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11-25-08, 07:13 AM
Wounded Warriors Barracks Gets Student Design Team
By Arthur Mondale
Reporter
Published: November 24, 2008
We spend a lot of time indoors...about 90% of our lifetime, which means the more comfortable you are the better you’ll feel.
But what about wounded Marines who come home only to find themselves in a space they neither like nor want to live in.
That’s where more than a dozen interior designers have stepped in.
Fighting for our freedom is their job.
But finding a way to make our wounded Marines more comfortable when they come home is a battle for these East Carolina University student interior designers.
Brenda Alicea is the wife of a Marine, who says Marine quarters in the past haven’t been of much helped during rehabilitation, “Block walls were very harsh. And there’s no carpet....I don’t want to say prison cell, but almost.”
In February architects at Camp Lejeune will start on the “barracks of the future”--a $35-million dollar facility for wounded warriors. And for the first time the interior will be left to the women who are studying design.
The designers will look at furniture, kitchenettes, rock climbing walls, therapy rooms, and even a gym.
And some places may even go green…
But ECU Professor of Interior Design Dr. Hunt McKinnon says it goes beyond the visuals, “These students know about life safety plans. Sprinkler plans and all sorts of things that you probably don’t find in your house.”
Groundbreaking for the newly designed wounded warriors barracks is set for next February.
They expect to have it complete by December 2011.
Ellie
By Arthur Mondale
Reporter
Published: November 24, 2008
We spend a lot of time indoors...about 90% of our lifetime, which means the more comfortable you are the better you’ll feel.
But what about wounded Marines who come home only to find themselves in a space they neither like nor want to live in.
That’s where more than a dozen interior designers have stepped in.
Fighting for our freedom is their job.
But finding a way to make our wounded Marines more comfortable when they come home is a battle for these East Carolina University student interior designers.
Brenda Alicea is the wife of a Marine, who says Marine quarters in the past haven’t been of much helped during rehabilitation, “Block walls were very harsh. And there’s no carpet....I don’t want to say prison cell, but almost.”
In February architects at Camp Lejeune will start on the “barracks of the future”--a $35-million dollar facility for wounded warriors. And for the first time the interior will be left to the women who are studying design.
The designers will look at furniture, kitchenettes, rock climbing walls, therapy rooms, and even a gym.
And some places may even go green…
But ECU Professor of Interior Design Dr. Hunt McKinnon says it goes beyond the visuals, “These students know about life safety plans. Sprinkler plans and all sorts of things that you probably don’t find in your house.”
Groundbreaking for the newly designed wounded warriors barracks is set for next February.
They expect to have it complete by December 2011.
Ellie