spring break adventures.

i spent my spring break roaming the countryside and having adventures.

mt. falcon with nathan:

mt. cutler with camball:

bear canyon with sami and mei:

garden of the gods with nathan:

mt. falcon with nathan... again:

'stache bash.

the loot! thanks, e'rybody. 

my special 'stache cake made by the lovely R. 

happy birthday to meeee!

'stache balloons.

lady 'staches.

 james grew this just for me.

 lisa and claire.

they look so real! 

R was very serious about her 'stache. 

and ann got very clever with hers. 

 brett and tim.

 

even deva got in on the action!

she loved it too.

space modulation.

our first big project of the semester was the design and construction of a space modulator based on our building site and "forces" we defined through some initial site analysis. the idea comes from the light-space modulator mobile by laszlo moholy-nagy. while ours is not quite as cool as laszlo's, it did open to rave reviews at our first jury last week.

the photos don't really do the model justice, so i guess you all will just have to come visit me to get the full effect. we're submitting our final building design to a steel competition, hence the use of steel tubes. the wood grid is suspended from these tubes, as is a fancy-pants piece of wood and two lighter paper mache pieces. these three elements hang within the wooden grid and represent what will become the program of our final building, a homeless assistance center.