Monday

As a group we choose a T-Shirt design winner. We also researched and analyzed Chicago rain fall for collecting water on site( Childrens Garden of Hope). We look up precendent projects that are similair to what we are doing to help with our ideas and designs.

Tuesday

We Practice with plan,section and elevations view using a bell pepper to show the different views of one object. We alse measured the woodworking room to scale and drew out the plan view.

Wendseday

In groups we finalized our brainstorming and then came together and presented our research. Finally we continued with our concepted designs.

Thursday

We took a trip to a site called ‘The Plant”. It was an example of a closed loopeco-system9net zero). The Plat used Aquaponics to grow plants and vegetables and to products energy. It also had an community kitchen and an annarobic digester (cloosed loop energy system). Finallly we went over the desgin process and the build process.

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Student Summary:

On Thursday, the first day of the workshop, we were introduced to each other and our host school, Currie Metropolitan. We had our woodshop orientation where we leaned power tool safety and general shop safety. Also, we had our first day in the Architecture lab, and understand what tools we will be using throughout the workshop. To end the day, we were to start thinking about t-shirt designs for the team.

Friday, we arrived at our first design charrette.  The clients from Neighbor Space, an organization supporting gardens throughout the city, and members of the garden (Maria, Patina, Audria, and Rachael) arrived bright and early to greet and explain to us what they would like in a small community garden known as the Children’s Garden of Hope. We went through a slide show explaining to the clients and to us what the Design-Build Workshop is. From there, we split into four different groups containing a member of our clients to talk about possible ideas and designs. A large portion of the ideas involved rainwater harvesting and there many forms of that idea were designed.

Marcus, Workshop Participant

Carpenter_Tectonics in Architectural Education_students

Tygart_Drury University Design Build

Bandanes_The Architect as Builder

Readings are due on Thursday June 28.

Team,

• Student Summary:

During Week 6 we started to create a scale model of our design at 3”=1’, it has been very complicated to accomplish that in the small amount of time we have left. Everything has been coming along, all the hand drawings have been finished or almost finished. Last week Bernie Schmidt came in to talk to us about solar panels. He works for renewable energy alternatives. Bernie talked to us about different types of solar panels, different sizes and he also talked to us about what angle the solar panels need to be to get the most efficiency. After his presentation we had one question, should we change the cube, which will hold the solar panels, from a 45-degree angle to a 35-degree angle? At the end of the week we met with Bob Pancoe, which is the owner of Emco Metal Works. He had a mockup to show us of our design a few adjustments were made, but in the end it was just what we wanted.

Weekly Progress/Observations:

• Started building hand model at 3”=1’

• Construction Drawings
o Site plans
o Cube elevations
o Hand Dimensions

• Modeling Team
o Worked on the block details
• Lights
• Lettering

• Bernie Schmidt
o Works for Renewable Energy Alternatives
o Talked about solar panels
• Different types of solar panels
• MonocrystaLline
• Polycrystalline
•Different sizes
•17”-17”
• Cost
• $5,000 for both
o Solar panels should be at a 30 degree to 35 degree angle for better results

• Field trip to steel fabricator
o We were given a tour of the shop by Bob Pancoe owner of Emco Metal Works
o Bob had a mockup to show us
• There were a few adjustments
• Height changed from 24’ to 22’

-workshop participant

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Student Summary:

In week 5 we continued working hard on the two different models. We worked hard  on both models and drawings to present them in a way so that the community members could make their decision. On July 19, we had a meeting with the community members and in that meeting both the model of the hands and the person joining the neighborhood were presented. The community members were really impressed by the model of the hands, they liked that the model had lighting, mosaic tiles, and they liked that we modified the arms so that it was more straight rather than spiral. At the end of the meeting, the community members all voted on the design that they wanted to have and the design that they chose for us to continue working on was the model of the hands.  On Wednesday we had a guest speaker: Jessica Hogue come talk to us. She is an architect at Smith Gills and works with 3-d Modeling (program she uses is Rhino). She also gave us some help us with the solar panels (recommended that we put the panels 30 degrees facing south).

Weekly Progress/Observations:

- Worked on drawings and scale models of both designs

- Community meeting (where the focus design was chosen)

*Guest speaker: Jessica Hogue

- Works as an architect at Smith Gill

-She talked about how she works with 3-d modeling

- Helped us with the solar panels

Student Summary:

Last week we have been working very hard to finish scale models and structural designs for the two models. However, since they haven’t decided which project will proceed to be built, the students on the team will continue to work the same process for both models. Randy Herbsman came in to talk to us about what is good and wrong about our projects. We all took notes and used them to make the designs better. Not only that, we also visited our new site on Pulaski and took some measurements for if the project will be located there. We also visited the Center of Green Technology which gave us ideas about using light.

Weekly Progress/Observations:

*Randy Herbsman came in to speak to us

- structural engineer (what he does as a career)

basic structural concepts

• compression
• tension
• bending
• shear
• torsion

different loads

• live —> moving
• dead —> no move

Discussion of different structural components

• foundations (system)
• beams and colums
• floors
• roofs
• walls

Physics and Math

OUR PROJECTS

Hands model:

• 3-6 in diameter steel tubes
• welding will be hard
• 3-4 ft concrete foundation
• steel plates with anchor bolts on top of foundation

Similarities between both projects

• Made of steel
• concrete foundation
• anchor bolts and steel plates
• 3 in for both

Differences

• Height and length
• man= 3 foundations while hands= 1 foundation

What we did:

• worked on budget and schedule
• scale models
• structural designs
• visited new site
• visited P.R. flag
• Center of Green Technology