Thursday, October 31, 2013

Reflection | Sam Riordan

Overall, the hoop house project really put a focus on the importance of teamwork and small scale material and joinery tests. It was difficult to find times to meet as a group during the week, but by keeping up a fairly rigorous pace and constantly pushing ourselves to evolve our design, we came out pretty well at the end. The one big issue was our joinery, and the way our hoop house was integrated with the site—that is to say, our structure blew over and most of it fell apart within just a few days, mainly because it wasn't properly secured. When we rebuilt it, we anchored our structure to the site in several places, staked it into the ground, and moved it to an area with less intense windage. The rebuilding was definitely a trying experience that we can learn from for our next construction project.

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