Fall Break –> Back to Work!

The studio had a nice fall break Monday and Tuesday... Wish that could last longer but --> Back to work!! Before we left for fall break last Friday we painted lots of our boards with one of our colors: French Toast. We spent a lot of time deciding the color palette for our walls/structure/trellis. We [...]

Fall Reset

A quick week recap as we go into fall break! This past week, our steel team has been hard at work preparing the steel elements for the trellis. The process has been cutting all the metal down to size, punching holes in the parts that get connected to the columns, brushing/grinding off all the rust [...]

CC-244 (French Toast)

  After selecting our paint colors based on how the gathering ground renderings looked, we purchased paint samples and tested each of them out on some scrap pieces of plywood. To get the proper color "experience", we went outside into the sunlight and compared each of the color samples with each other and some of [...]

Colors

Today we worked as a studio to pick paint colors for the project. I 3D modeled the pavilion in Sketchup and also had it rendered in Lumion which helped us visualize the project. Using paint colors from Benjamin Moore, we went through a variety of colors and palettes to create a bunch of different options [...]

Paint & Clean-Up & Goo, oh my!

Happy humpday and birthday-eve for myself and Vivan. Let's hit a humpday recap of our week so far.                         The team worked hard over the weekend to get everything ready to hit the ground running this week. On Monday, we finished priming our wooden [...]

THE SHOP FLOODED!!! *NOT CLICKBAIT*

We had quite the eventful weekend in the shop. Let's recap! FRIDAY: Our shipment of wood came in, so we brought it inside like ants. We #elevated it onto some excellently laid-out wood boards, thanks to Tyler. One team went straight to cutting and milling the wood, while the rest of us wire-brushed all of [...]

Wall Development

These past few weeks we have had several projects in the works, everyone contributing at some point.  I have been helping with the design of the walls from the market stalls, focusing on the connection points and transparency of these walls through physical model making. . The process started in a small 2’x2’ mockup just [...]

Last Wall Mockup…. Maybe?

The design-build team is looking forward to heading out to site on Friday to break ground!! Today was our last in studio day, so we spent time prepping, scheduling, and making final decisions on design prior to material ordering. To begin studio, we all touched base on where deliverables such as permitting, material costs, lead [...]

Re-Flagging & Mock-ups

Hi, Today we split the group in half. Group One : went on site to re-flag the pavilion with our new adjusted orientation and positioning of our structure. From our first try we noticed that our ramp was angling your body towards the tree along the path so we went back on our model and [...]

Bendyyyyyyy

Last week, David spoke with the hot dip galvanizing people, and they informed us that they think the frame as we have it designed currently, will warp once it is dipped. To avoid this, we are looking at a small design change that uses pre-galvanized pieces and using as many bolted connections as possible. This [...]