Every Monday until August, first-year graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture are blogging about their progress building an affordable, accessible owner-renter residence in New Haven. Click here to read the previous posts.

The house at the start of a recent morning shift. Photos: courtesy the Vlock First Year Building Project

It’s 2 a.m. My back hurts. My calves hurt. I’m so exhausted that I can barely keep my eyes open. These are all clear signs that I’ve come to end of another long week on the Yale Vlock Building Project. This dark, cold hour of the night, when the streets of New Haven are already deserted, used to be the peak of activity in the studio. But now the studio is empty, and my morning routine begins when many an all-nighter was just ending, at 6 a.m. Read more…