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NOMAS Symposium 2015 Student Competition

New BNAACC Design

The 2015 National Organization of Minority Architecture Students Symposium, hosted at the University of Illinois, featured a competition to develop a design proposal for the new Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center facility. Asked to design a structure that would be situated at BNAACC's location on the corner of Mathews and Nevada, submissions from around the country imagined how space might be used in a manner that supports the mission of BNAACC and community building from the perspective of current university students.

2015 Competition Brief

The Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center is in the process of gaining a new facility to house their programs offered to the campus in a central location. This competition is an opportunity to provide design proposals of what that facility will look like. These designs will enhance the campus programmatically and aesthetically. Create a proposed design for a new BNAACC center located on 708 South Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois. Using the square footage available on the site (12,000 SQ. FT.), the program within the building will be decided by each team according to the needs and desires of the center and based on the programs offered currently.

NOMAS Symposium 2015 BNAACC Student Competition Designs (PDF)