As part of the advanced architecture curriculum, the Building Enclosures course at UO tasks students with detailing buildings to provide adequate barriers against external conditions.  The rigorous course allows students to understand the practical nuts-and-bolts of architectural connections and assemblies, and apply that understanding to the design of two buildings.  The first building designed was a cold-climate residence constructed of mass timber primary structure with light-frame secondary structure, capable of meeting Passive House thermal performance standards.  The second building designed was an academic research laboratory in the Pacific Northwest, with a primary structure of concrete, clad with terra cotta, and incorporating a steel supported double-skin curtain wall facade.