UC architecture students working underwater
To prepare themselves for an international competition this August, students in the University of Cincinnati’s new Extreme Environments design course are meeting and working at the bottom of the university’s Olympic-sized pool.
To prepare themselves for an international competition this August, students in the University of Cincinnati’s new Extreme Environments design course are meeting and working at the bottom of the university’s Olympic-sized pool.
Students in the course will be designing a simple net and metal house frame at the bottom of the pool that will become their entry into France’s “Archipelaego” competition in an effort to win the Jacques Rougerie Architecture of the Sea Award.
They’ll go underwater three more times this month, and will cap it off with a scuba dive in an Indiana rock quarry.
The idea behind the course is to teach students that they must experience an environment before attempting to design for it.
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