@ywcacincinnati recently celebrated the opening of its new domestic violence shelter. The project doubles their capacity to serve survivors in Cincinnati. The new shelter was designed using a trauma-informed approach to promote dignity and healing for survivors. “In these spaces, they’re able to be in their own haven with their family, cook their own meals, and not have to share a bathroom,” said YWCA Chief Program Officer, Jawana Glover. The shelter includes 21 apartment style units, dedicated space for children, pet kennel, outdoor play areas and staff offices on site #architecture #design #ribboncutting #ywca #cincinnati #traumahealing #egd ...

Built in less than a week by our Co-ops as part of our Design Issues Series exhibit ‘JOY’ in Cincinnati, we built a Spark Wall, where we can display some of the things that spark joy in us! The build also served as proof of concept for deploying Augmented Reality on the construction site.

The wall was constructed of over 1600 wood blocks measuring 1-1/2x3-1/2” x 8.” Our co-ops wore the Hololens AR goggles, which showed them the previous course (red) and footprint of the next course (cyan). This gave them enough information to reference their location on the current build as well as where to place adhesive at the overlapping areas. A grasshopper script allowed them to navigate between courses as needed.

Each course is roughly 50 blocks (+\-) and two co-ops were able to complete a course in 10 to 15 minutes. There were 36 courses in total, but with a varied height across the length of the wall. The twist: our co-ops didn’t know what they were building; they just knew the current course they were working on. Come see how accurate to the rhino model they were able to build. JOYN us Thursday! #architecture #design #DIS #building #AR #augmentedreality #fabrication #gbbn #exhibit #exhibition ...

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Doors are open at Hillman Library! @pittofficial

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What is JOY?

How does it spark and spread? How do our individual passions and joys impact the work we do and how we do it? Our Design Issues Series (DIS) explores it all! Our #pittsburgh exhibit last week was a great evening of community building and hands on making and creative expression through printmaking, gaming, and our creative rage corner!😂 Joy is throwing open the doors and playing. Our JOY exhibit rolls into Cincinnati next…are you in? ...

Olin is ready for its closeup! On location at @cwru with @feinknopf last week to capture the work we did at the Olin Building which houses Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Computer & Data Sciences. The project includes more inviting front door that faces the green, larger glass windows, a new vestibule, more interior transparency, environmental graphic design, and a reorganization of spaces that shifts departmental offices from the ground floor to the eighth floor. This move paved the way for the large, double height light filled lounge near the entry where students can connect. Stripping away dated finishes exposed Olin’s beautiful waffle slab ceilings #architecture #design #highered #higereducation #college #campus #renovation #adaptivereuse #computer #computerscience #computational #egd #environmentalgraphics #robots #robotsofinstagram ...