Semester in Sustainable Design/Build

Semester in Sustainable Design - Video Edit

By Madi Visser, Semester Program Teaching Assistant
We had the opportunity to spend the full week building on the site and it’s been incredible! We put a lot of the pieces together beforehand (this process is called prefabrication or prefab for short) so things went together pretty quickly! We’ve had some rain, some cold, and some sweet fall sun to make for an overall beautiful leaf peeping...

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Semester in Sustainable Design - Beginning Construction

By Madi Visser, Semester Program Teaching Assistant
Semester Program Begins Construction
--Written by Hannah We have finally begun construction on our project! We started in our tent on the yestermorrow campus. Here we made about six sections of the floor that were each about 4’x12’ that we could then place together on site. We then loaded these into the truck and headed out to the site! On the site we had more...

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Semester in Sustainable Design/Build - Life Advice from our Clients

By Madi Visser, Semester Program Teaching Assistant
Written by Natalie If you haven’t read much about our clients yet in the blog posts, you are about to glean a sliver of the plethora of wisdom they have bestowed upon us. What you are about to read are the favorite words-of-wisdom each student has taken away from Ben and Ellen over our 3-4 meetings/dinners. Hannah: Scene: After...

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Life advice from the clients: Ellen and Ben

By Madi Visser, Semester Program Teaching Assistant
Written by Natalie: If you haven’t read much about our clients yet in the blog posts, you are about to glean a sliver of the plethora of wisdom they have bestowed upon us. What you are about to read are the favorite words-of-wisdom each student has taken away from Ben and Ellen over our 3-4 meetings/dinners. Hannah: Scene: After...

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The Design Process

By Madi Visser, Semester Program Teaching Assistant
--Written by Becca We’ve now gone through three rounds of design and critique and, as of Wednesday, have presented a “final” (read: still in progress) design for our project! I could share it with you now, but just to build up the suspense, here is a glimpse into the web of some of the main ideas we have been playing around with for the...

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