“Architecture Students Choose Milgard Windows for Design Build Project”
September 11, 2018 
For the third year in a row, the students at UT Arlington school of Architecture were assigned a design build project. As the class began their school year, they were asked to work together to design a house, then proceed to build it. For the 2017-2018 project, a 1,560 square foot single-family home was designed. It was a modern take on the traditional Gable style home with white fiber cement siding, large Milgard® Thermally Improved Aluminum windows…

“Vimeo: Parallel Construction”
August 17, 2018 

The final video for Casa Cortile… 

“Design Build Program Project: 2017-2018”
May 11, 2018

A design build studio called Parallel Construction in the UTA School of Architecture has provided a unique opportunity for our students. It all begins with the students designing a house, to them actually building it.
With donations from the community and partnering with the Housing Channel, the home will be sold to an economically underprivileged family in the community. The final product was a 1,560 sq.ft. modern single-family home with white fiber cement siding, large windows and a bright red door. It’s located on the corner of Truman and Slaughter street with AT&T Stadium on the horizon… 
“Parallel Construction students complete house by AT&T Stadium”
May 4, 2018 
Three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms and a garage — architecture students built a 1,560 square foot home in about two months.
The house, dubbed Casa Cortile by the students, is a modern single-family home with white fiber cement siding, large windows and a bright red door. It sits on the corner of Truman and Slaughter street with AT&T Stadium on the horizon. The budget for the house was $150,000, sponsored by Housing Channel, a nonprofit housing task force. Materials valued at $50,000 were also donated by various sponsors.
Twelve seniors and six graduate students worked together to build the house, which the class designed last semester…
“Instagram: utacappa” 
March 29, 2018 
The process of building continues on this years Parallel Construction project. The students are working hard to complete the house by the end of semester. You can follow along with the build at @parallel_construction. Photo credit: Brad McCorkle… 
“Nailed It”
March 14, 2018 
Seniors and graduate students participating in the Parallel Construction Program through UTA’s College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs are really sweating the homework this semester. That’s because it involves hours of manual labor at the site of the single-family home the students are building for Housing Channel, a Fort Worth-based nonprofit that works to revitalize neighborhoods and provide affordable housing solutions.
Though most of the 19 students in the program headed by Josh Nason and Brad McCorkle will land office gigs once they… 

“Parallel Construction 2017-18: Concrete Pour Day”
February 28, 2018 

We finally got to get the foundation set for our Parallel Construction – Design/Build project: the Casa Cortile – a single-family residence just two blocks away from the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. This video tries to capture some of the key moments during the 4-hours-long process. Mind your ears, please, some parts could be a bit noisy! Parallel Construction is the official name for the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs – CAPPA’s Design/Build program at the University of Texas at Arlington. In its fourth year of the program (yes, that new) the students have had the opportunity to design a single-family residence, which not only follows modern architectural norms but also respects the immediate neighborhood… 
“Students build, design single-family home”
February 16, 2018 
Architecture students are building a house this semester, not just designing it.
Parallel Construction, a design-build architecture studio, has started the process of building a single-family home near AT&T Stadium. The house was designed by students last semester and is planned to be completed by May.
The project is sponsored by Housing Channel, a nonprofit housing organization. The house will be about 1,560 square feet and has a budget of about $150,000. After completion, it will be sold by the organization with programs in place to support the buyer, such as... 
“Twitter: CAPPA at UTA” 
January 23, 2018 
A design build studio, Parallel Construction, continues this year with another exciting project: a 1576 sq ft single-family residence here in Arlington, TX! These drawings created by our students will become a reality this Spring semester… 
“Parallel Construction Program, CAPPA”
September 25, 2017 

One class within the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs is designing, planning and building a single-family home.
Brad McCorkle is the main instructor leading the Parallel Construction program. The program allows students to have hands on experience from the beginning to the end of an architecture project.
The three-hour class meets several times a week and works together to come up with the best designs for the home... 

“Shorthorn features Parallel Construction Program”
September 21, 2017 

A feature in The Shorthorn, UTA’s student newspaper, highlighted CAPPA’s Parallel Construction program. Students in the Parallel Construction studio this semester will plan, design and obtain permits to build a single-family home in the spring. The client for the project is the Housing Channel, a Fort Worth nonprofit. This is the Parallel Construction program’s third year working on projects... 

“Architecture students plan house near AT&T Stadium”
September 15, 2017 

In one architecture classroom, students aren’t just drawing houses – they’re building them. Architecture students spend years creating designs and models, but the Parallel Construction program allows students to translate their designs into life-size structures. This semester, the students will plan, design and obtain permits to build a single-family home this spring. It’s important for students to have hands-on experience with the materials and construction process, said Brad McCorkle, lecturer and program coordinator. Students learn the difference between what goes on the paper and what happens during construction, he said. “They really start to understand the other… 

“From Tiny to Micro, Design Build Program Creates Two Micro Houses”
July 31, 2017 
Brad McCorkle, professor of architecture at University of Texas at Arlington, had never used ZIP System® stretch tape, but was quickly converted.

“As soon as I saw the demo on it, I was like, ‘We’re going to get some of that right?’” he laughed.
McCorkle leads the university’s design build program, Parallel Construction, and was researching products to use for the two student-designed, micro houses — both under 400 sq. ft. Once he was introduced to Huber Engineered Woods products, McCorkle…

“UTA Students Build Two Tiny Houses” 
July 20, 2017 
Students from the University of Texas at Arlington Architecture program became the first class from UTA to design and build not one, but two tiny houses.

In the Fall 2016, 20 design students competed for the chance to have their designs come to life. From there, outside contractors, architects, and builders thoroughly evaluated each design, choosing the best options that would be suitable to build.
The final two designs selected were: Casa Modulo, designed by Adam Fogel and Nexus designed by Omar Soto... 

“Tiny Houses Feature Aluminum Windows for Modern Style” 
July 20, 2017 
Have you ever heard of the Tiny House Movement?  According to Tiny House Talk, a blog dedicated to the subject, the movement is a growing real estate trend where people are choosing to live simply in smaller homes to become more conscious about their lifestyle. The definition of a “tiny home”, is anywhere between 65 to 400 square feet. The Tiny House Movement made its way into the University of Texas Arlington (UTA) Architecture program, (known as Parallel Construction), when twenty design students competed for the chance to design and build their own tiny homes for a school project. Previously, UTA Architecture had been involved in smaller structures such as… 
“Small Houses, Big Impact”
July 14, 2017 
They’ve already had their final review and received their grades. But this summer, some University of Texas at Arlington students have volunteered to continue work on a project they started last semester.

While the project may be small in size (360 square feet and 390 square feet to be exact), it’s a big accomplishment for a group that was learning the tools and processes of construction.
“So, for those who basically didn’t really even have serious power tool experience, to pull off what they did in four months… 

“Tiny Houses Give UTA Architecture Students Hands-On Building Skills” 
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…
“UTA Students Make Big Project Out of Tiny Houses”
March 31, 2017 
Often college students are encouraged to think big for their academic projects, but students in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs have been told to think small for their senior design projects — tiny actually.
The students are building tiny houses between Greek Row Boulevard and UTA Boulevard.
The college’s design program is called Parallel Construction and it is in its fourth semester, UTA said. The program provides students the opportunity to get hands-on building experience as they design and build their projects... 

“CAPPA Senior Design Project Aims to Reduce Residential Footprint”
March 30, 2017 

In the shadows of much larger construction projects like the Science and Engineering Innovation and Research Building and residence hall-dining hall-parking garage projects on the west side of campus, a smaller development is taking shape that molds student minds as they head out into the professional world. Students from the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs are building tiny houses as their senior design projects on Davis Street, between Greek Row Boulevard and UTA Boulevard.
How small? One house is only 360 square feet and the other dwarfs the first coming in at 390 square feet. In their coursework... 

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