DESIGN BUILD MEDCAMPS

Choudrant, Louisiana

Type : Design Build Camp Entrance

MedCamps is a non-profit organization that provides free summer camps to children with chronic disabilities. As part of the Louisiana Tech architecture program, our class had the honor to be a part of the Design Build studio, a non-traditional class setting in which we were able to design for a client within a budget and construct our design to life. This gave us the opportunity to not only have a taste of practical experience with clients, but, more importantly, a chance for our relationships among our class to bond and really learn to become a team. To put it simply, the class of 2021 was challenged to design the entrance of Camp Alabama, but our vision was to design a moment in time for these children who are eager for the one week of the summer they get to be unapologetically themselves. Continuing on the MedCamps’ 20-year vision from class of 2020’s design, our responsibility was the first step into Camp Alabama. We were responsible for the first impressions of those eager children and their families.

The design statement behind this project is to allow these children with chronic disabilities to cross a threshold from impossible to possible. Yes, this project is just a camp entrance. But, more importantly is the threshold that allow these children to become heros while they are at MedCamps. Through are threshold, they can participate in ziplining, archery, canoing, and many other