No house can begin to be built without the proper foundation and these awesome ziggurat foundations are no exception. The weight of our house will be carried by wood beams that will then transfer the load into the plywood foundations. Our earth team came up with this brilliant design as a way to continue to meet our goal of mitigating the overall cost of our house. Because we chose to move away from the more common and expensive metal foundations we needed a way to spread the loads into the ground with out damaging any of that pristine D.C. sod.

Welcome to your summer home, please wipe your feet. Wednesday May 25 was the beginning of a new phase for some of us Parsons/Stevens students. Five of us were assigned the task of starting to set up our summer workshop at Stevens and we all felt a huge sense of relief as we were finally set free from the unrelenting clutches of the CPU and given the chance to actually make things with our hands again, or so we thought...

After 121 days straight of being stuck behind a monitor I think I have started to evolve into an Uber-Morlock (the time machine). My back has developed a distinct hunch, my skin has a hue slightly whiter than milk, and my eyes can only handle the gentle glare of artificial light. On the upside I just beat my personal record for fastest left clicks per second at a whopping 38 clicks per second.