Measure Twice, Cut Once

This weekend, the girls and guys split up to tackle both the LVL beams and the rebar for the concrete piers. The girls began by dimensioning the LVLs and marking the screw pattern, a task that took much longer than expected on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, we focused on screwing the LVLs together, adding [...]

Eat, Sleep, T&G

All weekend long, we were hard at work cranking out the tongue and groove for our roof! It kicked off Friday in the wood shop, where we started cutting the tongue pieces. By Saturday, we realized we needed to rerun all of them to make the tongues slightly smaller so they would fit smoothly into [...]

Block Party Recap

The block party finally occurred after weeks of working on our group installations! We all arrived bright and early to the event space tired but ready to go. My group had to put the finishing touches on our design by sticking all the parts together and lifting it to meet its columns while other groups [...]

Sniffin Glue

There was actually no glue sniffin... Our group is so close to finishing our individual design! We worked together over the weekend to collect the design deliverables for our presentation to the community which is this Tuesday and Wednesday. Our project focuses on the pavilion and playground connection acting as the “epicenter” of park activity.  [...]

Weekend Push

This past weekend we have been focusing on our individual designs for our pin-up this Tuesday. A few of us spent all weekend in the studio, narrowing down our presentation boards and models. Our boards will be composed of a site plan, diagrams, perspective views, sections and precedent images to tell the story of our [...]

Gearing up at Stephen Washington Park

Studio has just begun for the semester and this past week we have been diving into site research! On Tuesday, we visited our project site, Stephen Washington Park, where we met with a Department of Parks representative. He shared a brief history of the Park and the Honey Hill community. Since then, we've continued our [...]