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As the result of a collaboration with the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, the Brooklyn-based dance company STREB, and UNL's Dance and Computer Science and Engineering programs, this second-year design project was supported by a National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) grant. One of the project goals was to promote dialogue with non-designers.

Embodying the world of a hobbyist through intentional design strategies was the goal of this 4-week design project. In attempting to design a Hobbyist’s Retreat, students explored the capacity of design to support and articulate the hobbyist practices within a 19th century masonry building. Here the design sought to bring regional birds into the building and magnify their songs through a domed insertion that re-oriented the birdwatcher’s domestic space.

This project is positioned in Downtown Lincoln, Nebraska, over the old Lincoln Federal building, better known as the Grand Manse. The proposal calls to buy the air rights over the building to accommodate a growing downtown with commercial and residential living. The focus of the project was to use a stacked vertical approach instead of the typical flat horizontal currently displayed in Lincoln.

New York City is where you can meet the world in one place. Residents and visitors bring the richness of multiculturalism from all over the world. However, many issues and inconveniences exist for those whose first language is not English, especially those elderly residents.