Team Imperial Hotel Day 10

After a nice break for Christmas and New Years, we are ready to complete our projects for our final presentation in Minden. We are making some last changes to the courtyard facade, finishing plans and elevations, and placing our work onto a template to print tomorrow. Tomorrow we will also laser cut and build our physical model. We made the paper in Minden again!


Fruits of LSU labor to be put on display
Written by Angel Haney
Monday, 03 January 2011

Webster Parish residents will be able to see the potential of some downtown Minden buildings in an upcoming presentation.

Students and faculty from the LSU School of Architecture recently worked and lived in Minden for two weeks, departing on December 23, to provide assistance to Minden Main Street in their efforts to cultivate the community.

The program, titled Minden Main Street Workshops, 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.

The final presentations of the work will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 5, at City Artworks in downtown Minden.
Pattie Odom, Minden Main Street director, said the public is invited and encouraged to attend.

“The students did a similar program and presentation in McComb, Mississippi,” she said. “They had 100 people turn out for the final presentations. We would like to match, if not beat, that number. We should show our support for these students.”

The 12 participating students worked in three groups, each one focusing on one building. The buildings selected were the old Imperial Hotel, which the students want to see turned back into a hotel, Webb Hardware and the Crichton Building, both of which are being proposed as apartments.

“It’s been really exciting to see the students’ concepts and visions,” Odom said. “Those who attend the event can look for some very professional presentations. I can’t imagine the value of the work they have done for us. I couldn’t tell you what the cost would be to hire a professional to come in and do this and their service has been amazing.”

The buildings selected for the project do have the potential to be developed and Odom hopes to see that happen.

“These ideas can easily be turned into a reality,” she said. “All this time and effort has been put forth by Minden Main Street and Downtown Development to make this happen. We plan on developing downtown to its fullest potential.”

For more information on the project, check out the blog the students and faculty kept during their experience at www.lsuminden.blogspot.com.

TEAM BLOG YEAAAAA

This suuuucccckkkkks ....hahaha . Ok so team Crichton is back in Baton Rouge. We are finishing up our final board, model, and program. All of our hard work will be exhibited in Minden this Wednesday @ 5pm. Come out and show us some support.

Anddd WE'RE BACK!

So today was the first day back after the holiday festivities and such. We're in the basement and in a studio that used to be a first year one so a lot of people have a bunch of new supplies...
We are picking up from where we left off in Minden-there is a lot of work to be done. We're going to stay late today and try to get as much work done before tomorrow. We need to be completely done at the end of tomorrow because on Wednesday we are traveling to Minden for the last time to present our project to our clients. We are also laser-cutting and assembling our model tomorrow.
Today we worked on completing the floor plans, roof designs, the building program, and started playing around with the layout of our boards.

In other news:
Rhett found out you can put AutoCad on the Iphone: