RRSLA INTERNSHIP BLOG

  Hey everybody! This is my first blog post from Birmingham, Alabama working with Environmental Design Studio. EDS is a small firm - five people in total. There are two senior partners, two landscape designers, and me. One partner and landscape designer (Dave and Natali) focus mainly on high-end residential design, the other two (Duane and Jacob) work together on larger-scale land planning and development projects both in and outside of Alabama. EDS actually just won a proposal to do the landscape design work for a senior living community in Gonzales, LA. I hope to get to spend some time working on that project. I have been here since January 4 and have spent most of my time so far working on residential projects. I have done numerous site measure-ups, drafted base plans by hand and using Vectorworks, drafted schematic designs from  Dave's loose conceptual drawings. I have spent a lot of time rendering and feel a lot more confident in that skill already. For the past few weeks I ha

 Hello,      As some of you might know, I am interning at a firm called Studio Balcones in Austin Texas. I was nervous to move to Austin at first, but now that I am here I'm not really looking forward to moving back to Baton Rouge. I am living on UT campus which is beautiful and full of interesting landscapes. As far as things to do and eat here, your options are truly unlimited which isn't something you see in Baton Rouge (or Alexandria (Heart of Louisiana)).  Work has been awesome so far. I am apart of 4 projects right now working an a wide variety of things such as residential, parks and rec, campus planning. Thankfully I am working in the office with two other staff members while everyone else works from home. Being in the office is nice because its easy to ask questions and oversee some of the things that the project managers are doing. If I had to choose one thing that I have gotten better at since I've been here, it would be sketch up. That is what I have been spendi