Shelter in Place

In Early March, a group of 7th graders from BMS had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with architecture students from the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.  The students were part of a workshop held on the campus of The Chewonki Foundation to brainstorm ideas for refugee shelters that are lighter than traditional homes, but more substantial than tents.  These structures will incorporate advanced fabrics held in tension with poles and cables.  For an in depth synopsis of the workshop, click here.

Below are links to some of the designs created by the 7th graders with guidance from the architecture students.  Below each hyperlink is feedback from Professor Mark. 











Design #1
"Is smartly engineered."

Design #2 
"...very much in tune with larger social clustering issues we’ve been concerned with and inspired discussions within the studio. I even referred to it [during a] guest lecture to Engineering."

Design #3
"#3 & #4  have the level of consideration sympathetic to what you would want see explored in an architectural studio."

Design #4

Design #5
"...broke new ground, using one of the kits in a way we hadn’t anticipated."

Design #6 

Design #7 

Design #8 

 

"Althea R. did a series of beautiful drawings, including one of a cutaway axonometric projection."

Thank you, Professors Earl Mark and Tom Martin for offering us this amazing opportunity.  And thank you to Chewonki's Lisa Packard for coming up with the idea and putting all the pieces together to make it happen!

Students present their work to their classmates back at school