Building for the Future
AU industrial design students and building science graduate students in the College of Architecture, Design and Construction have teamed together to find solutions for several problems in the construction industry. On Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in the M. Miller Gorrie Center, students will showcase their solutions during the second annual Industrial Design and Building Science Collaborative Project Exhibition.
The project is a unique collaborative effort between the School of Building Science, the Department of Industrial Design and executives representing the construction industry. In the Industrial Design and Building Science Collaborative Project, 16 industrial design students and six building science graduate students were divided into five teams, and assigned two problems. Initially, 10 problems were chosen from a set of 35 problems suggested by the construction industry executives.
The student teams, each paired with a representative from the construction industry, then analyzed the problems and offered potential solutions.
Solutions include a full scale model of a proposed product, a set of scaled drawings with a photographic documentation of the final full scale model, full documentation of the entire design process and documentation of all resources used to gather information pertinent to the design developed.
The project began last summer, when construction executives identified problems they believed could be lessened or alleviated by modifying or designing a construction tool, product or process
Participating students gain beneficial experience applying theory to problems faced by the construction industry everyday.
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