{"id":2323,"date":"2011-05-03T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/newsline\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2011-05-03T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:36:39","slug":"architecture-students-design-ymca-and-co-op-in-walpole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2011\/05\/03\/architecture-students-design-ymca-and-co-op-in-walpole\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture Students Design YMCA and Co Op in Walpole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the CommuniCorps ceremony in the Alumni Center (l\u2013r): Steve Fortier \u201986, Jamie Martin, Great River Co-op Board member Ben Daviss, Stacy Glover, Ramsey Mellish, and Jedd Pellerin \u201901<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s nothing like practical, hands-on experience to bring educational ideas into the real world, and two KSC alums are offering six architecture students just such an opportunity. Steve Fortier \u201986<\/strong> is executive director of Meeting Waters YMCA and president of the Board of Directors of the Great River Co-op. <\/span>Jedd Pellerin \u201901<\/strong>,<\/span> an architect and graduate of KSC\u2019s architecture program, is on the Board of Directors of the Great River Co-op and one of the four developers of the complex on Route 12 in Walpole that will be the home to the Great River Co-op, Meeting Waters YMCA, an active older-adult living community, professional offices, and a restaurant. The pair <\/span>invited students Michael Helmer<\/strong>, Kevin Enright<\/strong>, Ryan Ullrich<\/strong>, Stacy Glover<\/strong>, Ramsey Mellish<\/strong>, and Jamie Martin<\/strong> to design buildings for the Meeting Waters YMCA and the Great River Co-op in Walpole, New Hampshire.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cooperative efforts like this are a great for the community, which gets a competently designed building, and for the students, who get real-world experience that extends their learning far beyond the classroom. \u201cIn other classes, we strictly design buildings that have already been built; here, we are jumping into something that is real and more hands on,\u201d Stacy Glover said.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the semester-long project, Fortier shared with the students several design tools from the YMCA system\u2019s national resource center, something that most architects would never have access to. And the students had plenty of questions. \u201cIt\u2019s a two-way quest with these students. We\u2019re all sharing, and we\u2019re all learning,\u201d Fortier said as the group sorted through designing a facility that met the program needs of the Y; encouraged social connections among members, which is at the core of the Y\u2019s mission; and met site ordinances and limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The students presented their final designs during the CommuniCorps ceremony in the Alumni Center at the end of April.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing like practical, hands-on experience to bring educational ideas into the real world, and two KSC alums are offering six architecture students just such an opportunity. Steve Fortier \u201986 is executive director of Meeting Waters YMCA and president of the Board of Directors of the Great River Co-op. Jedd Pellerin \u201901, an architect and … Continue reading Architecture Students Design YMCA and Co Op in Walpole<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":2324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[27,366],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni","tag-student-standouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}