Roberto Rovira
Roberto Rovira
activity advantages bring college connection creating direct economic environment faculty mayor neighbors positive sees students thirty towards
Essentially, we've been neighbors for thirty years but there really hasn't been a very direct connection with Sweetwater. So the mayor sees the economic advantages of creating an environment such as a college town, because it would bring students and faculty a lot of activity that would be very positive towards them.
drawn economic environment provide sort students sustain
They would be able to provide the sort of environment that would sustain economic activity, and that students would be drawn to.
analysis based city community design develop expose fit ideas integrate involved landscape objectives perfect position presented process proposals series students studio thorough understand
One of the objectives of a studio is having the students get involved and understand the workings of a community, and integrate that with landscape architectural design ideas. It was a perfect fit to expose the students to the community process for position making, to have them develop ideas based on thorough analysis of the city and its contexts, and then come with a series of proposals that was then presented to the city of Sweetwater.