As you've been able read about the progress we have made in furthering the design of Crop Stop 2 and the choices we are making for materials, we are having to do a little bit of a juggling act. Our studio has some great ideas for exterior cladding, the roofing system, and other elements of the [...]
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Time for Construction Documents
After our review on Monday we are getting ready to finish construction documents to give to our engineer. We have made a lot of research and tried to make the best design decisions to finalize the design phase of Cropstop2. We received great feedback from the experts and now we are ready to finalized our project. [...]
Post Review
After our review Monday, we got a lot of positive feedback and also found plenty of things we need to put more work into. We've narrowed our materials down for the exterior, interior, and roof. We seem to be leaning in the direction of T1-11 plywood siding for the exterior, and PBR for the roof. [...]
Review Time!
This past Monday was our first major review in studio V. I think it went very well, we had great feedback on pretty much all of the components in the review of Cropstop 2.0. My specific part was the initial electrical and plumbing layouts. The reason I chose these areas is because I have a [...]
Design Phase
Today marks the first day of the design phase of Crop Stop 2! However, just because we are now working on Crop Stop 2 doesn't mean Crop Stop 1 is forgotten about. Professor Pastre reminded us that in any design or construction job, it is typical to work on more than one project at a [...]
Framing a View
While half of the studio has been building the freezer door, as talked about in the last post, the other half of us (aka the girls) have started work on the casing for the windows of Crop Stop 1. First, taking dimensions of all the window and door openings, and then sorting through the wood [...]
Revisiting CropStop 1
Good morning! This is your resident in-house expert on commercial grade kitchen appliances for Studio V on CropStop 2.0! I have no idea how that happened. Well, that's a lie. No one else wanted to do it, so in order for the project to move forward, someone had to start researching. Yesterday, however, had me [...]