KUN Design Week_01
Design Week 1: The Start
The 2019 Design+Build Salt Lake summer semester has begun! With an ambitious seven-and-a-half week schedule to design one of Salt Lake City's first accessory dwelling units (ADU), there is no time to lose! With ten students, a summer semester to design and a fall semester to build, we are excited and ready to make this project a reality.
5/14/2019 - Day 1
In order to make this project possible in such a short time frame, Professor Rügemer made a preliminary design before the semester began. This allowed a Conditional Use Permit to already be underway in hopes that all permitting will be completed by the first day of the Fall semester to avoid any delay in construction. Today we learned all about the design, what the process to design an ADU is, and what we are going to accomplish before the end of the year. It is a very ambitious project, but we are all excited to make it happen.
5/15/2019 - Day 2
We met with the Kunga family today, the clients for this year's project. They are a wonderful family from Tibet who will use the ADU as a home for their mother. They are a very close family with a very full house when the family all gets together. This ADU will provide her with her own space that is wheelchair accessible with room for her to work from home in a dedicated space. Their home provides the perfect setting for the emerging Design+Build Salt Lake program as they live in the first-ever Design+Build Bluff project from 20 years ago. Visiting with the family we were better able to understand their needs, wishes, and familiarize ourselves with the site.
5/16/2019 - Day 3
One option we are exploring is off-site construction to help this project be completed on schedule. To better understand what is required for this process, we visited Irontown Homes in Spanish Fork, Utah. They were gracious enough to show us around their impressive factory and tour their projects under construction including multiple homes and a hotel, all under one roof! With their information and guidance we found that building it fully off-site and then craned into place is not feasible for our site. Instead we will need to construct it in panels with final assembly on-site. After our visit we drove up Provo Canyon to look at the Trefoil Ranch Girl Scout Cabins, a great source of design inspiration.