We did it!!!

Our semester is finally over and our project is up!

No we didn't forget about you!

Everyone who opted for a reward has been accounted for and we are preparing the production of the rewards as you read this. Unfortunately the ceramics building will be completely purged through the beginning of summer and we will not be able to work in there, we will begin producing all the rewards late June and you should be checking your mail boxes in July! 

You should be getting an email before July asking for your mailing address.

The project turned out great! Everyone seems to love it  and that love was passed down to us in the form of jury prize nomination (best project from every architectural studio will be judged for jury prize at the start of the next school year).   At our final review as well as the open house our project was well received by everyone and should be a permanent structure on the Oakland Campus.

Check out the final product in person or through pictures and video below.

Wonderful backers listen up!

We are looking for one final push for the kickstarter to help offset any additional costs of the project which was around $1,400. Also, we want to get these bird houses out to anyone who might be interested! Please help spread the word one last time before 10pm pst!

Updating the project. We have our structure built in Oakland. Everything fits together and is ready to be lifted into place today as soon as I get done with the update. The tiles have come out of the kiln with a slightly unexpected color of what we are calling "mellow yellow" but the clay has fired to a beautiful dark chocolate brown with the grey grog really showing off the tooling patterns. 

Yesterday our studio along with the rest of the advanced studios had our final review. Our excellent panel of judges brought up some interesting advice as far as applying this system in different architectural ways as well as had many excited comments of our digital and analog techniques and processes. 

Monday (April 30th) 5-8pm We will be having an open house for all the student projects installed on the Oakland campus of CCA in the ceramics building. This is open for the public. If your local come on by and get a little tour of the structure as well as a chance to chat with us about the project. Wine and hor d'oeuvres will be served!

 Check out all our sweet photos below,

but don't forget to give this kickstarter one last push before it ends today! 

We are now all systems go!

The ceramics are being fired and the structure is being cut. The kiln is getting nice and hot turning the clay nice and dark and the edges nice and orange (hopefully). The laser cut file have been sent to our fabricator (Martin's Metal Fabricators) and we should be getting it back in the next few days! 

Budget wise  we are doing much better thanks to all of you amazing donors! Our cutting is coming out to around $1,100 and lucky we don't have to go on a road trip to pick it up during finals. Thanks to Martins Metal Fabrication in Vacaville for taking our project on short notice and quick turnaround!

Final boards to come for Saturdays review in San Francisco, then Monday will be an open house to check out the studios projects (more coming soon).

Lastly feel free to keep passing around the kickstarter to people you know! There is still a lot of budget to make up. All the money will be used in the project and the rewards. Plus these birdhouses make some pretty cool father's day gifts ;)

Check out one of our early renderings of the project!

Hey Backers!

Everything has now been glazed and loaded into the kiln and if all goes well we should have all of our ceramic pieces done by Friday! 

We ended up going with a yellow glaze, which on a dark brown clay will turn a nice golden orange. Last night we had a big push to get everything glazed and loaded. Check out the pictures below! (the last one is what we hope they will come out looking like)

As for the structure, we are busy searching for another fabricator that can cut this thing FAST and CHEEP. We were excited to get a quote back for a reasonable budget yesterday for laser cutting but it would require a long road trip to Anaheim to pick it up. Hey some of us pull all nighters before finals, we go on road trips. 

We are still looking at at least $900 to get this thing built.

Don't forget to keep passing this along!  

Check out the pictures! We cant thank you guys enough for all the help!

Hey Backers!

Here is our first official update on the project!

First off, we want to thank everyone so far who has backed us. We are so excited to see all the people helping us out! 

All of our tiles are through the first round of bisque firing without any casualties!  (pictures below) Glaze firing tonight!

Unfortunately, we got a final quote from our structural fabricator that was way higher than we originally estimated (around $1,400). This means we need to raise more money!  We have begun to get quotes from other local fabricators, and these quotes are coming back higher than our $600 budget. 

We are now looking to raise $900 to keep this thing going. If we don't raise enough money we will refund the donations and not be able to build the project  :(

So keep passing this project along!  Many people have learned about us through word of mouth, so tell your friends, family, co-workers, bird lovers, that multi-billionaire philanthropists you know, whoever!

Thanks so much