BROOKINGS – Despite spending only one semester at South Dakota State University, Iqra Abbasi will leave her mark in the area. Abbasi and eight other third-year architecture students in the Architecture 351 Building Collaborations Studio were assigned to d
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BROOKINGS Despite spending only one semester at South Dakota State University, Iqra Abbasi will leave her mark in the area. Abbasi and eight other thirdyear architecture students in the Architecture 351 Building Collaborations Studio were assigned to design a space at the intersection of Volga's Second Street and Kasan Avenue.
Abbasi's design was chosen to be implemented at the site in 2017.
"It's like a dream. I feel like I am going to wake up because I am never going to have this experience ever again," said Abbasi, who is attending State as part of the International Research and Exchanges Board's Global Undergraduate Exchange Program.
The SDSU class researched Volga to determine what type of structure would best suit it and then created a spatial model of the town. Abbasi said she initially had a tough time with the project because her classmates were trying to replicate a building in the town while she thought she should be more creative.
"I was really confused because the way people work here is profoundly different from how I worked in Pakistan," Abbasi said.
Abbasi said that when studying archi- tecture in Pakistan, models are typically built manually. While it takes longer than the computerbased approach in the U.S., she believes the hands-on method helped develop her creativity.