Students prepare their work for the Brick Challenge.
Students in the inside Architecture + Design summer program for high schoolers build their structure for the "Brick Challenge" competition. The popular outreach program is entering its 20th year in 2018.
After a week of college-level design work in the top-ranked national program, Jung returned home to Centerville, Virginia, single-minded on becoming an architect and earning a degree from Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design.
Now a rising fourth-year architecture student at Virginia Tech, Jung relived her experience this summer as a teaching assistant for the program's 19th year.
Jung was one of a dozen Virginia Tech students and alumni assisting professors of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and industrial design in five action-packed days of design learning and exploration, June 25 – 30.
The program included 110 students from three countries and 13 states.
Students work in open studio during the week-long architecture and design program.
Students work in the open studio environment during the week-long architecture and design program.
Founded and led by Professors Robert and Donna Dunay since 1998, inside Architecture + Design has yielded over 1,400 graduates in its 19-year history. Students live in Virginia Tech residence halls for a week and get a taste of the nationally renowned first-year studio taken by undergraduates.
In addition to exploring intellectual and constructive aspects of architecture and the world of design, the students spent their days immersed in activities like the "Marshmallow Challenge," a team competition to build the tallest freestanding structure using spaghetti, string, tape, and a marshmallow. They also sketched the city of Venice, Italy, from a giant satellite image; created elaborate paper constructs and soaring towers with impressive structural integrity; and competed in the "Brick Challenge," in which teams of four collaborated to build the lightest possible structure to support a brick using only toothpicks and glue.
Students build their spaghetti towers for the "Marshmallow Challenge."
Students team up to build spaghetti towers for the "Marshmallow Challenge."
Dunay said 50 current students in Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design are alumni of the summer program.
The 2018 summer program will open for registration in early 2018, on a first-come, first-served basis. Rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders are eligible. To be added to the notification list, email Taylor Cupp at taylorcupp@vt.edu. Find out more information here.
The "Brick Challenge" competition allowed student teams to test the strength of their structures, which were made using only toothpicks, glue, and tape.
Murphy Mitchell readies his structure to endure the Brick Challenge before classmates.
Students sketch Venice, Italy, from a large-scale satellite map in the Architecture + Design Library.
Professor Donna Dunay discusses an assignment with iA+D student Jaylen Wooten.
One student's response to the task of creating a construct using 25 strips of paper.
Another student construct using 25 strips of paper.
Another student's response to the assignment of creating a construct using 25 strips of paper.
Students created paper towers using concepts explored in class to address pattern and sequence.
Aagna Patel and Lauren McGovern work on their Brick Challenge structure.
Lauren McGovern and Aagna Patel work on their Brick Challenge structure.
Students in the open studio.
Students in the A+D open studio.
Professor Marylou Veillard gives iA + D students a briefing on structure during the evening studio.
Hokie families at the final student exhibition.
Brianna Laverty proudly shows off her work to her family, including dad, Kevin (right), a 1998 mechanical engineering alumnus.
Professor Robert Dunay, co-founder of the iA+D program, leads a class.
Shot of the 2017 IAD class.
The 2017 Inside Architecture + Design class included 110 students from three countries and 13 states.