Underlying Program Goals:

// lead students in HANDS-ON construction combined with a design studio education in order to discover new intersections between design and fabrication.


// foster a COLLABORATIVE studio environment such that students engage more fully in a dialogue with their peers, practitioners, context and communities.


// implement architecture, design and the making of space to catalyze POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE and stewardship of our built environment.

May 13, 2009

104 photos added to the '08 Process Album


These are all from Charles and include photos from his other published galleries, for a more centralized location. There are a lot from the early form-finding studies as well.




these were on my desktop as "udb randoms"

May 10, 2009

team B photos added

...to the album, from alley mock-up 2.0

team A studies, gray aggregate & stretch lattice

stretch fabric mock-up emerges from the basement for siting studies... form research for aggregate surface--now in gray canvas!

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May 4, 2009

hereford st. aggregate study

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armed with new hues, we examined the hereford st. colonnade as an installation site...

May 2, 2009

UdB Blog reaches +1,000 Visits

Since December '08! ...So maybe almost all of the visits are ours, but I still think its worth celebrating. Possibly with fried chicken. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the world map to see where are visitors are located.

May 1, 2009

logo idea






i know we didn't get to this wednesday, but here's an idea i had...

Workflow - Week13

PLAYbook work:
  • All students to provide a CD/DVD disk of their tile images (for sat. to megan)
  • Lindsay will continue to develop the bracket/timeline (for sat/wed)
  • Lindsay to revise 3 interior connection tiles (team #2 cones) (for sat. to megan)
  • Billie and Ilsa will scan/prepare images for material tiles (for sat. to megan)
  • Billie will prepare more f/s tiles based on her initial vignettes (for sat. to megan)
  • Chris and Mike will continue to develop a strategy/layout for the Site Analysis Pages (review sat)
  • Mike will create new exterior connection tiles for team#1 knots
  • Ben will prepare form/shape tiles to photo/diagram pairings (for sat. to megan)
  • Terry will prepare a new exterior connection tile for team#2 (for sat. to megan)
  • Terry will prepare a tile for the 'clothes line' exterior connection in Roxbury (for sat. to megan)
  • Megan will create tile templates and test two size books for review with Kyle (sat-wed)

note: we will be constantly updating certain tiles. you should submit to megan current tiles so that we can accurately determine the content.

Team2 Mock-Up Work (for review wed):
  • Lindsay to produce axon tiles for team #2 final diagrams
  • Terry to integrate 5"dia. 'rings' and a suspension string into 5'x5' mock-up
  • Ilsa to fabricate two 'light cones' for 5'x5' mock-up (net, solid)
  • Ben to source rope-light/LEDs and integrate two tests into the mock-up
  • Ben to move the mock-up to the 'dark room before wed's class

Nomadic Canopies, mock-up session - Spring '09

Frederick Douglass Peace Park Amphitheater, rendering - Spring'08