Thursday, July 26, 2018

Bucky Lab Beijing Summerschool 2018

Here we go again, after a proper planning of Mara and Heran we have a second edition of the summerschool in Beijing. This time we also accompanied by Okan who already finished his Bucky Lab semester and is now able to help us here in China. \

This time we were able to find a wonderful equipped woodworkshop in the heart of the city very close to the forbidden city. And due to the fact that the chinese head of festool who we already met last year helped us to find a nice place this workshop is also a festool experience center ...

We couldn't have asked for more ...short before the registration deadline we had 23 chinese students enrolled and we all met today for the very first time in the workshop who also served the seminar room for our summerschool.

The program was tight and after an introduction of Dr. Bucky Lab we had an intro session from all the students - nicely mixed from engineers, architects to landscape architects ...and even a few highschool students who wil start their study of architecture after the summer.

After a lovely lunch and a side field trip into the local hutong our workshop is placed in we started to imagine the first concepts and talked about ideas in which way we are able to improve or contribute to the people of this neighborhood.

Here some first impressions of the first day. We already got some plywood and a first sneak peak into the workshop.

Our beloved Dr. Bucky Lab is still suffering from the enormous heat in the city and the high humidity but the great food and the enthusiasm of the students balance the climate issues he wants to let us know.