Update May 23, 2010

The last week has been pretty hetic. I have been trying to finish up my work in REVIT, and to put together my PDF for my project. So far I have 6 pages of my 19 page booklet... AHHHH! I am so stressed. I want to make this project reflect all the work I spent on it. I am hoping to have the PDF finished by Monday, Tuesday at latest, so I have two days to prepare and practice my presentation. My presentation will be on Friday, and my mentor Sierra Hill will be there.
The positive about this project, is that after this week I will have an awesome project reflecting my work at ACE Academy.

Update May 15, 2010

This last week I spent as an Outdoor School camp counselor at the Camp Howard Site. I wasn't given much time to work on my capstone, only about an hour, but the experience was great. While I was at Camp Howard, I was able to experience another camp facility.The camp cabins were very similar to Camp Collin's Adventure Village. What I thought that was the best feature of the camp, was it's layout. Camp Howard is a very large camp, but it does a good job of keeping all the buildings in logical sense. I regret not taking any pictures of the camp for  this would be very useful for documentation.

Update May 4, 2010

On the right is a render of one of the  cabins for my sustainable camp facility. The exterior skins includes, recycled wood planks, recycled green tinted metal, and coordwood. Although not all of the roofs have the eco roof in place, all roof surfaces will have an eco roof to encourage evapotransportation. In the primary sketches I had a plan to encorporate storm water  running off the roof into a water feature sculpture, but I could not figure out how to make the feature in REVIT, and so I decided to go with Eco roofs. I am happy I made this decision after I found out that Eco roofs have a longer life span. With this cabin all that I have to do is to put the third eco roof on the cabin, and then I will be finished. Unfortunately I still have several other cabins to still create, including the health house, dining hall, facilitators cabin, course rooms, and main office.
Today I had Sevy, Brianna, and Laura edit my research paper so that I could turn it in the final draft tomorrow. I was hoping to have Ms. Butler help me edit my paper, but she was on a field trip with the juniors today.