Our studio is focusing on working in separate groups as we continue the Singleton pavilion project and work on wrapping up the Ardmore Bridge project. We also have been preparing for Hurricane Idalia to come through Charleston.
This week the bridge team worked on laying out all the steel pieces and started bolting them together. We currently have one side of the bridge addition built in the shop and will continue to build the other half once we weld the first side together. 
In our ITC class we are split up by materials, wood and concrete. The wood group were tasked with baking croissants to help understand the lamination process of wood and the concrete group were to make cakes to understand how different formwork, aggregate, and ratios of mixture affected the final outcome. My partner Staci and I are in the concrete group and baked a magic cake. A magic cake takes a few dry ingredients and a lot of wet ingredients which are then mixed together in a certain order and poured into the baking dish. Once it’s baking it’s supposed to separate into three layers on its own. The layers it creates are fudge on the bottom, custard in the middle, and cake on the top. Our cake successfully baked and separated into the three layers.
During ITC class we all presented either our croissants or cakes and talked about the process to make them and how many attempts everyone made. Then everyone was able to try the cake or croissant.
