Cotton, Cotton and Cotton

Hi Everyone!

I don't know if there has been cotton coming out of our ears or details! This project has become more of a detail oriented project than we had expected, but I would rather have it that way any day. We kind of bulldozed through the space planning and structural planning phases, but absolutely did not forsake function and good use of space during it. The floor plan really did just naturally develop from a few first sketches and loose outline ideas. I used those two dozen plan sketches, and three dozen other sketches of sections, elevations and perspectives and complied a design into Revit about 4 weeks ago. Once I had the entire building done along with Cassie's help she was then given the file to start adding the architectural detailing such as the cedar wood slat skin, finalizing the curtain walls and the bold-curved-mullions of the atrium spaces.

Recently, I have been working at putting lighting and finished floors and ceilings into the digital model as Cassie has been doing the detail work on the curved mullions in the 6 atrium spaces. Before friday we hope to have all the lights, mullions and furniture in the model. To date we have probably created about 30 renderings that mark our progress and material choices along the way.

Thanks for being interested and reading this as Cassie and I continue to have fun and design the Cotton Research and Community Engagement center.

Matt and Cassie