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place in national competition. Charles Porter, a graduate architecture and
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A Texas A&M University ar
chitecture student received national
recognition for his design of a
multi-million dollar combination
shopping mall/apartment complex.
The project was designed for the
corner lot of Villa Maria and Cavitt
streets in Bryan.
Charles Porter, 23-year-old
graduate student, designed the de
velopment proposal for a project last
spring in his Architecture 606 class,
and submitted it for national compe
tition in the 1976-77 Architectural
Precast Concrete Student Design
Awards Program. His design was
awarded third place out of 33 entries
representing 18 schools of architec
ture.
“I entered because I wanted to
see where I stood with the rest of
the nation. Porter said. “And I was
really a little disappointed with
third.”
The project evolved as a mixed-
use development proposal for
'the 3.15 acre site at the corner of
Villa Maria and Cavitt Streets, Por
ter said. The architecture class
chose this community site and did a
feasibility study on it to decide what
type of design would work.
Each student assumed the role of
architect-developer, and the class
jointly developed a statement of the
problem—what can be put on the
site to maximize its utility for the
city, developer and users. Each stu
dent then designed the project in
the way he envisioned it.
“1 was the only one to carry the
project through to the final point of
submitting it for national competi
tion, Porter said.
His third prize included $500 and
air fare expenses to and from St.
Louis, Mo., to receive the award.
Porter s design represents a $9
million building with 1,800 square
feet of retail space, 3,900 square feet
of office space, and 150 apartments
including three-bedroom, two-
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“The apartments sit over a park
ing garage. Porter said, “and in
clude tennis courts and a swimming
pool. The mall of the designed
complex includes retail stores, of
fices and a restaurant and bar.
“I was limited to a seven-story
structure because the fire equip
ment in Bryan won’t reach any
higher than that, he added.
“It was really designed with stu
dents in mind. The complex would
provide things to do, a young atmo
sphere with the restaurant and bar,
and it would be on the shuttle bus
route. Porter said.
The class worked on the project
for seven weeks during the spring
semester. Porter worked for three
more weeks to meet the June 1
deadline for competition.
Each design was judged on how
well it could be built by the pre
cast method (construction with
pieces that are made elsewhere and
brought to the site to be pieced to
gether) and on how broad an under
standing each student had of ar
chitecture and his project.
Porter said he figures his design
would give a developer a 39 percent
rate of return on investment, but as
yet there are no prospective buyers.
Porter is taking 12 hours of
graduate courses and working a 20-
hour assistantship to the dean Aers brou
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for the nation of Iran, in:
being the first of a nationality
system. Porter said. Thei
for enterics is Dec. 15.
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Architecture and Environmental Design. Porter won
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of 33 entries representing 18 schools of architecture.
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