Feature Stories
By Jamie Woods
While most people wrap themselves in a sweater to keep warm, industrial design students at the University of Cincinnati are wrapping chairs in them...literally. Soft, thick, white ribbed sweater covers every inch of wooden frame on these second-hand chairs. Varying in style and color, these recycled chairs will find a distinctive home in the university's Solar Decathlon house.
By Emily Schneider
Walking through the 5000 level of the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, past the Rapid Prototyping Center and an exhibit of model dentist's offices, into the office of Associate Dean Anton Harfmann, and sitting down to hear him launch into a detailed and highly energetic explanation - with all the patience of a kindergarten teacher - of UC's entry in the 2007 Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC, one gets the feeling that this man lives and breathes architecture.
By Jamie Woods
Keeping students at the center has become one of the core values at the University of Cincinnati and with students like Chris Davis and the Solar Decathlon team, it's easy to see how the value translates into action. As students hastily work to complete their solar house by October, they not only run the show, they impress many of their professors and university faculty as well.
