Welcome to Seating Aggregation.

Site: St. Louis, MO

Critic: Chandler Ahrens

Team Members: Sam Guenin, Nina Lang, Moritz Lehner, Deedee Pearce, Jewel Pei Armaan Shah, Ji Ye Song, Meera Toolsidas, Lorryn Wilhelm, Yili Zha, Mo Zhou

Nahed Chapman New American Academy, located on S. Grand Blvd. in St. Louis, is a new transitional facility which helps immigrant and refugee children integrate into American society. In addition to the lack of formal education and language issues, many of these children have experienced things that should never happen to any child.

Our design-build team received a $10,000 budget from Washington University to design and construct a seating area on the north side of the field for small groups of students to hang out during lunch breaks, or meet during gym classes. Due to the ongoing construction of the soccer field and other site limitations, we had to complete the construction off site and allow for dismantling, shipping parts to the site, and reinstalling on site without electricity after the installation of the soccer field. We decided to take a segmented approach, designing each section for individual or group use. Each segment is constructed with steel pipes, connected to an HSS foundation, and paneled with white high density polyethylene, a durable cutting board material.