2/10/2016

For as long as they’ve been designing buildings, architects have had to balance their vision for design with the wants and needs of their clients. Some clients may be harder to please than others, but ultimately, the support of a project’s financier is essential if it is to be built. Even the work of the greatest architects could not have come into existence through the efforts of the architect alone. Often, the best designed buildings are...(more)

Our site at the Camp Wood YMCA lies at the intersection of purely social settings and incredible environmental conditions. These two factors, from the start, have heavily influenced our design for the project. A thorough site analysis of the climate, ecology, geology, history, senses, seasons, and even local art, has given our team a better perspective of what it means to design, then build, a pavilion at Camp Wood. The goal of the Preston Outdoor Education Station is to create an aesthetic experience of the prairie like no other...(more)