This new studio rotation involves a little more hands on work: more hammer and nails, less epoxy. The idea is to integrate first-year students in construction, the "design-build" scenario, if you will.
The project is, in simple terms, a small construction project to initiate the renovation of Penn State's Sustainability Center (research on environmentally sound living and all that). The project is largely centered around the community garden, a huge garden on which members of PSU's faculty and student body can purchase 10' x 10' plots to take care of.
Our studio as a whole will be designing and constructing two sheds, a well of some sort for routing water to the gardeners, and a community center. My section got the community center. The community center's site includes an old broken-down "gazebo" structure, a makeshift path cut through woods, and two picnic tables. We separated into four groups and were to submit designs. We're about to collaborate as a group on one central design and present it to our clients (the garden owner, the Sustainability Center leader, and people from OPP), so I'm just hoping it goes well.* Why write a blog about all this?
BECAUSE I GOTS DRAWINGS:
(Just some renderings for my group's design proposal, alongside the pictures that they were based off of).
P.S. I was, this past Thursday, de-brace-ified. Retainer constantly for the next eight weeks, then probably every night while I sleep for the rest of my life. REGARDLESS: I'm beyond happy to get those little metal bastards out of my mouth.
P.P.S. I haven't finished rebuilding the lamp yet. Hooray!
*BECAUSE MY GROUP WORKS HORRIBLY TOGETHER. FUCK.
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