Students find 'green' possibilities in proposed building designs

Designs for new buildings and adaptive reuse of current structures will receive "green" treatment, courtesy of students in UW-Madison landscape architecture and interior design classes and UW-Milwaukee's programs in architecture and urban planning.

The students will outline their ideas at a public presentation at 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, at Memorial Union's Tripp Commons. The focus will be on Van Hise Hall and Bardeen Medical Laboratories, with handmade wood models of conceptual designs, a custom-built scale model of the central campus and drop-on sections to illustrate how the designs will fit in their proposed surroundings.

For more information, contact the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, 263-5599, or visit http://www.ies.wisc.edu.