yes- you can see it clearly in section a-a. the whole section over the reference desk was originally a double height, empty space. i wonder if they just made the balcony bigger and then added the windows as lb suggested, or built it as it is in the plans and later added this space.

okay off to meet lb for a cajun dinner and then we are gonna finish our thang woohoo!!!

i've sent mine in and i hope it qualifies to be at least included in the stew. it is a one pager baaad photo shop experience with a nice 'international'-read my lips- idea behind...

i saw it! we have an entry!

good one, orhan. ...and i think everything should get shown. even if it might raise some eyebrows.

excellent!

we're at the office working away on ours...can't wait to take a look at the all of the submissions on Thursday.

This is liberty posting on vado's computer - we are hard at work and close to getting finished - though every time we say only another hour or so of work it seems a snafu comes up and suddenly that amount of time doubles...

wait- isn't the deadline midnight tomorrow? you guys finishing ahead of schedule are creeping me out.

midnight tomorrow, correct. Archinect time (PST).

so that's about 30 hours from now?

VADO AND i THOUGHT IT WOULD BE MORE ARCHI-DORKY TO WORK ON IT ON FAT tUESDAY NIGHT...WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD FLINGS BEADS AT ONE ANOTHER'S BARE CHESTS, WE ARE IN STUDIO.

oops, sorry about the caps lock.

i know that's lb talkin, but i'm gonna pretend it's a schizophrenic vado telling us what he and his other self are doing for mardi gras...

we are done! just need to make the jpegs and send em. which will happen 2morrow as it is now SLIMDOWN WEDNESDAY!!!!

12:41 a.m.

i'm not done. only slept three hours last night & probably should have skipped the day job today because i'm going to be hustling tonight.

Note to self: do not leave presentation drawings for the last day.

Why can't I ever learn this lesson?

i'm not finished either but have developed a strategy so that if i don't finish, the gist will be there and i can feel ok about it.

somehow vado and lb sent me their sickness from indy down to louisville, so i'm limping along.

i'm guessing that, since there is some freehand stuff in my drawings, i'll have to have color scans made on thursday morning. so i won't be submitting until those are in hand.

Steven, we are all about freehand combined with sketchup. vado is handling the scanning.

A big thank you to all the offices that contributed valuable charrette materials like pens, trace, and copy equipment for this effort. I hope if my own office is ever of any reasonable size I will be able to support my young employees similarly.

i just emailed the jpegs to the gmail site. four emails total as each jpeg was 5mb so i was able to attach two to each email. with the fourth email containing just one. i forgot to rotate them in all the same direction. sorry about that.

Vado....
I was just on the gmail account and could not see your images (either that or something was taking forever to upload).

Let me know.

Also email me if there are any probs with the email for this submission (logging into it - I think I had to reset the password) (if you need access)

Ah- squirelly I also just got vado's email and my gmail just said "scanning for viruses" for abot 5 minutes, which is wrong. So let's keep trying for another half hour our so and perhaps have vado send them again if need be...

I had the same problem when trying to view the emails (scanning for 10+ minutes). gmail policy is 10mb max, and these messages are just over 9MB so they should work...

Update: vado is checking with his IT guy.....

I think maybe it's a gmail hiccup - I just received another email with a very small attachment and it took far too long for it to scan, too (though it eventually did).

so i sent my jpeg to my hotmail and it opened fine. i sent the same file to our i.t. guys gmail and it took about seven or eight minutes to scan. this was just one jpeg.

Yep it's a gmail hiccup. Is this a temporary thing I wonder, or will we have a ten minute scan for each submission - that could be problematic!

i just gmailed myself and it opened up just fine. i have five email accounts is that normal?

OK mine are downloading now - temporary problem it seems!

sweet thanks a bunch kids!
:O)
(im getting nervous about possibly submitting something....crap!!)

7 sheets uploaded. Time to run home and enjoy a night with the kids.
j

So I'm barely going to have anything to show for my time and here's why:

I was planning on coming home today, whipping out a cute little model and putting up some notes and such, maybe some diagrams, and wham! There we go. But like an idiot I scheduled my EYE EXAM today and I have not been able to look at anything brighter than my dimly lit keyboard for the past 6 hours.

Incidentally I can't even look at this screen anymore, too bright. Don't even ask me how I got home from the doctor's....

i'm still waiting for the rescue plan for the Klandisky and Calder works of art.....plug ahead in the future days....maybe we can keep them from being part of the architectural rubble....sigh!

an exhausted but intense liberty bell makin magic...

i should have worked in a team. two hours to go.

my thoughts exactly, puddles.

yes of course- i just finished laying out everything and then i notice it's supposed to be landscape- i always do landscape, but it just occurred to me to do portrait this time. so... i guess mine will all be sideways. sorry about that.

aml, you always have to break at least one rule.

I just sent mine. I was late and I don't have much to show in the way of actual programming but I put a few ideas out there. In fact I don't have much to show in the way of an actual building but at least it's kind of pretty.

well...i didmanage to submit something...although it was a bit late so hopefully they'll be a bit lenient (fingers crossed). the bigger question is whether or not i produced anything worth a damn. mine is basically a glass box of a building but clad in an outer layer of brick. well, not real brick. more like panels of quick-brick or thin-brick that aren't meant to offer any traditional masonry structure, only the "look & feel" of brick...but, of course, i have no idea if such a scheme could actually work.

aml is allowed to break as many rules as she wants, always...i think.

due to technical and health difficulties, mine won't be sent until later this morning.

actually, the difficulties are more health than technical, but because i had to go home and go to bed yesterday, i wasn't near the technology i needed to get the scans completed.

please don't lock the studio...

rumor has it that we've overwhelmed the google servers at 03:00 EST this morning with all the submittals and can't accept anymore.

of course, you could always "walk it over" to the MAPA offices

the team concept was the way to go. one because its more fun and two because it ends up being a fair amount of work.

last night:

1am- done. now, for those emails. smug and satisfied.

1.30- internet doesn't seem to be working. i'll have some cereal and reboot the machine.

2am- f*ing machine, f*ing internet.

2.30- problem solved using dial up connection to wifi network. start sending emails. wait, did i convey the fact that this area would be a garden? no. let's open photoshop again.

3.30- sleep.

wait- puddles, are you serious with the google servers? i'm very gullible.

3:30 submission. 4am sleep. wake at 9, get to work by 10. post to this thread @ 10:18. also exhausted but pleased with our team's effort. quick shout out to my wonderful design partner MK for her perseverance.

i cant access that wiki site.

wow guys, I've looked at the subnmissions up to now and they all look really great (except mine - I just threw it together)

At least we have a good body so far.

Puddles I wish I woulda had someone to do a little collaboration with....can't really turn to anyone in an empty apartment and ask "hey what do you think of this?" well i guess I could, but then I would sound crazy to anyone who could hear me!
haha

Thanks squirrelly, but mine was really just about ideas. I tried to bring some "green" design into it too.....even though my boards were actually blue :o)

i'll tell ya one thing i am out of shape for late nights(charretting anyway)winkwink as i am still tired a day and a half later. that said i would be totallY game for participating in other charrettes and or competitions(for caish prizes)

You guys hiding the submissions from us slackers?

the submissions will be published sometime in the near future. i'm not sure when exactly, but probably not before the meeting with the library board on monday evening.

and if it's any consolation, most of the MAPA team has yet to get a good look at them.

i want to thank all the mapa team who dedicated their know how, time, and love for architecture for this to happen.

vado, i think the wiki thing must have been a temporary glitch- it's working right now.