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| Looking to the Future Tim Phillips (Lombard), a College of DuPage Architecture student, looks over a display depicting the C.O.D. campus in 2012 that he and another student, John Svast (West Chicago), constructed. The huge display, built to scale, is located in the college Library and models the entire C.O.D. campus as it will appear in 2012. The display includes all buildings, some of which have yet to be built, that are part of the comprehensive Facilities Master Plan. |
| C.O.D. Campus in 2012 By Ken Reed If you enjoy gazing into a crystal ball, then a display in the College of DuPage Library depicting the college campus in 2012 will be to your liking. The huge display, built to scale by two C.O.D. Architecture students, is an actual physical model of the entire C.O.D. campus as it will appear in 2012. The display includes all buildings, some of which have yet to be built, that are part of the comprehensive Facilities Master Plan (FMP). The two students who constructed the display are John Svast (West Chicago) and Tim Phillips (Lombard). The pair was hired as interns last year by Gavin Tun, former director of Facilities Planning and Construction. After seeing physical models of buildings displayed in the C.O.D. Library that had been constructed by C.O.D. Architecture students, and hearing an observation by a Board of Trustees member that having physical models of the new FMP buildings would be helpful, Tun hired Svast and Phillips to work on a model of the entire campus. During the construction process, Svast and Phillips worked from architects’ drawings to model some of the buildings in the display that haven’t been built yet. The students were required to read and interpret the drawings in order to build the model. Mark Pearson, C.O.D. assistant professor, Architecture, served as a faculty adviser for the project, but final decisions rested with Angela Knoble, acting director of Facilities Planning and Construction. “Tim and John did an exceptional job on the model,” Knoble said. “A lot of time and effort was put into working out the details, such as creating mockups to determine the scale and size of the model, reviewing construction drawings in order to create 3-D images of both existing and new campus buildings, and experimenting with various materials to determine which would work best. It was a great learning experience for them.” The project was interdisciplinary and included not only Knoble and Pearson but also the college’s Cooperative Education program. By involving the Cooperative Education area, the students earned credits for their work-based learning. “It was a great learning experience,” Phillips said. “I learned how to work with project managers and how to plan and construct the model. I also learned how to interpret documents and how to produce the site plan that was used to make the model.” For more information on the college’s Architecture program, call Pearson, (630) 942-2763, or visit the Architecture web site: www.cod.edu/academic/acadprog/occ_voc/Archtech. For information about the college’s FMP, visit www.cod.edu/facilities_plan. |
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