SAS Site
For my third day with LS3P I met Kristi over on SAS campus for LS3P’s new SAS building project. This was a really neat experience as I got to sit in on a meeting about how the project was moving along, and then I actually got to go up into the building. This was especially cool, as my Dad, a SAS employee, is moving into this building when it is finished. I got to go see my Dad’s new building, and even the floor he is on, before he does. Kristi explained to me how they build up the structure of the building from bottom to top, and then when they reach the top, they finish the interior from top slowly back down to the bottom. This allowed for me to see the various stages of the process by moving from floor to floor. Dr. Ehrhardt came and tagged along for this tour, as he knows Kristi through the CA expansion project. When I got back to LS3P John put me to work. The research I had done from the day before now needed to be sketched out not only in brief 2D drawings on paper, but 3D sketches on the computer as well. Using the Sketch Up skills I acquired from 9th grade Art and Design with Ms. MacDonald, I created mock-ups of the vertical retracting glass wall for the space in the CA extension. This was really cool and I felt like a real architect. I was, of course, only doing very basic things, but I was contributing to the project and had a lot of fun with it. Tomorrow is an exciting day as well, Casual Friday!