Just a Little Nudge: How Ideas, Elbow Grease, and an Old Gas Station Canopy Turned an Eyesore into an Amenity

This paper looks at the development of a community based amenity through the application of adaptive design thinking, cleverness in material reuse, and the tactical deployment of heterodoxic assembly methods as significant facets of a well-comprised architectural education. Strategies for how one may engage and enable a community to participate in the design and construction process, through means other than unskilled voluntary labor or simply making a donation, were uncovered and refined through this undertaking. The SuperUse Pavilion at the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum, located in northeastern Mississippi in the small city of Starkville, Figure 1 outlines the location and context for the project’s development.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.Inter.19.5

Volume Editors
Elizabeth Golden & Joshua Vermillion

ISBN
978-1-944214-27-2