May 2, 2017
With dark clouds and graduation deadlines looming, a group of UTA architecture students were again drilling and hammering in a field on campus last week, a ritual that lately has extended into nights and weekends.
The architecture majors are building structures they designed that can pack a complete living environment into less than 400 square feet. The assignment, part of the School of Architecture’s second-year design-build program called Parallel Construction, was inspired partly by the hot tiny-house trend.
“That played into it,” said Brad McCorkle, an adjunct professor who teaches both phases of the program. “But a lot of the decision was to pursue something that would be within our reach to complete in a 16-week semester.”
The two houses will have a final jury review on Friday, then the students graduate on May 12. And after putting sweat equity into their projects, they feel more confident they are ready for careers in architecture.