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Three students gather around piece of wood to build a structure in the Hunt Hall courtyard

A Golden Year for Design and Community

  • by Tiffany Dobbyn

For 50 years, the landscape architecture program at UC Davis has helped communities imagine better streets, bike paths, gardens, parks and public spaces. One course takes that imagination a step further, letting students design and build structures that have brought a fun energy to campus. Now, their latest project will soon find a home in the City of Davis.

Three new architectural follies, designed and built by students, were installed outside of Hunt Hall, home of the landscape architecture + environmental design program. Photo by: Jael Mackendorf, UC Davis

From Sketch to Reality: Students Design and Build New Structures on Campus

  • by Tiffany Dobbyn

What started as a simple sketch in Brianna Bobadilla’s notebook has transformed into an eye-catching structure – a hanging table surrounded by benches and elevated side tables. Now on display outside Hunt Hall, just steps from Memorial Union, this piece is one of three unique structures crafted by students in the LDA 160 Design and Build Studio course, which challenges students to build a new small-scale project each fall.

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