Sending out CD sets to Engineer

This week, unfortunately, David is in the Dominican Republic, where he's probably lying on the beach while we are in the studio doing construction documents. All jokes aside, everyone has been working hard to finish the CDs for sending to the engineer, John. Let's go, TEAM! We divided everyone in the studio to work on [...]

Working Out the Details

Friday we took some time to determine where we were in the process of being able to produce construction documents. Our goal is to have them done in a timely manner so that we can get as much feedback from John Moore, our structural consultant, as possible. After discussion on larger scale elements within the model, we [...]

Book Club at Hampton Park

Yesterday we had a momentary break on studio production to hold book club of Out of Architecture at Hampton Park. It was perfect weather and not too sunny under the shade of the trees, although everyone did leave with a little Spanish Moss entangled in our hair. Many brought lunch or coffee from local spots [...]

Revit Model!

The group is still working on the Revit model for Conservancy of the Sea Islands. As many architecture students know nothing is ever really finished when we want things to be finished. A schedule/plan is a more looked to as a good idea and what we are striving towards... ALSO thanks to minecraft brain and [...]

Revin’ up Revit

Last Friday, the Gathering Ground team discussed a game plan and timeline for modeling the final design in Revit and producing the CD set drawings. Now that we all have access to a central Revit file, one team (Hamilton, Kaden, and Tyler) are working on modeling and laying out the column and deck grid. At [...]

Revit Wizardry

We are hard at work taking the Gathering Ground Pavilion from design to construction documents in Revit. Now that we are all on the same model, we can be very exact with material sizes. This gives us the ability to push and pull the design in a way that allows for cost efficiency and the [...]

Structural Engineer “John” Comes

Today in Studio a structural engineer, John, came to review our project and give structural advice. As we move into the construction documentation phase of the community build project, all the designs/concepts need to be tested practically and logistically. While our studio had a good idea of how the structure would be constructed, John will [...]

Calendar Clean Up

After a relaxing spring break, we decided it was time for some studio updates. First, Vivian shared her experience presenting at the board meeting for Conservancy of the Sea Islands last Tuesday. The board unanimously approved both the overall design and the proposed budget, which was exciting news for our team. Though the highlight of [...]

Getting Ready For The Engineer!

The final design has been approved by the Conservancy of The Sea Island board! You know what that means... next phase of work. This phase is the construction documents phase in which we need everything to be in perfect order, organized, detailed, and functioning as planned. David has been especially enthusing about this lecture, and [...]

Final Design Presentation to the Client!

Yesterday, our class had an in-person presentation to the Conservancy of the Sea Islands Board Members and a Zoom meeting for the people who couldn't attend. It was a very productive meeting; we had many conversations about our design, and great ideas emerged as we discussed it. Kaden and Nolan presented for all 13th of [...]