WAAC exhibition showcases student work

We're currently in the WAAC wood shop, but we also have a metal shop and a 3D printing and laser lab as well. The design build course is a class that allows students to get a real grasp of the design and fabrication process from A to Z. So there's two L's right here, and together they make like an X lamp that's going to be hung from the ceiling. So this is a model representing an acoustic ceiling design that we've been working on this semester. We are working on a doorstop for the front door. All the projects that they are working on are incorporated into the building. It's been a pretty enjoyable process. I think seeing the sketches that are intangible and then seeing that actually come to fruition is really interesting concept. I've really enjoyed it, especially going through the process of making all these little iterations and testing them out. It's really helped me to explore actually building something. A brick and a feather both way the same on the computer screen. Everything's done on a computer these days with rendering and all the detailing that they do. But I think there's a sense of loss of the materiality, getting hands on experience here in the shop. They get a sense for what a material is capable of doing. I think it's been really helpful for how I think about design. Today we're having our Fall exhibition. Where all the work from, not just design build, but from all the studios and classes will be participating. And our main building will essentially turn into a gallery. We'll be able to look at what our colleagues have done and the fellow students have achieved. I want to give a shout to Clayton Sykes. Take a bow Clayton. Represented the WAAC in the competition for integrated building design studio and took second place competing against a heap of studios in Blacksburg, Chicago Studio, Boston Lab. And so the WAAC represented excellent. Thank you all, for a fantastic semester, it's really been something.