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It was an incredible opening weekend celebrating the Fabrication Pavilion and the Lions Park Shade project. We were lucky enough to celebrate with friends, family, consultants, and folks from Auburn University CADC. Special thanks to Dean Vini Nathan, Joe Farruggia, and Andrew Freear for giving such fine speeches!
The building is officially open and ready to be used!
This Saturday is a very important day for us at Rural Studio. We will be celebrating the Grand Openings of TWO projects - the Fabrication Pavilion and Lions Park Shade projects! The festivities begin at 9:30am at Morrisette House in Newbern. We are so proud of these incredible students! Thanks to everyone who made these projects possible!
Morrisette Campus is looking better than ever! Tim Wenger, a local excavator, and his crew have been doing their best to help clean up campus. They started by moving the huge mound of dirt away from campus and are moving on to finish the road, back parking lot, and removing the entry road in the middle of campus!
We’ve been doing our best to finish installing the white oak on both of the shear walls. The white oak runs vertically to connect it to the ceiling wood so it appears that it is wrapping from the ceiling to the wall.
Column electrical and lights are all installed! To make construction easier for all students, we made sure there are enough 110 plugs and 220 plugs on all of the columns so students can easily plug in anywhere!
The lights will also allow students to work on an overcast day, or even at night! To make sure we don’t light up Newbern, we made sure only two bays of lights could turn on at a time.!
While we have been working on the guardrails and stairs, we have also been installing the four 10′ diameter Essence fans that were donated to the project by Big Ass Fans, a company specializing in very large industrial fans!
At the same time we also installed just a few of the 26 LXEM 8′ LED Outdoor Lights that were donated by a few kind folks from Hubbell Lighting!
We installed the fan and lights in order to test what height the lights should be at to prevent a flickering effect when the fan is turned on! Sometimes if the lights are too high above the fan, when the fan is on, the light will flicker which would be very distracting for students trying to work on construction projects under the Fabrication Pavilion.
After we completed all the installation work for the guardrails, we moved on to the large stair at the far west end of the slab. We began by pouring a small concrete slab for the stair to land on and be attached into.
Johnny Parker helped us with the process of welding all of the risers for the stair to the stringers and then attaching that to to the platform that Zane Morgan helped us fabricate a few weeks back. We were able to send it off to be galvanized and once we had it back we did a quick installation test!
Then we moved on to plasma cutting the galvanized grate steps and welding and bolting the stair into the concrete slab. Soon we will have a fully finished stair we can show you pictures of!
It has been a busy few weeks at the Fabrication Pavilion! A few weeks ago we were able to start the installation process for the guardrails and stair that are on the west end of the pavilion.
We started by surveying the slab where the guardrail holders would be installed so they all could be at the same height. Once we had those locations figured out, we were able to use the hammer drill to drill the holes that the threaded rod would be epoxied into. Once everything had been galvanized, we attached neoprene shims to the back of the guardrail holders so there would be separation between the holder and the slab, and then hung them on the threaded rod and put a nut on to hold them in place!
White oak installation continues at the Fabrication Pavilion! More updates of the finished ceiling should be coming soon!
Installing ceiling material continues on site! Here is a small taste of what it takes to clad the ceiling!
Two people hold the board up while also making sure the gap between boards is a 1/4″ and one person nails the board to the furring strips! We also have to install the bug screen as we go!
Zane Morgan, a Rural Studio alumni and owner of Blackshop Birmingham, came by the Fabrication Pavilion Sunday to help us weld the guardrails and stair! Zane helped us set up the jig for the guardrails, weld all of the guardrails, and even taught us how to weld a few ourselves! He also helped us fabricate the platform for the stairs!
Thanks to Zane a lot of work was accomplished in just one day and now we can send everything off to be galvanized!
White oak installation is underway and in just two days we were able to finish 1/10 bays! The process for installing the white oak begins by measuring the furring strips in each bay to make sure the length of wood are cut appropriately. The wood is cut and labeled on the slab and then we lift it onto the scissor lift and begin nailing it to the ceiling. The wood varies in width being either 3″, 5″ or 7″ wide in a varying pattern.
Fall neckown week was a huge success for our team thanks to the help of the current third-year and fifth-year students!
The students helped with disassembling all of the wood braces that stabilized the trusses and columns during construction (if you look back at prior blogs you can see just how many they took apart) and did it in only one day! They also helped carry all of this wood, and a bit extra, to the storage barns!
A few lucky fifth-years learned to use the nail gun to install the white oak on the north and south overhangs and one enthusiastic third-year learned to successfully use the angle grinder to prep the metal pieces for the guardrails and stairs!
This past week we ran all of the electrical that will help power the lights, fans, and plugs for the building thanks to the help of Johnny Parker! All of the switches and outlets will be located on the columns and will be powered directly from the electrical boxes that are on the west sides of both shear walls!
Now we are on to covering up all of this electrical; first with bug screen and then with the white oak!
These past two weeks our team has been working on jointing and ripping the white oak boards that will be put on the ceiling! First we begin by jointing one side of the board to remove the bow out of the board.
When the boards are extremely bowed we rip down one edge by popping a chalk line on the board and then running the worm drive circular saw down the straight line. This helps us from having to run the board through the jointer several times. After one side of the board has been joined, we take the board to the table saw and either rip it down to 3″, 5″, or 7″ wide.
This week we did a second light test to clarify what the ambient light should be. The options we were deciding between were lighting the interior faces of the shear walls or lighting the floor from the column.
Ultimately, we believe that washing the shear walls is the best design because it will free up the columns from having too much on them and give users a different perspective of the building! We find that during the day time the columns and trusses are more noticeable than the shear wall, so lighting the shear wall gives users a different perspective of the building!
This week we have been looking at the lighting strategies for the building! The idea is to have two separate strategies - one that is a down light that allows students to work on construction projects at night and the other is an ambient light that will provide security and allow for events to occur at the pavilion.
The down light will be a Columbia XLEM light that hangs from the ceiling while the location of the ambient light is still being determined. It could be used to light the ceiling from the column, light the floor from the column, or light the two shear walls.
