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Contact Information

MSU School of Architecture
Montana State University
P.O. Box 173760
Bozeman, MT 59717-3760

Tel: (406) 994-4256
Location: Cheever Hall

Interim Director:
Steven Juroszek
stevej@montana.edu

Interim Associate Director
John Brittingham
jbritt@montana.edu

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Montana State University Community Design Center

Goal

Montana State University is a land grant institution and as such is charged with applying the research and scholarship of its faculty and students toward the enhancement of the State. The Community Design Center was founded in 1976 and operates as a cooperative professional practice utilizing students and a professor who is a licensed architect. Community Design projects are conceived to empower a community with the tools necessary to direct its own future - to enable a community to develop and maintain a PRIDE OF PLACE!

Objective

A community exists as a manifestation of cultural, social, economic and physical attributes. Community Design Assistance Projects assist a community in orchestrating the specific interests and activities of groups or individuals in the community within a shared vision of the community's character, present, and future conditions.

Planning for controlled growth, protecting history, creating new economic opportunities, and enhancing the visual character of the built environment are the main focal points of the CDC. The work produced by the CDC ranges from small-scale schematic building designs to community visioning documents and regional planning.

Process

Projects consist of three phases. The first phase is for the community to identify cultural, social, economic and physical attributes valued from the past, document the present condition and describe a desired future. This is achieved through a series of public meetings and small task force groups coordinated, assisted, and guided by students and faculty from Montana State University. The first phase creates a vision but a vision without action is merely a dream. The second phase is to develop an action plan consisting of visual representations of the ideas developed during phase one. Students and faculty will develop and coordinate specific projects and plans as well as alternatives to achieving the communities desired future. These are reviewed by the public and ultimately approved for publication in a Community Design Handbook. The second phase delineates projects to be undertaken in a coordinated fashion; however, they remain only projects without implementation. Phase three requires the commitment of individuals and groups within the community to accept the responsibility for implementing cultural, social, economic, and physical change by beginning to work on the projects. MSU faculty will continue to assist the community; however, appropriate funding as well as the hiring of professionals may be required for specific tasks and are the responsibility of the community.

Cost

CDC is dependent solely on research grants and service contracts for the operation budget.

Students are the primary source of design and research. They interview clients, determine the scope of work, the cost of services, the schedule, and the documents to be produced.

Fees for the CDC include:

  • Operating expense
  • Travel
  • Meals
  • Supplies
  • Preliminary printing cost
  • Final copes of documents

    If you are interested in the CDC assisting you with a project, please contact: The School of Architecture, 994-4255.

    Projects

    Past Projects Done by the Community Design Center

    Beartooth Nature Center Native Wildlife Refuge Red Lodge, MT
    Big Sandy Montana Visioning Project Big Sandy, MT
    Big Sky Institute Big Sky, MT
    Bozeman Entryway Corridor Bozeman, MT
    Bozeman Public Library Location Studies Bozeman, MT
    Browning Visioning Project Browning, MT
    Cascade County Campus Great Falls, MT
    Cascade Future Vision 20/20 Cascade, MT
    Central Historic District Billings, MT
    Community Design Project Alternatives Broadus, MT
    Cooke City Community Project Cooke City, MT
    Deaconess Farms
    Deer Lodge Community Trail Deer Lodge
    Design Guidelines for Virginia City Virginia City, MT
    Farm in the Dell Sun River Valley, MT
    Fort Benton Vision Fort Benton, MT
    Future of Smelter Hill Great Falls, MT
    Glacier Adaptive Uses for Historic Structures Glacier National Park
    Governor' "Getting Things Done" Anaconda, MT
    Grizzly Discovery Center West Yellowstone, MT
    Helena Railroad District Revitalization Helena, MT
    Historic Agriculture Structures Gallatin County Gallatin County, MT
    Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan Jefferson, MT
    Lewistown Revitalization Lewistown, MT
    Livingston Depot Center Livingston, MT
    Lockwood Community Visioning Project Lockwood, MT
    Main Street Enhancement Project Cut Bank, MT
    Manhattan Growth Policy Dev. Alternatives Manhattan, MT
    Manhattan Mapping Project Manhattan, MT
    Manhattan Visioning Project Manhattan, MT
    Manhattan-West Gallatin River Trail Manhattan, MT
    Glacier Hotel Structure Report Glacier National Park
    Museum of the Rockies Freshwater Aquarium Bozeman, MT
    NE Bozeman Mixed Use Development Plan Bozeman, MT
    Polson Community Development Polson, MT
    Revitalizing Downtown Havre Havre, MT
    Roundup...A Place of Your Own Roundup, MT
    Sidney Downtown Revitalization Sidney, MT
    South Courtyard Design-Build Furniture Project Bozeman, MT
    Suburban Revitalization Issues & City Planning Bozeman, MT
    The Experience Mining Project Butte, MT
    The Roundhouse Evanston, WY
    Townsend 2010 Broadwater County, MT
    University of Great Falls Great Falls, MT
    West Yellowstone Pavilion West Yellowstone, MT
    Westward Expansion Havre/Whitefish, MT
    Whitehall Vision 2010 Whitehall, MT



  • Images

    The following images were produced by the MSU CDC:

    Cascade County Campus, 200?
    Farm in The Dell, 199?
    Great Falls Campus, University of Great Falls, 199?



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    Updated: 09/13/07

     

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