The Nashville Civic Design Center continues to make connections with colleges and universities throughout the country and is happy to welcome to Nashville students from the School of Art, Design and Architecture at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois. Five graduate students in architecture spent the fall semester studying the Sulphur Dell neighborhood.

Positioned between the high-rises of the central business district, historic Germantown, the burgeoning Farmers’ Market and the Cumberland River, Sulphur Dell is an ideal neighborhood for urban study. Through complex analysis, the students collaborated on planning, urban design and “branding” of the neighborhood as a center for urban agriculture and active living. The students then designed individual buildings within the neighborhood include a vertical farm, a market hall, interim housing, a marina complex, and an urban baseball stadium.

Judson students will be presenting their work at an open house at the Design Center at 5:30 on Thursday, January 5. Brief presentations will begin at 5:45 followed by informal discussions.

Joni Priest, a Judson alumna and planner in Metro Planning’s Design Studio, aided the students’ long-distance work in Nashville and will be on hand to facilitate discussion.