University of Georgia, Metropolitan Design Studio

Launched in 2005 through a partnership between The University of Georgia and The Center for Community Preservation and Planning, The UGA Metropolitan Design Studio is an extension of UGA's School of Environment and Design in which students, elected officials, citizens and the business community work together to produce creative solutions to manage growth and development.  "This project... offers a glimpse into a new, creative kind of academic rigor... (The Red and Black)."

The design studio offers a place for students to live, work and design a "real" project together while finding out what happens when students step out of the classroom.

Located at the Raphael Building in the Clark's Grove traditional neighborhood development on Clark Street in Covington, GA,  the Metropolitan Design Studio includes a space for designing, public meetings, and exhibits on the first floor, with a common area, kitchen, and faculty apartment on the second floor, and men's and women's dormitories on the top floor.

"We live, eat, dream and sleep landscape architecture." - Jason Hammond

During the Spring 2007 semester, 11 students in their fourth year of a five year professional degree program program in Landscape Architecture completed an intensive semester of study.  The students had two main projects: the Pace Street Charrette (part of the Hwy 278 LCI program) and the Community Miracle Garden.

During the Spring 2006 semester, 14 students completed the Studio's first semester.  The students' main project during the 2006 semester was to develop a master plan for the Town of Oxford. 

Student work from previous includes .