December 2007 Blog Posts (3)

Preserve!?

I read this article and usually I would throw my opinion at the text but I’m playing the fence on this one. I really don’t know what the right answer is. The city of Norfolk has plans to boom their downtown area but do they pay the price by… Continue

Added by mark_m on December 31, 2007 at 12:20pm — 1 Comment

Sleeper Keeper

It's been a while. What I assumed to be an easy semester turned out to be quite a challenge. Here are one of the few projects that I'll be posting with the small amount of free time I have over the break. The "Sleeper Keeper." We were to design and build a shelter that would house one tenant for a single night. The shelter had to maintain a temperature above 60 degrees through the night. We used compacted newspaper and a hypocaust system with heated bricks inserted into the floors to. provide… Continue

Added by mark_m on December 25, 2007 at 7:36pm — No Comments

Green Window Dressing

Barneys, Madison Ave. went green this holiday season sticking with what's already the great story of the 21 century, OUR PLANET AND GLOBAL WARMING. The high end department store colorful striking windows were dressed using recycling materials to create some quite magical landscapes of people that have been contributors to the worldwide campaign to save the earth.