This Semester’s Final Project | December 10
After months of late nights and nonstop sketching, we finally presented our critical access hospital designs for Lake Lure, North Carolina, during our final review. Throughout the semester, we had four iterative reviews and countless desk crits/pin-ups, all of which helped shape our final projects into something we’re genuinely proud of.
Even though we all started with the same site, it was amazing to see how everyone’s unique ideas and design voices led to completely different solutions. Some groups focused on the incredible view of the mountains and hills; others focused on creating restored wetlands to reinvigorate this flood-ridden site, but we all came up with great ideas for how to make a sustainable, critical-access hospital on a site that prides itself on its resilience.
We’ll take all that valuable feedback and submit our work to the AIA COTE Top Ten Student Competition in April, hoping to finally showcase a healthcare project on a larger stage. A big thank you to the guest judges, both in person and joining online, and hearing their fresh perspectives made the whole experience feel real and energizing.
Thank you to John Pangrazio, Partner Emeritus NBBJ; Sam Burnette, Principal ESA; Cam Twohey, Associate Principal Kahler Slater Architects; David Martin, Global Design Leader and Vice President Stantec; and Byron Edwards, Professor of Practice Emeritus, for traveling or joining us virtually from across the country. Additionally, we are thankful for Clemson’s Lyndsey Deaton and Dan Harding, who taught supplemental courses to create a holistic curriculum.
And of course, a huge thank you to our professors, David Allison and Scott Rawlings, as well as our facade specialist, Maurya McClintock, McClintock Consulting, for guiding us every step of the way.
