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The
Rural Studio
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- Lucy House, Mason's Bend, Hale County
(Al.)
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- Bryant "Hay Bale"
House, Mason's Bend, Hale County
(Al.)
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- Cedar Pavillion, Perry Lakes Park, Perry
County (Al.)
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| Foto: Rural Studio
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Mission
The mission of the Rural Studio is to enable each
participating student to cross the threshold of misconceived opinions to
create/design/build and to allow students to put their educational values
to work as citizens of a community. The Rural Studio seeks solutions to
the needs of the community within the community's own context, not from
outside it. Abstract ideas based upon knowledge and study are transformed
into workable solutions forged by real human contact, personal realization, and a gained appreciation for the culture.
History/Description
In 1993, two Auburn University architecture
professors,
Dennis K. Ruth and the late Samuel Mockbee, established the Auburn
University Rural Studio within the university’s School of Architecture.
The Rural Studio, conceived as a method to improve the living conditions
in rural Alabama and to include hands-on experience in an architectural
pedagogy, began designing and building homes that same
fall. Professors
Mockbee and Ruth sought funding to begin the studio and, through the years, it has received additional funding which has helped it become what
it is today: a vision of a process to make housing and community projects
in one of the poorest regions of the nation.
The students who attend the Rural Studio expand their
design knowledge through actually building what they have designed.
Utilizing the concept of “context-based learning,” the Rural Studio asks
the students to leave the university environment and take up residency in
Hale County, Alabama. In doing so, the student joins a poverty-stricken
region and “shares the sweat” with a housing client who lives far below
the poverty level. The goal of this exercise is to refine the student’s
social conscience and to learn first-hand the necessary social, cultural
and technological concepts of designing and building. This exercise
requires the collaboration of the practicing architect.Working from its most vital
ideology, teaching students
through context-based learning, that is, actually living in and becoming
part of the community and designing and building houses within the
community, the Rural Studio has established four main goals:
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To give students of the School of Architecture the opportunity to
learn the critical skills of planning, designing, and building in a
concrete, practical, and socially responsible manner. |
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To form leadership qualities in students by instilling the social
ethics of professionalism, volunteerism, individual responsibility, and
community service. |
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To help communities, through partnerships with the state and local
welfare agencies, provide suitable and dignified housing. |
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To develop materials, methods, and technologies that will house the
rural poor in dignity and mitigate the effects of poverty upon rural
living conditions.
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Programs
- The Rural Studio consists of three
programs. The
second-year program: fifteen to twenty second-year Auburn University
architecture students move to Hale County for one semester and design/build the charity
homes. They have thus far completed seven homes.
The Thesis program: Fifteen to nineteen Auburn University thesis
architecture students move to Hale County for their fifth year. They form
teams to plan, design and build community projects. The Outreach Program:
non Auburn University graduate students from around the world come to the
Rural Studio to work on a joint project and individual community outreach
projects in their own discipline.
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Lindsey, and Professor Andrew Freear, director in
Newbern, and with the
watchful eye of Director Emeritus D.K. Ruth, the Rural Studio benefits
from a strong infrastructure and dedicated faculty. Other faculty are:
John Forney, Professor of Outreach Program, Jay Sanders, Instructor
second-year, and Richard Hudgens, History
Instructor. In addition to these faculty, the Rural Studio has five other enthusiastic staff members that
make up the infrastructure which enables the Rural Studio to provide
quality education and secure the operation of the projects.
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most, the measure of success of the Rural Studio is in
its built projects; in reality, its success is measured by its effect upon
the lives of the faculty, students, families, and communities it touches.
It is not only the buildings that make the Rural Studio what it is, but
also the education the students receive about architecture and about
society. Ultimately, it is about “sharing the sweat” with the
community.
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www.ruralstudio.com
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Serra & Uwe Wienke
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