Day 12 - Rural Studio

The day was spent touring around small towns in Alabama to see projects done by Auburn University's Rural Studio. We looked at a lot of interesting projects, and visited the rural studio office in Newbern. Here there are a series of pods that were designed and built by students for students to live in while they worked on other projects, as the university is not nearby. The cabins are used as test materials, and are each unique.
We also looked at two lamella structures that incorporated more rectilinear enclosures. The first had a building within the lamella, while the second had one side of the lamella raised up to sit on the building.

Thomaston Farmers Market

Rural Heritage Center
Rural Heritage Center

cardboard wall interior of pod

pod exterior

 pod siding

pod walkway

Newbern Fire Station
Newbern Fire Station
Pie Lab

Pie Lab

Pie Lab

Pie Lab

Hale County Animal Shelter

Akron Boys and Girls Club

Akron Boys and Girls Club

Akron Boys and Girls Club
Akron Boys and Girls Club


Akron Boys and Girls Club

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Glass Chapel

Glass Chapel

Reuse of Car Windshields at Glass Chapel





HERO Knowledge Cafe

HERO Knowledge Cafe


Lion's Park

Lion's Park
Lion's Park

Lion's Park Playground

Finished Lamella!!

We managed to have the outdoor dining hall (lamella) finished for opening ceremonies on Canada Day at 2pm. Even though we were working right up to almost the last minute, we finished. We also added a temporary slat walkway up to the lamella for visitors of Canada Day. There was cake cut under the lamella and a barbeque just off to the side. It felt great to have completed such a huge project and the turn out was quite impressive.
The image below is a clipping from the Chronicle Herald Newspaper published today, July 5th.

Nearly Completed Ross Creek Lamella



The Moiré effect which happens when two grids are overlaid at an angle or when they have slightly different mesh sizes.

Justin, you're so beautiful.

We ended up making the inner benches part of the lamella itself. In front of these benches will be tables and more benches on the other side designed by coastal studio as well.










Ross Creek Lamella

We are back in Ross Creek on the weekends completing the lamella in order to have it finished for Canada Day. Here are some updated photos as of the 21st of June. The perforated metal is being used to tie the structure together and give it more stability.






Lamella In Chronicle Herald

The Chronicle Herald link I posted earlier about our lamella structure has been taken down from their website. Instead, here is the newspaper clipping.

Coastal Studio In The Media!

Currently, for our work on the lamella structure at Ross Creek Arts Centre we have been on Breakfast Television, The Chronicle Herald and most recently on Dal News. At the moment we are working on getting the Breakfast Television footage up on the blog. Check out the articles.
Chronicle Herald
Dalhousie News

Here are some photos from the Dal article by Marilyn Smulders





photos by Nick Pearce

The Crew!



This photo was taken for Dalhousie University while we were constructing the lamella. Photo courtesy of Nick Pearce.