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UL-Lafayette students partake in gridshell project

A small group of UL Lafayette architecture students will visit the University of North Carolina next week.

Students and professors from each school will swap knowledge about designing and building dome-shaped structures called Gridshells, made of wood sheathed in metal, plastic or other material.

The work is part of the thinking while doing project, funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Nine universities are participating in the six-year project.

In summer 2016, students from several universities, including UL Lafayette, will gather in Nova Scotia to build a structure togetherMore from UL-Lafayette