Project 1

For my first project I worked in a team with 3 other students. We had to research and build a model of what we found to be exemplary about the Stockholm Library in Sweden. The Library has a dark narrow passageway that ascends into this massive bright multi-storey rotunda lined with books. This is one of the first examples where the public could access books without the assistance of a librarian. We're going on a study tour in Sweden next week to visit this building and many others. Should be exciting to actually see it!

Project 1

We used free tabloid papers to represent the books that are stacked in the 360 degree rotunda.

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Our representation of the relief in the Library's entrance hall.

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Our completed site/ massing model of Asplund's Stockholm Library.

In studio working on Project 1

Shawn working on the section model of the Stockholm Library in Sweden by Gunnar Asplund.

In studio working on Project 1

This is my teammate Atalay working on the site/ massing model of the library.

I took this one for you sis!

My Team for Project 1

This is my team for the first project eating chinese food on the street! Mandi from San Clemente (amazing young lady), Atalay from Canada (amazing artist), and Shawn from Canada (he had the tunes). This was the best team I've ever done a project with as an architecture student.

DIS Mixer

We had a meet and greet night for school. This is me, my roommate Brynda and my flatmates from Puerto Rico Beatris and Heleda.  I have 6 flatmates total and one bathroom. So far so good!

DIS Mixer

Brynda decided to model with this girl to make sure we never forget her crazy one piece jumper. She was super cute!

Open Air Museum

This museum housed scandinavian farms, mills and houses dating from 1650- 1950. I mostly took video and did a lot of sketching there. This picture shows the birch sheets they used to use as flashing. It's much thicker and stronger than the birch we have in the States.

Flooding in my neighborhood in Copenhagen

It POURED rain in Copenhagen yesterday. I have never seen it rain so hard...6in in just a couple of hours. Sheets of water were flowing off roof tops like waterfalls. My neighborhood flooded pretty bad. This is a video of the street I live on and the adjacent street that I have to walk down to get to school.

http://www.vimeo.com/25922761