The first project has been assigned! For the next seven weeks I'll be designing a celebratory building, more specifically an arts center that supports the biannual Healdsburg Guitar Festival in Sonoma Valley, California.
One of the first tasks of the assignment is to give a 25 minutes presentation on the peripheral variables that will affect this project. Peripheral variables include things like local culture, climate, building vernacular, civic building design and music festivals to name a few. My team: Lisa, Ryan, Kyle, Justin, Jeremiah and I will design separate buildings on separate sites, however we will share research and bounce ideas off each other as the project progresses.
The rest of the section is designing a celebration space in either Northern Manitoba or Goucester, Massachusetts. My first inclination was to choose the Canadian site because it would be familiar territory, but as I thought more about what I would learn, I thought it would be a better opportunity to design for a warm dry location, a climate I've had little experience with so far.
The California climate is going to present a unique challenge. The abundance of sun provides a lot of passive solar opportunities. That, and the required wood structure will result in a unique structure! I'm pretty excited for this project!
On another note, my studio section visited the Hjemkomst center this past Wednesday. The Hjemkomst center houses the hjemkomst, a homebuilt Norwegian boat that was sailed from Lake Superior, Minnesota, across the Atlantic to Norway. Behind the center is a Norwegian replica church. The church was built with almost no nails, save for the few metal hinges and latches serving the doors and windows. Though this building was very interesting to explore, I don't think I'll be using its construction style in my Celebration center project.
Next week we'll begin to design. Can't wait!
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