Nearing the Start

Where to begin? As we are inches away from starting on site, there are so many things that need to be done before we can start. First off, we need a string plan. What is a string plan you ask? It's a sheet that David asked for and when someone asked him to look at [...]

Gherkin Hard or Hardly Gherkin

This week heads are down as we focus on our Individual design review coming up this Friday. For this review there are three main concept of placements of the pavilion: 1.) A centrally located main pavilion 2.) A main pavilion located on the top corners of the site 3.) Multiple locations of small structures (Above [...]

First review

Over the past several days we have been divided by pairs of two to start the design process for the new bridge at Mulberry pond. Half of the class is working on the west side of the pond while the other half is working on the east side. Every studio last week we meet over [...]

Fully Formed

Things are moving along great at the site as we get ready to pour concrete this morning! We saw some really awesome team work on site yesterday and Wednesday as we set our forms in place and set rebar. Yesterday the focus was rebar and getting it inside of our forms and braced. A few [...]

Redrafting and Revising

After our review on Monday with Cole and John, we've been back at the drawing board finalizing some structural details and connections. It was awesome to be able to talk to both of them about our designs, they gave us some really valuable insight on a lot of things we were a little uncertain on. [...]