by Dirk Van Susteren, correspondent © Sept. 11, 2009, Norwich University Office of CommunicationsChristy Ketchel, dressed in work clothes, looked up an 11-foot embankment as a large cement-mixing truck poured its contents into forms for a wall of what will one day be a small cabin.
“Isn’t it great? It looks like a blow-up mattress,” she exclaimed as the forms began to fill.
“It looks like a plastic grocery bag filling up,” added another person.
“Sounds like heavy rain or hail,” said a third, as the mixture continued down the metal chute into the form.
Special projects invite imaginative descriptions. And for a group of architects and architectural students, work on the cabin at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, Vt., was indeed a special project.
Read more at http://www.norwich.edu/about/news/2009/091109-fabricConcrete.html
“Isn’t it great? It looks like a blow-up mattress,” she exclaimed as the forms began to fill.
“It looks like a plastic grocery bag filling up,” added another person.
“Sounds like heavy rain or hail,” said a third, as the mixture continued down the metal chute into the form.
Special projects invite imaginative descriptions. And for a group of architects and architectural students, work on the cabin at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, Vt., was indeed a special project.
Read more at http://www.norwich.edu/about/news/2009/091109-fabricConcrete.html
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