Casey Design Club: Week 5

Week five at Casey, and things just continue to get better and better as our course draws closer to its conclusion. This week we again had a larger turnout of Casey Middle Schoolers, which helped immensely. The project for this week was divided, but in the end we chose to get the kids thinking in terms of sustainability in order to have them design part of the future Casey site. After the introduction into what we would be doing this week, we let the Casey students lead the way in designing parts of the new Casey landscape. Elements that were designed included outdoor rock climbing areas, the green roof, the community garden area, and others outside of the future Casey building. This activity seemed to really take hold, as many of the students enjoyed expressing their ideas through graphical means. There were a few minor bumps along the way, however, I feel that this weeks activity was a success, as many of the Casey students gave numerous examples of sustainable design in their works. Next week should be, again, another good week at Casey, as we are moving forward into SketchUp and also revisiting the models we made last week, adding finishing detail as necessary.

-Ian