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.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Team Imperial Hotel Day 4

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

After a late night and a busy morning, our group completed a very detailed plan for the new development in the hotel. Because we had not met with our client yet, we were designing with our tastes in mind. We were prepared to have all our ideas knocked down, but our client meeting was “killer”! Jeff Slack agreed with every one of our ideas. We also got a great sense of his personal taste. He absolutely loves the Bailey Hotel in Bunkie! He wants us to study that rehabilitation project to inspire the Imperial Hotel. We are all very excited that all of our work has contributed to our final designs and that we will only move forward from here!
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Lester Martin speaks to LSU students

We were privileged to have a lecture by Lester Martin. Here is the lecture (in 3 parts).









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Team Crichton Building

So, today we had our 2nd client meeting. Surprisingly it went really well. The town house idea was accepted as one of the the best program options we presented. The amount of work that we did was really influential in the response of the client. He appreciated our effort to research and gain knowledge on the market that would best fit into program. Team work is the name of the game in the case. GO TEAM CRICHTON
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Team Webb Building: Thursday, December 16, 2010


It was another warm day as we began getting ready and found we had some pesky creatures eating our bread, which was not good. We headed back to Main Street to continue the beginnings of the design process and began the day with a morning meeting discussing some strategies of running the second client meeting. We sat down with our group and reviewed some design ideas and what we wanted to show the clients. We then asked for Marsha to help us with how to approach our meeting. We worked until we broke for another meeting and then headed to lunch. Today we decided to venture into Skippi's for lunch and some delicious blue bell ice cream and shakes. We played on a 10 cent pinball machine in the arcade of Skippi's (it was awesome). We came back and began working on the meeting and finished some final ideas before meeting with our clients at 3:00pm. We had a good meeting and are going to be able to integrate more of what the clients want into a finalized design idea. Overall today was a good and productive day and are able to take a bigger step into the final design. It was a long day and we are ready to be home eat and are looking forward to the next few days to create a fantastic finished product.

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