Acknowledgements

This collaboration was made possible by work developed at ISU from 2022-present.  This included support from the ISU College of Design, ISU Department of Architecture,  Stan G. Thurston Professorship, Iowa Economic Development Authority (Evans and Robison), American Restoration and Recovery Act (Evans, Doyle, Senske, Wu), and The University of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research (Doyle and Wu).  Thank you to the OPN Architects' design team, Nick Woods and Bethanie Zeller, for Rudd Public Library, and the Rudd Library Board and community members for their collaboration and enthusiasm throughout this endeavor. Special thanks other OPN team members: Justin Bishop for project coordination; Wes Reynolds and son, Aiden, for the welded elements; Jimi Peters for print storage; Dakota Dehnke, Chad Moklestad, Braden Cooper, and Tom Goetz for help with moving and transportation; Merlin Bishop for installation support; and Alex Michl for video and photo documentation.

Photos
©Alex Michl, OPN Architects, 2024

Images originally publisehd in:
Doyle, Shelby Elizabeth, Senske, Nick Gasper, Jacob Craine, Jamie Soward, and Hugh Elizabeth. “Luminosity, Labor, and Liability.” In ACADIA 2024: Designing Change. Vol. 2 of Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, edited by Alicia Nahmad-Vazquez, Jason Johnson, Joshua Taron, Jinmo Rhee, and Daniel Hapton, 71–80. Calgary: ACADIA, 2024.

This paper documents a collaborative digital fabrication project between an architecture firm and academic lab to co-design and co-produce an outdoor installation for a rural small town public library. In this project, computational design and digital fabrication serve as a connection between academia, practice, government, industry, and private enterprise, and foster the discussion of novel design methods and socio-technical futures for rural innova¬tions in architecture and construction.