Every Monday until mid-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.

Case-study images in the studio. Photos: courtesy the Vlock First Year Building Project

This week we reach a turning point in the construction of the Building Project: The windows will be installed, the roofing material laid down, the siding put up, and the drywall hung. The cavernous shell of the building will be compartmentalized. Crisp, walled rooms will emerge from a field of two-by-fours. No longer will we shortcut between spaces, passing specter-like through walls, or carry on conversations across the two residential units. Read more…