Bees!

We had some 55 gallon drums by our loading dock that were donated to us by a local bakery. Unfortunately, a couple were missing bungs and they'd contained sweeteners. Hilarity ensued.

Happy New Client

OPC Redeemer Youth Group

The OPC Redeemer Youth Group with our newest client.

Seussicle on Stewart

I teach at Paideia School. After every stage production, I have been taking the old sets down to either Bankhead or Stewart where they are used for firewood or small construction.

This spring, I brought down the sets for Seussicle, a musical based on the Dr Seuss books. I returned two months later and..... most of the set is decorating the camp, particularly Ronni and Rick's spot. Check it out...a little surreal ....seemingly a homeless camp plopped down in a kid's Dr. Seuss picture book.

Another great site recon

Our awesome volunteers after an afternoon of talking to homeless and trekking thru the off-road geography of Atlanta.

Emory Presbyterian

Design Evolution

I'm no architect, so it's a good thing that we get to talk with architects. At a meeting with the Atlanta Architecture for Humanity chapter, I described our hi-hat roof woes. One of the architects made the perfectly obvious suggestion of a salt box roof. Of course! I literally slapped my forehead.
(For the other non-architects out there, a saltbox roof is where you knock the top corner off a shed roof. It has the advantage from my perspective that we can make the top angle a right angle, simplifying the manufacture of the gable pieces. This is what I've done here in this Sketchup model.)
In a sense, we have a luxury that real designers don't have: we field lots of our product, and so we get to see in the field what does and does not work, and get to tweak the design as it goes. Since each unit is cheap to make and fast to produce - in an architectural sense, that is, it's still an effort for us - a design can rapidly go from half-baked to baked in a short period of time. Architects building real buildings for paying clients have to get it right the first time - we only have to get it right enough and learn for the next client.