
On the right, competition winners
-The Cripe Architects + Engineers Competition.
The Arch 401 design studio combines a design competition sponsored by the Indianapolis
firm of Cripe Architects + Engineers with a NAAB-oriented semester-long
comprehensive design project. The project for the fall semester of 2008 was a campus
sited building housing the university’s “sustainability” focused programs and facilities.
Cripe executives, competition winners, and dean of CAP
-Memorandum of Understanding with ECOSA Institute (Prescott, AZ) .
The ECOSA Institute was founded on the belief that design can no longer be taught in
isolation from other disciplines or a broader knowledge of the world. Design impacts and
is impacted by the political, social, environmental, and economic realms and therefore
solutions to many of the intractable problems we face can to a large degree be effected
through the design process.
The ECOSA programs expand past the often rigid boundaries of design education to
include planning, urban design, architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, graphic
design, product design and more, exemplifying the essential interconnectedness of all
aspects of design.
Unlike most programs, students also complete work for real clients with real budgets and
real sites, striking a balance between viability and sustainability. We address issues such
as how to bring sustainable design to a project with a modest budget and how to engage
with clients in advancing their own understanding of sustainability issues.
Ecosa Students Placing a Terracrete and a Straw Bale Wall
Through these experiences students learn what it will be like to work on real projects in a
professional setting, providing an excellent opportunity for career exploration. The
programs also provide extensive exposure to the various professional options that a career
in sustainability can provide.
In collaboration with ECOSA Institute, CAP has developed a new model for academic
partnership with highly specialized non-university institutions. Our MOU with ECOSA
Institute will allow the transfer of credit for academic work performed by our students in
the ECOSA environment into our degree programs.
Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture.
A team of CAP students working with key regional industry partners designed, digitally
fabricated, and assembled an exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. - Manufacturing
Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture. The exhibit which
opened March 28th features work from leading thinkers, designers and manufacturers
from around the world who participated in the 2007 IMA symposium of the same name
organized by Kevin R. Klinger and Branko Kolarevic.
Exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
-Professor Gray, has continued to offer a special elective that combines research, and
design/build activities leading to the development of a straw bale "eco center" on the
Cooper Field station in Muncie. This project is an immersion learning - demonstration research project of the Land Design Institute’s Land lab demonstration site. The project
attempts to reconnect people to sustainable relationships among buildings, sites, people,
prosperity and the planet.
-Professor Elvin’s interest in green building and nano-technology was the center of
his teaching in design studios during this academic year, linking students to his nationally
recognized studies of new ways of harnessing nano-technology in the support of more
sustainable construction. This work is supported by a number of blogs and websites
developed by Professor Elvin.
-Professor Chiuini study of Santa Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum and the Chicago
Stock Exchange provided Master of Architecture students with opportunities to apply
advanced digital modeling techniques to actual historical monuments. Both projects
involved the use of the CAP SIM LAB.
-In the framework of CAP’s out-of-campus program;
-CAP Field Trip Week.
This year a total of 678 out of approximately 800 students of the College traveled to
national and international destinations and performed on-site studies. It may be argued
that CAP/BSU has the largest design, planning, and construction field trip program in the
nation, if not the world. Destinations visited during Field Trip Week include; Washington
DC; Seattle/Portland; New York City; Canada; St. Louis; Cincinnati; Chicago,
Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; London; San Francisco; Los Angeles; New Mexico; Denver;
Columbus; Indiana; Cranbrook; Michigan; and Boston.
CAP-Italia, CAP-Americano, and CAP-Asia.
Three of our Signature Study Abroad Programs continue to take CAP student to global
destinations of particular significance to our disciplines. In addition to CAP-Asia
(previously described as an immersive learning environment), CAP-Italia took a group of
12 students under the supervision of Kevin Klinger and Tim Gray, visited Italy and
France. In similar way, CAP-Americano took a group of five students under the
supervision of Jason Johnson and Will Marquez to visit Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina.
CAP–Italia Faculty and Students
CAP–Americano Faculty and Students
Professor Kendall took three graduate students in the Master of Architecture
professional program to Boston in April 2008 to participate as observers in the first of a
planned series of national and international think-tank seminars on CHANGE-READY
HOSPITALS. It was jointly organized by Professor Kendall, David Hanitchak, Director
of Facilities at Partners Health in Boston, and Angela Watson, Principal, Shepley
Bulfinch Architects in Boston and was attended by 15 nationally recognized architects,
consultants, clients and construction company executives.
International MOU (Memorandum of Understanding)
In order to facilitate international collaboration and student/faculty mobility, during
2007-08 we have signes MOUs with several peer institutions in Argentina, Chile, and
Mexico.
-Universidad de Chile
Effective November 2007. Period of Agreement – Five years
-Universidad La Salle, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Effective February 2008. Period of Agreement – Five years
-Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hildalgo, Mexico
Effective March 2008. Period of Agreement – Five years
-Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina
Effective March 2008. Period of Agreement – Five years
Administration of La Salle University, LT Governor Becky Skillman (center), and CAP
Dean Vasquez de Velasco in Mexico City
CAP Dean Vasquez de Velasco and LT Governor Becky Skillman (center), during the
signing of MOU with Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, in Mexico
-In the framework of CAP’s community-based activities;
-The Center for Historic Preservation and its team of graduate students produced a
series of historic structure reports (HSRs) on some of the historic building managed by
the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. During 2007-2008, sites include:
-The Mathias Scholle House (New Harmony),
-The Opera House/Former Dormitory (New Harmony),
-The T.C. Steele State Historic Site (Brown County) and
-The Gene Stratton Porter State Historic Site (Rome City).
In cooperation with the Indiana Main Street program of the Indiana Office of Community
and Rural Affairs, the Center for Historic Preservation offered preservation-related
technical assistance to communities in Delphi, Wabash, Sheridan, and Cloverdale.
The Center for Historic Preservation helped the City of Noblesville on several projects
that will encourage the preservation of historic properties in the downtown.
In cooperation with the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, the Center for
Historic Preservation nominated thee historic stone arch bridges in Shelby County, Rush
County and Decatur County to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Center also completed several small projects for sponsors needing architectural preprofessional services. For example, the Center developed measured drawings of a historic
barn in Indianapolis for Cornelius (Lee) Alig that will be used for initiating plans for
renovation.
-Reynolds Indiana Comprehensive Plan.
Governor Mitch Daniels designated Reynolds
Indiana as BioTown USA. Mr.Daniels
intends to use sustainability and renewable
bio-energy as an economic engine ready to
revitalize small towns in Indiana. Reynolds is
the first such demonstration project. A team
of Ball State University Building Better
Communities (BBC) Urban designers and
Planners working closely with the community
developed the comprehensive master plan for
this small Indiana town. The team conducted
onsite workshops, field inventories and
analysis in order to produce a comprehensive
plan managing growth and development for
Reynolds Indiana.
Principal investigators: Hary Eggink, Eric Kelly, Michel Mounayar, Technical support
Elaine Fisher, Sustainability consultant John Motloch.
-Great Indy Neighborhoods Initiative (GINI) is an ongoing partnership with Local
Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), City of Indianapolis, and Indianapolis
Neighborhood Resource Center (INRC). In that context:
-Continued development and maintenance of initiative website
(www.greatindyneighborhoods.org) and related neighborhood websites
(www.crookedcreekneighborhoods.org, www.nearwestindy.com,
www.indyeast.org).
-Facilitated 6 design workshops, one for each GINI Demonstration
Neighborhood, including West Indianapolis, Crooked Creek, Binford Area, Near
Eastside, Near Westside, and Southeast Neighborhood.
-Developed exhibit showcasing cumulative results from design charrettes.
-Created final neighborhood plans with graphic design, illustration, mapping and
publishing services.
-Students conducted field inventory of building conditions and land use in several
GINI neighborhoods as a prerequisite for the neighborhoods receiving tax
increment financing districts.
-Western Gateway Initiative Workshop
-Facilitated steering committee and design workshop exploring linking cultural
resources and historic landscapes focused around 38th Street and White River
area. Partners included Indianapolis Museum of Art, Marian College, and Maple
Road Development Corporation.
-Clermont Community Workshop
-CAP:IC facilitated a design charrette with CAP students in the town of Clermont
to address issues of redevelopment, downtown revitalization, identity and
walkability. The workshop was a follow-up to a quality of life study undertaken
by a graduate planning studio in the fall semester.
-Distressed Neighborhoods Community Summit Planning
CAP:IC staff and a graduate assistant is working with Representative Bill
Crawford and staff of the House Ways and Means Committee to host a series of
community summits addressing the topics of economic development, education,
politics and values in some of the most distressed neighborhoods in Indianapolis.
The summits will result in a call to action with tangible goals and action steps to
do things such as find teenagers gainful summer employment and expand
minority-owned business.
-Near Eastside Neighborhood Study
Partnered with BSU Center for Historic Preservation to align a historic
preservation studio class with the Near Eastside neighborhood to develop public
education pieces aimed at promoting historic reuse and appropriate infill for a
new HoTIF (Housing TIF) district.
D. Increase the number of nationally ranked or recognized academic and curricular programs.
Objective
-Graduates of the Department of Architecture, as published by Design Intelligence
2008, rank among the top 8 (surpassed only by Clemson University, Yale University, and
the University of Minnesota) on their rate of success in Pre-Design tests of the
Architecture Registration Examination (ARE). This puts in evidence that our graduates
are very strong designers.
Architecture graduates show high rate of success in Pre-Design tests of the Architecture
Registration Examination (Ref. Design Intelligence Report 2008)
-The Landscape Architecture Programs, as published by Design Intelligence 2008 in
its national ranking, Ball State had moved up to 4th for the undergraduate program, and
from unranked to 5th for the graduate program. Regionally the department was ranked 1st
in the Midwest for undergraduate, and 2nd in the Midwest for graduate programs.
Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Program Ranking
(Ref. Design Intelligence Report 2008)
Landscape Architecture Graduate Program Ranking
(Ref. Design Intelligence Report 2008)
-Our Planning Program was ranked 13th (national) on the category of tuition in the
range of $6,500 to $10,000 by Planetizen, and 13th of all national planning programs
without a PH.D. Program. Lastly, our program was ranked #7 in the category of most
international students.
-The Center for Historic
Preservation was given an “Award of
Merit” this year by the American
Association for State and Local History
for its publication, “Muncie History: A
Handbook for Fourth Grade Teachers
about Muncie History.”
E
Objective . Offer market-responsive and nationally ranked or recognized extended education opportunities that
are integrated with on-campus offerings
-The College of Architecture and Planning has initiated a study leading to the potential
development of a constellation of graduate certificate programs to be nested in regular
graduate degrees of the College and also offered as stand-alone continuing professional
courses. Potential certificates include: Certificate in Historic Preservation.
Certificate in Health Support Environments
Certificate in Education Support Environments
Certificate in Urban Design
Certificate in Real Estate Development
Certificate in International Practices
Certificate in Sustainable Environments
Certificate in Advanced Digital Fabrication
Certificate in Integrated Practices
-The College has sponsored the creation of a Master of Urban Design Program to be
housed at the BSU Center in Indianapolis. This program will contain a number of courses
with potential for delivery in Continuing Education format.
-The Planning Department has initiated a study leading to the potential development of a
constellation of program and degrees in Real Estate Development to be based in
Indianapolis. These programs will contain a number of courses with potential for
delivery in Continuing Education format. Actions leading to the creation of a minor in
Real Estate Development has been initiated.
GOAL 2LARSHIP
The College of Architecture and Planning will support and reward faculty and student scholarship of
discovery, integration, application, and teaching.
A. Increase the number of quality faculty development opportunities to support high-quality scholarship
Objective
-CAP Faculty Symposium (Annex #2)
On April 2nd CAP held its first Faculty Symposium. That day we canceled classes and our
faculty presented 40 papers to an in-house audience of faculty and students. The event
provided a forum for faculty to learn more about the scholarship of their colleagues and
explore opportunities for building synergy. The presentations included internationally
recognized work grouped in several areas of emphasis. These areas included teaching,
emerging media, sustainability, historic preservation and design.
San Francisco-based architect and Ball State graduate Craig Hartman, a fellow with the
American Institute of Architects, provided the symposium's keynote address. Hartman, a
design partner with the firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, has worked on such key
projects as the international terminal of the San Francisco International Airport and the
Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, Calif. In 2001, he became the youngest
recipient of the Maybeck Award from the California Council of the American Institute of
Architects. The award recognizes a lifetime achievement in architectural design by an
individual.
Formal publication of abstracts and schedule of the symposium.
National Conference of the Association for Design Communication
Last Fall the College of Architecture and Planning hosted the Biennale National
Conference of the Association for Design Communication. Academics and professionals
(75+) from all parts of the United States participated in this three-day National
conference. Workshops, paper sessions and keynote presentations were held both at the
Muncie and Indianapolis campuses. The book of conference proceedings (425 pages) was
edited by BSU Professors Michel Mounayar, German Cruz, and Cheryl Bove. For more
info go to www.dca07.org
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3
2
4
The conference combines several keynote lectures (1) and performances (2) at the same
time that it provided space for paper presentations, demonstrations (3), workshops, and
social gatherings (4).
-Professor Kendall (working with Instructor Michael Gibson, Department of
Architecture) is organizing an international conference EDUCATION FOR AN OPEN
ARCHITECTURE at Ball State University for October 2008 in which students (and
faculty + conference participants) will be directly involved, by taking part in “design
exercises” led by nationally recognized educators.
Call for participation was issued during the spring of 2008
B. Expand extramural funding to support scholarship.
Objective
-The Council for Research and Creative Endeavors.
In the Spring of 2008, CAP created a faculty committee (mainly Directors of Research
Centers and Institutes) charged with the development of strategic plans, tactical
processes, and general coordination of our research activities. This group has been
meeting and will continue to do so during the 2008-09 academic year.
This is a record of all formal research proposals funded or pending review in the 2007-08
period (this list does not include CBP or BBC projects):
Director
Angulo,
Antoineta
Cairns,
Malcolm
Chiuini,
Michele
Elvin,
George
Title
Development of New Media
Learning Application for the
Enhancement of Visual-Spatial
Competence
Graduate Assistantship
Program for the Digital
Reconstruction of Architectural
World Heritage (DRAWH)
2007 Report on University
Research
Sponsor
Spencer Foundation
Indiana Chapter,
American Society of
Landscape
Architects
(INASLA)
National
Endowment for the
Humanities
American Institute
of Architects
Sponsor
Submitted
Status
$40,000
05/23/08
Pending
$3,750
08/27/07
Funded
$50,000
04/02/08
Pending
$25,000
08/23/07
Funded
Gibson,
Michael
Integration of Solid-State, SolarPowered Micro-Cooling
Assemblies in Building Skins:
Feasibility, Performance Studies,
and Prototyping
Gray,
Timothy
Renewable Energy for BSU
LandLab
Gray,
Timothy
Straw bale Eco Center:
Demonstrating how to Live
Sustainably in the Midwest
Truex,
Scott
Indianapolis DMD Neighborhood
Planning Assistance
Campbell,
Duncan
Stone Arch Bridge Initiative
Lankford,
Susan
Completion of Historic Structure
Reports for the Indiana Division
of State Museum and Historic
Sites
Lankford,
Susan
Indiana Main Street Assistance
Project
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Lankford,
Susan
Motloch,
John
Charrettes for Downtown
Hartford City and Downtown
Montpelier
National Register Nomination of
the Old Town Carmel Historic
District
Historic Architecture Survey and
Determination of National
Register Eligibility of Old Town
Carmel
Preservation What? A Primer to
the Practices and Players of
Heritage Preservation
Measured Drawings for Cornelius
Alig Barns
Hinkle-Garton Farmstead Project
for Bloomington Restorations,
Inc.
Sustainable Development
Practices on Brownfield Sites
(SDPBS)
American Institute
of Architects
$7,000
06/05/08
Funded
$25,000
10/05/07
Funded
$3,000
01/04/08
Pending
$30,000
08/08/07
Funded
$10,000
09/27/07
Funded
Indiana Division of
State Museum and
Historic Sites
$68,823
05/28/08
Pending
Indiana Main Street
$32,000
09/25/07
Funded
Hartford City
Revitalization, Inc.
$5,541
05/01/08
Pending
Carmel Clay
Historical Society
$5,483
05/01/08
Pending
Carmel Clay
Historical Society
$3,135
05/01/08
Pending
Indiana Humanities
Council
$2,000
05/01/08
Pending
Lee Alig
$1,806
12/05/07
Funded
$747
04/18/08
Funded
Indiana Finance
Authority
$900,000
05/01/08
Pending
Indiana Office of
Energy and Defense
Development
American
Architectural
Foundation
City of Indianapolis,
Department of
Metropolitan
Development
Efroymson Fund of
the Central Indiana
Community
Foundation
Bloomington
Restorations, Inc.
Motloch,
John
US-Brazil Universities of the
Future Consortium
U.S. Department of
Education
$220,000
04/29/08
Pending
Motloch,
John
Bioenergy Development
Cooperative Center (BDCC)
U.S. Department of
Agriculture
$200,000
04/08/08
Pending
Schoen,
David
Graduate Assistantship AY 20072008
$8,500
08/14/07
Funded
Schoen,
David
AY 2007-2008 Graduate
Assistantship
$8,500
08/23/07
Funded
Madison County
Council of
Governments
Delaware-Muncie
Metropolitan Plan
Commission
Schoen,
David
Funding for GA: Johnson County
Department of Planning
Johnson County
Department of
Planning
$8,500
08/21/07
Funded
Schoen,
David
AY 2007-2008 Graduate
Assistantship
HNTB Corporation
$4,250
08/23/07
Funded
-At the Center for Historic Preservation, the diversity of services offered and the high
quality of projects completed by students, the level of satisfaction expressed by the
Center’s sponsors, and the continued outreach efforts of the Center staff resulted in
substantial growth in the Center’s funding in 2007-2008. This year, the Center secured
$271,166 in extramural funding, matched by $45,960 from Building Better Communities.
The combined $317,076 in funding is an increase of $42,506 in funding from 2006-2007.
Professor David Schoen is in the process of securing a large research project with the
State of Indiana that will fund up to four graduate assistantships on a continuing basis. A
larger graduate student base will provide Department faculty the benefit of more
extensive and deeper research activities.
C. Increase the number of faculty and students and the breadth of disciplines engaged in scholarship.
Objective
Responding to the advice of alumni and building on available faculty expertise, we have
initiated new offerings in the fields of Urban Design and Real Estate Development. In
Urban Design we have initiated a new Master of Urban Design Program that will be
largely Indianapolis-based. The program is product of integration of all CAP’s
disciplines. Initial implementation is scheduled for fall 2008. In similar way we have
cross over colleges in promoting the establishment of a Minor in Real Estate
Development. This minor will start to generate interest among students in this important
field, and precede the potential offer of a graduate certificate in Real Estate Development
and a Master of Real Estate Development in the future.
D
Objective
. Recognize scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching with implementation
defined at the department level.
Given our current limitations for funding faculty travel and release time from missioncritical teaching tasks, we are applying our creativity to the implementation of higher
levels of integration between our research and teaching resources. Through the Council
for Research and Creative Endeavors we are investigating opportunities for the
development of strong faculty fellows and faculty mentors programs. This is a wellknown model in research intensive institutions that has the potential to work well in CAP.
E. Grow selected graduate programs to support increased scholarship.
Objective
Growth of the Master of Architecture Program
Increase from 35 to 48 graduate students in the first year of the graduate professional
program. Total increase in this program from 54 to 78 (includes students in required
internship). Expected enrollment at full capacity is 122 students. Additional faculty is
needed in order to address the full capacity of this program.
Growth and potentially redirecting the focus of the Master of Science in
Architecture Program.
Initial discussions point towards the possibility of a program oriented towards
international practice. An alternative potential focus would be in the field of design
education. In that case the MS ARCH Program may serve as a stepping stone towards a
doctoral degree (PhD) in design education.
Potential growth of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program.
This is a graduate program with good potential for growth based on national ranking (top
5 among MLA Programs according with Design Intelligence Report’ 2008). Growth
depends on the availability of additional faculty.
Objective
F. Attract and retain highly productive faculty of national prominence.
All 2007-08 new tenured and tenure-track faculty have the highest possible
terminal degrees in their disciplines:
-Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, Ph.D., Professor, experienced educator and
internationally recognized expert in the use of digital technology in design
education;
-Walter Grondzik, Ph.D., Professor, internationally recognized expert in sustainability
and environmental systems ;
-Karen Keddy, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, specialist in social and cultural issues in
design.
All 2007-08 new contract faculty have demonstrated track records of excellence in
teaching, research, and service:
-Antonieta Angulo, Ph.D, Associate professor of Practice, specialist in the use of digital
design media in the instruction for design studios;
-Michael Gibson, Instructor, specialist in sustainable technologies and fabrication.
GOAL 3EMENT
The College of Architecture and Planning will address local, state, national, and international needs through
activities that foster collaboration and mutually beneficial relationships with its diverse constituents.
A
. Foster and support activities of faculty, staff, and students that have the potential to lead to
Objective
enterprising ventures.
-Professor David Schoen is in the process of securing a $250,000 award from the State of
Indiana to build an economic development tool, using GIS, that will become one of the
major State tools (such as STATS from IU). This will initially be 18 months in duration
but it is expected that this program will last for a number of years.
-We are in the process of studying the possibility of delivering (as an export function)
graduate certificates via digital networks into emerging graduate programs in Latin
America.
B
Objective . Offer market-responsive educational, cultural, and economic development programs that
meet the needs of external partners.
Community Outreach Grant Projects
-Great Indy Neighborhoods Initiative (GINI).- (Due to high level of BSU student
participation, this item has also been included under Goal 1 / Objective C).
-Western Gateway Initiative Workshop.- (Due to high level of BSU student
participation, this item has also been included under Goal 1 / Objective C).
-Cultural Development Commission
Ongoing partnership with Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission in
maintaining www.culturalindy.com website.
-Fostering Commercial Urban Strategies (FOCUS)
Ongoing partnership with Local Initiatives Support Corporation in maintaining
www.focusindy.com website promoting this strategic urban economic
development program.
-Urban Design Indianapolis
Ongoing work on public initiative to develop design guidelines for Downtown
Indianapolis. Work included finalizing guidelines and formatting guideline
booklet.
-Clermont Community Workshop.- (Due to high level of BSU student
participation, this item has also been included under Goal 1 / Objective C).
-Indy Land Bank
CAP:IC developed a real-estate engine for the Indy Land Bank, which is the City
of Indianapolis’ vehicle through which abandoned homes are acquired and turned
over to non-profit and for-profit developers for redevelopment. The website
(www.indylandbank.com) builds on CAP:IC’s work on the abandoned housing
problem in 2003, when students and graduate assistants inventoried more than
8,000 abandoned properties in the city.
Special Projects
-Distressed Neighborhoods Community Summit Planning
CAP:IC staff and a graduate assistant is working with Representative Bill
Crawford and staff of the House Ways and Means Committee to host a series of
community summits addressing the topics of economic development, education,
politics and values in some of the most distressed neighborhoods in Indianapolis.
The summits will result in a call to action with tangible goals and action steps to
do things such as find teenagers gainful summer employment and expand
minority-owned business.
-Near Eastside Neighborhood Study.- (Due to high level of BSU student
participation, this item has also been included under Goal 1 / Objective C).
-Cultural Trail Video
Partnered with BSU Center for Media Design to develop animated
promotional/informational video on the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. The project
was funded through a grant with the Central Indiana Community Foundation.
The video also serves as the inaugural component of the City Discovery Center in
the storefront of the Ball State Indianapolis Center. The goal of the City
Discovery Center is to engage the public in the design and development of the
past, present and future of Indianapolis.
Guest Lectures
-Partnered to bring Dom Nozzi, Executive Director of Walkable Streets, to speak
in Indianapolis about an upcoming book. Walkable Streets is a non-profit
organization promoting alternative modes of transportation.
-Colin Davis spoke at CAP:IC about his recent three-month, 4,000 mile bicycle
ride from San Francisco to Boston to raise awareness about climate change. He
presented concrete steps every individual can take to reduce their impact on the
environment.
Conferences
-Indianapolis by Design 4: Walkability Matters
Partnered with Health by Design coalition and Indiana Planning Association to
host conference keynoted by Dan Burden, Executive Director of Walkable
Communities with breakout sessions highlighting accessible design, the
Indianapolis Regional Pedestrian Plan, and the Indiana greenways system.
-Indiana Building Green Symposium
This conference builds on the Indiana Building Energy Conference of 2006, of
which CAP:IC was a founding partner. This conference expanded beyond energy
topics to address the range of sustainable design issues. Founding partner s
include CAP:IC, AIA Indianapolis, USGBC Indiana, ASHRAE, CSI Indianapolis,
and IIDA Indiana.
-Urban Land Institute Transit Oriented Development Conference
CAP:IC partnered to support this TOD conference with keynote speakers Marilee
Utter and Elwyn Tinklenberg. The conference highlighted development
experiences with the Denver, Minneapolis and Chicago rapid transit systems and
their implications for building such a system in Central Indiana. Scott Truex
served as the moderator.
-Indiana Sustainability Alliance
CAP:IC is a founding member of the Indiana Sustainability Alliance, an emerging
network that seeks to bring together business leaders, policy makers, investors,
entrepreneurs, educators, developers, scientists and other professionals to move
Indiana toward a sustainable future. The Alliance’s first event brought Dr.
Michael Walsh of the Chicago Climate Exchange to Indianapolis to discuss the
concept of greenhouse gas markets. The program also included Jeremy Harris,
former Mayor of Honolulu and founder of the Sustainable Cities Institute. Mayor
Harris shared the success he had in office transforming Honolulu into the most
livable city in the world while integrating sustainability practices. The last event,
held on June 12, discussed Indiana’s Cummins Corporation move toward
sustainability.
C
Objective
. Expand the success and reach of Ball State’s Building Better Communities (BBC)
initiative, dedicated to expanding economic opportunities and advancing quality of life in communities across
Indiana.
CAP Outreach Alliance of Centers and Institutes.
CAP is nationally renowned and awarded for its work with Indiana communities.
Community-based design and planning defines CAP's national image and
reputation. This tradition has been brought about by the dedication of CAP faculty
completing over 300 community-based projects. CAP has several faculty experts
with over a100 years combined experience in the area of community-based design
and planning. CAP's impact on Indiana communities may be measured in the
millions of dollars including 0.8 million dollars project renovation for Beech
Grove Indiana, a new multi-million dollars waterfront for Jeffersonville Indiana, a
new Plaza and civic tower for Elkhart Indiana. Most recently CAP, working with
BBC, contributed to the redevelopment of the Goshen millrace and the
comprehensive plan of Reynolds, Indiana. Over the years CAP graduated
hundreds of professionals that rely on expertise gained from participation in
Community-Based Projects (CBP). Such highly specialized expertise has been
developed through years of field testing and innovation. Community-based
design and planning requires distinctive graphic and public communication skills
including knowledge of small town community design, planning, political, social,
economic, and government networks.
Organizational diagram that describes the articulation of CAP’s outreach efforts through an
alliance of related centers and institutes.
In addition to CAP’s Community-Based Projects Program, our Center for Historic
Preservation, and Land Design Institute generate a substantial amount of outreach
activity that needs to be better coordinated in it’s interface with BBC. In order to
provide better articulation between CAP’s outreach efforts and the Office for
Building Better Communities we have been working in the development of a CAP
Outreach Alliance of Centers and Institutes that may better interface with BBC. In
the next few weeks this proposal will be articulated.
D
. Lead Indiana in authorizing charter schools and be the premier resource supporting
Objective
the success of all charter schools.
-With a grant from the Business Fellows Program, Associate Professor Pamela Harwood
taught one studio on charter schools, and will teach another in fall 2008; the work of her
students has been exhibited and written about in the newspapers of three Indiana
communities.
E
Objective . Provide working professionals in Indianapolis access to professional development through
graduate programs, skill enhancements, and facility access.
For the first time, our 2008 Guest Lecture Series and the presentations of our CAP
Faculty Symposium were subject of live-webcast to our alumni and the membership of
the Indiana Construction Roundtable (ICR).
On-line repository of all CAP 2008 Guest Lectures available on streaming video
Through our leadership in professional organizations, as well as our infrastructure and
personnel in Indianapolis, we facilitate continuing professional development events that
serve our alumni.
Continuing Professional Development
of the American Institute of Architects
(AIA) in Indiana and Indianapolis
Continuing Professional Development
of the Indiana Construction Roundtable
(ICR) in Indiana and Indianapolis
GOAL 4UNITY
The College of Architecture and Planning will improve the university community’s quality of life.
A. Increase student, staff, faculty, and family participation in a coordinated wellness program.
Objective
-Lickety Split
For over 30 years it has been a CAP tradition that on the last week of the spring semester,
students, faculty, and staff gather at the residence/property of Professor Rod Underwood
for an afternoon of congenial volleyball games. We are looking forward to further
promote the participation of faculty and staff teams that may for that purpose establish a
year-around training program.
The end-of-semester event is a blend of volleyball championship (1979) and picnic (2008)
B. Create a service-oriented campus culture in all units.
Objective
-The Faculty and Students of CAP participate in a number of service-oriented programs.
The following programs have been active during the 2007-08 academic year:
-Community Based Projects,
- Katrina Relief,
-Spring Break in Haiti,
-Habitat for Humanity, and
-Freedom by Design:
For about 15 students of architecture, accessible design isn’t an abstract concept.
It’s the focus of their work to help the Muncie, Indiana, community. The
members of Freedom By Design, a group affiliated with the campus chapter of
the American Institute of Architecture Students, use their skills and energy to
help elderly or low-income Muncie residents who have difficulty getting around
their homes.
“I thought, ‘I have all this knowledge. Wouldn’t it be great to offer it back to the
community?’ I want to use it. I want to help people,” said Freedom By Design
President Jamie Owens. Owens and his roommate, group Vice President Jason
Klinker, led a project during the fall 2007 semester to help a Yorktown teenager
who lost the use of his legs in a car accident. Freedom By Design volunteers
built a canopy over the entrance to Chase Hemme’s home and widened his
doorway to better accommodate a wheelchair.
CAP students of Freedom By Design, at work.
Next, members of the group plan to renovate Hemme’s bathroom to make it
easier and safer for him to use the shower and toilet. In spring 2008, the students
were seeking donations for the second project. “We want people to live in safety,
to live in comfort, and to live in dignity,” Owens said. Our State Chapter of
AIAS Freedom by Design is one of only five national student chapters selected
by AIAS national to work directly with esteemed Hoosier international Architect
Michael Graves.
The group was founded in 2005 and has been featured in The Star Press in
Muncie and on WISH-TV Channel 8 in Indianapolis. It enjoys the support of the
College of Architecture and Planning, and Klinker said working with Freedom
By Design is an educational opportunity as well.
Owens said undergraduate architecture course work prepares group members not
only to tackle both the design and technical components of a construction project
but also to lead a group endeavor. In the future, Owens and Klinker, who have
graduated in May 2008, hope the group can help four or five families each
semester.
-The Department of Landscape Architecture also provided instructors for 14 lectures for
2 Indiana Garden Club Landscape Design Study Courses.
-At CAP:IC, Brad Beaubien and Scott Truex serve in a substantial number of civic
committees:
-Brad Beaubien served on the East 10th Street Civic Association Design
Committee, Indianapolis Cultural Districts Council, and the Southeast
Neighborhood Development Public Space Committee. He also served on
the Board of Directors for King Park Area Development Corporation,
where he chaired the Public Safety Committee.
-Scott Truex served on the following Indianapolis based committees:
-Mayor’s Greenprint Commission charged with looking for ways to make
Indianapolis a more sustainable city;
-Program Committee of the Indiana Chapter of the Urban Land Institute
developing conferences and workshops for ULI and associated
organizations;
-Steering Committee of the Great Indy Neighborhoods Initiative providing
direction for the GINI process;
-Health by Design Advisory Committee, an emerging movement in
Central Indiana to bring together advocates of community design,
transportation and health to support healthy and active living;
-Indiana Sustainability Alliance Advisory Board, INSA promotes the
growth of the sustainable development, green building, renewable energy,
water management, and clean technology industries in Indiana;
-Cultural Trail Communications Advisory Team, work to increase the
awareness of the cultural train and its many partnerships;
-Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Monumental Awards Advisory team
working to transform the MA program and its partnerships.
C. Achieve greater success and recognition in extramural athletics and academic competitions.
Objective
Ben Ross (ARCH), “Progress Condemned: The Remarkable History of the Fagin
Building (1888-1896),” refereed paper given at the Annual Meeting of The
Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH); expanded
version invited for publication in the 2009 issue of Arris, journal of SESAH.
Tracy Autenrieth and Daniel Roberts (ARCH), 4th Place, AMD Open Architecture
Challenge (an international competition organized by Architecture for Humanity).
Matt Van Soest and Matt Goyak (ARCH), winners, 4th year studio competition
sponsored by Cripe Architects + Engineers (Indianapolis).
Jared Burt and Nick Respecki (ARCH) , winners, 3rd year studio competition
sponsored by Gresham Smith Architects (Knoxville, TN).
Luke Haas (ARCH), winner, 2nd year studio competition sponsored the Indiana
Concrete and Masonry Association (Indianapolis).
Lauren DuCharme and Naomi Lewis (LA) were awarded the national Morris Udall
Scholarships, bringing the Department total to 3, of only 4 ever awarded to Ball State
students.
Jessica Barnes (LA) was recently awarded a Critical Language Scholarship from the US
State Department.
A student team of Landscape Architecture/CAP/BSU students (Chris Patten, Kelly
Woodward, Adam Voirin, and Francesca Hernandez ) earned merit awards in
the national student design awards program of the American Society of Landscape
Architects. The project was the result of the Virginia Ball Seminar project, Navigating
Nature, directed by Martha Hunt.
Tracy Autenrieth and Daniel Roberts (students of Professor Wes Janz) have been
awarded 4th Place in the AMD Open Architecture Challenge, organized by
Architecture for Humanity, specific to the competition's Kenya site. The
particular program for the Africa site was the design of a youth media center in
the midst of a 250,000-person informal slum settlement in Nairobi.
Jagjeet Singh, an Architecture student, entered the MILES Revolution Video Contest,
which required students to engage in the sustainability movement by creating a
carbon-neutrality themed video that could be uploaded onto YouTube. The aim
of the contest was to push the limits of student creativity in order to spread the
message of emissions-free transportation. He won first place and received a
$1,000 cash prize plus a MILES Electric Vehicle for the Ball State campus. The
link to Jagjeet’s video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu1Uj_Ajyrw
Jagjeet Singh receiving cash prize and MILES Electric Vehicle
D
Objective
. Increase diversity of student, faculty, and staff populations and enhance the climate
supporting diversity.
-The recruitment of the following faculty members of Hispanic background contributes to
expose of our students to cultural diversity: Dr. Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco (Professor
of Architecture and Dean of the College), and Antonieta Angulo (Associate Professor of
Practice).
-The leadership of the Las Americas Digital Network has migrated from Texas A&M
University to Ball State University. In the fall of 2008 CAP will host the Las Americas
Virtual Design Studio. This is a design studio in which BSU students will work in
collaboration with students in schools of architecture spread throughout Latin America.
Their exposure to cultural diversity in a virtual design studio context will be substantial.
Screen capture of Las Americas Network Website
Screen capture of the Las Americas Virtual Design Studio Website
-Our Study Abroad Programs (CAP-Italia, CAP-Americano, and CAP-Asia), continue to
provide our students with exposure to a diverse multicultural framework of reference
(activities described under Goal 1, Objective C).
E
Objective . Plan and execute new construction and renovations of campus facilities to best support
learning, scholarship, institutional effectiveness, and quality of life.
-Addition of an enclosure for housing new CNC Router in area currently used as a
service patio.
In 2007 the Institute for Digital Fabrication purchased a new 5-axis CNC Router that
needs to be properly housed in the AB building in articulation with our design studios
and other fabrication resources. Currently we do not have the space for putting this new
piece of equipment in service but we do have an area of expansion that is ideal for this
purpose. The area of reference is currently used as an open-air service patio that is a
source of constant concern due to its lack of security and appearance. The area of
reference could house the new CNC Router, do so next door to our current workshop area
(ideal in terms of consolidation), and at low cost since most of the surrounding walls
already exist. The following images illustrate the location and the nature of the proposed
expansion.
CNC Router in storage
Location
Proposed enclosure
Open-air service patio
-Expansion of the woodshop to accommodate the consolidation of fabrication
equipment.
Over the last year we have made considerable improvements in the safety of our
woodshop. We still see opportunities for further improvement but space availability is a
limitation. Our proposal is to expand the woodshop located in the basement of AB in
order to better accommodate existing equipment that is currently decentralized. The space
currently used by decentralized fabrication equipment will be used to address our need
for additional design studios (due to the growth of the M.Arch. and M.L.A. Programs).
The following images illustrate the location and the nature of the proposed expansion.
Potential area of expansion in north
façade (basement)
Location
Proposed expansion
Narrow space between equipment
-Substantial reduction of AB’s carbon footprint.
We have conducted preliminary studies on the potential retrofitting of our building with
the objective of reducing substantially its carbon footprint or even take our building off
the urban energy grid as a demonstration project. Originally designed as a solar building,
AB is already perceived by many as a sustainable building. The following measures will
contribute to support that perception in terms of sustainable performance.
-Introduction of more efficient lighting and mechanical equipment (replacing the old and
less efficient equipment).
-Updating of sustainable technology in south façade.
Extroverted to the south
Objective
Introverted to the north
New technology can be
introduced in existing
framework
F. Increase the vitality of campus social and cultural life.
-The students of the Department of Architecture have continued to publish an annual issue of
GLUE.
-The students of the Department of Landscape Architecture (with Departmental and SCASLA
support) have published the inaugural issue of PERENNIAL.
GLUE / Student Publication of the Department of
Architecture
PERENNIAL / Student Publication of the
Department of Landscape Architecture