Spring Break Operations Manual

About

Design of a spring break program for 24 participants. \

Staff

• 4 hour staff training required beforehand for site staff.
• Admin - admissions and questions, coordination. Handles registration process and onboarding emails.
• Hospitality and Logistics - admissions admin, cooking and living space, signage, waste, garden, store runs. Prepares site for arrival.
• Co-teachers - 2 assistants required for teaching build process. 1 teacher allocated to PV on Hangar, and 2 allocated to cabin builds.
• Logistics - materials moving and handling with skid steer.

24 Unit Program

• Prototypes

Program

Narrative

In this one week session, we will learn to design and build an eco-friendly cabin with photovoltaics on the roof. We Will spend about 2-4 hours learning, and 4-6 hours building each day. We will also learn how to install a large array (100kw) of photovoltaics on the roof of a large workshop, so that anyone interested in solar power can see how the whole process works. In the class session, we will go over design basics for structure, PV, electrical-plumbing, and heat pump - such that anybody who wants to learn how to build can use our modular, human-sized build system to design and build a structure for themselves easily using modules, part libraries, and AI-assisted CAD workflows. We will work on teaching everyone a human-langage based process where we instruct AI to produce technically correct design using FreeCAD, the open source CAD tool. Anyone will thus be able to design code-compliant buildings using our system - to build their own home, an ADU, or even start a business producing these scalable, modular homes for others.

Schedule

Each day, breakfast goes from 8-9, program starts at 9, and goes to 6 pm each day.

• Prep webinar - watch at your leisure. 1 hour describing the week.
• Day 1 - Welcome presentation, half hour, and half hour intros. 2 Hour Construction Boot Camp + practice wall module build - total 4 hours morning.
  • Afternoon: 2 hour production - Cabin 1. Then a 2 hour AI Assisted FreeCAD design intro: how to design just about anything. Part Library work - process overview, sample part generation.
• Day 2 - 2 Hour House Design Boot Camp. Starting Cabin 1 interior.
  • Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing plumbing.

• Day 3 - 2 Hour PV System + Roofless Roof Design Bootcamp and Design Session. Finishing Cabin 1.
  • Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design -Part library work - designing electrical.

• Day 4 - 2 Hour Heat Pump and Thermal Battery Design Boot Campand Design Session. Starting Cabin 2.
  • Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing power center.

• Day 5 - House Design Finalization Session Starting interior of Cabin 2.
  • Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing heat pump module.

• Day 6 - Village Design Boot camp and Design Session. Building Cabin 5.
  • Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing PV system in detail.

• Day 7 - project day: we build a new cabin model that we designed collaboratively in the last 5 days. Depending on the number and ambition of team - we will buils something from 120 to 240 square feet in size - either 1 or 2 modules. We will debrief and review progress at the end.

Future Infrastructure Upgrades

• Production aquaponic greenhouse
• Pervious paver driveways, with 3D printed block