Welcome to the 2009-2010 Laney College Design Club!

Hello Everyone!

Thank you for your interest in the Laney College Design Club. After much consideration, the preliminary meeting timeframe will be Wednesdays from 1:00PM to 2:00PM, with the first meeting taking place on September 9th.

If you find this timeframe to be incompatible, please reply to laneycollegedesignclub@gmail.com. Although we have decided on an approximate time, we would like to know your opinion.

Also, check out the Laney College Design Club Blog at http://laneycollegedesignclub.blogspot.com/, and Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67113785319.

We look forward to seeing you!

-Laney College Design Club

TOMORROW!

FIELD TRIP! TOMORROW! FRIDAY 4/24/2009

Chris & Nadine are driving. We have a total amount of 12 seats including Chris & Nadine for rides to CAS (so 10 other people). These people have said YES to going. (if you would like to still come but are not on the list EMAIL design club ASAP. If your name is on this but do not wish to come anymore EMAIL design club ASAP as well). People who have said maybe to coming are in parenthesis

Chris
Tony
Nadine
Armando
Alaska (+1 maybe)
Janet
(Ginger)
(Yang)
(Michael)
(Clinton)

Please meet at LANEY in the little 'court yard' area of the G BUILING right infront of the entry way into the studios at 10 AM. We would like to leave by 10:30 AM. We are also meeting Alaska's colleague who will be accompanying us throughout the museum. He was involved with the design of the living roof of the place.

** DON'T FORGET your STUDENT ID. MAKE SURE YOUR STUDENT ID HAS A PICTURE ON IT. This gives you the rate of $19.99 instead of $24.99!

CAS

Please join us as we do a club activity and discuss carpooling/events for this Friday in San Francisco!

FRIDAY APRIL 24 2009: CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES & SF
Meet at 9:00 AM (place tbd)
LEAVE at 9:30
ARRIVE at CAS by 10 AM. They open at 9:30 AM and since it is a Friday they might be packed but let's hope for the best!

We called CAS today and were told that RSVPs for groups had to be made at least 30 days in advance for any sometime discount, but there are other ways to get the price reduced from $24.99:
- Having a VALID student ID with a picture (to prove it's yours) will allow $5 dollars off making the price $19.99 for students.
- If you take public transportation to CAS (i.e. MUNI) then $3 is taken off admission price.
- If you are a Triple A (AAA) member then $3 is taken off admission price for you and up to 3 more people.
** SO if you have your student ID and either take MUNI or are a Triple A member admission price will be reduced down to $16.99.

If you are interested in carpooling to san francisco on Friday, show up to the meeting on Thursday so we can try and arrange drivers and passengers. If you can Drive let us know ASAP with the amount of passengers your car can hold (including yourself). Drivers will be taken care of for bridge toll and whatever we have left to help take care of gas.

"Rising Tides" Competition - AIA San Francisco

The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, also known as the BCDC, is holding a competition in conjunction with the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The competition seeks ideas, both pragmatic and ambitious, in regards to combating the issues relating to sea level rise caused by global warming. As sea ice and glaciers contribute to rising sea levels, how shall we go about protecting the ecosystem of the San Francisco Bay and cities that exist along its shore?

The competition is open to everyone and costs $45 dollars to register before May 15. There is no limit to how many entries can be submitted, but there is the matter of paying the registration fee separately for each entry.

The price of registration after May 15 is $75 dollars per entry.

You can "order" your entry registration fees at http://www.aiasf.org/bcdc.

Link to competition website: http://www.risingtidescompetition.com/

Spring Break is Here!

Yay for vacations! But we did have a meeting yesterday =)

Co-Vice president Chris Baas gave an informative speech about a college he has applied to, CCA (California College of the Arts). For those who do not know CCA, it is a private art school based in Oakland and San Francisco. The architecture department is based on the San Francisco Campus. He spoke to us about the different requirements that CCA wants students to complete before transferring and about the portfolio requirements as well. If you are interested in the school feel free to visit the website: http://www.cca.edu/

Have a favorite school that has a great architecture department? If anyone would like to speak about a certain school that interests them please let us know. It's always good to give information to others, especially since we are all in the same boat about either transferring or trying to figure out what schools are best for you to apply to.

* The first meeting after the break, THURSDAY APRIL 23rd 2009, we are going to have a meeting, but we are also going to have a club activity going on at the same time. It's going to be fun and informative so you don't want to miss it!

** REMINDER: We, as a club, are visiting beautiful San Francisco FRIDAY APRIL 24 2009. We will be going to CAS (California Academy of Science) possibly along with other significant buildings so if you are still interested, we're trying to make this a day trip to enjoy and spend some quality time.

HAVE A SAFE SPRING BREAK & HAPPY EASTER!

Meeting April 2nd

Thanks to those who came to the meeting. Sorry we did not have that much information to tell you all but the main thing is that Everyone should know about the Academy of Science field trip we have planned. If you read the previous blog posted by Alaska then you can see why we are postponing it until the 24th. It's not because we are not getting enough people it is because we have the chance to have someone who is coming with us to talk about the place, esp the living roof, YAY! SO FRIDAY APRIL 24TH is the date. PLEASE get back to us ASAP if you are going to go! so far we have

Alaska
Nadine
Nate (+Friends?)
Chris
Tony
Eric
Ren
Ron

* If you would like to invite friends that's totally fine because this place is really cool and worth seeing for anyone. And the fact that we are going to have Ron with us and a guest speaker about the living roof, it's going to be even more informational and excited! Just let us know how many you are invited so we know what to tell them!

California Academy of Sciences Tour/Visit

Hey everyone,
Last meeting I said I would talk with Brent Bucknum about coming with us to the CAS. I was able to talk to him. He worked with one of the firms commissioned to work with Renzo Piano. He was part of the design of the green roof. I asked him if he would give us a tour of the building and he was excited to do it.
He would not however be able to make it April 10th. If we would like to go instead on April 24th, he would gladly come with.
Brent is working with Nik Burtulis, up at Merritt Community College, on a class called Regenerative Design. His class starts April 25th and he would like to invite the students signed up to attend also, which could be pretty awesome!
This will give us more people and more time to figure out a discount. Brent said he would be able to help with setting up the tour with the academy. He is also going to talk with the maintenance manager and might possibly be able to set up a tour of the roof, on the roof, not just on the viewing deck. Anyways, we shall have to see what happens.
In the next few days I'll be in correspondence to figure out more details such as discount rate and if we actually can go out onto the roof.
Brent works mostly with green roofs, green plumbing, and landscape arch, so I am going to talk to Ron about making it on the 24th. It would be nice if we also had someone with more architectural background with us as well!
Okay does anyone have any objections to going on April 24?
Any suggestions for other activities we could organize?
Does anyone know if we need to get legal forms so that Laney is not held responsible for our field trips?
I would like to get a list of people who are interested and a list of people that are definate. so respond with that info asap please! Ill keep you all updated...
chau chau, Alaska