LSU Minden Main Street Workshop: Web Hardware

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

Web Hardware - Day 2

Team members: Stephanie Wong, Elizabeth Galan, Rhett Parker, and Jeremy Bunner

Day two.

We started today with a team meeting. We set a game plan for everyone- finish our drawings (plans, elevations, sections), programming, and to get started on precedents.

Our group split and got to work measuring our building. We have 14,400 sf, so there was a lot to do. We also finished up photographing our building.

We moved on to finishing our existing plans and started discussing what we want to do with our building. Our client was aiming for 10 apartments. The average studio apartment is 600sf and at that rate, with tare subtracted, we can fit about 19 studio apartments in the space. We want to incorporate a rooftop terrace with an amazing vista of the town, both toward Main St. the high school. With any luck, we'll be finish that up tomorrow.