The Speed Team's model and drawing.

A model is tested at the water table.

The vessels are ideal objects from which to investigate many fundamental questions that pertain to the tectonics of architecture, among them space and geometry, structure and skin, form and function, material and construction.

Assistant Professor Christopher Romano (right) takes a closer look at a model.

Kenneth MacKay (right, burgundy pants), clinical associate professor, offers some guidance.

A vessel floats in a steel basin.

A class member presents her project.