Our group of eleven has been hard at work, ensuring that we have a built project at the end of the semester. Here are some examples of the loose ends we've been addressing:
- Roles have been established, and a schedule has been developed.
- We developed and presented detailed graphics to the client to help him visualize the nature of what we were proposing and to know what his concerns would be. we have since been addressing each of those concerns, massaging the project to a final solution.
- We debated as a class and consulted a structural engineer to determine how the project would be resolved structurally, settling today on a combination of wood framing and steel.
- We have been discussing and evaluating various material options, settling in the past week on what they will be. With the project mostly resolved, we have made material take-offs and begun to make orders for the materials we need to purchase. We also decided on the "skin", which will be a combination of two salvaged materials. One will be the wood of trees that were removed on campus several years ago to make way for new construction. The other will be polycarbonate material that is being replaced on the greenhouses, next to the architecture building. We have collected both materials, and the wood is in the milling process as of this afternoon.
Construction will begin tomorrow as we frame the main wall. Renderings and photographs are on the way.
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