Ten University of Cincinnati architecture students recently took on a considerable challenge: To build UC's campus - in 3-D that is. The challenge was part of a national competition sponsored by Google - the "Build Your Campus in 3-D Competition." About 4,000 campus models from hundreds of universities were entered into the contest and the UC group - all students in UC's top-ranked College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) - were among 40 finalist groups.
Led by Jose Kozan, research associate in DAAP's Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites (CERHAS), the UC team worked a little more than ten weeks on the large-scale project. And truth be told, they're still tweaking and perfecting their 3-D model which will appear on UC's Web site at the end of the summer.