After many weeks of group-centered projects and activities – spring cleaning, PLI preparations, site research – we have split off to generate fifteen different schemes to show the committee at next Friday’s review. Today marks the approximate halfway point of our individual design for a new community garden located in Singleton Park. At next week’s meeting, we will be getting feedback from team members of Green Heart, the Charleston Parks Conservancy, and the City of Charleston.
Three teams of five students each are focusing on different schemes discussed in last weeks meeting. While one team focuses on creating proposals for a multi-building scheme, the other two groups are designing a single main pavilion at differing locations on site – one central and another adjacent to the workable site. These studies have meant the studio has been seeing a lot more trace paper and analog materials used.
In other “DIY” news, every student has been working hard in their work with a nonprofit organization. As a part of Community 1:1, this partnership with a nonprofit will last the whole semester. This semester I am personally working with CAYA, a soon-to-be nonprofit started by the owner of Blue Bee Farm. Most recently, I had a chance to visit the farm and visualize the future of CAYA at Blue Bee Farm. My favorite part was getting to meet the goats.
These partnerships are very important for us all to gain a unique experience of how to connect with the community. While the group effort has been an important effort in our semester so far, the ability to communicate visual ideas individually has been a great skill for us all to exercise this week. So with that, here’s to the next week of DIYing!