Proud Green Home’s blog post on our Team!
During the Spring Semester of 2011, Team New York has become busy for its March 23 deadline and beyond. We are required to fully complete construction drawings, as well as submit a finalized cost estimate and project manual.
Currently, two architecture studio courses, under the advisement of three professors, coordinate the team for various aspects of the competition. Explaining and communicating the project (through materials such as the website, brochure, public tour of the house in D.C. and video walkthroughs) is one facet of the architecture design studio. Planning and coordination is another phase, which involves such tasks as landscape development, interior finishing, shop drawings, etc.
At the end of every week, students also receive the opportunity to work at the Firehouse near City College campus, and build the modules, or components, of the Solar Roof Pod. The environment is an assembly line effort, in which students must work together to complete efficient construction. Two elective courses are also offered to students this semester — the steel fabrication and wood cabinetry class — providing students the opportunity to construct other parts of the pod.
The monthly AIA meeting in Staten Island on Feb. 17 invited Solar Decathlon Team New York to present their prototype pod to a group of over 40 architects, all of whom were particularly interested in a student-driven project. After seeing the design parameters and construction drawings, they were impressed by the extent to which students were allowed to participate in the construction. They especially appreciated the collaboration and interaction of architecture and engineering students, which is often rare in University education.
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