Detailing the Ogden KS Net Positive house
The process of detailing the Net positive house was iterative and took the entire team. Detailing takes a clear understanding of not only the form but, the various layers of the building envelope. The building envelope is highly efficient and…
And Just Like That… We Have A House!
As we come to the final weeks of the semester, the Net+ Studio has had a busy first week on site, while also participating in the APDesign Kremer competition. Though we had some minor setbacks at the beginning, the studio worked hard…
Panels Are Done!(April 19th)
As we get closer and closer to the end of the semester the Net Positive studio has been working diligently in APD West to complete panel construction. Working during class time and on our own time, the Net Positive studio…
We Can’t Slow Down!! (04.10.2021)
As we start to close in near the end of the semester, our workload increases and remains consistently heavy. The Net+ Studio has been continuously preparing for the events of the 2021 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. We have…
The Kitchen Process (04.03.2021)
This week was very busy for the Net+Studio, the studio was split between many projects. Primarily, we focused on preparing a set of six presentations for the solar decathlon for the St. John project deadline coming up. We also focus on…
Time to Problem Solve (03.27.2021
This week, we started by setting up the APDWEST shop and preparing the construction panels area. Then, we completed a mock-up version of a typical wall and roof by assembling together all the pieces that we made last week. There were some…
Finishing up in St. John
It has been a very busy week for the Net+ Studio! We have been making progress in both last year’s project in St. John as well as in this year’s project in Ogden. Monday through Wednesday were focused on doing shop…
Solar Decathlon – St. John
The Solar Decathlon deadline was quickly approaching. This meant that it was time to put together a book to submit. As a class, we split into six groups to discuss the architecture, engineering, presentation, resilience, market, and affordability. This process…
A Return to St. John
2021, regarding the weather, became a waiting game to get back to St. John. Fortunately, the wait didn’t last forever, as the end of February brought an end to the cold snap and an opportunity to return to the construction…
02.20.2021 Update
We started Monday with going through our Construction Documents and marking our drawings. Our class is working in separate groups but at the end we are compiling all our sheets together to go through our progress. We started first with architectural design mark ups and…
The Final Design
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…
Moving fast
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…
Research Book
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…
Moving Forward
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…
St. John Update
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…
Intro to Design Development
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…
Shop Week
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,…
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…
Schematic Design
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…
St. John Update
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,…
Studio Update
This past week, the Net Positive Studio, though always learning more as we proceed, has tentatively finished the research phase and has started work on our schematic design phases for the different workforce housing programs. Amid our first on-site construction experiences with the…
St. John Update
The Net+ Studio has been hard at work on the St. John build site with help from Eco Devo team members. The studio has now been able to complete one build session in St. John, KS. The first build session consisted of three consecutive build days. The site…
Research Progress
This week our studio is doing research on our Manhattan/Ogden area project. We have been working in union with Donna Schenck-Hamlin (Program Associate-KSU Center for Engagement and Community Development) and Karmen Davenport to discuss the housing problem in Riley County. We have found the current housing…
2020-2021 Net Positive Studio
The Team: 12 graduate students in their final year of studio at Kansas State University and our Professor Michael Gibson, partnering with our studio are Manhattan Area Habitat for Humanity, Manhattan Area Technical College, Flint Hills Renewable Energy & Efficiency…
Net Positive Studio Presents St. John Prototype
Our studio presented the net positive house to jurors on the final presentation of our semester and Kermer Jury on May 4th and May 8th via zoom. We were grateful to have Prof. Todd Gabbard (Associate Professor K-State), Prof. Judy…
