Author: Stevie Chen

Not much time left, teamwork is accelerating. Yesterday afternoon, we loaded our wood materials for our poles and rafters, and some paints to the shop. Group one in was working on welding some last few trusses and cutting holes on each of it. Katie and Ed was cleaning and grinding all the door frames that [...]

Throughout the weekend, most of our team took turn to work in the metal shop, the rest of us was working upstairs to finish up the construction documents and pricing. We cut steel for the door frame and grinded the steel bar and then welded each bar together. As a member of the metal shop [...]

On Friday class, we spent so much time on leveling the working table on the metal shop during the class so that we could put the plywood pieces on it to work for mock-up. At the same time, we made several blocks and they were fixed on the plywood so that the steel bars could [...]

The wind at night is getting cooler than before,  autumn is coming . Can't believe half of the semester has passed. Hurricane Michael push our midterm review from Friday to Monday.  All the studio stayed up really late either in the wood shop or in the studio to finish the model or drawings for Monday’s review [...]

It seems that everyone in the studio has a super packed schedule this week, so most of us took a short break from the studio works to engage themselves in other courses’ assignments today. After Monday’s presentation, we are going to work as a whole team of nine people instead of three small groups. We [...]

Good morning, guys! Hope everyone in our studio had a sound sleep last night, as most of us in the studio stayed up pretty late on Tuesday night to make preparation for the presentation on Wednesday afternoon. So, yesterday around 3 pm, we held our presentation to introduce our individual’s idea for the Farm stand [...]

After yesterday’s desk critic, we continued the design from different aspects. Since we are still on the beginning of the design process, some of us fell into an status of uncertainty, not knowing specific direction of development. Perhaps we just seek some ideas from various sources. As Professor Pastre suggested the convertibility should be taken [...]

This semester, a team of nine students would participate in this brand-new project in Kiawah island under the guidance of Professor David Pastre. The team consists of six grad students and three undergrad students. All of us are pretty interested in this design-build project and looking forward to the new start. At the beginning of [...]