Night lighting is a crucial part of the structure. Without lighting the structure becomes unusable for half of the day. We have been studying our lighting for some time now. Some of the questions I have had to face with lighting, is how much is too much? Is it more important to light the base [...]
Month: October 2010
the beginning of the end… Project 1’s final days.
Samuel Mockbee, founder of the Rural Studio, believed that architects by nature are leaders and teachers, and the proof is in project one. The purpose of a design build studio is beginning to dawn on me, because this first project has taken every student in Studio V, and created a leader and a teacher out [...]
Blue Glow
The past two days Caitlin and I have been working hard on a push to get the signage together and prepped for the laser cutter. We have nailed down all the content, the location on the wall, the size, and the layout. On Saturday afternoon we were able to meet with our Professor's wife, Amy, [...]
What Did I Learn in Architecture School?
The above image is from Matthew Frederick’s 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School As a student, I often felt a bit out of sorts. Not to mean that I didn't get along with others or that I didn't fit in, but that the talents I may have had never seemed to translate into the [...]
Projecting the project….
I remember the first time I built something out of wood. I felt a sense of accomplishment, not just because I completed a built piece, but because there was a significant moment in the process when I realized that a design or a thought doesn't become real until it bypasses its innate desire to remain [...]
Let there be light!
Greetings, Tonight we took a crack at putting some lights in our recently built full-scale mock up. After blowing a fuse and shattering several bulbs, we successfully began to position lights within the wall assembly. The idea before testing tonight was to make the columns within the wall the most dramatically lit features of the [...]