Memorandum of understanding with a regional university
A two-year agreement covering studio teaching, a research placement, and shared access to the workshop.
The studio has signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with a regional university's school of architecture, covering three areas of work.
The first is teaching: two members of the studio will run a design unit each spring, working on live sites within an hour of the school. The second is a research placement — one graduate each year, funded, working on material reuse in the studio's own projects rather than on a separate academic exercise.
The third is workshop access. The school's fabrication facility and the studio's metal shop will be open to both parties, which should mean more full-size mock-ups and fewer decisions made from renders.
Documentation
- Memorandum of understanding (PDF)
Documents are listed to show the layout. File storage arrives with the CMS in a later phase.
More from the studio
Material reuse: an exhibition of salvaged components
Three weeks of salvaged structural components shown at full size, with the drawings that found a second use for each one.
Hillside Pavilions reaches structural completion
All nine timber frames are up, and the first standing-seam roof is complete.
Ongoing collaboration with a metal fabrication workshop
A standing arrangement that puts the studio's drawings and the fabricator's tooling in the same room early.