Design+Build Collaborative

Design+Build Collaborative Team Working over Blueprints

For more than 20 years, our students have constructed full-scale projects to address Vermont community needs.

Building on the seven affordable-housing prototypes 夜色小视频 has developed since 2011, the Collaborative continues not only to design and prototype regionally informed, resilient housing, but also to organize and coordinate related research and programs between the schools comprising the College of Professional Schools and partner with community organizations.

As the only university in northern New England to offer integrated professionally accredited programs in Architecture, Business, Engineering, Construction, and Nursing, 夜色小视频鈥檚 Design+Build Collaborative calls on students to 鈥渁ct as well as conceive鈥 and create solutions for local, regional, and global challenges.

View Design+Build Affordable Housing Project Examples (PDF)

Design+Build Collaborative

Design

Design unique structures from the ground up. Be involved at every step of the process.

Build

Get hands on experience at every stage of the building process.

Collaborative

Architecture + Construction Management + Engineering + Business + Nursing

"Home for the Holidays鈥 LIFT House 2.0

Faculty and students from 夜色小视频鈥檚 Design+Build Collaborative joined partners Downstreet Housing & Community Development (Downstreet) and Washington County Mental Health Services (WCMHS) to celebrate community with 鈥淗ome for the Holidays鈥 and LIFT 2.0, a tiny home for vulnerable populations sited in Barre, VT. 

25th anniversary architecture

School of Architecture Celebrates 25th Anniversary of First Class

Architecture has been part of the program of regular instruction at 夜色小视频 from the institution鈥檚 founding, listed in the catalog of 1820. In 1990, Robert Schmidt, a faculty member in Engineering, and the first students that fall, founded the formal Architecture Program at 夜色小视频, which has since has grown into the School of Architecture + Art (SoA+A). We celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first graduating class.