The Calm Before the Storm

Steel and wood for Mock up

Today we prep for our final review, most of the steel is prepped and ready to be assembled in our studio space for our final review tomorrow. We worked late into the night yesterday to set things up and now we are ready for the final assembly. With less than 24 hours before our final [...]

Trellis Mock + Site Lines… check!

This weekend the community Build studio split up into two groups, team "mock up" and team "site lines". Team Mock up worked in the shop preforming welds, angle grinding, and wood cutting to assemble a mock up of our trellis design. Pictured below is a full scale mock up of a portion of the trellis [...]

Pythagoras, my hero

This weekend was a long one. We're nearly done with our CDs and about ready to start the mockup. On Saturday, Katie, Perry, and I went to the site to take out a portion of the community garden fence and mark out the extents of our concrete slab. Armed with 3 tape measures and a [...]

We Are Moving On!

As what the case used to be , I continued to be in charge of the Cooler. I have been trying to figure out how to build in a reasonable way based on detail research. FRP-We use wood frame + FRP sandwich wall system, window frame and owner-built insulated door. Based on the basic diagram [...]