EVENTS
Our annual 5k fundraiser, held on one of the most beautiful May 1sts ever, raised over $5,000 for Architecture for Humanity. Thanks to all the runners and volunteers for coming out and making this a success!
The AfHB Concrete Cup was snatched from Sasaki Associates by this year’s team champions – Behnisch Studio East, who narrowly beat The Green Engineer. The top school team was from Tufts. All race results at this link.
Common Boston is coming up, 17-17 June, and 90 Windsor St. will be a part of it. See the Common Boston site for more details. Common Build, a quick design-build event, is happening again as part of Common Boston; the projects will be focused on wayfinding.
PROJECTS
Upward Bound Project: We are still looking for a good place to set up the dome. “Good place” means large enough, secure, and close to public transit. Several new options came up and people are looking into them.
We also discussed what to use to cover the dome (we already have the bamboo for the structure), and are considering using plastic grocery bags, fused together with clothing irons, to create the cover. Regular tarps, or an old parachute, are another possibility, but the fused grocery bags could give us the opportunity to build a solar oven to use instead of the irons; if this works, this might be a feasible method to use in the Kitale housing project.
Kenya – Housing in Kitale slums: We may be able to use the geodesic dome as a housing method. ASH might be looking at a different region of Kitale for the project, and not the Kipsongo slums, but regardless, we will need a way to construct housing with the materials on hand.
90 Windsor Street Community Center: The project package is just about finalized; we need to get an estimate, and then it can be sent out as an RFP! It will also be a stop on Common Boston’s tours.
Long Way Home: Erica is still in Guatemala. They want to get their buildings documented in CAD, for presentation purposes, and would like our help. They are also going to need design proposals for additional projects.
OTHER
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