Last week we spent 2 days at VCFA setting up a 24x32' tent structure which we will use as a shelter while we build the semester's project- a tiny house built on a 8'x28' trailer bed. Faculty member Josh Jackson's experience in raising timber frames came in handy as we assembled and raised the "bents", only this time with steel tubing and bolts instead of traditional pine rafters and pegs.


Next week Carey will give a public lecture at Yestermorrow on her work in affordable housing development in post-Katrina New Orleans on 8/17 at 7pm, and we'll be setting up the new studio and office in Montpelier all week. Then after the students arrive on Sunday, they'll head off on a 3-day orientation backpacking trip on the Long Trail.
In upcoming blog posts we'll introduce each of the students, but just to give you a snapshot, they range in age from 20-40, hail from Maine to California to Switzerland, and attend UMass, Hampshire, The New School, Clemson, U. Washington, Pomona, UVM, Sarah Lawrence, Norwich, Skidmore and College of the Atlantic. Their majors include environmental design, fine arts, architecture, human ecology, and construction management.
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