Rural Studio Projects
October 11, 2008 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Home & Living
Rural Studio is part of the Auburn University campus in Alabama (College of Architecture, Design & Construction). They have various programs for students, such as…
- “Second-year program: typically fifteen to twenty second-year Auburn University architecture students move to Hale County for one semester and design/build a charity home.
- Thesis program: typically twelve Auburn University thesis architecture students move to Hale County for their fifth year. They form teams to plan, design and build community projects.
- Outreach Program: non-Auburn University graduates from around the world come to the Rural Studio to work on a joint project alongside the Thesis students.”
They also have a spiffy mission:
“To enable each participating student to cross the threshold of misconceived opinions to create/design/build and to allow students to put their educational values to work as citizens of a community. The Rural Studio seeks solutions to the needs of the community within the community’s own context, not from outside it. Abstract ideas based upon knowledge and study are transformed into workable solutions forged by real human contact, personal realization, and a gained appreciation for the culture.”
Of course there are the projects. Rural Studio has created some some very cool home. Not that they only tackle houses; they’ve also created shelters for animals, and plenty of public spaces. I like a lot of their work, but picked three nice random structures to share here…
Music Man’s House (sooooooo neat):
Each project page has more information about each structure plus great additional images. There’s a lot to see, but it’s so worth it, so set some time aside, and visit Rural Studio today.
[images via Rural Studio]
