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Hello friends!  Our class has continued to stay fast paced on our design. At this point, we are at about sixty percent complete on our Construction Documents for our Ogden project. We are still working in our separate groups. One group is working on the model, another on the structure and load calculations. Another groupContinue reading “The Final Design”

We are off to a fast-paced start to 2021 at the Net+ studio. We spent our first week in small groups working hard to integrate our designs from last semester toward one final house. On Monday, we met with our final iterations of the three final schemes and voted on which design we thought was the best to move forwardContinue reading “Moving fast”

As soon as our studio were done with Analysis and Detail Phase, we got into doing our research book during our thanksgiving break.   We had to do research analysis of two places, Ogden and Manhattan. So, we had divided people into groups to take responsibility to look into different areas of research. At the end of our thanksgiving break we had to presentContinue reading “Research Book”

Our Studio has now closed out our Analysis and Detail phase. This phase includes refinements of the previous phases work, as well as a deeper look into the details of construction and costs.   Each of us have been individually meeting with Professor Gibson to achieve the level of refinement we currently have. This last WednesdayContinue reading “Moving Forward”

The end of October and early November saw the studio return to St. John for the final sessions of the year. As state in an earlier post, the group that made the trip in late October had the task of erecting the porch columns and installing the prefab porch roof panels, as well as completingContinue reading “St. John Update”

These past couple of weeks our studio has been transitioning from Schematic Design into the Design Development phase.  At this point, our designs have reached the stage in which we have figured out the larger ideas and now we can start to understand the details of each one. We are fine tuning our designs andContinue reading “Intro to Design Development”

This week in studio we started off by preparing for our 4th trip to the St. John build site. Our goals for the house were to get the porch up and have everything finished on the outside to prepare for the siding, roofing, and landscaping crews to do their work on the exterior of the house.   LateContinue reading “Shop Week”

Schematic Design Presentations We started off with our revised workforce housing presentation, students virtually conveyed some critical aspects of Manhattan’s existing housing conditions and how Net+ design will positively impact the area. The studio then shared a series of diagrams and images to communicate the site analysis of both Lee Mills and Ogden sites.   Then,Continue reading

Our studio is now coming to a close on our Schematic Design phase.  This is when we design the form and function of our proposed house designs through several iterations. We have done research on the needs of the communities we are designing for, environmental factors, and general good design.  As a group we haveContinue reading “Schematic Design”

As the Net+ Studio began transitioning into the schematic design phase, the work at St. John could not be abandoned. As winter is approaching, we were tasked with making sure the house was sealed up.  On the first build day, there was a fairly large group of students. We worked together to seal up theContinue reading “St. John Update”