Archive for October 21st, 2009

These shelves aren’t exactly what we want it to look like, but they give the idea of a variety of things that can be simple yet beautiful and maybe provide seating.  We were thinking of removable seating and a lot of these show fixed seating- maybe we can have fixed seating with removable underneath in […]


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Starting with our individual groups and proposals, the images move through our collaborative process of combining ideas and the proposed design from last Monday:



This morning Kaitlyn, Kristen, Brita, Claire W, Ramon, Diana, Cailin, and I met to finish designing our seating and display wall.  We came up with some good ideas and overall goals for the pieces to portray, but need to start prototyping the alternatives so that we can see our options in 3D. For Seating: We […]


I did some research on the threaded ball joint is holding up the current light fixture in the f-stop. The closest I have been able to find so far are ceiling adapters, made mostly for fans and lights to hang on, or for tv’s to be mounted on. For the most part, only the ceiling […]


Furniture/Counter Group: a band goes around the trunk to serve as the countertop with underlying solid structure; morphs into the cabrinha lounge; structure of the countertop dips down to create the “calf rests” for the lounge; wedge seat along the display wall; backs change in elevation along the cabrinha lounge, bed, and bench seating; peninsula […]



The whole group came for most of this meeting.  One important conversation we had was about our pitch.  We we talked about the differences in the terms “sustainable,” “economy of means,” and “zero waste of material.”  We all concluded that our goal is to have zero waste of material, and use the ecomony of means approach when considering connections.  […]


21Oct09

Team 1+3 we should post our schedule up here too, it’s a good idea. and for those in the group who don’t know we are meeting at 10:30 tomorrow as a group and then again at 5.