Sunday, January 29, 2012
DESIGN COMPETITION!!!!!!!
Hey guys its Brittany and Austin your official bloggers, ready for a fun filled semester with everyone. buurr it sure is chilly now probably not like that in Honduras. Oh, which reminds us we have entered a design competition to build a Medical center located near a small town named El Canton, Honduras. We have the opportunity to have the winning design and no matter what we are planning the trip to help build it in the summer. But of course we want to win! To make this possible we need lots of ideas. In the next coming meetings we will be discussing our plans on the idea. To help the process go quicker, since the due date of our final design is February 20th try and start researching. Looking up similar projects to what we have to design and sustainable ways (inexpensive, even recyclable items) is a great start! Here is a link we are attaching to get a better understanding of the site, it will be very helpful in beginning your design concept.https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1.1&thid=1352cfd39707ac30&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui%3D2%26ik%3D37e3628a00%26view%3Datt%26th%3D1352cfd39707ac30%26attid%3D0.1.1%26disp%3Dsafe%26zw&sig=AHIEtbTJfpO23kzdTiUaKRKUDW_TgRjHTw
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Past Panama Trips!
To learn more information about Global Architecture Brigades, or the other Global Brigade sectors, follow this link: http://www.globalbrigades.org/
Over the past two years our Global Architecture Brigades chapter has had three successful trips to Panama and Honduras. We ventured to Panama in March of 2010 for our first design trip. The project was in an extremely rural part of Panama, near Santiago. We worked and lived with the community of El Salto for a week while we worked on the design at night. The community is located near 22 natural waterfalls, and was struggling to sustain itself with its very little income from farming. Our job was to design an eco-cabin, to help bring in tourists into the community and create a new source of revenue. In August of 2010 we returned to Panama to start the construction of the eco-cabin. This week long trip was dedicated to gathering the materials on site and assembling as much of the project as we could, in such a short period of time. We were able to learn about the craft of the farmers through mixing concrete and cutting and tying rebar by hand. Here are some pictures of the past two trips that do not do any justice for the Panamanian country side!
Over the past two years our Global Architecture Brigades chapter has had three successful trips to Panama and Honduras. We ventured to Panama in March of 2010 for our first design trip. The project was in an extremely rural part of Panama, near Santiago. We worked and lived with the community of El Salto for a week while we worked on the design at night. The community is located near 22 natural waterfalls, and was struggling to sustain itself with its very little income from farming. Our job was to design an eco-cabin, to help bring in tourists into the community and create a new source of revenue. In August of 2010 we returned to Panama to start the construction of the eco-cabin. This week long trip was dedicated to gathering the materials on site and assembling as much of the project as we could, in such a short period of time. We were able to learn about the craft of the farmers through mixing concrete and cutting and tying rebar by hand. Here are some pictures of the past two trips that do not do any justice for the Panamanian country side! |
| Natural Waterfalls |
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| Model (no glue and about 90% humidity...) |
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| Construction Crew |
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