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W2 D5: Let's Get Down To Business6/30/2017 Today we put their designs to the test! We had them present their ideas to some members of the community, including local architect Ed Welling, and community liaison Nate Miller. The kids presented sketches, models, and research from the last 2 weeks and got amazing feedback. As a nice treat we went to Yummi Bunni. The word started back after the 4th.
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W2-D4 FIELD TRIP6/29/2017 Today, we thought it would be good to continue our lesson about case-studies and precedents by checking out some cool public spaces around Fort Wayne.
First we explored The Deck (before hours) to see examples of furniture made with reclaimed and up-cycled materials. After that we swung by Wunderkammer to check out their outdoor space and public art, Growing Minds' Winter Street Urban Farm to learn about adaptive re-use and urban agriculture, and finally, we made it over to Freimann Square's Lunch on the Plaza to grab some lunch from our local food trucks, and take in the sights of the sculpture garden!
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Meet our Build Counselor!6/28/2017 What drew you toward the Tired-a-Lot Summer Studio? When I was looking online about the program, and reading what all the counselors would be helping the campers with, I kept thinking how I wish I could have done something similar when I was younger. When I attended youth group at my own church we did service projects, but nothing that I got to design or build. After learning more about the Tired-a-Lot studio, I knew it would be an amazing and fun experience. I also love a great pun. What are your greatest design/architectural accomplishments thus far? What was your favorite project you’ve completed thus far? My greatest accomplishment thus far would have to be a design build project I just completed for school. We worked with a local summer camp for kids with disabilities. Our challenge was to make a 300+ foot floating bridge that would allow the campers a shorter journey, rather than having them go around the entire lake just to go from one side to the other. My most favorite was designing a Comic-con Headquarters with a good friend of mine as a group project for a studio. We learned a lot by working with each other. What design/architectural goals do you still hope to achieve? Something that I still hope to achieve would to be a lead designer on a video game. I am a complete nerd and love games, and would love to use my knowledge of certain programs and building types to help create 3-D worlds for video games. What types of spaces do you hope to design, or what types of projects do you hope to take on when you graduate? That one I’m not really sure on; I would love the opportunity to design museum spaces or medical facilities. If I’m being honest, I’d love the opportunity to work on any project; they all would have a specific skill type that would help me grow as a designer. How do you hope your work will make a difference (or impact others)? Going off my last answer, buildings such as museums and medical facilities have an “audience” all day, every day. They are meant to not only be seen, but in some ways be felt. I hope that my work could maybe inspire those that would see it. If it were a museum, I hope that the design would help its audience to be immersed in whatever it is they are there for, from art to science. In a medical facility, your surroundings play a big part in your morale, and I would hope that my design would help keep their spirits up, or distract them from whatever may be keeping them there. What or who inspired you to become a designer? In some ways I would have to say both my mother and father inspired me to design. As a child my dad would sit and draw with me, and encourage me. My mother painted, and one of the paintings hung in our living room. I wasn’t surrounded by art or design daily, but I was always encouraged with my art. As I got older and wanted to actually build things, for a time I thought I wanted to be an engineer. My parents supported that, and it was a way for me to create something. It was after being in school that I realized that for me, engineering didn’t allow me to express my design or style, while being able to create something. This led me to architecture.
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Meet Our Design Counselor!6/28/2017 Interview with our design counselor: Kristoffer Roxas.
Kristoffer is originally from Manila, Phillipines and will be entering his third year as an architecture major at Ohio State this Fall. What are your greatest design/architectural accomplishments thus far? My favorite has been a Dance Performance and Art Center I designed for a project. It was theoretical and designed with specifications. The park that is adjacent to the building was made to flow onto to sloping roof to have a whole continuous landscape. The shape of the building is produced by making it seem that the structure is being pulled off the site making it seem to float and still appear sublime. What types of spaces do you hope to design/or projects do you hope to take on when you graduate? After I graduate, I want to become part of an architecture studio, and I want to teach to further hone my skills. Then I want to hopefully design buildings in large cities like New York, London, and Abu Dhabi, focusing on the postmodern style of architecture and developing a new style as well. How do you hope your work will make a difference (or impact others)? The main purpose of architecture and design is not just to feed people’s eyes, but to affect their lives. In my designs, I want something more green, and more of a focus on the ecosystem. How we can make gray civilizations and nature harmonize. I want to design using simple parametric movements that accommodates nature, not destroy it. I also want to learn more about caring for the planet and how to actually live with it, not just cut down trees and build more things for humankind. Green is relaxing. New York is all gray, but they combat this by creating parks, such as the Central Park. I want nature to compliment civilization. What or who inspired you to become a designer? I have always been into drawing. Both of my parents were engineers and taught me to question how things work. I put that curiosity into focus onto design. I was inspired from the very start. From childhood, I have always had a knack for designing. I got into architecture because I was told I am good at drawing and when I took the first few classes enjoyed it and learned to respect it.
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Week 2 Day 3: Designs on Paper6/28/2017 Today must have been one of the hardest thus far for the kids. Most of the day was spent drawing and making models of what they envisioned for the lot. Kristoffer pushed them to come up with new designs, and to incorporate all the things he had taught them. He then showed them how to properly model their designs at a 1" = 5' scale. The kids pushed through and will finish up there ideas tomorrow.
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