P5se Camelback's 2010 Summer Structure Challenge GERN Plant

[P5se Camelback]

Now that most (but not all - the brand-new rattle can of flat black flat stopped spraying!) of the walls have had their interiors sprayed black, it was time for an initial test fitting ...





As I sat there looking at these walls, and the walls from the Superior Bakery/Weekly Herald kits on the floor (picture above,) plus the walls from several other kits, it became painfully obvious that this project was too large to try to conceive structure sizes, wall arrangements, relationships between buildings as well as to the site, all inside this old head :? ... I'm just not sharp enough any more to keep that all fluid in that changes can be made on the fly but still nailed down conceptually, totally inside my head!

It's amazing how when you are away from a 38-year, "life-long" profession for a couple of years, you totally forget the design development process you used to use every day of your life! So ... remembering "The Design Process," and realizing that if I approached this thing like a major design project for a client (GERN Industries, Ltd.) I would have a better time of it. So corrugated cardboard mock-ups are being fabricated to explore "bashing" possibilities, structure relationships, rail access potentials and site development. It's almost like "measure twice, cut once."

So, no big deal ... just corrugated ...







Tomorrow and Sunday will hopefully bring a few more mock-ups! Then site development can begin. Actual assembly of for real structures gets closer ... I may get the sketch pad out yet!! 8-)