April Fools! Yesterday, we decided as a class to show up impersonating David’s signature look, his glasses. As he was sketching on the whiteboard, we all quickly put on the glasses, and when he turned around, for some reason, he was more confused about why Malu was recording him than about why we were all wearing the same glasses as him… it was a funny start to the studio.
After the foolery, the team separated, with the construction documentation process in full swing. Revit central models giving headaches, element relinquishing, detail sketching, last-minute design decisions… the whole nine!
Through the initial struggles, yesterday turned out to be a productive day. The main model elements have began to fall into place as we start to dive into the details of construction. My duty thus far has been some general management. I have been working on setting up all the individual drawing views (plans, sections, elevations, etc.), editing the sheet template, and producing the cover page and information within. We look to send our first check set out to the structural engineer, John, this Friday during class.
BONUS SECTION – Dutifully and Diligently Designing Deck Details – written by Hamilton
After many headaches and much chagrin (and a productive conversation with David), Tyler, Kaden, and I believe we have devised a functional grid arrangement for the columns that both honors a defined radius and maintains clean dimensions between structural bays. Using the Minecraft stack number of 64 for the radius of a circle (definitely not a coincidence), we drew straight lines at the bay widths we desired with their ends resting along the circle. By magic, when we copied the columns outwards along the radial axes to form two bays 8 feet deep, the distance between the outer radial columns was exactly 2 feet longer than between the inner radial columns, just as we desired. Hooray! Now to model the deck framing…
