Sixteen Interior Architecture students took a three-day trip to Charleston, S.C., to meet with executives at Wild Dunes Resort earlier this year. The class, led by Professor Travis Hicks, would present ideas for redesign of a sports pub at one of the resort’s golf courses; complete site visits for another Wild Dunes restaurant they would redesign; and tour a construction site for a hotel in Charleston’s historic district. Expenses were being paid by the client, Wild Dunes Resort.
An alumna of UNCG’s IARc program, Anna Will Maginn ’11, ’13, made it possible. Her position with Wild Dunes provided some riveting tours and prospective design assignments.
After an extensive meeting and tour with the firm that built Wild Dunes, they met with resort leaders to give presentations.
“Our leadership was blown away!” Maginn exclaimed. “Some managers canceled meetings to stay for the entire presentation, because they were so compelling.”
One student has been offered a position, beginning later this year. To learn more about this project, read the story.
By Becky Deakins
Photography by Sean Norona