On Friday, the group decided to take a day off before the big upcoming week. Prior to Friday, the group did much preparations for finishing up the final touches of autocad drawings, powerpoint presentations, and organizing the lumber at the site while we start building the first greenhouse storage. As a result, the group headed back to Auburn to relax and watercolor during the long weekend before the main events of the upcoming week.

This Wednesday was very much like every other day we have had this week. As of right now, we only have approximately a week to finish up our storage, window repair, autocad drawings, multimedia, sorting, etc… We have all been working hard on the preparations for the reconstruction.

The vast majority of us spent the day out at the site trying to finish up all the prganizing/storage work. The Autocad team, Walker, and Jamie stayed behind in the Redbarn to keep working on the drawings, as well as a movie on our adventures at the site this semester.

As most of you should know by now, the church is being rebuilt in the Fall 2007 semester. Our job at the moment is to provide the easiest means of reconstruction. We are organizing and grouping members in order of reconstruction and storing them for the summer in order of how they will need to be removed in the fall. Our AMAZING autocad team is working on every construction drawing that anyone could ever need. Team multimedia (me, Walker, Jamie, and Candace) have been working on a powerpoint for the AHC, a movie for Pig Roast, organization for Pig Roast, sorting photographs of the church for Linda Derry, and other various tasks.

Our watercolors are due Monday, and Pig Roast is this upcoming Saturday. It’s hard to believe that our Rural Studio semester is almost over.

On Tuesday everybody kept working on same things they had been working for a couple of weeks now. I was partially in workshop working on windows and helped Nick Bishop a little bit because Van our carpenter went to the site to unload other windows and left over pieces, and I didn’t have my partner to finish windows. Eventually I ended up leaving red barn with Nick Wickersham, Sarah, and Frances. We went to Selma to get more pallets and unloaded them at the site…
Adam, Chris and John worked on auto cad, Christine was gone all day, she was back in auburn trying to figure out if she did lose anybody in Virginia shooting!

Well, today was amazing since Fuller, Francis and I got to decipher questionable directions for the greenhouse. The drawings just didn’t do it for me, but since we are so good we figured them out with no problem…. eventually. Our goal for the day was to mock up a section of the greenhouse so when Monday comes we know what to expect from it. We altered the installation features of the GH slightly since we can’t dig on the Cahaba grounds, but we plan on tying the thing to ground so that shouldn’t be a problem. Hence, while we were working on the team Eric was busy bundling the church members for transport into the GH on Monday. All that said, Monday should interesting as the GH will go into the air and the members will be moved inside a new, transparent home until August. Enjoy the picture of the mockup. Have a nice day.

Thursday April, 19 2007, today we got to go on another glorious field trip with our professor, Dick Hudgens. Although our class usually starts at one we left at eight headed for Mississippi. The first house we saw was named Riverview and it was beautiful. It had a wonderful staircase that wound up four stories to the cupola. This house also has some of the best plaster work in Mississippi. For lunch where we had some amazing BBQ and tamales. It might have been the fact that I was stuffed but the next house I really did not enjoy, or at least not as much as those tamales. The doors were crooked and for some reason it really bothered me. The tour guide said the doors were crooked because of the gravity hinges that lifts the door up so it would not cut the carpet, but never the less it still bugged me. The last house was spectacular, not from the outside, but from within. It was 8,000 square feet but it only had 4 rooms that may have taken up 2000 square feet. The rest of the square footage was in the main great room that was 4 stories high and had circular balconies all the way up to the top of the cupola. This is one of those houses that you would have to see to believe.