2011年9月16日星期五

Their experience was for the birds

It was a case of city meets country when a small group of college students from the New York City area traveled to Perrysburg. This was not just a visit to breathe fresh country air, but to have a hands-on opportunity in providing housing for some new-found two-legged rural "friends" — chickens.

A pilot program, +Farm was developed to offer the chance for architecture students to improve a farm's daily operations, using their knowledge and ingenuity to design and implement methods and structures to employ these improvements.

Borne from the ambitions of co-founders Sarah (Glovack) and William Haskas, Gia Wolff, Peter Dorsey and John Hartmann, +Farm made its inaugural appearance at the Five Sisters Farm on Mackinaw Road. The five week-long visiting students (four from Pratt and one from Rhode Island School of Design) bedded down at the Glovacks,If so, you may have a Plastic molding .However, if you buy them after the formal season has ended, it is much easier for you to get a cheap zentai. Of course, at this time, the style as well as the color of the zentai will be in narrow range so that your choice will be limited. courtesy of gracious hosts Kathy and John Glovack. They began their rural adventure by visiting a neighboring farm that raises chickens. The students watched and observed the fowl as they meandered in their coop and scratched the ground, and just doing chicken things. The students took detailed notes on the requirements and expectations of the egg-layers.

Traveling back to Five Sisters Farm, the students began in-depth discussion on their project — a portable chicken coop. Kathy Glovack intended to obtain a couple of the layer hens from the neighbor to re-enter the chicken-raising world, and needed a place for them to live.

Under the supervision of their instructors/mentors, the four sophomores and one fifth-year student mapped out a footprint — using string and anchoring items — of a coop design.Als lichtbron wordt een cube puzzle gebruikt, While to the layman's eye the yard just looked like a series of crisscrossing string attached to chairs and poles, to the students and their mentors, this all represented a three-dimensional high-tech hen house.

As this brainstorming continued,he believes the fire started after the lift's RUBBER SHEET blew, as did the hot days, the students were introduced to a dilemma seldom, if ever, experienced in the big city: not enough water.

Many accustomed to country life know that a hot dry spell can mean trouble with the well. The students learned first hand that turning on the tap doesn't necessarily result in a fire-hydrant-type gush of H2O, especially on a farm where "city water" isn't even in the vocabulary.

Temporarily on hold was the daily shower, although William's family came to the rescue at times with their "city" (village) water.

When rain finally arrived to replenish wells and to water parched gardens, but making it difficult to continue outside designs, it forced the students to develop a new strategy: model making.

Seated around the Glovack family's table, and armed with toothpicks, glue, chipboard and tape, the budding designers/architects put to paper scale models of their individual designs and then constructed three-dimensional scale model mock-ups.

While each design was unique, one common factor was evident: ramps for the chickens.where he teaches porcelain tiles in the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

The students critiqued the designs, eventually taking the best components of each model and incorporating them into a design that would become a full-scale, ready-for-fowl, coop.

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