After our design review on Wednesday, we decided we needed to make some pivots from the design we presented. Our group had extra time for this phase, arguably too much for our own good, that we took to long to make decisions, and ended up rushing to finish the final product. From Wednesday to Friday, David challenged us to do one final push of iterations into a more refined version of our design. We worked more efficiently as a team, had stronger reasoning for our decisions, and refined our project to something more interesting that better suited the needs of the park.
This new model still maintains the asymmetric, dynamic form from before, but opens up sightlines for security purposes, and has a more substantial, thought through structure. We are excited to say that we received the green light from the parks department, and are looking forward to meeting with the structural engineer on Tuesday.
In class on Friday we divided into two groups – one group to work on the Old Towne Creek shop drawings and one to refine our design. Our studio is going to create shops, fabricate, and install the Donor Wall portion of the Old Towne Creek project from last year. We are excited to start some fabrication and test our group as a construction crew instead of a design team. The other half of us worked on refining the truss design to prepare for our structural meeting Tuesday. We established some guiding rules to determine the sizing and layout of members, and created 1/2″ scale models of the truss system to share our ideas.
While last week was a bit of a whirlwind with two big deadlines for studio, it forced us to come together as a team, clarify our goals, and define a concept for us to build that we are all excited about. It is crazy to say we are about halfway through the semester already, but we are excited to begin transitioning from design into build mode, and see this project come to life for the community!