During another busy day at Louis Cherry Architecture, I started off the day with shadowing a meeting between one of the architects at LCA, Mr. Cherry, and a mechanic regarding a huge custom residential project. Carrying on from yesterday, I again noticed the frequency and the importance of problem solving as the entirety of the meeting consisted of brainstorming where to run the ducts for the heating and cooling system. They also laid out various system options such as boilers and cooling towers and geothermal heating and cooling. In addition to that meeting, I continued my greenhouse project by further testing my Sketchup skills and creating a frame for the greenhouse. The biggest challenge in doing this was that the frame had to be to scale as my first model was not. To keep the shape of my model from yesterday, I essentially shrank the whole thing but had to do so in direct proportion between my first model and my scale model. Next, I will be testing out shapes of the greenhouse, as it is more of a sculptural statement rather than a traditional vault. I am also going to play around with various glass panel sizes and structural beam sizes. Below are images of my math (yikes!) and my greenhouse frame.
