Concepts are taking shape on West Virginia Universitys Evansdale Campus in a new and innovative landscape exhibit created by students.

Sophomores in Michael Hasenmyers Theory of Landscape Architecture and Design course designed theExhibit of Spatial Vision and Expressionin the courtyard of the Agricultural Sciences Building.

Hasenmyer, an assistant professor in WVU s Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences, said the project is a way of letting students not only design a space on paper but create it. For the class project, he challenged them to create eight spaces that reflected adjectives such as monumental , fluid and dynamic .

The students were encouraged to create designs that evoked specific words without resorting to common iconography,he said.

The students in WVU s landscape architecture program worked in teams of four or five during October to create their spaces, and groups presented their designs to classmates this week.

The installation will remain in place through Tuesday (Nov. 6).