Formwork

Saturday on Livingston

Week Six

This week we are on to sizing and pricing materials, and one more (less formal) studio outreach effort of a cookout at the W.C. Reid Center.

A lucky break: The Dept of Transit has a bus shelter permit application on file with Building Safety and it saved us the estimated five day wait. Phew. So, we wasted no time in starting ground work.

Two kids art projects are in the works – painting Lexan for the wall screen, and making clay floor tiles.

The bubinga + steel benches are almost complete. When those are done, the bench team will disband and join other groups. I think there is a Bellism for this...perhaps "You should never be standing still," or, "You should never have nothing to do?" I can't remember the official wording.

Week Five

The site we were so keen on was threatened because of some apprehensive city officials who believe that corner to be the center of drug activity. Having this confrontation with the city ended up being a good thing. We stopped to recall specific neighborhood folks in favor of the site, and their reasons for it. That made all the difference. The resolution was this: We can still build the shelter at Livingston/Depot. In 6 months, if the shelter is run over with unintended & negative activities, then the city will move it.

Week Four

Nearly halfway through the studio, we are at last in the realm of materials and full scale mock-ups. [Doesn’t anyone have images to insert here?]