I just added one of my studio projects from this semester. I’m a bit behind though, I still need to post my design/build work from this summer in Argentina, as well as 2 more projects from this semester’s studio. I will be doing that soon!…
I have always been strongly drawn to buildings and architecture, yet, if given the choice, I would prefer a tiny little one-room cabin in the middle of the woods over living in a completely urbanized environment. But I want to be an architect. I’m still…
Field trip day! The train ride down to La Plata was uneventful and very cheap. Actually, the hour and a half train ride cost less than our Subte ride to the train station. It cost us each only 2.10pesos. I don’t know how they’re able…
Hardware store day! Everyone kept talking about this place and I kept assuming that it was named “E-Z.” It absolutely never occurred to me that it would be the English word “easy.” I made friends with the tree dudes at the paint counter. We picked…
We’ve been designing. What a relief. April was great at taking charge today in the library of Los Piletones. First we all brainstormed together of the many ways in which we could intervene. After that, we decided what were the 8 most important things to…
Today we finally split into our groups for the daycare and the planning. I really care about bringing heat into all parts of the daycare. It’s my personal mission. I was excited to talk about that today and head into the daycare to see what…
Our planning charette day was exhausting for me because my entire group spoke in Spanish. Katie, poor Katie, doesn’t really speak any Spanish, but we were with four Argentinian women, so that’s how we talked. Oh my lord, I did my best. I understood probably…
Today was great because we finally got to the design portion of the program. Today was our full-day design charette for the daycare center. We broke in to small groups and came up with a bunch of interventions for the daycare center. Then we broke…
Today was a whirlwind trip to the United States Embassy, a meeting with the planners in charge of Piletones’ future, and a mind mapping session focusing on the master plan and the daycare. The Ambassador herself wasn’t able to make it to our meeting today,…
I know that I may have romanticized the winding nature of Piletone’s streets yesterday, but really I was just trying to recognize a common ground amoung all humans–through cultures and centuries. There’s a similarity in informal orgnization because there’s a similarity between all of us…