As part of the Bachelor of Architecture senior capstone, students are exhibiting their project posters in the north and west hallways of Jewett Hall at UMA’s Augusta Campus.
ARC 509 is the first semester of the UMA Bachelor of Architecture’s year-long architectural thesis project. It is an opportunity for senior architecture students to conduct independent investigative research in an area of special interest. The intent of this seminar is to help prepare the student in identifying, researching, and proposing a project of significance in preparation for ARC 510: Thesis Capstone, to be conducted in the spring 2020 semester.
Each poster exhibited represents a student’s thesis question and their preliminary investigation of site, program, and design methodology. The exhibit attempts to encapsulate research and visual analysis from the first ten weeks of the fall 2019 semester into a cohesive visual representation that simultaneously proposes a clear hypothesis for an architectural investigation, as well as situates the specific topic within architectural discourse.
The exhibit will run from December 4 through December 20, 2019.
The Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Maine at Augusta is Maine’s only professional architecture program and is the only NAAB accredited five-year professional architecture degree in northern New England. In addition to offering high-quality core values in space, scale, light, and design with intention, which assist students in obtaining their professional architecture license, the program is committed to the community the program brings together. The Architecture program’s mission is “architecture through engagement.” The program “educates and empowers students to explore, investigate, and analyze the built environment. Engagement brings students into active contact with each other, their coursework, and community partners across Maine.”