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UK Architecture Studio Exhibits Sustainable Design Proposals for New Home

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 4, 2015)  The work of students exploring sustainable design in University of Kentucky School of Architecture is on display to the campus beginning today (Dec. 4). The exhibition features students' work on possible concepts for a new UK College of Design facility. "Ideas on Display" runs through Dec. 11, in The Hub of the William T. Young Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public.  

Bruce Swetnam, the Kentuckiana Masonry Institute Endowed Associate Professor in Materials and Methods of Construction, and architecture instructor Michael Jacobs have conducted a graduate level architecture studio this fall focused on a sustainable design of a new facility for the College of Design. The college currently occupies space in Pence, Miller, Funkhouser and Bowman Halls, with Pence housing the college's administration offices, the Hunter M. Adams Design Library and more recently the Digital Media Lab and Fabrication Lab

The following UK students have work featured in "Ideas on Display": Tyler Abell, of Louisville, Kentucky; Emily Bottom, of Frankfort, Kentucky; Kelsea Clayton, of Benton, Kentucky; Shelby Ewing, of Campbellsville, Kentucky; Kelly Fink, of Louisville; Aaron Fritsch, of Crestview Hills, Kentucky; Hunter Heymann, of Lexington; Sarah Kimble, of Nitro, West Virginia; Hyo Jae Lee, of Murray, Kentucky; Eric Lowe, of Nicholasville, Kentucky; Belle Otte, of Georgetown, Texas; Don Shepperson, of Lancaster, Kentucky; Chris Wilson, of Saint Albans, West Virginia; and Bryan Wright, of Dover, Delaware.

The sustainable design studio is funded by a grant from the UK Student Sustainability Council. The council was formed to supervise the distribution of the environmental stewardship fee in order to responsibly advance the theory, practice and reality of sustainability at the university. Any member of the UK community can submit a proposal for funding support. 

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu