Pre-fabrication

Though the design has not yet been officially approved by the school board, we have started construction in a school shed by the wood shop. The main tower, comprising of modular 2X4 studs, is pin-joined at the corners allowing some flexibility while we await the approval. The constructed pieces are also currently being double coated with water-proof stain.

Final Design Proposal

The design proposal presented at the Texas Art Education Association Presentation with Mrs. Gardere :

String Excercise

The kids had a lot of fun spatialy engaging their entire classroom during this excercise. The students thought about previous 2D excercises and incorporated the ideas into a spatial environment. Key points such as alignment, connectivity, space and materiality were discussed during the activity.

Site Plan Excercise

For this excercise, the kids were given a scaled version of their school's site plan as well as a variety of crafty props.  They were asked to create a site strategy for the playhouse project using the two dimensional drawing along with the three dimensional props.

Please help us raise funds by donating!

Mary Jo Gardere, the Art teacher at Eladio R Martinez Elementary school has set up a website for donations to our cause. We need any help we can get, weather it is a monetary or material donations. Please click on the image below to go to our Adopt A Classroom page! Thank you, Mrs. Gardere : )

[http://www.adoptaclassroom.org/adoption/Locator_Adopt_Donate.aspx?ClassroomID=104585&schoolID=17162]

Our designs

The members of our group quickly came up with multiple design schemes to present to the kids last Thursday. These were meant to give the students more ideas that they could potentially incorporate into their own designs if they chose to do so.

Kids designs

The children were introduced to basic architectural 
design concepts in the first two weeks.

CARD BOARD MODELS

PAPER MODELS

WOOD BLOCK MONEY

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Pictures will be up soon showing the progress of the project.

the playhouse fun project blog is launched!