Author: matthik

We have begun to make the wood shop our new studio space. Between the box project for Intro to Craft and this studio project, there is on average 8-10 people in the wood shop during the day. Our actual studio space is a ghost town. It is a nice change of pace, but it is [...]

Two and a half weeks later, we’ve more or less finished the set of construction drawings. I’m as big a fan of Revit as anyone – but going from using it at my internship for four hours in the morning to using it for six hours in the afternoon – that is a lot of [...]

This week, we are putting the project into Revit. As you can see in the above image, it is very much a work in progress. Now that the column/pier grid is set, we can keep moving forward on the 3D modeling. So far the process has been fairly simple, as we have just been modeling [...]

During Wednesday's studio time we all got together and tried to squeeze our ideas into one design. As expected, there were some moments of disagreement and dispute. It is incredibly difficult to design a structure with twelve hands on the pencil (mouse), needless to say we were reminded of that. It took a while to get [...]

Over the weekend I created a model (pictured above) to help myself understand the mass, scale, and space of the design I am developing. It is a single bar with evenly spaced structural bays, anchored at both ends by monolithic, orthogonal storage buildings. The structural bays are what you see modeled in wood. These are [...]

The past few days we have taken the creative liberty to totally rearrange our project site of Medway Park. The twelve of us were each tasked with creating two new layout diagrams. We were told to create two schemes, one "standard" or "tame" one and then a "wild" or "crazy" one. This is one of [...]