Chadhaus

We're going to have Chad for Chad House speaking as well as Sarah Bourbon for the voluntary pollinator pathway and then also Anthony for IKWA studio and Susan Jones as a moderator. She'll start out and do more kind of descriptive introductions, kind of get us started. So thank you all for coming and thank you also to Henry Hill for providing the space and we'll get going. Thanks, Matt. So I was really thrilled when Brad asked me to do the monitoring since he's been to a couple of events, that was all of me, but it is a large series and the purpose of this one is workshop and so we are trying to take a very full approach and broad approach to the idea of concept of workshop and starting thinking about a full process of physical workshop space. Our first speaker is what Invited him to do, but our second speaker is going to be Rob, the concept of what the notion of workshop is. Sarah Bourbon has been followed by Chad, talking about the space of the community and the pathway and then Anthony is going to be finishing up talking about the workshop process, the process of thought that goes into geriatrics and the project. We serve with Chad Browns on the chat house. He's the co-owner and founder of the principal chat house, which is a design and fabrication workshop for Wynn Gallard. He has 18 years of building experience. He's looked at workshops around the west and I'm really interested in hearing more about the health safety university of technology experience, so we can get into that. He's a student of al I think he's a familiar with those, the very nearest success involved. I understand that he's always really one of those small marks of foundation for the whole of the university. So without a further ado, thank you. So as students said, my name is Chad Robertson and I am a, I'm a designer and a builder and an owner of the chat house. And our workshop is located in the industrial neighborhood of Ballard here in Seattle. And we So the way that we have the workshop organized is it's a pretty open space with a design studio above and a lot of different tools and machines filling up the workspace. We have a full wood shop and a metal shop in the back. This is a image of our design studio which covers just above the workshop part of the space. And we really couldn't do what we do without our workshop. It's how we create everything that we can create. And you're probably wondering at this point, what is it that we do? Well, we design things and we make them. And now you're probably wondering, well, how do they make these things? These folks at chat house. And I'm going to talk a little bit about the process of how we transform raw materials and ideas into these new tangible objects and spaces. Oftentimes our process starts with some kind of a sketch or an idea. Either it's generated from me or from my wife, I think it was Parker Henling, and sometimes from our employees and the diners over there as well. So we start to work through these ideas in a sketch form. And then we're able to take these ideas and translate them directly into either drafting or digital models. But we still consider that part of the sketch phase. It'still, And once we get these drawings created, oftentimes there's this back and forth that starts to happen in the shop. And there's this language. And oftentimes it comes back to this one idea, this one question we are constantly asking ourselves, how can we make this more simple? How can we make this so it's more logical, easier to build? And it's oftentimes a driving force. And from there we also start to think about what are the parts? What are the pieces of these all things that are efficient and logical for us to make in the shop? Or sometimes does it make more sense to, for instance, draft something up and have it sent out to the CNC cutter? And then once we move forward with these parts and pieces, we start to formulate what we would consider to be a prototype or something in the prototyping stage.