Week 5: 4/29/2016

Week 5: 4/29/2016

This week, we had our fifth meeting with Professor Mitchell on April 29th, 2016. The first thing that we discussed at this meeting was some architectural terms. This first term that Professor Mitchell was "height zone", which means the height of a building. The other term that Professor Mitchell defined was "pitch". Pitch is the slope of the roof. For example, architects might say 8/12, which means 8 in the vertical direction and 12 in the horizontal direction. 

We also talked about the sketch of the horse stable. There is a sketch in a previous blog post that includes four stalls and a tack room. The most recent sketch includes four stalls, a tack room, and an empty room that could be a utility room, hay storage, or possibly a office room. 

Sketch 2

One task that we started talking about and have to complete is find out the thickness of our walls and insulation. The thickness of the wood for the walls should be at least six inches thick with insulation. The thickness of the walls would depend on how much weight has to be held up. One inch in depth for wood is for every foot in length is to find the thickness. It is better to make the span from one pillar to another shorter so that the thickness of the pillars would have to hold less weight at the top.

Week 6 Goals：

• Create a proposal with each person's task
• Kimberly: Composting + cistern 
• Muykim: Structure of the building
• Hanlan: Heating and flooring
• Timmothy: Lighting and roof
• Julie: Structure of the building
• Work on final report draft
• Continue working with sketches