Colorado State University is one of five partners — including the City and County of Denver, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, History Colorado, and the National Western Stock Show — that have come together to create a shared vision for the future of the National Western Stock Show Complex site as part of the Mayor’s North Cornerstone Collaborative Initiative.

 

Colorado State University’s footprint in the site will be part of what is now the Hall of Education, and the institution has proposed an equine sports medicine and community outreach clinic, a food systems learning center, a water resources center, collaborative arts programming, a business incubation and industry partnership center, and Denver Urban Extension programs, as part of the new National Western Center. The university aims to be an educational hub for the collaboration, and will present opportunities for hands-on learning.

 

In this planning project, I worked as a design assistant, helping my superior do some analysis, drafts, CAD drawing, sketch-up modeling and hand drawing renderings. I gained a vast amount of knowledge from this large, long term planning project. I not only improved my computer and hand drawing skills, but also the way I think about different aspects of projects of various scales.