Making Their Mark: MAPP’s 2020 Student Project Showcase

By Maggie Haslam / Jun 2, 2020 / Updated Jun 17, 2020

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Amber Robbs project rendering on  Sustainability Through Adaptation: Reimagining Existing Spaces with Mass Timber Construction
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Amber Robbs (M. ARCH + Certificate in Historic Preservation) - Sustainability Through Adaptation: Reimagining Existing Spaces with Mass Timber Construction
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Christopher Ramirez final project: Farewell, RFK. Hello Affordability and Place
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Christopher Ramirez (M. ARCH + M.CP)- Farewell, RFK. Hello Affordability and Place
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Matthew Harrop final project on Solomon’s Crossing.
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"Solomon’s Crossing" capstone project by Matthew Harrop (MRED + MBA) and Spring 2020 second prize Capstone Competition winner.
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Grave Davenport's final project on Historic Structure Investigation: The Piper House, Antietam National Battlefield
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Grace Davenport (M.HP)- Historic Structure Investigation: The Piper House, Antietam National Battlefield
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Dan Lorenzana's final thesis project on: Here to Stay: The Disaster, Displacement, and the Biomimetic Response.
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Dan Lorenzana (M. ARCH)- Here to Stay: The Disaster, Displacement, and the Biomimetic Response

Each semester, students from MAPP’s Master of Architecture, Master of Historic Preservation and Master of Real Estate Development Programs home in on one final project that culminates their graduate experience at the University of Maryland. For architecture students, it’s the design thesis, a written and oral presentation of a site-specific project and a mash-up of the skills, design thinking and interpretation they’ll put to use in the profession. For real estate development students, it’s the capstone competition, a 15-minute development pitch of a real site where creative financing, feasibility and sustainable design reign supreme. Final historic preservation projects are often a nod to a student’s affinity to a certain specialization within the field.

Each final project is self-selected and is often personal. Topics run the gamut of issues they will face in the profession: affordable housing, adaptive reuse, federal programs and building for vulnerable populations, like refugees and the elderly. Each project represents the imagination, skill, thoughtfulness and exemplary talent crafted during their graduate experience, a tool box that will serve them well as they make their mark on the built environment.

MAPP’s Final Project Showcase offers a glimpse of this extraordinary work.

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