Whew! Its been awhile as we have been working furiously on our 4th session. We have a lot to accomplish this session and we are well on our way. Last session was all about our living module, but we also spent a good deal of time working on social issues we had encountered…namely getting the Hutchens family homesite lease taken care of. A couple of us attended a Westwater community meeting and were blown away by the cultural differences we experienced. Once again we had an unexpected learning experience. This is a complex project in a very unique setting. This session is all about the private module…48 feet long and 12 feet wide. It has two bedrooms…one being very large for the girls and one and half baths. It has been fun to have Angie and the girls down to visit several times this last week and it always makes our work day better to see 4 little ones be so excited to get “their own bed”. We have completed the floor and all four walls. Its been interesting to deal with many issues we are so unfamiliar with like plumbing, stair construction, and structural steel columns and details. These things seemed simple to us before, but now that we are getting into the nitty gritty the realities must be dealt with….which is pretty much the motto of the Bluff experience!
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- Living Module
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- Electrical in Living Module
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- Window box by Laura
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- Donated pipe for Westwater column structure
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- Hutchens family…the reason we work so hard!
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- Private module floor structure
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- Detail of double joist where columns will meet floor structure
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- Stair hole! Stairs have been our trickiest problem!
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- Green Fiber…cellulose insulation
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- Geoff and his guns help put cladding on underside
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- Exterior cladding shelving mockup
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- South wall…clerestories framed out
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- Private module walls go up!
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- And we have four!
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- Pottery shards seen near Wolfman panel
