WELCOME


WELCOME
to the LSU Minden Main Street Workshop. Students and faculty from the LSU School of Architecture will be working and living in Minden for two weeks to provide assistance to Minden Louisiana Main Street in their efforts to cultivate a resilient community. This program is funded in part through a grant awarded to the LSU Office of Community Design and Development from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Minden Main Street Workshop is the first in a series of workshops to connect environmentally responsible design practices with historic preservation strategies to accelerate sustainable development in Louisiana's small towns and cities. For more information, please contact the Office of Community Design and Development.


Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Crichton Building Daily Notes 12/14

After surveying the building yesterday, we completed the line drawings that make up the plans and sections of the existing conditions of the building. We had to go back and re survey a few areas and pieces of the building that we forgot and missed in the initial survey. Upon completion of those, we began to add programing to the spaces. These include variations of our client’s idea of dormitory style housing, as well as other ideas for studio/one bedroom apartments. In the variations of the drawings, we use different forms of egress as well as different styles of spaces to compose the units. In the afternoon, we also went to the Minden Museum, which had a lot of information and exhibits for the size of the town were in.