A Week of Research

Having questions and getting answers has more of a payoff when you have to work for it.

We started our precedent studies this week and I've really enjoyed it. All of it was very concerning to first hear about. We knew we'd have to work with at least one partner and the houses were randomly assigned and those were two really big risk factors. I love the people I'm in studio with, I don't think I could have a bad day around them but I don't know all of them. There's no way to with over eighty of us in the class and I trust that they all belong there and have done good work but you never know what could happen when working with a group. I've played soccer for the past fourteen years on a lot of different teams so I have a pretty good handle on how to work with people but I was still worried the other person just wouldn't care and that I couldn't work with. I was worried for no reason of course, the girl I'm paired with does great work and I think our styles are going to be a good match for the final product.

Our house, however, has proved to be a challenge. The Truss Wall house is a fascinating place, I can only imagine the curiosity surrounding it when someone might drive by such an unusual form after only seeing the expected for so long. The issue is, that curiosity is hard to satisfy, even with research. When googling things about it only one of the architects is ever talked about but she passed away four years ago. Her husband is rarely even mentioned in the sites we have access to so we don't actually know if he speaks English or really anything about him, we're just assuming he's still alive. Measurements and other similar details have been hard to come by, but putting in the work to find the information we want has been really rewarding. Everytime we find a drawing we haven't seen before and find out more about the house it's just really thrilling. It feels like we're really exploring the place and starting to put together the pieces of the puzzle of who these people were and why the built the house this way and how they did it and I don't think I'd appreciate the building nearly as much without putting this much thought in to it.