process

Here are some pictures of our design process and the beginning of the building process.

Coordinating the design among eleven people has been extremely challenging, but in group charrettes like the one shown above, we have managed to converge.  This has been an invaluable experience for all involved as we learned to fight for ideas, abandon ideas, and simply be flexible.

 At one point a "talking banana" was introduced to the debate as a means to keep people from talking over on another.  Only the person with the banana can talk.  The rule didn't last very long, but it was great comic relief while it did.

 Construction begins...just checking to see if we can stand our walls inside the shop...We can't.

We somehow manage to keep everyone busy, laying out walls, planing boards, nailing, screwing, etc.  Framing is relatively foreign to many of us, but we're learning quickly.