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Advanced Structural Integration Collaboratory Model For Architecture Students, Thomas Fowler Iv, Satwant Rihal
Advanced Structural Integration Collaboratory Model For Architecture Students, Thomas Fowler Iv, Satwant Rihal
Thomas Fowler IV, DPACSA, FAIA
The architecture program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, has a strong technology component (as part of the Polytechnic Mission of the University) over the years since itsinception in the 1960’s, that led to the establishment of the College of Architecture andEnvironmental Design. The paper presents an advanced structural integration collaboratory model that works with recent changes in the curriculum. The history of the program is important, since the curriculum has always had a very intensive architectural engineering (structural systems focus) sequence of courses. While architecture students were definitely acquiring a strong knowledge of a wide range of building …
Partnering Without Boundaries: Integrating Structures, Architecture, Practice, And Education, Thomas Fowler Iv, Kevin Dong
Partnering Without Boundaries: Integrating Structures, Architecture, Practice, And Education, Thomas Fowler Iv, Kevin Dong
Thomas Fowler IV, DPACSA, FAIA
A college wide, studio-based engineering and design course is used as the mechanism for learning, experimentation, and exploration of the built environment. Student teams part- ner with design professional mentors to create viable solutions for real world projects. Students address architectural, structural, environmental, and construct-ability issues. For the highlighted project, students integrated laboratory research and fundamental engineering principles to develop building designs which recognized current building technology, sustainability, and cultural issues for a polytechnic college in rural Tanzania; then based on the design proposals, constructed a building proto-type. The school motto is “Learn by Doing” and with projects such as …
Mbesese Build: An Experimental Experience (Same (Tanzania, Africa) Polytechnic College, Thomas Fowler Iv, Kevin Dong
Mbesese Build: An Experimental Experience (Same (Tanzania, Africa) Polytechnic College, Thomas Fowler Iv, Kevin Dong
Thomas Fowler IV, DPACSA, FAIA
The Project
Communities in East Africa are in need of supplemental and diversified tertiary educational opportunities to increase humancapitalandreducetheseverelevels ofpovertythatareendemicintheregion.TheSame’PolytechnicCollege is a proposed vocational training institution to be established in the Kilimanjaro Region of the United Republic of Tanzania. The college is the pilot project ofa US registered charitable organization whose primary purpose is to improve quality of life for rural communities in East Africa. The non-profit has partnered with design firms and the students and faculty of The University to develop a framework around which the campus will develop. The objective is to plan for orderly campus growth by …
Tanzania Polytechnic College Classroom Buildings Update 2019, Thomas Fowler Iv
Tanzania Polytechnic College Classroom Buildings Update 2019, Thomas Fowler Iv
Thomas Fowler IV, DPACSA, FAIA
The work in this publication is a summary of ongoing work that started in 2014, when architecture and architectural engineering students starting developing the master plan for the proposed Polytechnic University in Same, Tanzania, Africa, working directly with ARUP’s David Lambert and the Mbesese Initiative for Sustainable Development. Since this time we have had 200 plus graduate and undergraduate students who have provided research and design input into the development of this project.