This image is of the village and you can see the top of Wilson hall and several other JMU buildings on the other side of I-81. In the view you can also see part of I-81 through the trees and the bridge that goes over it. This image is taken right in front of the ISAT/HHS building. This picture represents how the newer side of campus is separated by a major divide from the older side. It is interesting that the new side of campus is higher up than all of the older parts of campus; it is almost as if it is looking down at JMU’s past and the other side is what the future of this campus will look like. The older side of campus represents the older fashioned style of how buildings were put into place for a reason. Now there are more current architectural buildings being built, which Greenburg would agree with is not what JMU should do. He believes that college campuses should stick with the style they began with. This design of the older part is much different than the newer side of campus. The older part used to have a more practical function, but is now becoming more symbolic of what the JMU campus used to be. Soon the village buildings will be torn down to put up bigger residential places for the freshmen class. I lived in the village my freshman year, and it shapes a large part of my memory of JMU. When it is torn down a large part of my JMU experience will go with it.
I like this picture because it shows the architectural incoherence amongst the buildings on the older side of campus, rather than focusing on the difference between these buildings and those on the east side of campus like in many other pictures. The buildings on the quad look very different from those in the village, and I think this illustrates JMU's expansion and that the school is constantly being developed and transitioning to accommodate new functions and the growing student population.
ReplyDeleteSamantha Scotti