Divy Up The Drawings

As we finalize our full studio group design, we're beginning to put together our boards to present to Meeting St. Academy on Wednesday. Last Friday, our studio got together and split up all of the drawings, putting one student in charge of each drawing over the weekend. In our presentation we want to be as [...]

Making the Most Before Midterms

Midterms are fast approaching and we are gearing up for our small group design presentations! Everyone's been working very hard leading up to this Friday where we will present our small group iterations to Green Heart and Meeting St Academy to receive feedback. Before we all set into our final stretch for the presentations, we [...]

Divide and Conquer

Starting yesterday, we decided to work in groups on a shift basis to be efficient with our times. Crews were determined based on their class schedules yesterday. Several students had a meeting for a mentorship class between noon and 1.00. We kicked off the day with a crew starting to paint and another crew cutting, [...]

Clock’s Ticking

Today we started studio with discussing the plans for next two weeks as we have the first concrete pour scheduled for last weekend of the month. After the discussion we split into different groups and started tackling down the list to do one after another. Storage group started to finalize their material for their structure [...]

Zoooming In

                                             With few of us zooming-in yesterday, we continued the process of putting all our ideas together. Over the weekend, all three teams have been working on different conceptual design models with an orientation [...]

beFORE FOUR

Today, as an initiative to give the students of Edith L. Frierson Elementary the exposure to architecture and design, we drove out to Frierson Elementary and helped the 4th and 5th grade kids to build a structure. The students quickly became familiar with the system, and built this amazing small little room. They split up [...]

Studio V Dictionary

Another day another truss. Now that we have moved on to the "real deal" of truss fabrication, and everyone is up to speed on the actual process of building our amazing trusses, let's talk a little bit about the mental preparation it takes to be a successful truss assembler, but most importantly, a Studio V [...]

Operation Mock Up!

Over the weekend a few of our Studio V members where working in the shop to construct a mock up of our truss system. Mock Up 1: We began with a half-sized scale truss and went through all the steps it would take to fully construct our sandwiching of layers and members. Throughout this time [...]

The End Is Almost Here

Today is a big day. Today is the day the final major elements get completed. This week has been critical, as people have been working hard to get all elements left prepped and in place. Originally, Thursday the 25th was set to be the "shovels down" day. Unfortunately, that did not happen. As we have [...]

Concrete Pour

"CONCRETE'S HERE!" - Dave Pastre After a long weekend of adjusting the formwork and pumping water again, and again, and maybe again from the rain the site was officially prepped. While all that was going on groups were in the shop working hard to put together the formwork for the "clutter in the gutter" (storage, [...]