Grind Time before Show Time

Studio V has finally narrowed down on a design... all in due time for our presentation today! The team has been hard at work coordinating, drawing, rendering, and modeling the deliverables within a 24 hour window till review. Four total boards will be presented along with a physical model to the clients of the City [...]

Narrowing In On A Design

The process of design is often not a straight path. Each turn presents itself with a unique set of problems and issues that need to be resolved. In some cases, certain paths will eventually lead you to a dead end in which you need to backtrack and start over again. However, a wise man once [...]

Beauty in the Chaos

Life, like architecture, often feels chaotic in the moment. But in the end, that's what makes it beautiful.  I must speak honestly. These past couple weeks of the Plymouth Park Pavilion design process have felt chaotic. Moments of breakthrough and joy have been coupled with moments of defeat and frustration. Just when it seems like [...]

Internship!

Hey guys, meet the office dog, Luna!! At the beginning of my internship, I made it a goal to become Luna's favorite in the office. while I may not be her favorite,, YET, I am for sure making progress! I have established a routine of playing fetch with her every morning while I get settled [...]

It’s the Final Countdown

It's the final countdown for solo and small group design ideas before we all work together to develop one singular form. Following debate on whether the pavilion should take on a linear form, or follow an “L-shape,” the crew split into two groups to explore each idea. The group interested in a rectangular shape ended [...]

A Fast Start To February

In the Community Build studio, the beginning of February has been eventful. We are currently moving towards a February 18th deadline as we work to synthesize our many ideas and narrow down our final group design to be proposed to the city. Most of the studio met yesterday to compare sketches and study models, then [...]

Game Time

It may have been game time for the Chiefs and the Eagles yesterday, but it is game time for Community Build Studio this week. We have been working last week now as a group of 10, striving to combine all of our former research and design ideas into one final iteration. Some of the major [...]

Mood Board Mapping

  This week in studio has been all about dissecting our small group designs in order to come up with a new collective design for the Plymouth Park structure. After taking on individual sketching earlier in the week, the class came together to pin up our sketches and create a mood board with images that [...]