Architectural Design Jury

Ambleside Library site

Tonight I will have the privilege of sitting on a design jury for a Baker College architectural design class.  I was invited to participate by architect friend Ron Campbell who is teaching the class.  Since I was quite possibly an architect in a former life (or perhaps destined to be one in the next?), this sounded fun and I jumped at the opportunity.

The students will each be making a presentation of their Schematic Design for a library in the fictional small town of Ambleside that just happens to have a few similarities to Lapeer, not the least of which is the site itself:  a slightly modified version of a real site in Lapeer.  The other jurors are a librarian and a landscape architect; I am to bring a City Planner's perspective to the panel.  But I'm sure my inner architect will be heavily engaged as well.  I can hardly wait. 

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