The scene: You are a newly married but impecunious young recent graduate of an architectural school. You have just taken your first full time employment but it barely pays for meals (two cannot live as cheaply as one, you discover). An apartment in Chicago is completely beyond your meager budget. Your in laws offer for you and your spouse to stay with them in their apartment until your spouse also gets a job, but you politely demur, fearing that you would be an imposition into their lives. But you are also clever, and come up with a brilliant scheme that will not only satisfy the desire of your in laws to have their child near them still, but also will not cost you very much.

You have managed to save about $5000 from two summers of working as a CADD draftsperson in a design office, thanks to your terrific education at Triton College and your frugal habits. With this money for materials and your sweat equity, you have decided to build a "Honeymoon Cottage" in the back yard of your in laws' building.

The program: The cottage is to be no more than 16 feet in any dimension. It must accommodate two adults (no children) for the following activities:
sleeping
cooking
eating
cleaning
toileting

It must also be able to hold the following in storage:
one week's supply of groceries
clothes for one week for both of you
fifty books
one cat + cat food for a week

You must consider the following:
aesthetics
heat
natural ventilation
“green” materials
view
light
weatherproofing
security
budget of $5000 for materials

Presentation requirements: one foam core model at a scale of ¼” = 1’-0” - show all items and a person-scaled figure.

Due: Wednesday, November 17