Written by Hadley Gibson - We’ve officially wrapped up our first full week of building! In addition to laying out the floor along the helical piers that serve as our foundation, we’ve begun to frame out each of our 12 walls. This is a constantly evolving process that has proven to be both exciting and frustrating. We decided to add a flare to...
Written by Atreyu Sutton - Having little experience in the architectural world I fell victim to the design process, an inevitable operation unlike any other. I quickly learned this process is compiled with ideas, opinions, and constant new plans traveling in unpredictable loops, forcing one to make choices. This past week pushed me to...
Written by Emma Semenuk Scott - A Week in the Life of a Yestermester Kiddo
Friday:
We ventured out on a walking tour of the famed Prickly Mountain properties lead by our beloved instructor Britton and accompanied by the Woodworking Certificate students and a few interns. It was especially...
Written by Sawyer Cunningham - The changing of the seasons brings with it colder and colder mornings. Madi comes to breakfast wrapped in layers of jackets to make it through her short walk from the chalet. Students emerge weary eyed from their dorms or cars and we begin our half controlled stumble through the process...
Written by Lily Hammerling - Week 5 of our design build semester and everything is in full swing. We spent the last week finalizing our drawings for the Design and Review Board (DRB) of Waitsfield. This consisted of a lot of discussions, practice drawings, and revisiting the concept of our building par ti. What is a parti you ask? Not a late...
