Pre-Project Blog
I am Gordon Yanchar, and I have been interested in architecture and I wanted my Hawken Project to teach me about the profession and the different pathways of it. For these three weeks, I will be working with my Mentor Leslie DiNovi, the Staff Architect and Design Manager at Case Western Reserve University, as well as a fellow Hawken student Alex Sideris. Specifically for my project, we will be working on two separate staircases on the CWRU campus to connect to the quad. I have already met in person with my mentor and she showed Alex and I around the campus and on to the actual site we will be working on. I am excited for this opportunity, and I think it will give me valuable experience as this is a type of architecture that is new to me. I will learn skills like designing staircases to fit into the landscape and meet code requirements and learning new software to design.