LSU Minden Main Street Workshop: Team Imperial Hotel Day 5

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.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Team Imperial Hotel Day 5

Group Blog
Members: Rob, Jessica, Shawn, and Annette

Today our team continued to develop the programming of the first floor, courtyard, and rooftop. We researched the grants possible for the addition of the original balcony/facade. Lester Marin returned to present a lesson on urban planning. He also critiqued our current designs. We got the key to the basement of the Imperial Hotel and ventured down into the dark to measure. The sewage pipe was disconnected and sewage was spilling out into the basement! It was almost as gross as the 3rd story pigeon graveyard and we got even dirtier measuring between all the spiderwebs. But our group took an ice cream break this afternoon and Frank and Marsha are cooking for us tonight.