LSU Minden Main Street Workshop: 01/05/11

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.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Team Imperial Hotel Day 12

Today was our presentation in Minden! Everything went really well and a lot of the community showed up to view our designs and ask questions. It was great to see so many positive responses to our designs. Some saw our designs as inspiration for what they could do with other buildings in the downtown area. We all feel that this project has been a great success and are very proud of our accomplishments in Minden. Thank you to everyone who has supported us!

Final Day and Presentations!!! Team Crichton

Today was the final day of the workshop and we came back to Minden in order to present. The presentations were very interesting and we had a huge response from the community. Everyone, including or client, was very appreciative exited of our work and how it can positively effect historic downtown Minden. The Crichton Building team looks forward too seeing downtown Minden continue to grow and hope to see progress soon.

Webb Hardware - Preparing our Presentation

Today was a LONG day. We started off bright and early - around 8:00 on our work. We were still laying out our floor plans, working on the roof design, the lasercut file, and the 3D model. We all worked really hard. We broke around 6pm to go get some food. We reconvened shortly after and began our all-nighter. I went home at 3:30 (because I was driving to Minden the next day), but the rest of the group stayed until 7:30am. I got to studio at 8, and began mounting our boards for the presentation. We had s good time working (and playing), but it is relieving to be done with the production phase of this workshop!