[from the Crozet Gazette]

Mountainside Senior Living’s garden and patio received a new wheelchair-accessible picnic table and a wood screen that separates the patios from cars approaching the loading dock in May thanks to four University of Virginia graduate and undergraduate students taking an architectural studio course called “Tools for Conviviality” taught by professors Lucia Phinney and Lionel Devlieger. Class participant Sophia Lee described the intent of the studio as a way “to uncover how the wood industry works in Virginia. We desired to discover potentially unknown sources of recyclable wood.”