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    summer [yet]

    By highsmith
    Apr 8, '06 3:08 PM EST
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    analagous modeling of exeter library

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    extended view shelter

    The semester thus far consisted of entirely groupwork. This is a challenge, to say the best. I think I'm a bit stubborn [okay, more than a bit] and get a little lost in issues of tectonic clarity, especially building at full scale.

    Needless to say, the results were better than expected, but compromises were made by everyone [in a group of 12] to come out with a final design. The extended view project was constructed at full scale in market square on the RISD campus. The premise of the project, I would say, and especially in retrospect, was to successfully design the structure with the logic of construction and program holding equal weight in the process. I don't know that any one project was completely successful at both, but that's the challenge of design/build.

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    some of the other projects

    next up : trying to get a job in LA for the summer
    currently listening to 'the books : thought for food' and sifting through issues of 'cabinet' and chapters of alain de botton's 'on seeing and noticing'


     
    • 5 Comments

    • rizzdizzl

      no you still need to design a damn boathouse

      Apr 9, 06 2:42 pm  · 
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      highsmith

      in all fairness, i was out climbing on the red bridge today...

      Apr 9, 06 7:04 pm  · 
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      sporadic supernova

      Hey .. i like those photographs ... nice work

      Apr 16, 06 3:26 am  · 
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      JayTanley

      Robert... you need to update
      and thanks for leaving my group project out
      cheap...

      -Jason (LAB)

      May 28, 06 11:53 pm  · 
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      highsmith

      jay,

      done.

      -r (also LAB)

      Jun 3, 06 11:59 pm  · 
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