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Olympia
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Money never really left area- weren’t
incorporated into Columbia
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Liked being self contained and not part of
‘sinful’ city and were successful enough to maintain- no reason to leave/be
annexed
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Trying to become: Stronger, self sufficient,
sustainable
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Urban setting is only 1000’s of years old
Quarry
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here before neighborhood was
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Mill and quarry were where jobs were
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Granite gravel
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Rock dust was everywhere and hailed out through
Granby neighborhood
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Basically through multiple changes, truck route
changed and dust issue basically eliminated
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Levy holding river might eventually fail, (it
was made before quarry??)
Granby
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Promote single family residence
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Heritage and memorial to what was before-adds a
richness to life and wants newcomers to know what was before them
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Proud tightness of residence and train tracks
cut neighborhood off from rest of city
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Kept it as its own community and also their own
developmental type of community
Mill Community
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Cotton mill up to 1986
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Could walk anywhere
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No alcohol
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Dairy farm
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Neighborhood for granby mill was soapbox house,
20’ apart, with porch exiting right onto sidewalk, then street
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Does not need private student housing- basically
what all mills became, rental apartments
Olympia-Granby
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Only county jurisdiction so zoning is awful- the
mill granby is in city jurisdiction so protection is good
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5 design choices varied of housing
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not as uniform as granby so unsure of design and
continuity
Quarry
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Used to be dimension stone (for actual design
purposes-counters, columns, floor tiles) but now is crush stone
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Granite
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No real school here-old school became reform
school
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Largest Vulcan quarry in sc
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On fall line
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10k tons in 8-10 hours
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only have about 15-20 years left
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right now about 240’ below sea level
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employees are stakeholders
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something>lonestar>tarmek>Vulcan
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reclamation plan- let water fill naturally
(concept in Columbia paper a few year ago)
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rocky branch creek- giant storm drain
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MSHA- ine regulation
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McCook Quarry in Chicago
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Quarry in Atlanta (948 Marietta Boulevard Northwest,
Atlanta, Georgia –put in maps in satellite and you’ll see it)
Process
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Take away dirt, organics- maybe sell it, but usually not if its clay like it is here
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Drill & blast & shoot
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50’ benches (the first few layers are about
100-200’ benches bc that’s how they did it back then-all crazy no safety)
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load and haul
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65 ton trucks to primary crusher
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secondary crusher
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screen test
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2 tertiary crushers
Fun Facts
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1000 tons/hour
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bowling ball to dust size
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all roads are no more than 3:1 slope
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if a bench is 50’ then road/ flat surface left
at bottom is no less than 20% of bench height (so 50’ bench has 10’ working
space until next bench)
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power is about $60K/month
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1.4mil tons of rock – takes $12mil to spend
End of day discussion:
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Grafting in section
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Layering- environment, politics, community
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Beauty and destruction
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Senses within vast space
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Deception of scale, walking convenience in mill
neighborhoos
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Insularity; vast depth within enclosure feel
safe but are very vulnerable
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Are they dying or growin?
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Where are the schools?
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Connectivity
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Make them love an appreciate a place and they
will come
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Too many rentals, ownership is pride
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Grid came to edge
For Monday:
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How to capture and present research phase
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Divi up work so no repeats
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Come up with clear ocncepts of studio book
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Use sasaki as basis with Fibonacci as guide
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What does studio book need to be? An organization
of our research, a record of our process, and our final product
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Compile notes
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Need to have significant journal entries by
wednesday
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