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Montana State University Community Design Center
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
The following images were produced by the MSU CDC:
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Cascade County Campus, 200? |
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Farm in The Dell, 199? |
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Great Falls Campus, University of
Great Falls, 199? |
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