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FALL 2011 Volume 2, Issue 1 Fall 2011 STUDIO FALL 2011 Volume 2, Issue 1 Fall 2011 Fall 1 A Message From the Dean Greetings from your College, APDesign for areas of Kansas City, Manhattan, at Kansas State University, and numerous other cities, to fabricating aid stations at a retirement What a year! From nearly every corner community, to designing gardens and our alumni are reporting improved green roofs, our students are grappling conditions for practice as the economy with design application in tangible makes baby steps of improvement. I circumstances. am pleased to hear of new positions for our graduates as well, and I am The metrics of successful design hopeful that the increased number of service-learning outreach include: ”requests for qualifications” harkens to better financial times ahead, as well • Applicability: While specific to an as to greater potential for the positive area, need, or topic, the lessons of impact of design. One distinguishing the enterprise should be applicable aspect of periods like this is the in analogous situations. Knowledge transformation of practice brought is disseminated in published on, in part, by survival instinct. The results. most exciting changes to me, and • Alignment: The scale and scope of those with the greatest impact for the project are commensurate with education, are the amazing examples the conceptual abilities and skill of inventive retooling and restructuring sets of the students engaged in the by our design professionals. These enterprise. transformations serve to re-establish • Impact: The project serves to the primacy of design and the status advance community interests, of the design professions in grappling promote goodwill, and student- with the significant challenges of learning outcomes. our time, including social equity and • Interaction: The project affords environmental stewardship. In effect, students opportunities to engage they serve to expand the reach and constituents, user groups, potency of design thinking and applied shareholders, and members of design research. other disciplines affecting design outcomes and implementations. As I have said in the past, we are • Conflict of Interest: The project motivated to build on the traditional serves to set the table for the strengths of APDesign while searching design professions, not compete for innovative and new ways for all of with our friends and supporters. our students to engage in collaborative • Resources: Participation in the research and design. As we promote project advances the College and the transforming potential of design and provides additional resources for design-oriented research as necessary our students and faculty. endeavors, we aspire to do much more than equipping students with the base While there are numerous examples of competencies necessary to negotiate our outreach activities in this newsletter, traditional models of practice. Indeed, stay tuned as we continue to muster through renewed dedication to our more opportunities. Please know that University’s land-grant mission, we we always welcome your ideas on hope to instill in our charges a desire to how best to engage students in our stretch and redefine the boundaries of communities and appreciate your design practice. efforts to steer sponsors to us. Most importantly, our students, faculty and Now more than ever we are positioned staff are energized by your stories, to follow this course of learning and your lessons, and your anecdotes of engagement as we continually increase inventive design application. our service-learning activities and as we refine our land-grant mission through To this end, we hope you will become the K-State 2025 Visionary Plan1 being or stay engaged, as the case may be, in developed under the guidance of helping us develop the next generation University President Kirk Schulz. In the of design leaders! past few years our students have been involved in numerous design, planning, Dean de Noble speaks at the APDesign Ice construction, and leadership activities. Cream Social, April 29, 2011. From speculating on the design future 1To learn more about K-State 2025 visit: http://www.k-state.edu/2025/ STUDIO Cover: Seaton Hall’s Green Roof In May 2009, Associate Professor Lee R. Skabelund, disciplines, 14 faculty members from six disciplines, ASLA, spearheaded a project to install an experimental K-State administrators, workers from K-State Facilities, green roof on Seaton Hall. The space, approximately at least five professionals from the Kansas City area 305 square feet of roof surface on Seaton Hall’s West and various suppliers and contractors. In addition to Wing, sits above a third-floor breezeway and faces the environmental benefits of a living roof, which is south. The rooftop, which is buffered from north winds frequented by birds, bees, and insects, Seaton Hall’s by the fourth floor stairwell and K-State’s Radio Club green roof has proved a valuable teaching and research Room, contains 16 species of native Flint Hills prairie tool as well as a service-learning project. As the plants, growing in soil depths ranging from four to vegetation grows and establishes more extensive root seven inches. Monitoring equipment is being used to systems, the project will continue to help our students collect climatic data (including the temperatures of and faculty learn about the most appropriate species the air, green roof, adjacent rooftop and sub-surface to plant on living roofs in the Flint Hills eco-region soil, as well as rainfall and stormwater runoff). Plant and how green roofs influence stormwater runoff and growth and survival are being monitored closely as rooftop temperatures. well. Collaboration on the green roof planning and design-build project included 30 students from eight © 2011 The College of Architecture, Planning & Design//K-State Table of Contents Content contributed by Bruce Broce, Tim de Noble, Ella Todd and Emily Vietti. Studio ..........................................................4 Designed and produced by Graphicmachine. Development ...............................................9 International ...............................................12 Photos: Cover, pages 3-4, 20, 24, 28, B. Jones/Graphicmachine Research ...................................................14 Page 2, K-State Communications & Marketing Department Updates .................................18 Page 5, P. Jones/Graphicmachine Page 8, Rendering by Brandan Smith, M Arch 2011 Alumni Updates ........................................28 Pages 10, 11, 18, 21-23, 25, 27, 41-43, David Mayes/K-State Retirements ...............................................41 Page 12, Rick Forsyth Page 13, Chip Winslow Pages 14-17: Nathan Howe Page 19, Rendering by Tim Meyers, M Arch 2011 Page 28: Photo by GradImages Page 29, Courtesy Brent Bowman, AIA This page: Associate Professor Lee Skabelund, ASLA, tends to Seaton Hall’s green roof. Cover: Seaton Hall green roof STUDIO Kansas City Design Center Creates Opportunities APDesign fifth-year students have enrolled in the two-semester KCDC Bottoms, and with it the business a unique opportunity to study at the program each year. They work as and residential life that previously Kansas City Design Center (KCDC) a group on a design project that flourished there. A reduced city tax in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. has significance to the Kansas City base meant the area stagnated until Jointly run by APDesign and the community. APDesign Professor 1974, when the Kemper Arena was University of Kansas’ School of Vladimir Krstic, who serves as built. Architecture, Design and Planning, KCDC’s Interim Director, explains KCDC operates as an urban design that the group activities help foster a Currently, the area includes a variety incubator, where students work under sense of academic community while of businesses and residences, but the guidance of faculty and local preparing students for professional is somewhat separated because of design professionals to generate careers. “Any kind of work in the its location and geography from the ideas and develop opportunities profession is collaborative,” he rest of downtown Kansas City. Other for the Kansas City community. explains. “This program gives the challenges include the presence of “The purpose of KCDC is to expose students exposure to the idea of historical buildings, the railroad tracks students to urban design issues collaborative work and how to relate that slice the area, the importance through direct engagement of the to each other and work inventively of the area to both Kansas and challenges and opportunities found with each other.” The students also Missouri, and the concern that it is in the unique urban laboratory benefit from lectures and workshops prone to flooding, even though it is of Kansas City,” says APDesign held at KCDC and frequent protected by levees. Architecture Professor Vladimir Krstic, opportunities to attend professional who currently serves as KCDC’s and cultural events throughout the The question of how best to director. “We also provide service city. redevelop the West Bottoms is a learning, where we take on issues of topic of concern for community significance to the community that no KCDC’s projects are chosen by and business leaders, including the other agency can engage in.” KCDC faculty, in conjunction with Downtown Council of Kansas City, input received from the Kansas Missouri. In 1999, following a fire the David Warm, director of the Mid- City community. Krstic says previous year that destroyed seven America Regional Council and a KCDC balances the
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