Prestigious Housing Design Competition
Won past times Reynolds Students
This observe demonstrates the high bird of academic achievement of Reynolds students. The contest was opened upwards to students, amateur too professional person architects too engineers. Michael too Charles competed against students from colleges too universities from across the state, equally good equally professional person architects.
Sponsored past times the Virginia Department of Housing too Community Development, Blueprint for the Future required participants to pattern a abode that meets strict affordability, sustainability too accessibility criteria. The contest had 2 phases: Phase I involved coming together projection too housing specs, too creating a site programme too drawings too Phase II required entrants to submit a pattern suitable for obtaining a edifice permit. Winners of Phase I advanced to Phase II.
Speaking amongst Michael merely earlier the Phase II deadline, he credited Adjunct Faculty inwards Reynolds School of Business Alan McMahan amongst prompting him to move into the competition. Whether or non he wins Phase II, Michael said, “The sense was great. I learned a lot virtually working amongst a partner on a projection too designing for practical purpose too affordability. We likewise had to read too comply amongst a broad array of projection requirements, equally good equally standards too codes. Perhaps most important, nosotros got real-world sense inwards designing a projection that may genuinely live on built.”
Director of the Virginia Department of Housing & Community Development Bill Shelton noted Michael too Charles’ designs, “included aspects of unloosen energy efficiency too aging inwards identify non typically institute inwards affordable homes.”
In add-on to existence a amount fourth dimension student, Michael currently plant business office fourth dimension equally a Gallery too Facilities Assistant at the Branch House Museum too equally an embedded tutor at Reynolds. He plans to graduate inwards May 2018 amongst an AAS inwards Architectural too Engineering Technology amongst an emphasis on contemporary technology for pattern earlier continuing his pedagogy too earning a Bachelor of Architecture degree.
Again, our congratulations to Michael too Charles for their accomplishments too to the faculty of the Architectural too Engineering Technology Department for their academic excellence. We wishing Michael too Charles all the best inwards completing too submitting their Phase II plans.
