Week of February 4-9

Sunday: A lot of time was put into collaborative design. I got some books to research structure, and we sketched different ways to support or hang our canopy. I made a couple study models or different structural possibilities. I also made a gesture model of a canopy shape.
Monday: I did some research on bales of recycled bottles. The Kitehill Recycling Center in Clemson was very helpful and informative. There is the possibility for showing process of our plastic textile panels with these bales.
We also spent a lot of time collaborating for our presentation on Tuesday to the Clemson Board of Architectural Review. We worked on designs for ground work such as the amphitheater style seating, prepared drawings and boards. I worked on boards and a section of the groundwork.
Tuesday: We fixed and edited the boards and our model for presentation. John Thomas and I spoke on behalf of the class to the Board of Architectural Review at City Hall. The board appreciated our work and gave their support to the project.
Wednesday: I worked on some gestural models of possible alternative seating for site. John Thomas and I worked on the possibility of the unfolding of a box to create opportunities for seating, play for children and signage. We also made a model of the amphitheater style seating. In making this model I cut my thumb resulting in a trip to urgent care and 4 stitches.
Thursday: Time was spent learning about surveying and surveying our site. We were taught about half a semester worth of surveying information in an hour and a half. We proceeded to the site to take the gain the topographic information. It took us a while to get the hang of things, but we collected over 200 points throughout the site. This gave us updated and more accurate topographic information. We spent the first long stretch of time on our site and learned that 1. It gets very cold at night 2. It is VERY well lit on our site at night 3. Papa Johns is going to get a lot of our business this semester.
Friday: We spent time on AutoCAD placing the topography on top of our site plan. There were some technical difficulties with the original site plan and this required a lot of time. We also did material analysis and research for the groundwork and site.
Saturday: We collaborated on groundwork and stage. We also continued to discuss materials. Sara and I went to the GIS lab and prepared the AutoCAD files for the laser cutter. We cut and glued a majority of a quarter inch scale model of our site with the new topographic and site plan information.