This interdisciplinary project between architecture and landscape architecture students involved designing the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center and surrounding Lansdowne Neighborhood in East St. Louis, Illinois. The project used 3D modeling software to design the Youth Center, which included a recreation facility, baseball field, and soccer/track fields. It also proposed developing vacant lots and introducing a nature area to promote clustered development in the Lansdowne neighborhood. The project was nominated by the landscape architecture department and won an award for its outstanding design from the senior project competition.

1. Computer
Applica/ons
Sec/on
Four
Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Center &
Lansdowne Neighborhood
Form
Z,
3D
Modeling
East
St.
Louis,
IL
University
of
Illinois
–
Professor
Brian
Orland
1997
This
interdisciplinary
studio
project
between
architecture
and
landscape
architecture
students
was
nominated
by
landscape
architecture
department
faculty
and
proceeded
to
win
the
Sasaki
Associates
sponsored
Senior
Design
Award
for
most
outstanding
Senior
Project
in
landscape
architecture.
The
project
consisted
of
a
Youth
Center
dedicated
by
Jackie
Joyner-­‐Kersee
and
the
surrounding
Lansdowne
Neighborhood.
Each
disciplinary
team
was
to
implement
to
design
in
Form
Z,
a
three-­‐
dimensional
graphic
soSware.
The
Youth
Center
was
required
to
included
a
state
of
the
art
recrea/on
facility,
baseball
and
soccer/track
fields.
This
concept
of
promo/ng
clustered
development
and
introducing
a
large
educa/onal
nature
area
was
spurred
by
the
abundant
vacant
lots
and
abandoned
homes
within
the
surrounding
Lansdowne
neighborhood.

2. Above:
Jackie
Joyner-­‐Kersee
Youth
Center
Aerial
View,
Form
Z,
3D
soSware
Above
and
LeS:
Lansdowne
Neighborbood
Aerial
Views,
Form
Z
3D
soSware