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About ENVD
Environmental Design is a program that will prepare you for design careers by presenting advanced drawing skills, 3D Studio concepts, Computer-aided drafting, Photoshop concepts, and other cutting edge technology.
 
Program Design
Olathe East is home to a new 21 st Century program called Environmental Design. Look around the room you are sitting in right now and count the number of things that were designed to make your experience suitable. Tables, chairs, lights, colors of paint, everything is designed. Our students will be the leaders of designing the future environments in which you work, live, and play.
Program Goals
Students will study:
- Spatial reasoning including definition, order, organizations, methodology, and relationships of spaces.
- Conceptual communication methods including drawn, written and verbal forms of communication.
- Advanced Real World Client perspectives and needs including styles, themes, history, research methods, practical uses, ethics and aesthetics.
- Technological application including CAD, digital image editing and composition.
Careers
Architects, Engineers, Interior Designers, Marketing/Communications, business owners and many many more. For example an attorney may need to create a visual presentation for a court appearance. The layout and composition skills you learn will make your case. Scientists use many visual presentations for lectures and forums. Well composed visual presentations can have a major impact on these persuasive speeches. Many of the Environmental design students will get an opportunity to work in the summer for an architecture or design firm. It should be pointed out that design and visual communication skills are an integral part of many careers we do not mention. In an ever changing technological world we live in, people use multimedia and visual presentation daily. Our program skills will target the following career skill sets.
Entry Level
- Marketing/Communications (Advertising works, brochures, web page design & composition etc….)
- Printing/Publications (Magazines, books, catalogs, vinyl cutouts, posters, clothing, etc…)
- Production (Construction and Presentation drawings, signs, prototype sketches, etc…)
Semi-Professional
- Sales Representative (Advertising works, brochures, flyers, persuasive presentation, etc…)
- CAD Designer (Construction, design briefs, prototype sketches, etc…)
Professional
- Interior Designer (Approval of: Presentation drawings, prototype sketches, etc…)
- Architect (Approval of: Construction and Presentation drawings, prototype sketches, etc…)
- Engineer (Approval of: Construction and Presentation drawings prototype sketches, etc…)
- Business Owner (Approval of: Advertising works, business proposals, persuasive presentation, etc…)
Unique Features
Our students will:
- Focus on the study of Design in Architecture, Engineering, Business, & Entrepreneurship.
- Study the concepts, attitudes, methods, and skills common to design.
- Visit local and national architectural exhibits
- Intern at an architecture or design firm
- State and National TSA Competition: Architectural CAD & Architectural Model-making
- Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Core classes including:
- History of the Designed Environment- students study Architecture and its geographic perspective and it’s cultural influences as taught by a social science instructor. This course strongly reflects on the existing Geography class. Emphasis placed on events or structures in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Manufacturing & Construction throughout the world. Relevant pieces of architecture located in certain geographical locations would provide context and in depth understanding of culture and domestic capabilities.
- Geometric Structures students study methods for finding angle measurements, lengths of lines, and the application of the coordinates system with a relationship to architecture and design. Activities will include geometric models, structural supports including an introduction to static / force analysis.
- Technical Writing students would focus on the six traits of writing and the principles of technical writing. Students will create many forms of work that apply to projects they are doing in their design classes. These skills will help students to become more descriptive in their non-graphic communication skills.
- Environmental Science students will learn about the impact the built environment has on the natural environment. The emphasis of the class would move to how that impact can be reduced in forward thinking design. Their designs would then reflect the importance of designing with the natural environment in mind and designing to reduce the negative impacts of buildings on the environment.
Motivational hooks are a critical component to a successful programs design. These opportunities provide students with exciting avenues of work to inspire and captivate interest. Some examples of short-term and long-term hooks are:
Short- Term Hooks
- Ergonomic “seating device” project
- Ellerbe Becket Architectural Firm field trip
- Guest speakers: Current College Architecture students & Architects
- Architecture in Historic Kansas City Field Trip-Admiral Building, Union Station, Country Club Plaza, Savoy Grill, New York Life Building.
- Build a Model lot for the “ City Project- Cherry Park, FL.”
- Create a 3D animated virtual tour of a building using 3D Studio VIZ
Long Term Hooks
- Architecture in Chicago Field Trip- Tour the Sears Tower, Millennium Park and Oak Park, home of numerous Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibits
- Architecture in New York Field Trip- Guggenheim, 9/11 site. Trump Plaza, Rockefeller Center.
- State and National TSA Competition: Architectural CAD & Model-making.
- Internship at an Architecture or design firm.
- Portfolio for application to School of Architecture
- Understanding and exposure to college level curriculum
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