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All in all it has been a fast-paced week. The Troup/Chamber Habitat Affiliate is in our past and our new affiliate is officially the Hale County Habitat Affiliate. A 2 1/2 hour drive to our new site has created various changes in our timeline and how we plan to go about the project. We will be attempting a ‘blitz-build’ scenario near the end of our school semester.

Besides the decisions we’ve made, we spent Monday making various corrections to our website, divided into four new groups to tackle various tasks, and talked about how our plans will change.

On Wednesday was a big re-cap and development discussion involved, our website, the final roof design, the current generation of elevation schemes, and the current cabinet design, and a look at a upper and lower cabinet mock-up, which was cut out solely using our CNC router.

The cabinet pieces being routed out of cabinet grade plywood.

The beginning of our discussion.

Cayce talking about elevations and how the roof design over the breezespace affects the porch solutions and elevations.

The ‘final’ breezespace framing/roof model.

Professor Hinson talking about different aspects about the cabinet designs presented while Uel waits for his turn on the soapbox.

On Friday, the studio broke into different carpooling groups and journeyed out to our site in Greensboro, AL (in Hale County). After exploring the town, enjoying lunch at Lou’s, and walking around the site and through the condemned building currently on it, we headed back to Greensboro’s Hero Center, a local Auburn Rural Studio project. We managed to decide on how to orient our module on the site, and found that for our original intentions to best be met we would have to rotate our home so that our front porch remained facing the front, and we had to mirror the house about the breeze space so that entry onto the porch faced in the direction of the driveway already on the site.

Joey REALLY liked that banana pudding.

Joey paying for it and everyone else relaxing after a large lunch.

Our venture out to the site. The general conclusion, “This is gonna be loads of ‘fun’.”

The back yard is gonna need some work.

Inside the condemned house. Well, what’s left of it anyway.

a snapshot of the afternoon discussion involving site orientation.