Need an Image? 06/22/2011 0 Comments   We know just as well as you do that a picture is worth a thousand words. So, enough of the jibber jabber...Here is our model and a digital rendering of what we hope the structure will look like when it is completed! Master Luke pointing out something on the model. One day the big holes in the ground will look like this!   Between June 6-10 06/14/2011 0 Comments   One of the many iterations that were drawn on the board this week. The busy week of June 6th was full of quick decisions. Because of our short timeline and great expectations the design was manipulated, adapted, and tweaked this past week. We shifted the structure, banged our heads against the table about joints and enjoyed the nightlife on College Street from the window seat of the Design Center. We explored schemes and pushed ourselves to find a way to make our concepts STRUCTURAL. Unlike most projects that you work on in a educational atmosphere, this thing is getting built! We can not stop at drawing pretty lines on trace paper or making models in sketch-up...we are in the phase of figuring out spans, connections, tension and compression. Another crucial portion of this project is the skin. We must understand the skeleton of the structure as well as the function, material, and image of the outer layers. Because of the spirit of the garden, the skin is going to be funky and interesting (and a work in progress for the artist)! Monday-Thursday was full of discussion, revision, and decision. Friday, we visited DeWayne at the garden with a 1/2" scale model, a sketch-up model and some sections describing the latest scheme. The team built to scale connections of some of our joints. They are sitting in the design center, waiting for you to come by and see them! Site plans, sections, elevations, and floor plans, and sketch-up models were our assignments over the weekend so that we could meet with Edward Medlock, Structural Engineer with Medlock & Associates Engineering, PA on Monday morning. One of the joints built on site.

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